<p>Will my application still go into the entire MIT application pool or will it go to a more selective application pool specifically for undergraduate business majors like upenn wharton does it?</p>
<p>all applications are considered together.
more selective application pool specifically for undergraduate business majors
^rofflecoaster^</p>
<p>dude thats how nyu and upenn do it, and they have much lower acceptance rates for business majors. i dont see what's so funny.</p>
<p>MIT doesn't admit by major.</p>
<p>And it's doubtful that a specific Sloan pool would be more selective than MIT as a whole.</p>
<p>but it would be more selective than MIT as a whole, since its spectacular undergraduate business program is ranked #2 right under wharton, which has an acceptance rate of less than 10%</p>
<p>Point it, MIT does not admit by major. Everyone is considered together.</p>
<p>And many of the MIT undergraduate engineering programs are ranked #1 right under nobody. What's your point?</p>
<p>The strongest students at MIT tend to major in departments other than management, and even a lot of Sloan students are double-majors with a technical field. There's a stereotype that the single-major Sloan students are not the brightest apples on the bush -- they're the ones who couldn't hack it in an engineering major. </p>
<p>That's certainly not true for all management majors, but, hey, I don't make up the stereotypes, I just report them.</p>
<p>The latest report</a> to the president from the school of management states that 38% of people who received a degree in management science also received a degree in another department at MIT. As you can see, it's one of the more popular things to double major in. </p>
<p>Also, this</a> article from the Tech, from ~3 years ago, gives the various opinions on majoring in business:</p>
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Mike Y. Young 05 is currently majoring in Courses I and XIV. He said that he had planned to major in Course XV, but was not interested in everything the major had to offer. Id have liked to take classes or minor in certain concentrations, but the major would take too much time, he said.</p>
<p>However, Vincent S. Yeung 05, a current double major in Courses VI and XV, does not see an advantage to a minor. If theres a minor, I dont see what subset of courses theyd choose to be the most useful, he said. There are lots of useful classes in Course XV, and a minor would only give you one-fourth of that knowledge.</p>
<p>Marcus B. Felder 05 is a current Course XV major, but would have majored in Course VI and minored in Course XV if he had previously had that option. Im noticing how companies want the technical side with the business side, he said.</p>
<p>If you really want to delve into business, you should take the major said Tian Yu 05, a member of Sloan Undergraduate Management Association. The minor would probably be more for managerial studies or if youre promoted to manager, but its not your primary focus.
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<p>The emphasis is mine, simply because that's the general opinion I've been getting here at MIT (as Mollie pointed out). People tend to frown on solo management majors as those who couldn't do an actual science or weren't hardcore enough for economics.</p>
<p>I just asked the seniors in my hall, who all seemed to share the general opinion that they have a much easier time finding employment offers than the management majors. Granted, the course 15 majors seem to be doing well, it seems corporations have "caught on" to the stereotypes.</p>
<p>I don't claim any NPOV or lack of bias here, but this is as much as I could get via Google and my dormmates.</p>
<p>I on the other hand will give a biased opinion. I mean, what is "Business"? Probably the most broad term in existence. You don't really need to take classes in it, especially on the undergraduate level. It gets my goat when people say they are interested in "business" because it really just means they don't have much of an interest at all and think somehow that an undergraduate degree in business is for hotshots who will make lots of money. Much better to say you are interested in product development/branding, or chain optimization, or financial mathematics, etc..</p>
<p>Yo yo, I don't have anything substantive to add about this Course 15 discussion, but I'd like to comment that 'Master' is one of the funniest and most original screen names I've ever seen! Usually, people use MasterOf______ (you know, MasterOfDisaster, MasterOfPuppets, MasterOfSpam, MasterOfGummiBears), but I like the simplicity of just Master.</p>
<p>Ok, I think this thread is pretty much done, since Master's question has been answered. (arggg, there's no way I can type that sentence without appearing subservient ...)</p>
<p>well done, cow :)</p>