<p>Ok fine haha you're right second to Michigan, but still amazing</p>
<p>If you aren't afraid to take risks, obviously go with UMich. If that is a factor, it's a toss up. Visit each school, talk to alumni/students, etc and try to get a good feel for which place you want to spend the next four years of your life.</p>
<p>Also, transferring to better programs than UMich LSA is pretty difficult, especially recently with the overcrowding of the ivies. If you are dead set on studying business instead of econ, you might just want to go to Carroll. But, keep in mind, there are a lot of econ electives that are very similar to business school courses (at least at UMich).</p>
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<p>Really?! Which ones? Tell me now so I can start backpacking!! lol.</p>
<p>Econ majors land awesome jobs at Michigan. I got offers from Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan in NYC and from Lehman Brothers in London. I chose the latter. Many of my fellow Econ majors enjoyed similar success. Maintain a 3.5+ GPA, participate in on-campus recruitment activities, familiarize yourself with your chosen industry and good things will happen.</p>
<p>^ That is very encouraging news! The only problem is, since I'm taking Math 116 and Econ 401 this semester, my GPA doesn't look so pretty. Do you think I can also put my higher, PSU gpa on my transcript? Or will recruiters only look at my UM GPA? If I put my PSU gpa, I'm easily over a 3.6. Without it, I doubt I'll make a 3.5 considering the 3.0 I might get this semester.</p>
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Really?! Which ones? Tell me now so I can start backpacking!! lol.
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<p>I don't remember them specifically, but saw some when I was looking through the offerings last semester. For the ones I've taken, Econ 398 and Econ 395 were very similar to BE300. Also, I think some of the Math and Econ 400+ electives have overlap with the finance courses.</p>
<p>MightyNick, back in my days, Goldman Sachs conducted its offical campus recrutiment activities of undergraduate students with the college of LSA, not the Business school. You may want to check if that is still the case. </p>
<p>And yes, you can definitely put your PSU GPA on your CV. Furthermore, yif you had one bad semester at Michigan, it is ok. Math 116 and Econ 401 are TOUGH! You may not finish with a 3.5 from Michigan, but even a 3.3 or 3.4 GPA will generally open a lot of doors.</p>
<p>Maybe I should try a different approach.... Whats bad about Michigan?</p>
<p>That you have to work your butt off the first year in order to get into Ross...</p>
<p>lol... what else besides that?</p>
<p>Some people don't like large schools?</p>
<p>the COE career office always say, at least for engineering majors, 3.0 is the general threshold, above that it's all the interview and the recruiter's personal feel (and for the most prestigious finance job it's 3.2 for engineers)</p>
<p>Heres one...CSOM Honors vs Michigan Econ. How much do you think the honors program at BC changes the decision? I'm between these two and Stern.</p>
<p>You can apply to LSA Honors if that's what you want, but you can take honor courses without being in the Honors program.</p>
<p>Michigan is definitely the better school, but there's a certain charm to BC. I was deciding between the two schools a couple years ago because I got into the honors program at BC and the campus is nice, arguably better then Ann Arbor. But, in the end I chose Mich because it's cheaper and has a better rep (at least where I'm from - east coast)</p>
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in the end I chose Mich because it's cheaper and has a better rep (at least where I'm from - east coast)
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<p>Thanks a lot guys... i will wait a while and discuss it with everyone i know...</p>
<p>to add to what bearcats has said. </p>
<p>From my experience, even students with 2.5 GPA from Engineering will get jobs before graduation. They aren't as strict with the GPA requirements if you graduate from Michigan. I've heard this from a number of recruiters at the career fair.</p>
<p>i hv to say.... i might take the risk! After freshman year I will apply to ross and xfers incase i dont get in. I just have to clear this with a lot of people....</p>
<p>How hard are the first year classes at LSA?</p>