How to Show Business Potential

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<p>Your undergraduate school’s name is pretty important for recruiting and graduate/professional school acceptance, particularly in terms of GPA leniency.</p>

<p>Harvard Business School confers graduate degrees, not undergraduate degrees. Undergraduates do not benefit from its existence, except that they could potentially network with professors and take advantage of conferences, lectures, guest speakers, etc. So only go there if you want a liberal arts degree, not a business degree. But realize that you don’t need a business degree to go into business. I know plenty of people who majored in history, economics, and engineering and got great jobs in business. In fact it may be more beneficial because you receive a liberal arts degree, which is much more versatile than a business degree, which is viewed as very vocational in comparison.</p>

<p>Michigan also has a very good undergraduate business school.</p>

<p>As for websites… learn how to use Google. It’s quite useful throughout high school.</p>

<p>And, as a freshman, you shouldn’t be on this site. Enjoy high school, make friends, do what you enjoy, and just genuinely try your hardest.</p>

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I agree completely.

I disagree completely.</p>

<p>It may seem backwards, but it appears that graduate school (and to a certain extent undergrad as well) is more of a meritocracy than the business world is. There are probably 40 ‘elite’ undergraduate institutions in this country (LACs and universities), but the average ‘elite’ company actively recruits from <10, and there’s a ton of overlap in most sectors- finance and specialized tech areas especially.</p>

<p>On the other hand, if you’ve got a 3.7+ in a major somewhat related to what you want to do in grad school and you’ve got good recommendations and ECs you’re pretty much a shoo-in for one of the top 3 programs in whatever field you care about. It’s really not that different from high school -> college. If you excel in school, get ‘involved’ outside of class and test well you’re likely to get into one of your top choices. Yeah, going to a school that’s more ‘connected’ is going to help, but much less than you’d probably think in undergraduate and graduate admissions. Business does not work this way.</p>

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<p>other than business clubs, what else can you do EC wise that you can put on your undergrad application to a top business school?</p>

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<p>The same EC’s you can use for any other top school. Sports, student government, national honors society and what not.</p>

<p>Also make sure you do something worthwile during your summers. These programs may be good for you at Wharton.</p>

<p>LBW-Leadership in the Business World
LEAD-Leadership Education and Development</p>

<p>[Summer</a> Programs - The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania](<a href=“http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/academics/summer/]Summer”>http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/academics/summer/)</p>

<p>My best advice for you is to stop worrying about it. Concentrate on school. Get a high GPA and high test scores. You’re going to major in business for a business education, you don’t need to have it before you get there.</p>

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<p>thank you, will those show passion though?</p>

<p>what is the MBA i read it on that link somewhere?</p>

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<p>I don’t understand the passion deal you have. Who told you that you need to show business passion?</p>

<p>Just trust me that either one of those programs will stack well on your application for any college you apply to.</p>

<p>What is the MBA? Have you not been reading your own forum? An MBA is a graduate business degree which one obtains after their bachelor’s degree and years of solid work experience.</p>