<p>by good school i mean its name, like indiana bloomington compared to USC and those.</p>
<p>I'm not an expert in this area. However, what I have heard is that a degree in anything from an ivy league school, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, or a top 5 LAC can be more helpful than a business undergrad degree from someplace else. Most people will tell you that you don't need to major in business in undergrad. Some schools have special relationships with companies that allow for easier internships, and eventually jobs, so I would try to find out about undergraduate placement rather than the ranking of the business school. The ranking of the business school might tell you more about the value of the MBA than the undergraduate degree. </p>
<p>Again, I defer to those that actually chose this career path.</p>
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<p>ok thanks a lot.so what would u say if i was to choose between carnegie mellon, emory, and USC?</p>
<p>A good article written by the dean of admissions from Kenyon.</p>
<p>i c the real side of the issue, paul09 thanks. i guess im a lil bit more lucky.</p>
<p>For those curious, for NYU class of '10 the admit rates for M/F were:
~35% for males
~37% for females</p>
<p>More females applied, more got accepted, and more enrolled so that tells me that NYU isn't terribly concerned with its M/F ratio and there is no distinct advantage for either.</p>
<p>Yeah, I wanted to interject that your statistics are of those who are ENROLLED at NYU. It's possible (probable) that about the same amount of men and women were admitted, but more women accepted the offer. Personally, I don't think there's any preference given to men/women in the admissions process, with the exception of some LACs with disproportionately large amounts of women who are trying to balance that out.</p>
<p>That New York Times article is so misleading. The article makes it sound like males have it easier in admission at ivies and comparable schools. I suspect the main purpose of it is to raise the visibility of Kenyon College, which, according to the article, apparently is one of the most selective colleges in America. </p>
<p>Most of the schools that have trouble recruiting males are small liberal arts colleges that don't have a big name (i.e., not Amherst, Pomona, Claremont, etc.) The exceptions are liberal arts colleges that were formerly only for girls, like Vassar. Vassar is very well-known, but it is hard for them to get males to apply. The application and admissions patterns at a place like Kenyon College is not indicative of what happens at Amherst, and it is even less applicable to Harvard or the rest of the ivies. From the dean's own description of admissions at Kenyon College (e.g., you get a "C" in algebra and you are still waitlisted,) it sounds less selective than the state flagship university. I think it's disgraceful that they try to impugn the accomplishments of a whole generation of males by wrongfully implying that what goes on in a subset of liberal arts colleges is unversal.</p>
<p>Highopes, those figures I cited were for admitted students, the yield for males who accepted the offer and females who accepted the offer were basically the same.</p>
<p>so basically there isn't any gender preferring in NYU and most colleges, just that different proportion of male enrolled compared to female??</p>
<p>Basically right, though I'll point out a few where males or females seem to have a good advantage:</p>
<p>(from '10 data, admit %))</p>
<p>MIT: 9.7% M / 22% F
William and Mary: 43.8% M / 26% F</p>
<p>wow...MIT sure does love female applicants..thanks anyways</p>