Need Safety Schools

College Search & Selection
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<p>I'm need safety schools to apply. I'm a Florida resident so my safety school are UF and Miami, but I need more that are good schools for undergrad business and are out of state. I'm also applying to Georgetown, UCLA, Berkeley, USC, Cornell, UPenn, but I'm worried that my chances of getting accepted to all of them are slim. Any recommendations?</p>

<p>GPA: 4.4
UW: 3.89
(I've taken all the hardest courses at my school)</p>

<p>SAT: 2100
CR: 640
Math: 750
Writing: 700</p>

<p>ACT: 32
W: 34
M: 34
R: 32
S: 29</p>

<p>plenty of EC's (3 varsity sports, golf team captain, president of SADD, officer of Spanish club, 200 hours of volunteering)</p>

<p>Half-hispanic
(essays are about traveling to Ecuador, very well written)</p>

<p>Looking to major in International Business/Economics.</p>

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<p>What is wrong with your existing designated safeties?</p>

<p>If you do not like them, or cannot afford them, then they are not safeties.</p>

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<p>My existing safeties just don’t have very good business programs (No Florida schools do) so I’m looking for some with good business programs</p>

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<p>How much will your family pay? </p>

<p>Safeties have to be affordable.</p>

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<p>That is probably not true. </p>

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<p>What do you define as a good business program? Is it the quality of education, level of recruiting, peers’ abilities, some combination of the three, or something all together different? There’s also a huge difference between various sub-specialties of business. For instance, quantitative finance is a decidedly different field than marketing which completely different from supply chain management. </p>

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<p>By a good business program, I mean a college that actually has a business school (which UF and Miami do not) or offers business majors like business administration, management, international business (things other than just Economics). I’m looking to major in internal business, but unfortunately, it is not a very popular major and is not offered in most universities. Most of the universities that I think I have a decent chance of getting into only offer Economics, so I was looking for a college with an actual business school. As to the other question, I have money for college saved up, so I don’t have to worry about the financial aspect, although I am looking for cheap safties. </p>

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<p>You have a quarter of a million dollars saved? You may, I am just asking to clarify, given the cost. Agree that you have some risk of not being accepted to most of your schools, your CR score is on the low end.</p>

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I think the fine folks at the Heavener School of Business, located within University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business Administration would disagree that a) UF lacks a b-school, and b) that it lacks majors other than economics.
The faculty at the University of Miami’s School of Business, a school which offers everything from international finance to management, to entrepreneurship, might also have an issue with such a claim. </p>

<p>Some out of state safeties could include Indiana University, Michigan State, Southern Methodist University,University of South Carolina, and CU Boulder. Smaller privates with strong programs and easier admission include Bradley University, Santa Clara U, Elon U (great international programs), and Bryant University. </p>

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I have money for college saved up, so I don’t have to worry about the financial aspect, although I am looking for cheap safties.</p>

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<p>How much do you have saved?</p>

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<p>Why do you think that UF doesn’t have a B-school?</p>

<p><a href=“http://warrington.ufl.edu”>http://warrington.ufl.edu</a></p>

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<p>OP, your googlefu skills are lacking.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.bus.miami.edu/”>http://www.bus.miami.edu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>How about University of South Carolina and others on this list? <a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/business-international”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/business-international&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Actually the University of Florida is well regarded for their business program. My college roommate’s son who heads up his own hedge fund is a grad. He has had an outstanding career path with stops at a now compeitor hedge fund, Goldman Sachs, Price Waterhouse. </p>

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<p>It’s not a safety but Babson belongs on your list. Indiana university also has a very strong business program and the For money not to be an issue and if you have out of state or private colleges on your list, you need $200k - $260k in the bank now. Not too many people have that kind of cash sitting around earmarked just for college.</p>