<p>Hi, I am a rising senior shaping my final college list. I currently have a couple safeties, 3 matches but a lot a lot of reaches! I need to cut down my 7 reach schools to 4! This is really hard for me to do because I like them all and can see myself at all of them. These are the schools:</p>
<p>~I am applying to all of their undergraduate business schools~
-Penn (Wharton)
-Cornell (AEM)
-Georgetown (McDonough)
-NYU (Stern)
-Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
-Notre Dame (first year studies to Mendoza)
-College of William and Mary OOS (business school is a two year program)</p>
<p>This is what I would like in a school:
-School spirit, sports would be nice
-not a huge greek and party scene
-not clichey
-strong education
-lots to do on campus (and off would be nice too)
-not ultra competitive but students are serious about academics
-students LOVE their school
-will lead to good job prospects after graduation</p>
<p>Alright which four should i keep on my list and which three should I drop?</p>
<p>Wait, you want to go to a business school that doesn’t have a big party scene?</p>
<p>Err, are you sure that’s a realistic expectation? Business is not exactly the most academically rigorous subject, and business majors tend to have a lot of spare cash and time to waste. Business majors are the parti-est of all majors, in my experience.</p>
<p>Stern, I suppose… it doesn’t seem to have much of a central party location. Everybody just go clubbing, from what I’ve seen.</p>
<p>yup i am applying to BC and Fordham too…
well i don’t want the school as a whole to revolve around greek life and such… idk</p>
<p>why drop CMU NYU and Gtown?</p>
<p>“Err, are you sure that’s a realistic expectation? Business is not exactly the most academically rigorous subject, and business majors tend to have a lot of spare cash and time to waste. Business majors are the parti-est of all majors, in my experience.”</p>
<p>There’s a pretty wide range of admit rates on your reach list. Penn overall has a 17% rate with Wharton rumored to be half that. W&M is at the other end with about 34% admit, with OOS lower. </p>
<p>My suggestion is pick 1 from Penn, Georgetown & Cornell and 2 from the rest.</p>
<p>I agree with Ray192; it’s really up to you to set your own party scene limits. </p>
<p>Well, yes. Business is easily the most socially oriented major in any school. It’s a stretch to expect business majors in any school to not be… social animals. After all, I would say that the ability to socialize in any environment is crucial to business.</p>
<p>Why wouldn’t you have UVA on this list? McIntire was just names the #1 undergraduate business school by Businessweek and they have the most spirit/best sports out of anyone on your list outside of maybe Notre Dame.</p>
<p>I would keep NYU, but get rid of Wharton. It hardly accepts any students and you may have a hard time getting into it. I would also drop William and Mary.</p>
<p>Why don’t you just apply to all of them? Is money a problem? Unless money is a problem, I would say don’t cut any of them out.</p>
<p>However, the schools all fit the things that you do want, so listing those factors don’t work. I would say it would depend on where you want to work after college, what you plan to do, and other factors that you need to consider. For example, do you really want to be in a large city? Because then you can cut Notre Dame, Cornell, and William and Mary. If you’d rather be in a smaller area, do the reverse. Do you want a huge school? Then you can cut the smaller ones. Do you need a school with a campus? Get rid of NYU.</p>
<p>If I were in your position the schools I would cut would be Notre Dame, William and Mary, and Cornell. I like big cities – they’re the best for internships, too – and being in Ithaca in the middle of winter would completely freak me out. It’s cold enough in NYC.</p>
<p>And even the MBA students here (Columbia) are the partying-est grad students – they throw a big bash every Thursday evening that costs thousands (with a DJ and free food and wine and booze flowing). It’s a major/career that includes a lot of networking and schmoozing, so…they use partying as a way to sort of do that.</p>
<p>I’d drop Wharton, Cornell, and William and Mary - Wharton because even if you are qualified, you aren’t getting in (that’s a reasonable betting person’s take for just about everyone), Cornell and W&M 'cause where are you ever going to find ANY in-term internships that you can carry alongside your coursework?</p>
<p>Yeah okay Mini, your right, Cornell will not give you any internships. It’s only an Ivy league biz school. Who cares about the location, you intern in the summer</p>
<p>To be honest, I think Notre Dame and Georgetown sound like perfect fits. Notre Dame a little moreso than Georgetown, but with Notre Dame you lose the benefit of a nearby city. (not that that is significant enough that it should sway your decision or anything)</p>
<p>He needs to cut three good schools, and I think the lack of internship possibilities during term (including the opportunity to be cultivating contacts during the school year) is an excellent reason to cut two of them. (and, yes, I think in-term internships are VERY significant for a busines student.)</p>
<p>(For what it’s worth, which is very little, Business Week ranks W&M as barely in the top 30; there are many better choices for reaches, or even matches.)</p>
<p>Just curious…why are you cutting down on your number of reaches? The more reaches you apply to, the better chance you have at getting into at least one. If you have 3+ safeties, I would trim that down a bit. If you can truly get into a safety guaranteed, what’s the point of having a few?</p>
<p>yeah i just don’t want to spend all this time on apps for reaches because they all require supplements and essay questions… that is why I dont want to apply to too much schools because I want to spend a lot of time on each. </p>
<p>I think I am going to keep… Carnegie Mellon, NYU, Notre Dame, and Georgetown</p>