What could this theater oriented junior do to improve for Columbia?

admissionsgeek
Mon, 07 Mar 2011 23:15:07 +0000

well let’s just clarify a few things -
a) econ is not business.
b) going to an ivy is enough to get you in places, if you are smart enough to get into a school of that caliber then don’t worry about it.
c) what you say you’re going to do and what you do, are not necessarily the same thing. i don’t advocate lying, i just don’t advocate putting yourself at a disadvantage. if for some reason you wrote to me and said that you loved economics and thought it was what you wanted to do with your life, that would be one thing. but it sounds like you just want the quat/business savvy stuff to back yourself up. and that is not a good enough reason to 1) apply to college with econ as a major choice when you know it will disadvantage you in the process, 2) it is not even a good enough reason to major in econ because you don’t need the major to work in the production side of theater.