<p>Looking for advice on college suggestions for my daughter who is starting the college search.</p>
<p>Rising junior
3.98 unweighted, 4.05 weighted
rank 14/405
ACT 28, math 31</p>
<p>She is interested in majoring in International business with a French minor. Financial aid would be helpful. She thinks she would like a liberal arts college, but is keeping her options open at this point.</p>
<p>Would appreciate any suggestions. Thank you!</p>
<p>Any geographic preference? Urban, suburban, rural? Size? Coed or all female? Merit aid or need-based?</p>
<p>Off the top of my head - Rhodes College</p>
<p>"Business" and "liberal arts college" often don't go together.</p>
<p>But some smaller schools do have business majors. Off the top of my head -- Bucknell.</p>
<p>American University in DC comes to mind.</p>
<p>Stormy:</p>
<p>Haven't seen to many Falling Juniors, but there sure are alot of Rising Juniors. What the heck is a rising junior anyway?</p>
<p>First thing to do is make a list of schools that have an undergraduate business school, with an international business component, if that is truly what she is looking for. That will wipe out virtually 90% of all schools in the country, all Ivies except for Penn and, theoretically, Cornell, and about 95% of LACs (it will leave Lehigh and Bucknell and William & Mary, and several others among the LACs, and, off the top of my head, University of Denver - where she'd likely get excellent aid and massive study abroad opportunities, George Washington, and a larger range among the others.)</p>
<p>a rising junior is someone who has just complete sophomore year and is gonna be a junior this fall.</p>
<p>Thank you all for the suggestions so far. I actually didn't know International business wasn't offered at a lot of schools. Firefly, she knows she wants a coed school. I don't think she has decided too much on what type of school she wants. She just went to a couple of open houses locally and enjoyed both Macalester and University of St. Thomas, though they are quite different from each other. The University of St. Thomas would not be as prestigious, but I think she would have a good chance at merit money there. Mac had so much that she would love with an International feel, but they offer International Relations and not International Business. Thanks again for all the suggestions. I will pass them on to her.</p>
<p>Tons of good schools with international relations (Macalester being a great example), many, many fewer with international business (actually, relatively rare). William and Mary places heavy emphasis on study abroad for business majors, as does University of Denver (they even have international real estate accounting!), and, to some extent, so does George Washington.</p>
<p>Take a look at some of the college search sites: Princeton Review, Collegeboard etc, these allow you to do searches by major, region, size, etc. as well as providing a lot of other useful info for prospective college students and their parents. Collegeboard is especially helpful; my first stop when I was researching colleges for my son...</p>
<p>U of south Carolina has the #1 ranked International Business program but it sounds too big and in the wrong part of the country.If interested,I'd take a look at the out of state merit $$ opportunities here.</p>
<p>Cathymee, she just looked at the U of SC website and really liked what she saw, so I think this is one she will look into further. She always wanted to be in a warmer climate. Thanks for letting us know about them. Is it usually more difficult to get into public schools when you are out of state? I know that is true with the UCs.</p>
<p>Thanks for the additional suggestions, Mini. She will take a look at all the colleges that have been mentioned. Thanks also scansmom for your suggestions too. I will take your advice. Everyone is so helpful here!</p>
<p>American University has a strong business school and a VERY strong school of international service which actually requires all students to study a foreign language. Also AU is known to have a very internationally diverse student body.
I certainly think that your daughter should look at schools that cater to her desired major of international business however in the event that she does not find a school that she likes with her desired major finding school with both strong business and international service/international relationships programs is probably the next best thing.</p>
<p>One problem with out of state public schools is that it's harder to get financial aid so many private colleges who will give aid may actually be cheaper to attend</p>
<p>My D is an OSS, FL resident attending U of Az. They look for other factors at Publics. Arizona has A LOT of people from California. They don't give a lot of aid to those students. </p>
<p>But D and many of her friends are honor students most of them who are OSS (Michigan/Ohio/S.Carolina) received waivers for the out-of state tuition. My D received in and out of state tuition waivers. They are all in the Honors College.</p>
<p>She was top 5%
30 ACT
5.14 WGPA</p>
<p>Stormy--the best thing to do is to apply and see what happens. If she likes SC's program and you live in someplace like Michigan you bring Geo. diversity to the campus.</p>
<p>Afa81, did the students get waivers because they are in the Honors college? We live in MN. It would be great to get the cost the same as instate. Previously, I had told her not to look at out of state publics because of the rates being so much higher. It is good to hear that waivers are possible. Thanks.</p>
<p>With your D stats she would easily qualify for most honors colleges except UF (they want a 33 ACT). Not all honors students got them, most of the out of staters did. Some schools are better at giving waivers, other are not. Just ask the question. AZ told me yes they did. </p>
<p>As to the Private/Public, she got into Tulane, U Miami, and UF. Tulane was 14 in merit aid, U Miami 21 K in merit with FL Brights and UF FL Brights-- 100% tuition and books. It was still was cheaper for her to go to AZ. We pay room, board, books and fees. UF was a tad more expensive.</p>
<p>Afa81, thanks for sharing your information. I have a lot to learn, since she is just going to be a junior and we have just recently starting looking. I think she can improve her 28 ACT, but probably not by a lot. It sounds like your daughter did great with her offers! Thanks again.</p>