UT McCombs Admission

Nxt
Wed, 05 Jan 2011 04:53:56 +0000

Socially…Great! Although I had to room with 3 strangers, I ended up becoming best UT friends with two and rented an apt. with them and another this year. I learned to wake up by myself, cook somewhat, & just have more control over yourself. You make friends & some drunk friends & that is only if you get out and meet people. No one is gonna serve you entertainment. I am not going to spoil the rest.

Academically - Yes & No. Trust me, there are AP courses that I took in HS which were way worse than some of the lower level business courses at McCombs, but there are some really hard courses at McCombs too. The basic courses at McCombs like BA 101, speech, are simple. BA 324 is just time consuming but nothing that your brain can’t handle. Same thing with Statistic 309, marketing, etc…if you got into McCombs, you should get through those courses. The hard stuff comes when you start memorizing in business law or intermediate accounting and upper division core stuff. That’s real flunkable material. The sense of difficulty is more of a feeling of feeling dumb and stupid because you are at such a great school with bright and competitive students. If you put me in a room with people smarter than me, I would not be operating at my normal level of intelligence. Learn to get over it and you’ll do just fine.

Things that could potentially kill your GPA at McCombs:


Not going to class OR going to class and not taking notes/listening
Thinking its easy & underestimating the material
Thinking you’ve gotten in, so NOW is the time to take a break and just relax a little.
Partying any weekday or on Sunday night.
NOT keeping up with the material (ex: not reading assigned chapters every night)
All nighters DO work but not without panic attacks & suffering from headaches.
Doing Drugs…that includes smoking w…-e–.e…ddd
Engaging in a serious conflict with your team members…team evaluations!
Think twice before joining a FRATERNITY…not talking about a business one here.


Some of these things did shot down my GPA at first, but I am pulling through doing better every semester since, by learning from my mistakes. Try to learn without making those mistakes.

Feel Free to add to the LIST.