Rising Junior Needs Transfer Advice

College Majors Business Major
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<p>Hey guys.</p>

<p>I'm in a pretty big dilemma and would like to seek your advice. Let me first explain my predicament. </p>

<p>I’ve spent the past three semesters at the University of Maryland with the intentions of majoring in Criminal Justice. After my first semester I realized I wanted to major in business. After being denied from the business school at Maryland I decided to transfer to UNC. I spent the past Summer taking two courses to gain an advantage that would ensure entry into their business school. Well, something unexpected happened and UNC had to revoke my admission status so basically I’m stuck right now.</p>

<p>Here are my current options:</p>

<p>I’m still enrolled at UMD but I can’t reapply into their business school. I’m going to call them tomorrow and see if I can switch my major to economics. However, I’m an out of state student and there’s currently no housing available to me. Furthermore, I don’t know if an economics degree would be in my best interest as it is a distant (and a very distant) second choice. </p>

<p>That leaves me with the option to make a last ditch effort to apply to a school with rolling admission. The only options that I know are available are Pittsburgh (which is a direct admit into the b-school) and UMaine (which I can get in state status as well as direct admission). </p>

<p>I’m not sure how important a degree of prestige is when applying to grad school, but I fully desire to attend Harvard, MIT, or Penn to attain my MBA.</p>

<p>So basically I can attend one of the aforementioned schools or reapply to UNC in the Spring (with no guarantee of being admitted into their business school). Alternatively, I could apply to a different school for Spring admission. I feel as though I’m limited academically though considering I have 70 credits. I have about a 3.7 GPA. If anyone could make any suggestions to help me out I would greatly appreciate it. I’d also like to know of a list of schools that would allow me to graduate on time (I’d like to finish in May 2008 and am willing to take the maximum number of Winter/Summer courses that would allow me to do so) as well as schools that allow direct admits. Thanks for your help.</p>

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<p>Here's how I see it...you are a rising junior with a 3.7 at UNC. If you intend to go to business grad school, there is no reason for you to do undergrad business and I wouldn't downgrade to another university just to graduate with a business degree. Majoring in Criminal Justic may be a less-taken path to business grad school, so you may want to switch to Economics or some other major at UNC or stick with your current one.</p>

<p>To get into Harvard/MIT/Penn (basically the most selective b-schools around) I'd say stay at UNC, bring your GPA as close to a 4.0 as possible, get familiar with your professors and focus on internships and get your degree from UNC-CH. It really doesn't matter what your undergrad degree is, but your GPA/internships/school where you attained degree/ECs do matter. Good luck!</p>

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<p>Dude, brand... did you read the OP? He is going to Maryland, and was revoked from UNC. </p>

<p>My advice would be to stay at Maryland, do economics and get a good job after you're done with a high GPA, work for a few years and get some good leadership positions, do killer on the GMAT, then apply to a top MBA program. MBA programs don't necessarily care what your undergrad major is... just do something that will allow you to get good work straight out of undergrad. Economics would probably allow this if you networked it right and used the positives of an econ degree to land a good position.</p>

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<p>Ok, thanks for the advice so far guys.</p>

<p>I'm going to call Maryland tomorrow and see if there's a way to reapply to housing (seems doubtful given the waitlist but it's worth a shot). Otherwise there's a realistic possibility that I'll take the semester off and work. I'd reapply in the Spring to MD, UNC or possibly other schools. Doing research right now and may come back for advice tomorrow depending on the outcome of calling MD.</p>