My daughter is a junior and wants to go to school in or near New York City. She plans to major in international business. She has a 3.8 GPA overall (unweighted). Her SAT scores are 640-540-630 (CR-M-W). She will take the ACT next month and I expect that she will do significantly better on the ACT because the tricky wording on the SAT really tripped her up.
She has not done any AP classes, but she is currently taking her 3rd dual credit class at the community college and has had As in the two classes she has completed so far (English I and a biology class). She is taking English II right now and will take one more dual credit class this summer along with two more in the fall and three more in the spring. She will take Business Math, Business Calculus, Economics I, Economics II, another science class, and a digital arts class at the community college before she graduates. We have a very strong community college system here. Both of her sisters went to university as freshmen, but with over 30 credits from the community college and all their credits were accepted.
Voice is her only extracurricular. While she has done some volunteering, the hours are pretty low. She had a shoulder injury that required her to go through five months of physical therapy and she has still not been able to return to volunteering because what she did at the library and the animal shelter aggravated her shoulder.
She really wants to go to a university that has more of a residential focus. The university and the area the university is in need to be LGBT friendly.
We are out-of-state (Texas). Nothing in-state will give her the connections that she is looking for and Texas is far too homophobic for her.
The schools she has been considering are:
Adelphi University (but it’s listed as a commuter school on Big Future)
Fordham University (Net Price Calculator said the cost would be $56k/year!!! Is it religious or not?)
Hofstra University (not in NYC, but near, should still be able to get internships in the city)
Manhattan College
Marymount Manhattan College
New York University
Pace University
Yeshiva University (is this school religious or not?)
Are there any other schools she should be considering? I got most of these names by googling for universities in New York City and then checking to see which ones had international business. All of them came up at greater than $25k on the net price calculator. Most of them were in the $30k-40k range. We can maybe swing up to $30k with loans, but not beyond that. There is definitely a limit on the amount of loans that we are willing to consider.
I am also interested in schools that are outside of NYC or even NY state that are LGBT friendly and in LBGT friendly areas and do internships in NYC. But they need to be residential schools rather than commuter schools.
Yeshiva University is a quite religious place. You’re probably not even going to feel that happy or apart of the community if you don’t come from the modern orthodox bubble because most of these kids know each other from summer camp, their gap year in Israel or yeshiva universities highs school organized events (ex: debate or model un). Its for a very specific kind of kid and if you’re not from the modern orthodox community its probably not for you. That being said the business isn’t religious the way the boys college is (they study until either noon or 3 depending on the program). Hope this was helpful
I doubt you’ll find schools in your price range in new york city because they know they have a prime location and don t need to discount that much. Only barnard meets full need.
Most campuses except for the most conservative or religious ones will be LGBTQ friendly so you foot need to be in NYC for that.
Colleges like Marist or Drew would have NYC internships. A .meet need’ school that is very gay friendly and in the area is Vassar.Run the npc.
If yourdaughter can consider women’s colleges - and, as a gay girl ,she’d find them very welcoming - Barnard is an obvious choice as well as all Seven Sisters.
Finally, if your daughter 's career goal is to work in an international company she doesn’t have to major in international business. Majoring in a foreign language - or two language minors , one global a traditional language and one in Chinese or Arabic. - plus a quantitative major or economics can do the trick . Of course supply Chain management also can, probably better than ‘international business’.
An exception is USouth Carolina 's program but not sure how gay friendly the state is even if the campus surely is.
Also look into Dickinson 's major in international management that includes strong language skills and mandatory study abroad with a possible internship abroad. Not too far from NYC with poshajd summer internships .
a safety would be Baruch but not residential.
Hofstra all the way! As a current undergraduate student in Zarb Business School (marketing major) I cannot say enough how much Hofstra has done for me. Transferring those credits shouldn’t be hard at all - I took many AP classes and a community college accounting course while I was in high school and almost everything transferred to Hofstra credits (except for my 2 on the AP Spanish exam, which was pretty predictable). Also, almost every performance put on by the performing arts departments are open to all students, regardless of major. If your daughter wants to sing, we have everything from opera to chorale to acapella (a LOT of acapella). In addition, residential life on campus is very strong. There is a good community of commuting students, but even they choose to spend a lot of time on campus, because on campus events are very proliferate. There is always something going on, and people don’t go home on the weekends. Personally, I live in New Jersey and even being only 1.5 hours away, I rarely choose to go home (maybe once a semester). My friends are from places like Las Vegas, Iowa, Maine, Florida, Maryland, and California - making it a very strong community of residents. And Hofstra is LGBT friendly! It is a very accepting campus, and I have seen personally that many people are impressed with the openness of the campus. Also, the Zarb School of Business and the Career Center put a very heavy focus on making sure that students get internships and are networking their ENTIRE time at Hofstra. There are many events every month from career fairs to speaker series to alumni nights that will allow students to network, make connections, and get internships. My summer internship was brought to me by Hofstra, and my current internship is also through the school. They really want to set up their graduates to succeed, and that’s why it’s one of the best and most rapidly growing business schools in the country. And I also am enrolled in a dual-degree program (to get my BBA and MBA in marketing in 5 years) which I have just begun. That’s not something that needs to be decided until junior year, but if a graduate degree is in the future, it can be really affordable and easy through one of those Hofstra programs. Good luck!!