<p>Almost any class you take in high school business related is going to be pretty useless, and for SURE will not help you in college admissions. </p>
<p>You are far better of expanding the breadth of your education, and expanding on your interests in business in your personal essay on why AEM is right for you.</p>
<p>To answer the original poster’s question: Only two Ivy League’s have “official” undergraduate business programs; these would be Wharton (UPenn) and AEM (Cornell). </p>
<p>However, students from any Ivy have been known to do extremely well in all sectors of business, including Wall Street. For example. Goldman Sachs employment information from last year showed that their favorite students to hire were English and History majors; it just goes to show that a undergraduate degree in business is not required to enter business.</p>
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Penn
Stanford
(that’s if you’re not looking to major in business at undergrad level perse, otherwise you might have to look at some non-ivys (chicago, berkeley, cornell, Nwestern, MIT, etc) An econs undergrad will prepare you a lot for graduate bschool so don’t rule that out. Try business-week and us news and world report rankings and make your judgement from there)</p>
<p>What ever happened to keeping it SUCCINCT and RELEVANT?</p>
<p>^^ You’re information seems to be a little bit over the place:</p>
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<p>Penn has arguably the world’s most prominent and noteworthy undergraduate business school in Wharton, so I don’t know why most college students wanting to pursue business would go to Penn without aiming for Wharton.</p>
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<p>Second, Cornell is an ivy, and neither Northwestern nor Chicago has an undergraduate business program.</p>
<p>keep in mind that although not all of the colleges offer and official business major that offer majors that have gotten people a job in the business world after graduation</p>
<p>also, every college has an economics degree and wioth that it wouldn’t be to hard to get a job in the business world especailly if you plan to get an mba eventually </p>
<p>upenn - it has the wharton business school with an official undergrad program (a b.s. in economics not business administration) and often regarded as the best undergrad school for business</p>
<p>cornell - does have a high ranking business school (johnson) but not an undergrad business program associated with it, instead theres the applied economics and mangement program and major at the college of agricultural and life sciences OR the industrial and labor relations major at the school of industrial and labor relations OR there is operation research and engineering at its engineering school</p>
<p>stanford - has a very good graduate business school but not undergraduate program but there is management science and engineering at its engineering school</p>
<p>northwestern - also has a very good graduate business school but no undergrad program however there is the industrial engineering major at its engineering school (a lot of colelges have this major but only some are business oriented like northwestern)</p>
<p>princeton - no business school but has a financial engineering major at its engineering school</p>
<p>columbia - good graduate business school but no undergrad program instead there is the operations research major at the college of arts and sciences (or whatever the main one is called) and industrial engineering (business oriented) at its engineering school</p>
<p>harvard - very good graduate business school but nothing for undergrads even at its other schools other than economics</p>
<p>Actually, the AEM program at Cornell is an accredited undergraduate business program. The only such accredited programs in the Ivy League are at Penn (Wharton) and Cornell.</p>
<p>A Harvard undergrad could load up on management classes through cross-registration at the MIT Sloan School. The Sloan School is also conveniently located near the Kendall Square T-station. </p>
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<p>While I don’t deny that an economics background has its uses, it is merely a single method to educate oneself about business, and frankly, a relatively indirect method. With the exception of a few subdisciplines such as industrial organization and TCE, the economics discipline atomizes firms themselves, concerning itself mostly with inter-firm market transactions, which says little about what actually occurs inside individual firms. Economics, at least as taught within most undergrad programs, also tends to pay short shrift to the potential for firms to modify its demand function, i.e. through savvy sales/marketing tactics.</p>
<p>A better business-oriented education could be derived from a combination of economics with other social sciences such as sociology and psychology. Economics may teach you how markets may behave, but tells you nothing about how to manage and motivate teams or execute internal projects. Many (probably most) management jobs are not external-facing, meaning your job involves neither purchasing nor selling to external parties, and is therefore not subject to market forces. Rather, your success is determined by how well you can procure resource and motivate team members that are internal to the organization - a task for which economics training is ill-suited, but sociology and psychology knowledge can prove to be most useful. </p>
<p>A more cynical - but no less realistic - stance is that business career success is mostly due to office politics. Somebody with a strong sociology/psychology background is well-equipped to become an adroit office politician. Knowing how to motivate employees to do your bidding, knowing how to play off competing factions against each other, knowing exactly what to say to impress your boss: these are crucial career skills to have.</p>
<p>Wharton has been my number one dream school also! I am curious as to how your post-college life has been. I know that if you graduated from wharton, you already got an MBA. So are you still in school or are you working now? How’s your job? I’m going to be a junior this year and I am just starting to gather info about the best business schools.
How did your high school resume look like? How hard was it to get into Wharton fresh from high school? Please tell me specifically! I’m so curious (and anxious)! Thanks! </p>