<p>This will cover everything you will need to know about Babson, pretty much.
Here’s how I rate the school.</p>
<p>Should I go to Boston?
Ok, here’s the lowdown.
If you go into an Ivy league school, no. Your going to get more recruiters at places that pay a lot, and have more prestige, and get laid more. Actually if you got into Brown, then no. Cornell, ehhh… probably, just for the name at the worst I don’t know. But HYP, Dartmouth, UPenn, go there!
If you got into good schools but not the top 10, then things get more interesting. State schools or Private schools I would say consider coming to Babson if you want to go into finance, because we have more opportunities. If you want to go into consulting, Babson isn’t going to help you, but it won’t hurt you. If anything else, it’ll probably help a little. It’s all about sacrificies, what do you want, what are you willing to give up. Read below for more info to see if its for you.
Also, top 3 liberal art schools like Williams, Wellesley will get slightly more job opportunities. Places like Claremont MeKenna and Pomona are about even. LA schools outside top 8 will be downgrades in terms of job placement but will have substantially better hook-up lives and better parties.</p>
<p>Work Life Balance: Freshman Year- F Sophmore Year - C Junior & Senior C+/B-
Obviously the worst year is freshman year and it gets better after that, the school gives you a little less work but you can deal with it better and do things in half the time you did as a stupid freshman.</p>
<p>The Kids
Typical babson kids
Kid A-New England person that is upper middle class to upper class. Wears lots of polo and lacoste, conservative, doesn’t like the liberal kids he/she was with in prep school, ambitious, type A personalitity. (60% of population)
Kid B-International Kid. Parents are rich and might be major head of industry in home country in europe, south america, asia, or middle east. More money then Kid A. networth of parents somehwere from a few mill to a few hundred mill, a few billionaires. (20%)
Kid C-Middle class kid from anywhere US. Parents working class but highly ambiitious. Didn’t get into top 10 school. Relates money to happiness, willing to work very hard. Will probably be in top 25% of Babson in terms of grades (15%)
Kid D-Someone from Oregon or California, possibly liberal. Has funky parents that are vegans, well off. Lots of buddies going into sciences or engineering, arts, fashion design. Wants to start own business, has some crazy ideas. Sees #1 in entrepeurship. Tells herself/himself why not? I got big dreams, lets go for it (5%)</p>
<p>Education
I’ve read some things about Babson so I’ll dispell the truth from myth.
FME- Interesting Experience, you learn a lot about working with people. It’ll involve a lot of conflict. The businesses aren’t great but it’s the working in a group of 30 type A people that will be biggest learning experience.
IME/ in sophmore and 1st semester jr yr- Covers accounting, finance, marketing, strategy, organizational behavior, operations. The object of IME is to giv eyou an introduction to all aspects of business so you know what you like and don’t like.</p>
<p>Professors
They all know your names, you have to go to class. This can be good or bad thing depending your prospective. You can’t just decide not to go to class for a week because your alarm didn’t work. It’ll hurt your grade. On the other hand, you get to know them all, which again can be good or bad. If you ditch class, there is a good likelyhood you might run into them while getting lunch. The business professors all have business experience, and most run small-mid size companies outside of teaching or do consulting work. The liberal art professors are very liberal. They make you read stuff about poor people, gays, the disadvantages, animal cruelty and all tha jazz. The two sets of professors are very different personalities. The economics and math professors belong to liberal art department and are different from their english, gender study, history partners. They are more moderate, between the two extremes.</p>
<p>Entrepreneurship
People who haven’t gone here seem to think the major part of entrepreneurship education is FME. That is FALSE. FME is a great marketing tool but the reason Babson is #1 in entrepreneurship is the Entrepreneurship Professors. You can only take classes with profs in your junior and senior year. The school puts a lot of money into the division, probably too much. The professors are the best at the school. The Entrepreneruship classes or EPS classes cover viability of ideas, how to finance an idea, and getting started on running an idea from ground up. You do business plans and they get critiqued. The EPS classes actually cover a lot of finance and marketing. Most of the EPS professors are doing it for fun because most are amazing wealthy already. Also since all the EPS professors have started businesses, sometimes multiple ones, it is realistic. Most will tell you straight up you probably won’t start a business until a few years out, or if your idea is stupid. The EPS classes are important because they get you in the right frame of mind of what to do, getting financing, hiring people, etc.</p>
<p>Now that I’ve covered Entrepreneurship, I"ll tell you most students don’t major in this, they take one or two classes to gain perspective. If I had to estimate I’d say 35% go into finance, 20% accounting, 20% marketing, 10% sales, 5% consulting, 5% family business, 3% entrepeneurs out of school. 2% grad school immediately.</p>
<p>That’s right, most kids actually don’t try to start own businesses. If you want to know who recruits at babson I will give you a sample. From finance: Citigroup, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Rothschild, BoA Securities, Putnam, Fidelity, and some PE shops and Hedge funds. From marketing you’ll find few ad agencies, but mostly marketing departments of established companies: DKNY, Reebok, boston celtics, boston wnba team, comsumer products, Museum of Fine Arts, L’Oreal and other make up companies. There are few people who into consulting at Babson. I only know 2 companies that posted jobs, McKinsey and Accenture, there were a few other small ones. Most of the smart kids go into Finance, or if they are creative then Marketing. The college recruiting is getting better, although not as good as an ivy league or anything, most kids get jobs through personal contacts still.</p>
<p>Social Life D-/C+
Look at my nick. I hate Massachusetts. The state is horrible. The town, Wellesley is dull. It’s a dry town, but that doesn’t stop people from drinking(i’ll get to that in a minute). The girls are ugly or not available, there are also few of them, so you get babson googles after awhile. when you go home, all the girls seem hot.</p>
<p>Alcoholism is rampent across campus, so is smoking. Half the kids come here drinking a little before in highschool, about 98% do after coming through. 15% probably smoke before, probably 35% afterwards. Heavy drug is near non existent. Some people smoke pot, probably 5% of school.</p>
<p>An average week at Babson starts with cramming until 2 AM in the library on sunday. Waking up, classes, a lot of meetings, cramming again until 1 AM or 2 AM, repeat till thursday. Everyone drinks on Thursday. International kids typically go clubbing in Boston, while kids from US stay on campus roam around lots of little parties on campus or have little 5 people parties. Usually the parties are mostly guys or as call them, sausage fests. Chances of getting laid, are low, and the available girls are ugly. There are hot girls, its just most are taken. Some might hook up anyways if they are drunk enough, which they probably will be.</p>
<p>Life isn’t horrible but it does suck compared to other schools. Your not going to get laid as much here. You’ll probably make more money then other kids two to five years out especially. If you don’t drink, you will become an alcoholic due to all the work you had to do. The kids are materialistic. Everyone is here. If you don’t like it, don’t come. Beemers are standards, what is impressive is that two years ago we had two kids on campus with Ferraris. That was really cool.</p>
<p>I would not reccomend this school to 95% of the high school students applying to college. The 5% I reccomend this to are kids who didn’t get into the Ivies and highly ambitious deisirng lots of money and seeking to make sick connections, willing to make sacrifices in the process, that being: becoming an alcoholic, not hooking up as much as normal college kids, doing lots of work.</p>
<p>That’s it, it is my first and probably last post on this board. Everything I wish I knew before I came to this godforsaken school.</p>