<p>I'm guaranteed admission at UT Austin (but not the business school) and am applying to plenty of reaches, but I can't help but wonder if I should apply to schools like these, too?</p>
<p>I emailed the business professor who said they have good luck getting kids into Harvard and Northwestern, which would be awesome. It seems selective enough that I would have intelligent classmates and the faculty to student ratio is, of course, great. He said they even place some students in investment banks. I had never heard of them before I got info in the mail, though, so is this too good to be true?
I'm envisioning them counting someone who has been out of school for 10 years and goes back for an MBA as the Harvard kid and I wonder how many constitutes "good luck" with Harvard. I also wonder how many students actually were hired by an i-bank and if they were hired right out of school, what position etc.
Can someone lend their opinion?</p>
<p>UT Dallas is another possibility. The dorms are the best I've seen and there's plenty to do. The business school makes claims about having amazing world class CPA and executive MBA programs (though finance, what I'm looking toward, was not mentioned). The best part is also the part that makes me weary: I can get a full ride.</p>
<p>I understand that big or top colleges are often a "brand-name" situation but I also know that the best jobs for business majors are offered at the top schools. I would like to go to a top university for graduate school later and I know a lot of it depends on good job placement out of undergrad.</p>
<p>Are these small schools worth looking at? Do they really live up to their claims of top grad schools and jobs? Should I just stick with UT Austin (if I don't leave the state) like I had originally planned?</p>
<p>kwu, I mean this is a school with a lot fewer students that is a lot less well known that claims it places students in Harvard an Northwestern graduate programs and investment banks. It is more selective than UT A and if this could be hidden gem it makes itself out to be, that would be really cool, I'm just unsure because like I said, I hadn't heard of it and they don't really have any figures or specifics.</p>
<p>OK... I looked them up quickly in princetonreview.com</p>
<p>the 25/75 ave. SAT is 1295, about 2300 students, and reasonable tuition (about $9,000 less than most private schools). It has an approx. 50% acceptance rate and approx. 25% matriculation rate.</p>
<p>The question you need to answer is whether you perform better in a large, resource rich environment that requires you to find the opportunities, or a small, not quite as many resources environment where exogenous attention and prodding makes sure you take advantage of those opportunities.</p>
<p>Yeah Trinity is pretty good. I have a couple of friends who go/went there -- two who went were UG business majors: Marketing & Accounting -- one works for one of the big four, and the other works for Suez Energy, an Enron like energy trading company, and the one who currently attends is a humanities guy, maybe English?</p>
<p>All of them loved it. Trinity is near downtown SA, a relatively nice part of town and depending on fin aid, a good buy -- Decent alumni network, small classes, probably a bit more tactile learning than Mccombs.</p>
<p>I have friends who did Mccombs, and yeah -- accounting is heavy stuff. Great alumni network, but bigger classes and a bit more intense. Harder to get noticed. </p>
<p>Btw, you should look into Plan II if you're thinking about UT.</p>
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I emailed the business professor who said they have good luck getting kids into Harvard and Northwestern, which would be awesome.
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Did a quick check of Trinity alums at Kellogg -- they've got one student in each of the classes of 2008/2009/2010 (out of about 600 students per class.) They've got also got another 51 who're showing up as alums... going back as far as 1961.
Not sure if that fits your definition of "good luck" but hope it helps.</p>