Hi. I am a freshman at the University of Vermont and major in Business Administration with concentration in finance (I would pick that concentration after my sophomore year). I am happy here. There is always something to do on or off campus (e.g skiing, playing intramurals, watching hockey games etc). I am a little bit concerned about the reputation of that business program. I honestly don’t see any major companies recruiting here on campus. I feel like it is going to be quite difficult to find a good internship or job through my career center here in the future. In my first semester in college I had 3.81 GPA (I took macroeconomics, pre-calculus, world geography, intermediate spanish, and intro to business). I would like to try advantage of that decent GPA and apply to some more reputable schools as a transfer student for Fall 2015. Now I am taking Business communications, pre-calculus II, microeconomics, English 1, Computer Science intro to programming.
My SAT score was 1960 (580 CR 710 M 670 W), but hopefully my 3.81 will make up for it to some extent.
Here are the schools I have been considering for a while:
-Northeastern University
-Bentley University (Waitlisted when applied last year
-Babson College
-Syracuse University
-George Washington University
-Baruch College
These are some school that are considered relatively transfer friendly, but still extremely selective. I am thinking about applying to some of them.
-Vanderbilt University
-Emory University
-USC
-UVA
-UNC-CH
-Notre Dame
-Wake Forest
-Rice University
-Northwestern University
-Pomona College
I am definitely applying to the schools from the first list, but I also would like to give it a shot and apply to a few ones from the second list. (Especially because I may be able to use app fee waivers to most of them). What are my chances of getting into first six schools? What colleges on the second list should I pick? Are there any respectable Liberal Arts Colleges with business/finance programs available I should consider? Most of these listed school guarantee 80%+ of financial need coverage, which is extremely important factor for me.
@Dunboyne No I am not in-state for Vermont. I am a dual US citizen and therefore not in-state for any of these schools. I have a Presidential Scholarship at UVM, but still have to pay quite amount of money and take out loans. I want to apply to schools that offer great financial aid and at the same time much better business school. I am adding University of Richmond and Loyola University Maryland to my first list. (Waitlisted to both last year)
Well, your scholarship will disappear, so that’s what, $50,000 lost? Keep your GPA up, choose your courses wisely (stay as quantitative as possible), develop strong relationships with profs, undertake an EC that will help you, learn how to create a great resume (you’d be surprised how many fail at this), network with some folks in Boston like your life depended on it. Network some more. Have fun in Vermont. That would be my advice.
Tend to agree with Dunboyne. You may want to shorten your potential transfer list to a few schools you’d clearly prefer over Vt that both take large numbers of transfers and offer a BBA.
Keep in mind that Vanderbilt does not have a business school. The kids I knew who were interested in that route, majored in Econ or minored in managerial studies or corporate strategy (S1 is a 2013 Vandy grad and did the corporate strategy minor).
Be sure to check out the school’s websites - I’m sure you have probably already done so!
I want to apply to schools that offer great financial aid
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Transfers often get the worst aid.
You’re a frosh. Those schools are going to look at your SAT and high school grades. Your SAT isn’t high enough to transfer to those schools as a soph.
If you qualify for app waivers, then you’re low income. You won’t have the money to cover any gaps.
If you get accepted to any of those schools, DO NOT cut ties with your current school until you have seen the FA pkg from your new school and you have ALL funding in place.
@mom2collegekids@bala@dunboyne Let me clarify what I am trying to accomplish here. I am applying to these colleges mostly because I want to see if I can get in. If I get admitted to some of them I will receive financial aid packages and then I will start considering different options (either staying at UVM or transferring). I have nothing to lose besides $100-$200 for sending my SAT scores and CSS financial profiles. I have just realized I won’t be applying to any of the schools from the second list besides USC (I want to major in finance and in most of the other colleges on that list even if I will get in I would be majoring in Econ). That is my final list of schools I am applying to:
USC
Northeastern
Babson
Bentley
Syracuse
George Washington
U of Richmond
Loyola Maryland
Let’s just assume I will get into all of them and receive affordable financial packages. Could anyone rank them in terms of reputation in finance major? Are all of them worth transferring from UVM in that case? I would only be willing to transfer to another college if it is much better in terms of academics and reputation.
All of them are relatively highly ranked in the annual business week undergraduate business ranking. UVM is not even ranked. Is this ranking something I should care a lot about?
Transfers often don’t get a lot of aid. It is highly unlikely that you will get anything close to your scholarship at UVermont. Before I think about transferring (if money is an issue) I’d certainly go to the career placement office and try to get some job placement information.
Thanks for your responses regarding financial aid, but can someone please help me order these schools in terms of their academics and reputation in the business world? Thank you in advance.
USC
Northeastern
Babson
Bentley
Syracuse
George Washington
U of Richmond
Loyola Maryland
UVM
Consider Indiana University - Kelley School of Business. Agree with those above, however, re: the negative financial consequences of transferring. I don’t believe Pomona or Northwestern have undergraduate business schools.
Now would be a good time to put some of that business school learning into action. Work out how much each school will cost, how much you can borrow, what your expected income will be after paying those loans, etc.
There are tons of rankings of undergraduate business schools if you look online…USNWR, Business Week, Poets&Quants to name just a few. Do your research and be keep in mind that you need to be able to afford schools you are looking at.
Get admitted, get the FA package, cross out any school where you’ve been admitted but which aren’t affordable, then ask for rankings or check out rankings.
I’d say basically all schools on your final list could qualify as UVM on some criteria at least.
I would concentrate on yourself and your unique abilities. If you are a dual citizen, what about the business opportunities that would be unique to you?
Keep up the good work at your current University and seek out opportunities. Talk to professors. Are there opportunities for honors students?
Hi! I am a student at Syracuse’s Whitman School of Management. This year, the school has just launched the IMPRESS program and it aims to get students more engaged in activities and be better prepared professionally and academically. It has four houses, much like those in Harry Potter. They actually got the idea from Harry Potter. This week is career fairs week and a lot of corporations are coming to recruit Syracuse Students. Most colleges within SU have their own career fair, as well as a school-wide career fair. Whitman has one on Wednesday, and companies like Amazon, Deloitte, EY, JP Morgan Chase will be tabling. Of course, I am biased because I go here, but SU has a lot of opportunities and students receive great support from its staff and career services. I love it here!
Wherever you eventually decide to go, I believe you will achieve great things. Take advantage of your school’s resources and make the most out of them. Best of luck!