Economics from UT Austin or Business from TAMU?

College Majors Business Major
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<p>Undergraduate</a> Programs - The McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin</p>

<p>It's a little bit harder to do an internal transfer than what you make it sound like, mtrizzle06.</p>

<p>For one thing, the cut off is 24 semester hours but I'd imagine that to be competitive you have to have more than 24 hours. Also, there's only 300 spots available which isn't a lot considering how big UT is. You also have to take Calculus I as one of the courses, but that's not a huge deal if you are good at math but it's not exactly a liberals arts class.</p>

<p>It's doable but you have to half-expect not to get in.</p>

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<p>"Oh really, then how come when I go through resumes at work it's always UT OR A&M BBA graduates, hmm? Then how come I meet just as many people with BBAs from A&M in my field (RE development) as I do people with BBAs from UT? I've met just as many well-off A&M business graduates as I have UT business graduates."</p>

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<li>No offense, but you work in the real estate development business- I know many people who don't even have a college degree that go into RE Development. Anybody with half a functioning brain can work in your field, regardless of where he or she graduates.</li>
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<p>Your logic, or EXPERIENCE, is also terrible. Frankly, it is stupid to say that you've met "just as many well-off A&M business graduates as I have UT business graduates." So are you calling the two schools equals in the alumni it produces? Maybe you need to meet more people. I think we can all agree that UT's business school is head and shoulders above Mays.</p>

<p>"Sorry, I don't buy into the "carries the same respect as a Wharton degree." No doubt that Honors at McCombs carries a lot of weight, but Wharton is in a class all by it's own."</p>

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<li>Learn how to read- I said some.</li>
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<p>"If you're going to get a business job IN Texas, it doesn't really matter which school you go to. The alumni networks are even about the same size and there's enough mutural respect between the two schools that Longhorns hire Aggies and Aggies hire Longhorns. Hell, to externally transfer to either school the only difference (from the last time I checked) is that you need calculus at UT Austin. Otherwise you pretty much have to have the same GPA and mostly the same classes in order to get into either school as a transfer student."</p>

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<li>This statement is also ridiculously biased. Six out of ten analysts from Merrill Lynch's Investment Bank in Houston are from the University of Texas at Austin. Others have come from Vanderbilt, Rice, TAMU, UVA, etc. At Lehman Brothers' Houston office, you will only find 3 Aggie investment banking analysts out of at least 15.
Maybe in your industry both degrees carry the same weight, if any at all, but in the OP's specified fields, in which he has expressed an interest in stocks, McCombs is head and shoulders above Mays. It is ludicrous and ignorant to say otherwise.</li>
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<p>"When companies recruit they are trying to fill up positions quickly; they don't really give a damn who you are personally. You can't use recruitment as a measure of long-term success."
- Oh really- why do companies do interviews at all? Goldman Sachs might as well hire based on resume alone- instead of personal attributes.</p>

<p>Clearly you either have bad information or you are an idiot. </p>

<p>"From my first-hand EXPERIENCE (which greatly outweighs your opinion), yes, with an Economics degree, you can. Just go on Google and look up people who have bachelor's degrees in Economics from UT-Austin for example. A lot of them DO work in the banking and financial industries. I've even met a few of them. Just because companies are heavily recruiting from the finance department doesn't mean you can't have just as much success with an economics degree. Those companies recruit heavily from business because it's easier for them to compare the GPAs from several business schools and know who's a better candidate because business schools are more standardized. Economics is not quite so standardized so it's harder for them to know. Some economics departments are business heavy whereas others are not."</p>

<p>-Apparently, your experience in your RE Development applies only to your industry. I suggest you keep your comments, ideas, opinions, and experience to yourself, as they seem logically flawed and absolutely ludicrous.</p>

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<p>Im hesitant to even change my 2nd choice major to LA Eco</p>

<p>Im afraid they'll be like "well, he has mediocre stats for a business student, but lets just give him his 2nd choice eco"</p>

<p>My stats rank 14/132, 1220 CR+M (which is highest in my school by a landslide, people cheat alot) They do horrible when someone actually monitors the test. My school is one of those "poor" schools you could say, at least 65% of the students are on reduced or free lunch, ~69% black,~28% white</p>

