<p>need a few suggestions for east coast business schools please! :) Early Action:
Georgetown MSB (Deferred)
College Park Honors (95% in, I'm MD resident)</p>
<p>GPA: UW 3.77, W 4.3
top 14% at very competitive high school
(all top 10% students have 4.0 and 10+ AP classes) SAT I: R680, M690, W750
SAT IIs: Will take in January. Math II, Spanish, and Lit or Bio (TBD) APs: Econs (4s), World (4), Eng Lang (4), Calc AB (5), Bio (5); Taking Spanish Lang, Stats, Euro and Eng Lit Asian female immigrant with US citizenship Intended major: Accounting. ECs: FBLA president, typical volunteer works, NHS, teens' advertising manager at a nationally renowned museum, researcher/translator for an Asian-American counter-communist radio station. Essays: I think the most impressive one is about my experience at the Asian-American radio station (commented by an English teacher at a top national private school as "the best college essay he's ever read").</p>
<p>Right now my tentative RD schools are:
Carnegie Mellon (someone at my school with similar stats got in)
UVA
GW
I don't think I'll apply for NYU because I don't like big cities like NYC, DC is great though.</p>
<p>I would love to go to a school with great international exchange programs. In fact, CP's limited ie programs is one of the reasons why I'm hesitant about it. I lived in Europe for a few years, and would like to go back for graduate school, or possibly even transfer there/study in an exchange program in soph/junior year.</p>
<p>You should try Boston College’s Carroll School of Management. PwC and the rest of the Big Four do lots of recruiting here. In 2008, PwC alone hired more than 40 BC graduates. And despite the recession, they still are the biggest recruiter on campus.</p>
<p>I would look at UNC and South Carolina. UNC has access to Big 4 jobs virtually everywhere, though most grads head to Charlotte and Raleigh. The school has a big name outside of the South and great basketball. The downside is that every business student majors in business administration, allowing no more than 18 hours of accounting (the CPA requires a minimum of 30). This means that you would have to go for a UNC MAcc, but the grads are all placed well.</p>
<p>South Carolina sends virtually all of its accounting grads into Big 4 jobs in Charlotte, Atlanta, DC, and NYC. The school is #1 in International Business and sends a huge number of students abroad every semester. My friends that went there all received in-state tuition and large scholarships. The school often funds most, if not all, of the study abroad and they seem to have programs all over the world.</p>
<p>In general, the number of students coming down from Maryland and settling in the Carolinas is astounding. The culture is very similar and the job prospects are fantastic.</p>
<p>Txeagle1, The award for the best new poster on this board goes to you, no doubt.</p>
<p>You have been accurate with all of your posts so far.</p>
<p>The key to getting a Big 4 job coming out of UNC or SC is to get into Beta Alpha Psi, keep your GPA above a 3.5, and make sure you will be able to get to 150 credit hours for your CPA with or without a masters in accounting.</p>