<p>If anyone was wondering, I was accepted in dec. 2011: 1900(sat) #55/196 220 volunteer/internship, decent essay.</p>
<p>DK4783: my GPA is apprx. 3.58</p>
<p>Fruitloops22 thank you------avuong, you should email your admissions counselor. If yours is anything like mine (Kelly Wyper) then they will be beyond helpful. She usually answers my questions within 2 days and always provides me with a lot of information. I would just explain your situation and say that you really wanting to attend SMU and were wondering if more scholarships are being sent/how to become eligible for additional money.</p>
<p>Thanks DK4783. my counselor is Christy Tanton. Hopefully she’s as great as yours.</p>
<p>I finally got in!
3.3 gpa, 1890 SAT, multiple varsity sports, chief yearbook editor, a few clubs.</p>
<p>March May June
were you waitlisted and then accepted or did you just receive your acceptance letter?</p>
<p>@nanic10
No, I had been deferred. The red envelope came today, I’d found out on Friday from my admissions counselor, so today I finally recieved confirmation in writing.</p>
<p>Congrats!!! My stats are 30 ACT, 3.8 GPA, several varsity sports, and I was deferred too. So glad to hear that someone else who got deferred has gotten accepted this soon. Hoping for good news here as well.</p>
<p>Are you from Texas?? SMU is harder to get into from Texas</p>
<p>No, I am not from Texas. I have not been accepted yet. Just hoping my wait list status changes to accepted.</p>
<p>I was wait listed. I received my letter last week. It was dated March 9. I have a 3.3 GPA, top quarter, and A LOT of extra-curriculars/volunteering and work experience.</p>
<p>Has anyone been admitted off of the waitlist??</p>
<p>My child received a strange note this week from the Head of a department, saying the portfolio that had been submitted (back in September) was reviewed, and offered a space in the program, but an admission application would need to be submitted. My child had applied early action back in September, was deferred in December, and was now being told to apply again? All the students that had applied to SMU in the fall from my child’s school chose to go to UT instead, so I guess SMU has lots of empty spots, and decided to contact my child. Thanks, but won’t be going to SMU.</p>
<p>TXtwinmama -</p>
<p>I’m sorry your daughter got deferred during the EA process. Many students get deferred. That is common even with students who have outstanding STATs. SMU cannot accept everyone and it is extremely hard to get in. You aren’t alone. If you have read the board, there are quite a few students now on the waitlist and they are hoping they can still get in and they have exceptional STATs. Usually when you are deferred or waitlisted, the schools ask for additional information. That is not uncommon. Good luck at TCU/UT!</p>
<p>Hmmm, my post did not say I have a daughter, and your only other post was to slam TCU.</p>
<p>Has anyone been admitted off of the waitlist yet???</p>
<p>Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this but I don’t know who else to ask </p>
<p>So I’ve gotten into BU’s School of Management and SMU undergrad (was not placed immediately in the business school) but I’m a bit torn which one to attend. I want to go into marketing, so there are pros and cons to both schools. I feel that SMU is more of a regional school and only feeds into companies after graduation in the south. With BU, since it’s near New York City, would feed into larger national and international companies after graduation. I’m really basing my decision on which school will bring the best job opportunities. I’m also concerned that I won’t be able to make a 3.3 at SMU to get into Cox Business, plus at BU I’d already have 4 years of business experience rather than two.</p>
<p>Thoughts? I’d really to hear some opinions.</p>
<p>I don’t really understand what you mean by two years versus four years. You begin taking classes for the business school first semester freshman year, you just aren’t officially accepted until after you satisfy several requirements.</p>
<p>You can also get a lot of out of class marketing experience here, as Dallas has a larger corporate presence than Boston and we’re the only game in town (lots of schools in Boston, obviously)! I have friends who are doing marketing in London and NYC… Mustangs are all over! There’s a reason the Economist said we’re #1 in the US for breadth of alumni network and #7 in the world for potential to network!</p>
<p>@johangle
Oh sorry. I thought that it was two years of liberal arts education and /then/ you went into the business school. I must have read the site wrong.</p>
<p>Are you a current or past student? I don’t know if you’d know the answer to this question or not, but do you know if it’s difficult for an average student (1890 SAT) to get a 3.3 in all business requirement classes in order to get into Cox? I’m concerned about not being able to meet the GPA and getting stuck be an econ major or something. That’s why I had been curious about SMU’s comparison to BU since I’d be starting in the business school since freshman year.</p>
<p>Sorry to hurl all these questions at you but it seems this site is one of the only really good ones that offers up realistic information since most school-related sites just want to market to you so that you attend.</p>
<p>I’m currently a junior majoring in accounting and history. You take a mix of business and liberal arts classes all the way through your time here. I register for my last semester of classes tomorrow and I’ll still be taking Liberal Arts senior year. A common first year schedule would be half business/half pre-recs. </p>
<p>We honestly have no way to track who makes it in/doesn’t make it in. I would say that the subset is pretty do-able, and is more a test of if you’re willing to go all the way through with it. Perhaps a good rule of thumb would be if you’re in our median 50% you’ll have no trouble, but in the bottom 25% could be challenging? I honestly don’t know. Personally speaking I only know one guy who just couldn’t make grades on the subset and extended subset (you can take two additional classes to try and make it in). It’s significantly more challenging as you get older and take advanced classes than when you’re a freshman and you’re taking english, econ, calculus, and accounting one haha</p>