Furman’s website briefly asserts that you must apply during your sophomore or freshman year to the business majors/block program but provides no guidance whatsoever at what the requirements would be or what the acceptance rate is. This seems to be really material information in deciding whether and how to apply to Furman. Does anyone know relevant information about the foregoing?
They’re website is vague. They talk about blocks and note it more about generalities with 4 subjects listed.
I would reach out to the person noted here fo get your questions answered. They don’t list curriculum or anything so it is very vague.
Exactly, thanks.
Doesn’t give you the warm and fuzzies about a school. They can’t market in essence.
But a lot of times it’s not the education that’s bad…just their marketing. so if interested, yep reach out.
I’m shocked that so many schools give off a poor appearance but I’ve seen enough to no longer be shocked 
Are you looking for religious schools ?
We are OK with non-religious or any variety of Christian. Why?
I assume you are looking at schools like Bentley, Tulsa, Denver, Elon, Miami, and others ? The three you mentioned (thus far) all have a religious bent although I know are not entirely religious - well the first two. Was just curious…that’s all.
I can’t help with your question about Furman but FWIW I have a strong preference for direct entry business programs. If Jesuit colleges would work I would check out the schools on this list for options that are academic, geographic matches. I believe most have direct entry business schools but definitely check the requirements of each college on the list carefully. Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities--Jesuit Colleges and Universities
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Yeah, those (other than Tulsa) are on the list. Thanks.
Cool
Just naturally curious. Good luck. Let us know if Furman opens up info wise…of course they will when u ask !!
Thanks, yes, we are Catholic and have BC, Villanova, Santa Clara and LMU on the list (some of the others are not in there yet due to geographic preferences, including where kids from our region go and S wanting to go where other kids from here go); the first two are clearly reaches and the latter two matches. The first three are also good social/sports-fan matches. I will check the whole list, thanks again.
Our list is rather large (close to 35) at this point, in fact it consists of two lists with some but not a lot of overlap, because he is a rising junior being told he is recruitable in his sport at the second-tier Southern and PA LACs (with Business majors or schools) Div III (and maybe Patriot League) level and his learning style benefits from the smaller instructional setting at those schools but his social/emotional life might not be a good fit (he is the opposite of quirky, ie a bro’); and we are also being told by another expert that socially and emotionally he would probably be happier in a midsize to large setting with lots of social and big Div1 spectator and/or club for his sport opportunities, fraternities etc in which academics is not “the only thing” (as his current Niche national Top-25 private extremely academic prep school is).
We are going to continue conversations with various experts and him and see how recruitability evolves over the next six months and will start visiting schools in both lists in late February… but the final list of max 12 is likely to be in flux well into next summer unless he decides earlier that LACs/Patriot League are not the place for him. Like you, I have a strong preference for direct-admit unless it’s an automatic admit like Richmond if your GPA is over 2.75 (if his GPA is lower than that we would have bigger problems than not getting into b-school).
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Back to your Richmond scenario, what’s his area of interest? as you know, for jobs like marketing and operations, he won’t need that specific education. Accounting yes. MIS and finance - potentially.
Hope his athletics work out for him - varsity or club.
Will be fun to watch over the next year and to see how he starts to feel once he takes some visits in Feb and beyond.
Maybe Lehigh would work?
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Finance/Asset and/or Wealth Management track probably. Not as much into the more general stuff for now. He loved a finance/investments summer program he did at one of the schools on the list (he was picked as leader of his team by his peers and his team won the stock picking competition etc) and we have been since been discussing the various tracks in finance. He has not been exposed to accounting yet. He did an entrepreneurialism program at a school not on the list and he thought it was OK (and definitely more interesting than any liberal arts or science to which he as been exposed in school). Luckily I have pretty good visibility of the tracks from where I stand.
Fingers crossed; I personally think it would be a fantastic fit, especially with the beautiful brand new building for the business school.
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