<p>How before applying can one show passion, commitment, talent, in business.</p>
<p>Are there business clubs to join, competition ect. ect.</p>
<p>What does Harvard look for in a Business major?</p>
<p>Last I checked harvard doesn’t have a business major. I may be wrong though. They do have econ, and if you go to harvard you can pretty much major in anything and if you do well you’ll get job offers in ibanking and consulting.</p>
<p>As far as showing passion, commitment, talent, look at clubs like DECA and FBLA. Maybe start your own business. </p>
<p>How old are you and what grade?</p>
<p>KLLeader is right, Harvard doesn’t have an actual business undergrad last I heard.</p>
<p>i’m in 9th grade, how can someone start their own business before 18 and if so, what business?
I will look into those clubs do you have their website?</p>
<p>Uh… I don’t think we can tell you what business to start haha</p>
<p>You can start internships in high school. I grew up down the street from a kid that was interning at DHL North American headquarters in his junior year, though I qualify that by saying his parents had business connections.</p>
<p>Before you’re 18 you technically can’t enter into a contract, but that doesn’t mean you can’t start a business with your parents. The question of “what business?” is something hundreds of books, seminars and infomercials have dedicated themselves to answering (often poorly), and it’s impossible to tell you what business to start. Location, your skills, seed money (or lack thereof), your passions and the market all define whether or not you’ll be successful.</p>
<p>At your age I’d really just recommend reading and doing what you can with internships (assuming money isn’t an issue for you and you don’t have to work to actually support yourself in high school), and when the time comes and you’re in college you can throw around a few stupid startup ideas like everyone else does.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about this crap right now. Instead of trying to get business experience in high school get the highest gpa, test scores, and best EC’s that you can; then go to a school like HYPS major in whatever interests you and worry about getting an internship your sophomore/junior year of COLLEGE not HS.</p>
<p>I know you’re going to ignore this, just as I did and any other teenager/high school student would, but enjoy yourself now, you’re thinking WAY too much into this. Again, get stellar grades and enjoy yourself as you won’t be able to do that as easily in college. </p>
<p>kudos to you for thinking about this at such a young age; trust me, that will pay off in dividends later. Good luck</p>
<p>edit: As mentioned before, Harvard doesn’t have a business major for undergrads; look at Wharton or majoring in a liberal art at a school like Harvard(what I would do)</p>
<p>StoneImmaculate is absolutely right. Don’t Worry about this. Study hard and study smart. DO NOT SETTLE FOR B’S. Prepare for the SAT right now. Sign up to take it in January. Then You will see where you stand as scores come out in february. Sign up for an SAT prep class. Try for SATs of 2200 and up. But remember that nothing can beat high grades and tough classes. Try for top 5% of your class. Participate in good ECs, and be well rounded. Try to play a sport, join a service club, a culture club(ie spanis club), a club focused on a potential career (ie DECA), and an academic club. Being well rounded is very important. Make sure that you do something worthwile during you summers, ie summer programs, volunteering, working. Try doing something different each summer.</p>
<p>When I was your age I was too interested in making money. I did pretty good in school and SATS but not good enough for HYPS. I do have a lot of money now (i’m a senior) but I’m kind of going to have to settle for what college I go to. </p>
<p>By the way, freshmen year I went into business for myself doing lawn maintenance. I contracted myself out to real estate agencies looking for cheaper lawn care for houses that were on the market. I made a killing. Then mid sophmore year I had quite the savings so I started doing imports(lacoste, ralph lauren etc). Also I started working 25 hours per week sophmore year, some colleges will take that into account.</p>
<p>If you do try to start your own business it may take some money depending on what you do. I was lucky enough to get an interest free loan from my dad. $550. I used it to buy a cheap lawn mower, edger, and blower, and my first tank of gas and oil.</p>
<p>I understand grades are important. why should i take the SAT’s so early when i can have more time to prepare otherwise?</p>
<p>I do taekwondo, travel soccer, work at a child day care, and volunteer at different places. Can i seriously put on my application that i owned my own lawnmower and worked at peoples homes? i suppose i could put ads in the neighborhood for lawn mowing and make i profit out of that i guess? </p>
<p>If i want a chance of getting in, i can join business clubs like u mentioned(websites and more info about them if possible), start some sort of babysitting or lawn mowing business, get good grades… what else?</p>
<p>Thank you for the input and i wont get too involved in things like that lnow but i want to at least make a start now.</p>
<p>Well, the point of taking the SATs so early is so that you will know where you stand. You need to guage what kind of improvements you need to make in order to get scores good enough for admittance at top schools. Who knows, you could do really well and realize that there is no point for you to ever take them again. That is kind of unlikely but you will be able to see what areas are your weaker areas and be able to make a plan for improving your scores. Also, if you can master your sat scores freshman and sophmore year then you can use junior and senior year for getting your SAT subject test where they need to be.</p>
