<p>Just got my rejection to Northwestern a hour ago and my rejection to Washington Uni at St Louis a week ago.. and my rejection to NYU Stern ED back in December.</p>
<p>Still waiting on the rejections for Emory, Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, UPenn, Notre Dame.</p>
<p>Sigh, if all else fails I guess I'll just go to Mays for my undergrad. I actually read a article that they were the #2 pick for top executives on Wall Street.</p>
<p>Could someone please relate their experiences at Mays? I'm going in as a almost-sophomore (lol), so I'll be able to take finance courses immediately instead of freshman buffer classes.</p>
<p>“Sigh, if all else fails I guess I’ll just go to Mays for my undergrad. I actually read a article that they were the #2 pick for top executives on Wall Street.”</p>
<p>I think I know what article youre talking about, and I think you misinterpreted it. It was a wallstreet journal article talking about top schools based on all recruiters’ opinions, not wall street recruiters. I dont think TAMU is on wall street’s target list at all.</p>
<p>From a recruiter’s standpoint, TAMU is worth their effort. That is, TAMU provides them with a large volume of desirable interview candidates. They view the curriculum as having sufficiently prepared them for their “real” training. Recruiting at the ivies is less desirable because they have to spend relatively more effort, return with fewer prospects, and perhaps have to pay more. </p>
<p>The other factor is that TAMU has a higher percentage of “traditionally employable” graduates. That means that they probably graduate more engineers and business majors. Companies are not really looking for great liberal arts students with Bachelors Degrees in large numbers. Those folks may ultimately be the best catches, but there are simply not enough of those slots to fill.</p>
<p>The hiring manager will be much more concerned with what you have done, not where you went. Once you get into the workplace, very few people will care where you went to school. Perhaps only the people that went to that school.</p>
<p>First of all, you’re obviously a fairly smart person since you’ve gotten into BH, but you sound like an arrogant jackass. Sure, Mays isn’t a top 10 bschool, but coming on here and whining about how you might HAVE to come is ******y. There are a lot of kids in Mays and BH who got into Ivy League Schools and top 5 bschools, and turned them down to come here. Also, if you want to work on Wall Street, Mays is not the best place to be. There are only a handful of kids who go to WS after graduating. You will need a 3.75 minimum and most likely a 3.9+ to have a shot. The 2 kids I know going into IBanking are a 4.0 Accounting major and a 3.9 industrial engineering and econ major. Obviously you’ll have to get involved on campus and get good, solid internships to have a shot too.</p>
<p>Also-I was almost a sophomore coming in as well. you will not be taking Finance classes immediately because you need to have 60 hours and 8 specific courses done before then. You’ll have to wait until your 2nd year most likely.</p>
<p>Sorry about the misconception. I’m not trying to hate on Mays since it is a good school, but step into my shoes and understand for a moment what its like to have all your hopes taken from you and have to go to your last choice. It sucks :(.</p>
<p>I just got my rejected from Tepper at CMU (Apparently this year was the lowest acceptance rate EVER, 11%…)</p>
<p>I’m not really too happy since Mays was my safety school (Auto-admission ftw), but its definitely a good school nevertheless. I just wish I could have done better. BHP isn’t hard to get into (at least I don’t think), I think its more if you have a certain GPA, class rank, and standardized test score. I don’t think that they even look at extracurriculars (the reason I’m speculating this is because my friend finished his BHP app like 4 days before and was accepted)</p>
<p>And this might just be from my school, but I don’t know anybody who rejected a Ivy league to go to Mays :S. I only know one, but he went to McCombs for a full ride.</p>
<p>I was actually looking at the recommended class schedule for a Finance major, and I have almost all of the courses waived for freshman year due to AP classes. I won’t be able to take finance classes then? What classes will I have to take then?</p>
<p>Damn, I really wanted to go ahead and do finance immediately :(. Looks like I’ll just be trying to get a 4.0 and transferring sophomore year.</p>
<p>Hey look man, a lot of us got rejected to A&M and it was a lot of peoples first choice. So don’t be whining about it. And why would you bring this to the a&m board I mean seriously, what kind of stuck up person are you.</p>
<p>“sigh, if all else fails I’ll just go to mays” get the heck outta here man. Your lucky there the auto admit crap most of us go to schools where most of the kids try.</p>
<p>Well the reason I was asking originally is what other people’s experiences with Mays actually is. Nobody has really answered that question, lol. </p>
<p>And PLEASE don’t tell me I didn’t try. I busted my ass taking all Pre-AP Courses since 6th grade, loading up with AP courses Junior and Senior year, doing volunteering, leading extracurricular clubs, and everything. It’s just disappointing and frustrating that the schools you want to go don’t see that.</p>
<p>Also, I attend Cinco Ranch High School. Top quarter at this school is insanely difficult to get into. I’m a little ****ed, because if I had lived 2 miles down the road, I would get zoned into a different high school and be top 4% instead of ~18%.</p>
<p>And I’m really sorry for whoever got rejected to A&M. I definitely feel your pain, I’ve been rejected to 4 schools that I really wanted to attend.</p>
<p>I graduated in the Top 10% of my high school class in '07. I applied and was accepted to Northwestern on a bet with a friend…I ended up going to a CC and am glad to be accepted to Mays for the Summer, after not taking advantage of my high school stats. Mays accepts 75 externals and they get over 600 applicants, so at best 12.5%. There are kids just as talented as you and me in every school. Not to sound sour at all though, I hope you end up with a school you are truely happy with, man. You’ll probably be good anywhere, you just might have to take some detours…</p>
<p>AWESOME MAN! Northwestern!?!?! Did you reject that because of financial issues? Did you not apply to A&M after graduating or something? You should of had auto-admit!</p>
<p>Was accepted, just complacent. I ended up going to a CC for Audio Engineering. Lol…Yeah, Northwestern is ridiculous expensive, it was purely for a bet though. I’ve never been to Chicago or Illinios.</p>
<p>*** man, lol that’s not cool if you really just applied for a bet without any real intention of going. You could have taken somebody’s spot that really wanted to go lol.</p>
<p>No, I turned it down fairly quickly, that was when I saw how much it cost. I wanted to say the financial aid package included an in-house loan for 20k on top of subsidized federal loan. What was your original question though about Mays, the sophomore classes?</p>