Emory vs USC vs Wisconsin Madison

<p>Hey CCers I got into the above three schools and want to study business for undergrad. I got into USC's Marshall School of Business, Madison's School of Business as a freshman direct admit, and I am aware that I will have to apply to Goizueta after my sophmore year. Money is not an issue (although I will admit I live in Wisconsin). I have visited both Emory and Madison (loved them both) and I am planning on visiting USC within the next couple of weeks. I am very sociable and would be comfortable in pretty much any environment - be it study oriented or party oriented. So, what do you think guys?</p>

<p>I don’t know much about USC but Emory’s location in Atlanta provides great internship opportunities and it has a great relationship with Coca Cola, which tends to hire/intern many students post graduation</p>

<p>Hold on…Would you actually value taking classes in Emory College for 2 years? As in, would you likely use it for more than just fullfilling pre-reqs. If not, then maybe you should mainly consider the other 2 which start you right away. This is a huge difference, and if you don’t see the point in the first 2 years beyond distribution requirements, then you may not like Emory’s set-up. I will tell you the advantage of the situation though. It seems that many students have taken their interests which were developed in the college and then integrated it in their future business interests really well. For example, there have been plenty of successes in the film arena. In addition, students remotely interested in things like healthcare (administrative aspects) can use the two years to maybe even take science courses (even though a healthcare administrator may not need to know science, it certainly makes them more informed of the happenings within a hospital or healthcare type setting). Or who knows, maybe not even healthcare, maybe science education outreach, stuff like that (one may want to start a tutoring business or some sort of organization that promotes teaching science well or brings science literacy outside of academia) …The two years has it’s utility if you are creative and keep an open mind. It certainly diversifies the interests of business school students here, who don’t all necessarily want to go into investment banking (like you see at many other business schools. That’s not to say a huge chunk don’t want to do this). Sometimes I find the academic interests of fellow b-school students surprising. They seem more open-minded than many in similarly rigid pre-prof. tracks like pre-health tracks (or even pre-law where most just go the standard history or polisci route) and I’m sure the two years helps facilitate this </p>

<p>*There may be a logical fallacy in this as pre-health spend all 4 years, but many of them normally only focus on their science coursework, often not even liking them, and treat courses outside of that as sideshows or GPA boosters (luckily there are plenty of pre-health double majors that help to offset the effect of this). I don’t get it. I was basically a double science major and loved my non-science classes. I guess that’s what happens when you take the attitude of “if it doesn’t help me with my future in healthcare, what’s the point of taking it other than to fulfill a GER or get an A?”. This is an unhealthy attitude much less prevalent among pre-bus. majors at Emory at least.</p>