<p>my girlfriend and i (together for 2 yrs) are hopefully looking to attend the same college or somewhere close. we both have tops grades etc so you can start from the top (but realistically we'd probably fall in just out of the top 10 thru the top 25).</p>
<p>any help would be appreciated!</p>
<p>Go to the best college you can get into. For business, if you can go Ivy or near Ivy the world is pretty much yours after graduation, majoring in Econ (or almost anything!) is more than fine for the top banks/ consulting firms. Same goes for med school, avoid the cutthroat schools (JHU, Cornell, Emory) where the competition will be more fierce than other places. </p>
<p>Outside of the top (selectivity) range, Michigan etc are great.</p>
<p>the policy analysis and management program at cornell may be of interest to you (college of human ecology). I don't know why slipper1234 is telling you to avoid schools like it, as traditionally schools like cornell and jhu have been the most successful in terms of med school acceptance rates.</p>
<p>They are high in acceptance, along with many other schools but those rates don't include those weeded out in the process. Hopkins for one is notorious for this (I know three people there who dropped out of pre-med, it tends to be cutthroat rather than nurturing.) Cornell is known for having the hardest grading among the ivies.</p>
<p>Agree with caution regarding med school acceptance rates - comparing apples to oranges?</p>
<p>How about Washington University in St. Louis?</p>
<p>I assume one of you wants to do premed and the other wants to go to undergrad b-school.</p>
<p>In that case, NYU, Penn, and Carnegie Mellon would be schools to check out. For state schools, Berkeley and Michigan are possibilities.</p>
<p>yeah sorry if i made that unclear. i want to go into undergrad business & she is looking to go to med school (whether that be a major in premed or not)</p>
<p>i have obviously heard that nyu, penn, & carnegie mellon are good for business...but way up there on premed too?</p>
<p>washington univ st louis good for business as well?</p>
<p>and lastly...anybody else?</p>
<p>Schools with the best med. school admission stats like Harvard or Stanford don't have undergrad b-schools. Johns Hopkins is amazing for pre-med, but no undergrad b-school there. </p>
<p>For pre-med, you should do fine at each of those schools providng you get a decent gpa and mcat score (you'll need that no matter where you go). Its going to be pretty hard to find a school with both an excellent med. school placement and excellent undergrad b-school....those listed are the only ones that really come to mind. I'm sure you can call the schools/admissions office and ask about how undergrads fare in the med. school admissions process.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Stambliark,</p>
<p>What type of business do you want to do. There are thousands of alumni from top non-business schools in business. All the top consulting/ banking firms recruit from these places, in fact its probably even better than going to a UG business school. At Columbia MBA (where I go) I would say a great majority of students were non-business majors. The simple fact is that businesses (especially finance and consulting) want the best people, and these people are at the Ivies and similar. </p>
<p>Marketing is completely another story, UG Business is an asset. Also, for marketing, going to a school in the area you want to work in is probably the best bet. I.e. if you want to live in LA go to UCLA.</p>
<p>Med school is oven more vague than business. There really is no "good pre med". Of course Penn is great for pre-med, so is every other Ivy. The top Business and Med schools are in a great majority full of Ivy and other top school grads. Go to the best school where you can get the best GPA, bottom line. If you can go to Stanford, for example, by all means do it.</p>
<p>Agree with slipper about no good premed...however it seems that employers do give a rip what business school one attends. Maybe weight the decision in favor of the business candidate.</p>
<p>My major interest is finance, possibly entrepreneurship, but I am definitely leaning toward finance.</p>
<p>In this case, slipper (or anyone else), do you feel that attending an undergrad business program is irrelevant? </p>
<p>also an example (still a jr but): would you suggest turning down a school like nyu stern for the sake of attending a "higher ranked" univ?</p>
<p>if i don't major in business, what would i major in? anything? does it matter?</p>