<p>Would it be beneficial to take Calc 1 and Eco1 during 1st semester than Calc2 and Eco2 during 2nd semester? It'll be a hard work load, but i figure since i took all 4 class reqs they'll give a little slack since my GPA will prob be below the average. I figure I can manage an A for every 2 of those classes, and hopefully I can get into Phys Ed or some other bogus class to get some easy A's</p>

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<p>Being 14/132 and having that SAT score, I am not confident that you will get into Texas- Austin at all. You have to be top 10%, and if you are not, you had better had some spectacular SAT score or EC activity. Try to get into the T13 people at your school. I know dozens of people who had 1300+ SAT's but were CAP'd from UT-Austin because they were 10.1, 10.3, 11.3% of their class. </p>

<p>They are VERY strict on their 10% rule.</p>

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<p>Will UT Austin accept late updated transcripts?</p>

<p>After this semester I think my rank will be higher, but the semester ends on jan 18.</p>

<p>This means, the stupid teachers will probably have grades turned in a week later. Then the counselors have to do all the updates and stuff, dont know if its all electronic or what.</p>

<p>By the time the rank is finalized, it will most likely be passed the Feb 1 deadline (i already submitted the 6 semester transcript)</p>

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<p>Just send in your application when you are in the top 10% and they will accept you. IIRC, UT has a rolling admissions policy.</p>

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Just send in your application when you are in the top 10% and they will accept you. IIRC, UT has a rolling admissions policy.

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<p>I've already applied, everything they needed is there.</p>

<p>The semester ends Jan 18, so the updated rank (assuming i move up) probably wont be received before the Feb 1 deadlin</p>

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<p>I just did a quick search on Google and found several A&M graduates who are working for Goldman Sachs. If you have a functional brain and the motivation to be successful, a BBA from A&M is not going to keep you from getting somewhere.</p>

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Will UT Austin accept late updated transcripts?

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<p>I doubt it. It might be by department but I think they will only look at transcripts from the semester before, printed off before the deadline.</p>

<p>Woswill, you need to check and make sure that they will even allow you to go into economics as a second-choice major. I don't know but they might only allow economics majors in as first choice. You need to call the College of Liberal Arts to make sure. You might end not going to UT-Austin at all so make a backup plan.</p>

<p>When you say "late updated" you mean after March 1, right?</p>

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<p>mtrizzle06,</p>

<p>You are a total idiot with little experience in the real world.</p>

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No offense, but you work in the real estate development business- I know many people who don't even have a college degree that go into RE Development. Anybody with half a functioning brain can work in your field, regardless of where he or she graduates.

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<p>Hahahaha! I'm sure those people you know are just flipping houses or something. You don't have a clue about my profession.</p>

<p>To get into what I do, you have to have either 1) Have a MBA (preferably in finance or real estate) from a good school or 2) Have a Master's degree in Real Estate. You can get your foot in the door on the financial side with a BBA in Finance with an emphasis in real estate.</p>

<p>I knew a guy that has one of the above combined with 12+ years experience in the field and he was unemployed for a year. It's a competitive field.</p>

<p>But if you think you are going to march into one of the big firms down here with a degree in Sociology and demand a entry-level job working on the projects, you are sadly mistaken. You have to bring something to the table first. A lot of the big firms are really picky about what you majored in and what school you went to if you don't have any experience.</p>

<p>Based on what you said in that one paragraph, I'm not even going to bother to read what else you write because it's obvious you don't have a god**** clue.</p>

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<p>I just applied to U of Houston for a safety</p>

<p>Im guaranteed at least $3000-6500 a year for tuition based off my rank and SAT score</p>

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- No offense, but you work in the real estate development business- I know many people who don't even have a college degree that go into RE Development. Anybody with half a functioning brain can work in your field, regardless of where he or she graduates.

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<p>This is a moronic statment. Many MBA grads from top schools like Wharton, Harvard, USC, Texas, Cornell, Chicago, Stanford, etc etc etc go into real estate development. These are jobs that are only offered to graduates of top grad schools and the pay is competitive with many other MBA jobs (albeit, in Development, you normally start a little lower then make up for that as you get a larger piece of the action).</p>