Prestigious school with no business/marketing major or less prestigious with one?

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<p>My top-choice school is very prestigious, but does not have a business or marketing major. However, they do have student-designed majors. So, I could design a business/marketing major.</p>

<p>My second-choice school, which is less prestigious than my top-choice, does have a pretty good business school.</p>

<p>So, assuming I get in to both schools, would it be better for me to go to the more prestigious school and design my major or to the less prestigious one with my chosen major?</p>

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<p>If you intend to actually go into business it would be better to go into that major. The first thing companies look at is the major.</p>

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<p>What if I went into, say, Communication Studies, but took the pre-business track at the school without the business major?</p>

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<p>Pretty please don’t make us play guessing games. Could you tell us the colleges you’re talking about? Help us, help you! :)</p>

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<p>This is just ridiculous. What the hell is prestigious? Ivy league? Small private liberal arts college? Honor’s program at state u? I’m sorry to blow up on you, but I started a thread about people like you. (note most recent thread on my profile). There is NO WAY we can give you an honest assessment without you providing us with a little more information.</p>

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<p>Clearly the university is so prestigious that even the slightest mentioning of the name can make a nerd faint. From this point forward, we will now refer to it as The University That Must Not Be Named.</p>

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<p>I agree. How prestigious is this prestigious school? HYP? None of HYP have a specific “business/marketing major”</p>

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<p>Is that why Harvard graduates are so unemployable by businesses - because Harvard doesn’t offer a business undergraduate major?</p>

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<p>the OP’s school rejected jesus. twice. the old spice man was wait listed, but he too was rejected. so yeah it’s selective.</p>

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<p>Design your own major? So you are saying there are lots of business courses and business school professors at Prestige U, but not a major available? How is that?</p>

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<p>If the Old Spice man was waitlisted, don’t waste your time.</p>

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<p>Vanderbilt doesn’t offer a business major, yet I was able to design my own quasi-business major and I’m hoping to possibly take a class or two through the business school next semester.</p>

<p>OP: You really need to be more specific as to which schools you’re considering.</p>

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<p>I strongly disagree. The vast majority of top colleges do NOT even offer undergrad biz. Econ majors do just fine, and perhaps better since the liberal arts requires them to write a lot. Dartmouth has a phenomenal placement on Wall Street, for example, and D does not do undergrad biz.</p>

<p>No, Communications is not worth doing, IMO, unless you have a one heck of a personality (which is required for such jobs).</p>

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<p>^^right…because Newhouse kids are not in demand in the job market BB…tell that to the 80- 90% of them who are employed already…and the enormous alumni network that works to hire them…to say that Communications is a waste of time is a vast generalization…</p>

<p>to the OP: I know which two schools you are considering; i think what you have to look at are alumni connections between the two in the area (both geographic and career-wise) that you are interested in…not only the major…</p>

<p>and I don’t think either of the schools in question are HYPS…but the lower ranked school may have amazing job connections/recruiting in the OP’s home state</p>

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<p>To the OP: Vanderbilt is VERY prestigious. Please don’t be blinded by the rhetoric you see here on CC. Do you think everyone would have attacked you had you not said HYP?</p>

<p>I wish more people on this website would embrace the fact that the world does not revolve around the Ivies and it’s time we start calling people out who perpetuate this blind elitism.</p>

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It isn’t possible to do that everywhere. Duke, for example, intentionally does not have business or many other pre-professional majors, and the Program II people make it quite clear that they will laugh at and then reject any such proposals. </p>

<p>As others have noted, it depends on the university (or universities) in question.</p>