<p>I am planning to major in Finance, both schools offer me about the same amount of FA; where should I go? I know UMich have a top ranking business school (Ross), but I was not pre-admitted. Do you guys think BC's Carrol is equivalent to it? Any response will be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>Frankly, no. If you don’t think you can be competitive enough to get into Ross as a sophomore, then BC is the better option. That said, it isn’t very hard. Most students who apply to Ross as freshmen don’t take it very seriously and as a result do not get accepted. So don’t let that 42% (310/736) acceptance rate daunt you. <a href=“http://www.bus.umich.edu/Admissions/bba/2009%20RAProfile.pdf[/url]”>http://www.bus.umich.edu/Admissions/bba/2009%20RAProfile.pdf</a></p>
<p>BC (Carrol) is a good school, but Ross is a bit better. Both send grads into investment banking. If you don’t think you can get in as a sophomore at Ross, then you probaby wouldn’t do too much better at BC, so I wouldn’t let that play too big of a role in your decision. Is there any difference in cost? Do you feel more comfortable at one of the two?</p>
<p>Ross is better than Carrol, but it’s not light years better. I think Carrol is probably better than Michigan’s Econ, but we can leave that up to giants92.</p>
<p>If I were to go to UMich, I will have to attend LSA and possibly have to major in Economic. I heard some very negative reviews about LSA Economics, saying overcrowed and etc. Can you testify this?</p>
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<p>I do not know very much about BC, let alone it’s business school. However, to my knowledge, I have never heard Carrol mentioned as a target. Ross, on the other hand, is very much a target school, so I would consider it considerably better than Carrol. That said, there is one front office intern from BC in my class this summer (albeit in the Boston office and in capital markets, not banking). Seven from Michigan (across banking, capital markets, S&T), all from Ross except for myself to my knowledge.</p>
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<p>I would say I probably have to agree with that statement, being as Carrol is not much of a target school to my knowledge.</p>
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<p>Once again, I can’t claim to be an expert on this comparison (seeing some placement data from Carol might help, but I don’t have the time/desire to look it up right now), but I can tell you that UM Econ is not very good for front office finance recruiting. If you’re a motivated/smart student you will have a good experience and learn a great deal in the Econ program here (despite its size), but LSA recruiting is just horrendous for front office finance recruiting. You have to do your own recruiting because very few tip top companies will be dropped on your doorstep like they are at Ross.</p>
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<pre><code>If I happen to attend UMich, how hard would it be to transfer to Ross as a sophomore? Is GPA the only admissions aspect?
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<p>raezin, please do a search on that topic. There are many posts on this forum discussing Ross admissions. Acceptance rate is ~40% – GPA is not the only admissions aspect, but it would be helpful to pull a 3.6+. If you are motivated and focused (and smart, of course, for GPA purposes), you have a good chance of getting into Ross. It is very important to have 2-3 solid extracurriculars in which you made a demonstrated impact/produced results for the organization. Many underestimate the importance of the extracurricular aspect of the application – I know people with 3.9 GPAs, who were very smart/capable and would have excelled in Ross, but were rejected because they were too one-dimensional.</p>
<p>Carrol is decent. I know a few people working for bulge brackets that went there. It’s not as big of a target as Ross, but it’s not really a non-target either.</p>
<p>UMich it is!</p>
<p>Excellent decision!</p>
<p>Congratulations, good luck next year.</p>
<p>"If I were to go to UMich, I will have to attend LSA and possibly have to major in Economic. I heard some very negative reviews about LSA Economics, saying overcrowed and etc. Can you testify this? "</p>
<p>The “very negative reviews” are unjustified. Economics is the most popular major at most elite universities. Whether one is a student at Cal, Chicago, Cornell, Harvard, Michigan, Northwestern, Penn, Stanford or UVa, you are going to have 1,000-1,500 undergrads majoring in Econ on campus at any one point in time. As such, you are going to have some overcrowding, and the inevitably, large classes. This said, most Michigan Econ professors are excellent and care, but students must also care and make an effort. </p>
<p>Giants is correct in saying that LSA’s career office sucks. LSA students place into graduate programs with ease, but are pretty much on their own to find jobs when they graduate. We really need to invest in a stronger, more pro-active career office. Engineering and Ross do a great job, there is no reason (or excuse) why LSA doesn’t. Over 1,000 companies recruit on campus each year. Virtually every single industrial powerhouse (Pharmaceuticals/Biotech like Medtronic, Amgen, J&J, Pfizer and Merck, Aerospace like Boeing and Lockheed Martin, Energy, Tech like Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and Sun, Automotive, retail, etc…), Investment Bank (BoA, Citigroup, Deutschebank, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and UBS) and Consulting Firm (Bain, BCG, Booz, McKinsey, Oliver Wyman etc…) recruits either at Ross or at the CoE or at both. There is no reason why those firms would not love to recruit the hundreds of highly motivated and talented Chemistry, Economics, Mathematics and Physics (and others) majors who graduate from LSA annually.</p>
<p>Guys, do I have to take certain courses in order to apply to Ross next year?</p>
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<p>“Seven from Michigan (across banking, capital markets, S&T), all from Ross except for myself to my knowledge.”</p>
<p>Is it a non-BB, more specifically, is this RBS?</p>
<p>I know it’s not GS/MS, it’s also not JPM because I dont think they recruited for S&T on campus (I did my first ronud on phone). Probably not UBS. Barcap doesnt do on campus, neither does BAML except for research. It’s not DB for sure. They only recruited for IBD and S&T on campus. It’s not citi because i know there’s an engineering kid going to citi IBD so that doesnt fit your criteria.
It could be CS, considering that Boston reference, but I dont think they recruited for CM at Michigan. </p>
<p>The only non-BB that recruited for all three functions at Michigan is RBS so I am going to guess its RBS.</p>
<p>CS recruits capital markets from michigan and actually took a handful for ft my class from ross. Their capital markets recruiting program is called “global markets solutions group” or something ridiculous like that. Barcap is also on campus to a small extent (my year just did ibd chicago, so nothing too good).</p>
<p>Pretty good deductive reasoning bearcats. I won’t confirm or deny anything, but I will say a bit of that reasoning is inaccurate.</p>
<p>one problem is that i’d guess maybe a quarter of the people who get top finance jobs don’t get them through the on-campus process, whereas bearcats assumed the michigan people in those positions got them all through ocr.</p>