<p>The taekwondo and stuff like that is good. Make sure that you stay involved with this stuff and possibly to the point whre you can find leadership positions. </p>
<p>As to the owning your own lawnmower, no you can’t put that down on your application. That would be ridiculous. However, for example I will use myself. I wrote an essay about my lawn care business. How I started it. How I contacted real estate agencies to promote my business. Why I succeeded. What I learned from it etc. </p>
<p>Honestly, it doesn’t matter what you do as far as extracurriculars as long as you are passionate about them and can relay that passion to the admissions committee through your essays.</p>
<p>Starting your business is entrepreneurship. Getting an undergraduate business degree (like going to Wharton at Penn) is a ticket into the finance industry. They don’t teach you how to think of the next big idea. If you want to go into finance then concentrate on quantitative skills.</p>
<p>Like others mentioned, keep your grades up. A lot of students slack their first year and mess up their GPA with some of the easier classes.</p>
<p>As far as DECA, I’m not sure how it works at your school, but I initially joined because my co-op class (work for credit) required me pay their annual dues. My teacher pressured me to sign up for their first competition, I tried it, won, then eventually advanced to the international finals. Ended up really enjoying it and got a ton from the class/organization: work experience, leadership position, volunteer work, introduction to networking, team work, the chance to improve my presentation skills, travel, party, resume help, etc etc.</p>
<p>It worked out for me b/c I was ‘passionate’ about it, but just be aware that it’s more of a marketing/management/entrepreneurship organization.</p>
<p>Bump For Websites</p>
<p>i agree with people above. im pretty sure harvard doesn’t have a business major. if you’re just asking harvard for the name, you should look at diff colleges. you shudnt look at colleges for the name, but rather what they offer. check out wharton or stern or haas. as far as the business goes, start up clubs at your school like BPA or FBLA. if you want an actual business try like starting
an internship at a business related place or sell t shirts or clothing to better a cuase like cancer research or something.</p>
<p>i read that harvard has a good business school. BUMP FOR WEBSITES</p>
<p>What the hell kind of website are you looking for? One with a magical internship and talent creator? “Business clubs” (there aren’t many good ones) aren’t going to be open to a 15 year old (or however old you are) looking to pad his college application.</p>
<p>You cold call for internships, or you work your parents or your school for them. You get a high GPA. You score well on the SAT. You run a business if you actually have a talent, and you do what you can as far as ECs go. You actually try to take some time to enjoy yourself.</p>
<p>Almost every elite LAC does not have a business major. The only Ivies that have anything resembling a typical undergraduate business administration degree are Cornell and UPenn. Business administration degrees preclude you from getting an MBA without a significant amount of work experience (unless you get direct admittance, which is a bad idea), and unless you really like a specific business concentration it’s going to be a waste of time for you to get an MBA for anything other than career advancement.</p>
<p>Chicago, Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Duke, Columbia, Northwestern, Stanford = no business undergraduate program, and if you don’t know that then you’re really getting ahead of yourself in this preparation to apply. That you had to read about Harvard having a good business school means you need to do much more research before you even consider applying to any school. What does Harvard look for in a business major? Uh, about 5 years of work experience, money, a bachelors degree and high GMAT scores.</p>
<p>If you want to show “passion and commitment” you’d find “websites” (seriously, no idea what you’re looking for here) on your own, because when you enter some junior management program at a random blue chip you’re not going to be able to ask your peers to do your work for you.</p>
<p>[Welcome</a> to DECA Inc.'s Educational Gateway](<a href=“http://www.deca.org/]Welcome”>http://www.deca.org/) -DECA website, but you join through your high school not the website</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://www.fbla-pbl.org/]FBLA-PBL[/url”>http://www.fbla-pbl.org/]FBLA-PBL[/url</a>] -FBLA website, but you join through your high school.</p>
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<p>Yes, Harvard has a good business school. They have an excellent top-tier business school. But it is an excellent top tier graduate business school. That means that YOU can’t go. Not until you have a bachelors degree, work experience, and a damn good GMAT score.</p>
<p>I said that harvard doesn’t have a business major because they do not have undergrad business.</p>
<p>And everything that tetris head just said is correct.</p>
<p>id look in wharton at upenn, stern at nyu and haas at berkley. dont just look into harvard becuase of it’s “name”.</p>
<p>i just said i wasn’t looking at it for it’s name, now i know that it only has a graduate business school. when you say GMAT, do you mean one takes this during college, or during High School.</p>
<p>GMAT stand for graduate management admissions test. You generally don’t take it during school, but you could take it during college if you really wanted to. It is a test like the LSAT or MCAT which are used for law and med schools respectively. Most people take it before applying to MBA Programs.</p>