<p>I'm a senior in high school and I've just been accepted early decision to Vassar and Vassar does not offer business as a major or concentration. Do I need to study business as an undergrad to get into business school? This is probably a silly question, but I'm just curious and ignorant of the whole process.</p>
<p>No .</p>
<p>definitely not. you can major in econ.</p>
<p>Or physics or ancient Greek...</p>
<p>Yes, you could major in physics or ancient Greek. Graduate business schools would not see that as a negative. However, employers may (or just may not recruit you). If you do choose a non traditional major, like ancient Greek, I would look to see what opportunities in business exist with that degree and what students with that degree have gone on to do.</p>
<p>Obviously, econ is the natural choice as students with that degree often go on to jobs in finance.</p>
<p>Question for VW: I've always seen that employers would recruit either from name-brand undergrads or from relevant majors. That is, it's okay to major in history and go into investment banking, but you'd better be a Princeton undergrad. Or something like that. In other words, weird majors are okay so long as you went to a high-ranked school.</p>
<p>I've been trying to decide whether Vassar falls into that category and I don't really know. Thoughts?</p>
<p>I'm really not that familiar with Vassar, so somebody else can probably answer this better. However, I would not think that Ibanks would really recruit from Vassar, simply due to its size (less than 3,000 students). Also, it would be better if it was in NYC. That being said, it isn't that far away from NYC so that helps. My guess is that a student would have to do a lot of his own legwork to get hired (fortunately, with NYC close by, it would be easier to get interviews and make connections).</p>
<p>While it is perfectly fine to change your mind (ie major in history, and go into finance), if the threadstarter is interested in business, why not study business or a business related field? I believe that economics will give him the best opportunity and at the very least will give employers the impression that he has always been interested in business.</p>
<p>I believe that Vassar is somewhat recruited, but certainly not HYP type or anything. I would recommend majoring in something you are good at (woo! high grades) and using the location to your advantage.</p>
<p>To the extent that banks don't recruit at Vassar, it's not going to be because of its size or location considering that smaller schools that are farther from NYC such as Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Colgate, Hamilton all have pretty strong levels of recruiting. The top grads at Vassar certainly are smart enough to do the job, although I'm not sure how many alums are in the industry to help them along in the process in comparison to these other six LACs or how many Vassar students in the past have shown an interest to make it worthwhile for the firms to recruit there.</p>