Junior Looking at Business Schools

College Search & Selection
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<p>I'm a Junior at a good private school. I've taken the SAT and ACT (1920 and 31). On the SAT, I'm looking to dramatically increase my Reading and Writing from a 570 in both while my Math is good at a 780. I do not think I will be taking the ACT again. Anyway, I'm looking at mostly Southern schools for the warm weather, while going as far up as equivalent to where I'm located (North Virginia). I'm mostly looking at undergraduate business schools. I'm looking at the following so far:</p>

<p>Georgetown (sister goes there) (close to home, which may not be bad) (cold though)
Notre Dame (cold weather)
Vanderbilt (no undergraduate business school)
Wake Forest
SMU (kinda a safety school)
Emory (requires freshman and sophmore years to then get into the business school) Are any of the others like this?</p>

<p>added:
UNC
University of Texas (business) (safety)</p>

<p>any input on my list? any schools to add?</p>

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<p>Good list. I would add a few:</p>

<p>University of California-Berkeley (Haas)
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Ross)
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (Kenan Flagler)
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
University of Texas-Austin (McCombs)
University of Virginia (McIntire)</p>

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<p>thanks. Berkeley is too far away, my dad would kill me. Michigan is too cold. UNC is on my list. I don't think I could get into UPenn, UT is an option, and I'm not interested in UVA.</p>

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<p>Just so you know...to get into Notre Dame you need AT LEAST a 1420 to be in good standing.</p>

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<p>I'm hoping for a 650 in CR. And contacts help too.</p>

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<p>TMX, Notre Dame is just as cold as Michigan.</p>

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<p>well I was counting on the relativity north and south to play a factor with the weather.</p>

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<p>I am not sure I understand what you mean? South Bend is 90 miles from Chicago. Chicago is arguably colder than Ann Arbor. </p>

<p><a href="http://weather.yahoo.com/climo/USIN0624_f.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://weather.yahoo.com/climo/USIN0624_f.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://weather.yahoo.com/climo/USMI0028_f.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://weather.yahoo.com/climo/USMI0028_f.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>As you can see, AA and SB have practically identical weather.</p>

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<p>Err...Contacts? You mean legacy...father is best friends with the dean...because 650 really isnt good enough for ND. Or Georgetown, or Vanderbilt.</p>

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<p>what are you talking about? 650 is fine...he has a 780 in math...</p>

<p>that's a 1430, which is definitely fine, even for georgetown and vandy..what are you smoking?</p>

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<p>
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University of Texas (business) (safety)

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How do you figure UT-Austin (business major) is a safety for OOS?</p>

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<p>Sheed, what are you smoking? Thats not a balanced score. Colleges rather see 710, 720 than 788, 650. The kid in my school who has the same score, 800 math 660 verbal got rejected from Georgetown and Notre Dame, I dont know about vandy.</p>

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<p>keep in mind, at Georgetown, I have a contact, sister going there, and maybe a donation.</p>

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<p>UT-Austin business isn't a safety, much less for OOS.</p>

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<p>Dude, you are in Virginia.
UVA is an awesome school and i think you would have a good shot.</p>

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<p>he doesn't want to go ther...case over with!</p>

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<p>I highly encourage you to study your butt off for the SAT and get at least a 2150+ to have any kinda of chance for UNC and UT for OOS. To call UT a safety is joke, esp. for McCombs. I know many people with higher SAT scores from in state who got capped by UT or put into liberal arts. UNC is also like Emory. You apply your soph year to the business school.</p>

<p>SMU is easy to get in, but their business school is really not on par with the kind of resources that the more well known schools have in terms of recruiting (UMich, UVA).</p>

<p>I think that if your SAT score stays the same, you're going to have to think realistically. I know that in admissions, not everything revolves around your SAT score, but you have to at least get in a decent range of 2000+ and IMO SAT scores does play a big role. I'd apply to UMich because of their rolling admissions and SMU. A lot of the other schools are reaches, but it surely wouldn't hurt to apply. Just don't be to disappointed.</p>

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<p>You need more safeties... as has been repeated many times on this thread, UT - McCombs is very difficult for an OOS student. The top 10% rule, for better or worse, fills up a huge chunk of the UT class now, leaving little for the remaining applicants. Plus, UT's OOS tuition is going to skyrocket next year, if $ is a concern at all.</p>

<p>I think you would do well to look into adding a few places like IU-Bloomington, Richmond, Villanova, U of Miami, Ga. Tech, or Clemson, to suggest a few. And dismissing UVA out of hand, without even looking into it, seems to be counterproductive to me, since it is probably the best undergrad b-school at which you have a legitimate chance of admission.</p>

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<p>Not wanting to go to UVa instate for business is like having a free Porsche parked in your garage and you want to go out and buy a BMW. Just plain dumb.</p>

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<p>I wasn't aware about the UT case. When I apply, do I apply specifically to the business?</p>