<p>Hey, I already finished my UT application and I listed Business as my first choice and Communications as my second choice. </p>
<p>First off, would the top ten percent rule pretty much guarantee me a spot in the school of Communications? Or, is it still pretty competitive?</p>
<p>Since admission to Business is so competitive, a part of me believes that if I go to UT, it's going to be because I'll be in the school of Communications. I put Communications as my second choice, since none of the other majors seemed appealing. Communications sounds like it'd be a fun major, but what exactly would I do with a degree in communications? </p>
<p>I know UT is up there with the school of Communications, but is majoring in communications not very prestigious? I've got this one friend who talks down about a communications degree, so I was just wondering what the general opinion about it is. Thanks.</p>
<p>the advertising and PR majors are both top notch and lead to good jobs, most of the people i know that majored in ADV have ended up taking jobs with ad firms in NYC.</p>
<p>75% of both Communications and Business are reserved for Texas top-10% applicants, so they go through and fill up with the top 1%, top 2%, etc. until they fill that 75% quota. After that, they look at everybody else from Texas, every international, and everybody OOS to fill up the remaining 25%.</p>
<p>From what an admissions counselor recently said in a presentation at my school, that 75% of McCombs generally is filled with the top 2% or top 3% of Texas high schools. Communications tends to run a little lower, with between the top 5% and the top 10%. However, I know a girl who had pretty normal stats who wasn't in the top 10% get into Communications (in-state), so you never know.</p>
<p>The McCombs Business school is ranked really high for public undergrad programs and I think for undergrad business schools in general. Obviously if you can get into McCombs it would be better than Communications, but I don't think that there is going to be a significant difference in salary or anything just because you didn't get into McCombs. It's more what you make of your major, opportunities, and degree, I think. Since both degrees will be from UT-Austin, which is a great university, it shouldn't make a huge difference, but I am admittedly pretty naive about salary-jobs-postgrad stuff.</p>
<p>Thanks. I'm like top 8%, 1450 SAT, NMSF, and decent ECs in-state, so I've kind of been looking at Communications as a back-up that I think I would have fun doing if I don't get into McCombs. I was just worried that I would be wasting myself taking Communications if it was a major that like everyone could get into. </p>
<p>If anyone could, could you please rank the majors at UT in order of most competition (business, engineering, communications, natural sciences, honors programs, etc.) Thanks. That would be very helpful.</p>
<p>I think that's an interesting question. I don't know the answer but I did find in UT's statistical information the 15 largest undergraduate majors as of 2005:</p>
<p>Size obviously isn't the same as selectivity. It's my impression that the most selective or competitive admissions are in the honors programs, business, pharmacy, and engineering. However, I'm not familiar with every college and major at UT. It may be that others are highly competitive, too. Overall, my guess is that the higher ranked a program is nationally, the more competitive it probably is.</p>
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Thanks. I'm like top 8%, 1450 SAT, NMSF, and decent ECs in-state, so I've kind of been looking at Communications as a back-up that I think I
would have fun doing if I don't get into McCombs. I was just worried that I would be wasting myself taking Communications if it was a major that like everyone could get into.</p>
<p>If anyone could, could you please rank the majors at UT in order of most competition (business, engineering, communications, natural sciences, honors programs, etc.) Thanks. That would be very helpful.
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<p>I don't think you're looking at this from the right perspective at all.
If you want to do business then do business, but if you want to do communications then do that.
They're very different.
Business is accounting, marketing, finance, and so on.
Communications are things like advertising, public relations, RTF. </p>
<p>Both career paths can offer good payoffs at the end, your avg biz major will probably start somewhere around 35-40 their first year out and the same is probably going to be the same if you do advertising or PR, maybe a bit lower. But at further in their own careers creative directors at Ad. Firms and heads of PR firms are going to be pulling in 6 figure salaries and probably with good perks.</p>
<p>But you should do whatever interests you. It's dumb to turn a major down just because many people can do it, you should major in whatever you think you'd be good at and what ever you would enjoy after college. So I suggest you take some time and actually study the individual majors in the schools and come up with some career prospects based off of that. It's not like the people who couldn't get into the b-school just decided to go do communications. It's because thats what they were usually interested in.</p>
<p>Additionally, I know some people who are doing double majors in Advertising and Business, usually this takes a few summer semesters and 16-18 hr schedules to get all the course reqs done.</p>
<p>Thanks. I think you might've convinced me to go after Advertising. It sounds a lot more fun than business would. Honestly though, I was just thinking about how money and job opportunities.</p>
<p>I actually went to visit the Communications & Business schools.
For Business, the woman said you would have to be top 5% and up (to be safe)
And for Communications, top 8%.
So you should be fine.</p>