<p>Rodney… can you name a few more schools that you know of that have a tendency to lean in admissions to kids from VERY rigorous private prep schools. My DS is one of those kids… high test scores but 3.4 GPA. </p>
<p>SLUMOM… I have a thread started on this forum asking about SLU… it looks perfect for my S. Just wanting info because not sure if we can visit. Someone had mentioned you might be a great resource.</p>
<p>5 boys: off the top of my head: Lafayette College, Franklin and Marshall, Dickinson, GWU…I will check which schools have taken the kids from my daughter’s school when I get home from work…but that is a start…</p>
<p>I notice you have a few Jesuit colleges on the list. You might want to add a few more, as I think a number of them could fit what you’re looking for. Scranton and Creighton come immediately to mind, but there are more.</p>
<p>I majored in accounting and aconomics/finance, and the calculus I was required to take was not the calculus that the scientists and engineers took (it was described as calculus for business and social studies majors, but I’m not exactly sure how it differed from the other course). The courses I was required to take for accounting did not require stellar math skills. I needed statistics (not calculus based), and accounting involves arithmetic, logic and comfort with numbers, but not higher level math. Finance can be a different story, and a quantitative finance major would probably require the full calculus sequence and plenty of math aptitude.</p>
<p>“Rodney… can you name a few more schools that you know of that have a tendency to lean in admissions to kids from VERY rigorous private prep schools. My DS is one of those kids… high test scores but 3.4 GPA.”</p>
<p>5boys, if that is a well known private prep school, that has no grade inflation…he may be looking at more selective schools than you might think. There are students with your son’s stats at my kid’s high school that get into top 20, even ivies. You need to figure that out with your GC, as when you look at the GPA stats for acceptances to some of these schools and realize your son is in the bottom 5-10%, often those kids are from the elite private schools. My older son got into schools that theoretically he shouldn’t have, based on GPA, purely based on that issue.</p>
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<p>I’d say the real difference is between highly academically rigorous high schools and the rest…not public or private. </p>
<p>Public high schools like TJ or Bronx Science are well-known for their academic rigor in most admissions offices…especially ones in elite colleges/universities. They certainly hold their own against the best private private schools IME. </p>
<p>On the other hand, there are plenty of private schools where the academic rigor is comparable with the most mediocre public schools…or worse. One person I know was allowed to graduate from her private boarding school without having taken trigonometry…much less pre-calc. </p>
<p>A college classmate attended another private school where he only had to take 2 years of “rocks for jocks” type non-lab science courses to graduate whereas I had to take 3 years of lab science(bio, chem, physics), a semester of computer science, and a 4th year of science electives(i.e. pharmacology(I was one of the few non-aspiring pre-meds who took this elective in high school for fun)).</p>
<p>Usually high schools that don’t inflate grades produce students whose SAT scores are higher than their GPA might indicate.</p>
<p>cobrat; sorry, I didn’t specify…of course there are rigorous public HS’s like you have mentioned; most GPA’s in the type of privates I am referring to are not being compared to those specialized publics but rather publics within a limited geographic range…I knew after I posted someone would flame my post…</p>
<p>just trying to help…</p>
<p>busdriver11… yes, that is what I thought. My S’s HS does not rank but GC said that colleges just automatically put them in the top 10% category because they had to test to get into the school and it is extremely rigorous… It’s just assumed you can do the work at that level. No designated honors, all classes are assumed to be, and my S is even doing work next year in classes designated as Advanced Honors that work above AP level. In other words, colleges know how difficult an A is at this school. Very few graduate with a 4.0 W. My main concern is that my S finds a fit for him. He is bright but really doesn’t like to work that hard. He would not like a competitive environment. He likes a lot of balance. He will thrive in college though because he is a great reader and writer but just hates… and gets marked down, on busy work. That is the reason for the B+ average.</p>
<p>5boys…any chance our kids are going to the same school? Which coast are you on? With a change of just a couple of words, I could have written your post…</p>
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<p>Not trying to flame. Just pointing out that using the public/private distinction may not be the most useful one when you seem to really mean highly rigorous or not.</p>
<p>Two colleges with well-established business programs in nice neighborhoods of nice cities, worth a look:</p>
<p>University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota - just blocks from Macalester and close to the U of MN with easy access to both downtowns (St. Paul and Minneapolis).
[Undergraduate</a> Program<em>:</em> Undergraduate Program<em>:</em> Opus College of Business : University of St. Thomas](<a href=“http://www.stthomas.edu/business/degrees/undergraduate/default.html]Undergraduate”>http://www.stthomas.edu/business/degrees/undergraduate/default.html)</p>
<p>St. Edwards University, Austin, Texas.<br>
[Undergraduate</a> Degree Programs | School of Management and Business | St. Edward’s University](<a href=“http://www.stedwards.edu/business/undergraduate/degree_plan]Undergraduate”>http://www.stedwards.edu/business/undergraduate/degree_plan)</p>
<p>I love DePaul.</p>
<p>To be avoided:
Econ programs at LACs who brag about how many of their students are heading to grad school in economics.</p>
<p>Just read in this thread that SLU Mom is not from “SLU (St. Louis University)” - surprised! - a regional thing… :)</p>
<p>doingdishes,
Consider having your son try the ACT instead of the SAT. It’s about an hour shorter and sometimes better for kids who have trouble concentrating and focusing on long tests. My daughter also says the ACT is nice in that you do the math - and then you are done with the math - and then you do the reading - and then you are done with the reading. She didn’t like the way the SAT bounced back and forth from topic to topic.</p>
<p>Two schools not mentioned that my d has applied to and have good business plus the walk in tutoring centers and other academic support he may need or want are Millsaps College in Jackson MS and Birmingham- Southern in Birmingham AL. Millsaps has some unique business programs like international business with a program in Mexico and others in Europe. BOth schools have large internship programs and being located in urban areas is a help there. Both cities are not really large but large enough to offer plenty of experience. I believe Rollins in Winter Park, FL (suburb of Orlando) also has a popular business program.</p>