<p>Basically, I'm interested in business and finance and even entrepreneurship. Not sure the exact business major but thats what i am looking for in a college...specifically in the NE. Anyways, I'm no genius for a 100 percent Japanese American. I slacked off in the first two years of high school with an average academic GPA of a 3 on a 4 scale...overall 3.22. </p>
<p>I stepped up my game and got a 3.714 first quarter and 3.57 second quarter during my junior year. I will continue to get these grades and maybe better by the end of my junior year.</p>
<p>I will be taking the ACT's in April, and will probably get a 27-30 (according to the many practice tests)</p>
<p>So, I've been looking at schools like:</p>
<p>Babson College
Bentley College
Bryant University
University of Connecticut
Fordham University
Lehigh University
Muhlenberg College
New York University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute</p>
<p>I have been looking mainly at small to medium-small schools, ranging from 5000 or smaller. </p>
<p>What do you guys think? Are these schools right for me grade wise as well as major wise??? Any other schools that you could think of?</p>
<p>If you're serious, plan on getting an MBA. So the undergrad degree becomes a little less important. That said, I have a preference for schools that approach the field from a more quantitative and analytic slant vs. a pure case studies approach. IMHO, schools with strong engineering departments are more likely to take a quantitative approach. From your list, that includes RPI (my MBA is from there) and probably Lehigh. While it isn't on your list, Virginia Tech has established a decision sciences major in the business school that is attracting a lot of attention. Maybe the schools on your list have something similar.</p>
<p>I'd also look at schools with strong internship, co-op, and industry research programs; there is nothing like 1st hand experience in your planned field to decide if you like it or hate it. (And don't underestimate the value of finding out early what you thought you wanted to do is not what you expected!.)</p>
<p>Thanks. What are my chances if any of you guys could tell me....</p>
<p>GPA 3.3 overall</p>
<p>Freshman/sophomore: GPA - 3.00
Junior: 3.6</p>
<p>Improvement count???</p>
<p>Senior courses:</p>
<p>Calculus Honors
Intro to Economics
Intro to Psychology
Contemporary American Literatute
Film Analysis and Criticism
Aerospace
Spanish 5
Advanced Design and Tech
Desktop and <a href="http://www">www</a>. publishing
Culinary ;D
Narrative Film Production</p>
<p>Yep thats it....</p>
<p>Any my ACTs are prob gonna be around 27-30...</p>
<p>Contact the personnel departments at the companies where you think you might want to work. Ask the personnel departments where they recruit new employees.</p>
<p>When I was college, the old "Big 8" accounting firms had various school ties, ie the Pittsburgh office of Ernst and Ernst (later Ernst and Whinney, now Ernst and Young) favored Penn State grads. In banking, Pittsburgh National Bank, now PNC, hired heavily from Duquesne.</p>
<p>Everyone says they hire Harvard Business grads, when in reality they hire from Hofstra, Iona, etc. graduates</p>
<p>Ithaca is good for Communications, etc. (such as B.S. in Integrated Marketing Communications). I think they have other programs in business as well.</p>