<p>Junior Year AP: Lit, Calc AB, Lang, Gov
Senior Year AP: Calc BC, Micro, Macro, Spanish
Accelerated/Honors Classes: More than 7</p>
<p>ECs: Baseball, Cross Country, Hockey 4 years
Orchestra Letter Winner 4 years
Chamber Orchestra Letter Winner 4 years
Won numerous solo/ensemble contests (More than 7)
State Spanish Champion 4 times
National Spanish Exam Gold Medalist
Member of Young Life and School's Praise and Worship</p>
<p>Volunteer: School Mentor
Tutor
NHS (Presidential candidate)
Raised $2000 for leukemia and lymphoma patients
Volunteer at local soup kitchen
250+ volunteer hours</p>
<p>Work: Caddy at golf club</p>
<p>Please tell me if it's a target, low reach, high reach, etc. If you have any info about the business school please let me know. Also, let me know if there is anything I can do to improve my chances. Thanks!</p>
<p>njpatane19…I think you’re positioned solidly for admission into Carlson. Your GPA and ACT scores are great, and you have a good overall mix on your EC’s between athletics, community involvement, and leadership. Does your High School rank students? Here is a link to the profile stats of admitted students from fall of 2010, so you can see where you stack up against others admitted into Carlson. If your class rank is in the top 10% I think you have a great chance of getting in. Good Luck, and keep up the good work!!</p>
<p>Carlson would be a fallback school for You. You should be applying to higher ranked schools as You have the pedigree for scholarship money and an elite school. Congrats, You have earned it.</p>
<p>Some aptitude for math and science is essential for engineering. Accounting will probably offer you the highest ROI outside of STEM fields, and in my opinion it’s a pretty good choice. I’m guessing spankycollege has some sort of personal agenda here.</p>
<p>The accounting field is in high demand. Wjether a company is doing well or poorly, they always need accountants. I know many accountants who make bank!</p>
<p>I would say you are going to get in to carlson without too much problem</p>
<p>I’m a 2nd year junior here and i love the school. Carlson is not as well known as some of the other ‘better’ business schools around the country but it is just as competitive.</p>
<p>Some of the most talented kids from the mid-west go here because of the cheap tuition and most of them are in Carlson of CSE. The problem with UMinn is the size so you will have students that got a 24 on their act sitting with someone that got an 35, there is just a wide range of students that is suppose to hurt the prestige of the university.</p>
<p>Carlson have some really good programs and some are pretty bad. MIS and non-profit management are top in the country and Finance, accounting, and marketing are just okay. Definitely not a feeder school into I-Banking but i know of people that has gotten jobs with Goldman and Piper Jaffray if you like the finance route. The Big 4 accounting firms recruit heavily here. I’m a finance major but having met so many people from EY, Deloitte, PWC, and KMPG and even grant thorton, i’m on first name terms with a few recruiters and they always try to convince me to switch major and consider working for them…my grades suck.</p>
<p>the culture here is very competitive, almost cut throat. The infamous carlson curve, average is a B…so you don;t have to get an A, just make sure you do better than everyone else. this sometimes make students less likely to collaborate but i have not really noticed it during my time here. </p>
<p>don’t know what you are comparing it to, but accountants don’t make bank unless they are an senior accountant at some firm when they are 55. Accountants get a very nice and steady job that pays them very well. 100000K is not really bank in the business world anymore. </p>
<p>One thing about Carlson is the amount of companies that you have access to. Recruiters from different companies are on campus almost every day. and the opportunities you get here are amazing. I’m an average student with a knack for Investment and MIS (i like to play with computers), my GPA is not great and i have done a few EC and for this summer i was offered internships from a couple smaller I-banks and Travelers Insurance, I ultimately ended up with an internship at General Mills for an Infrastructure analyst position. </p>
<p>thanks ipam i’m not sold on accounting so it’s definitely not a lock for me; i’m looking for a major that i enjoy. what business fields do you think make bank? the range of intellectual strength kind of concerns me, but is it as wide in the honors program?</p>