<p>I'm interested in majoring in business when I apply for class of 2011. Can any one tell me what to expect.</p>
<p>What to expect with what - people in your major - careers in your major - what?</p>
<p>And also - what are you talking about in Business - I am guessing Business Administration?</p>
<p>judging by your screenname and interest in business, i'll assume you wanna apply to wharton? expect to be tired and stressed out a lot.</p>
<p>let me elaborate a little bit:
im hoping to major in either business administration or marketing
i need to know what to expect based on college. What type of assignments? How much work? Etc...</p>
<p>i think you need to elaborate a little bit more... i go to wharton, my friend goes to gw, and we talk about our marketing classes and they are completely different. it depends on the program you're in. where are you thinking of applying?</p>
<p>im going to apply to wharton this year in the fall. what are the classes like?</p>
<p>well, i can tell you about my marketing class. i took mktg 101 this past semester, and i LOVED it. the structure of the class was really interesting: 1.5 hour lectures every week, with a 1.5 hour recitation. in recitation there was a lot of discussing cases that we were assigned to read before coming to class. for example, how can snapple, which experienced a declining market share following after being bought out my gatorade, improve its marketing stategies and increase market share? or how should black and decker, whose power tools were falling in sales behind makita, position itself, and should it discontinue its line or launch a new product under a different name? i realy enjoyed these recitations, because it was 95% class participation and 5% of the TA guiding us and asking thoughtful questions. however, a lot of recitation and lectures were purposefully cancelled because of SABRE. SABRE is a market simulation computer program, in which recitations are divided up into 5 groups of 4-5 students, into teams A-E. this is done within all 19 recitations. then, with your group, you make decisions about products, advertising expenditures, R&D, sales force, etc., because you are essentially launching and marketing products that compete with those of the other teams in your recitation for market share. you're graded against teams in the OTHER recitations: for example, team E in recitation 19 competes against team Es in recitations 1-18. it's really fun and interactive and i liked it and learned a lot, but it was a huge time commitment, requiring 6 decisions (which take 1-3 hours to assemble), a strategy paper, final presentation, and a lot of time with your team. again, i really enjoyed it!
i was speaking to my friend at GW who took marketing, and his class was nothing like this. they discussed supply chain management mainly, and things along those lines, which we did too, but only in readings and briefly in lecture. the class depends entirely on where you go, so you should talk to as many people as you can.
if you do go to wharton, you'll be taking finance, accounting, and stats in your sophomore year, as they are core classes. i loved finance, stats was boring, and accounting is sadistic. you'll also have to take maganement 100 as a freshman, which is a class oriented around teamwork- you'll be assigned a group and will coordinate a community service-ish project with them. it's a hiuge time committment and is competitive, as your team grades you on how they think you're contributing. if you're really interested in wharton, check out their website. they have a lot of useful information. hope i helped!</p>
<p>thanks so much. your information really helped me understand what goes on at wharton and im very interested in it. thanks again.</p>