<p>^Yeah, but AP credit is also acceptable.</p>
<p>I too am going to be part of Ross 2010</p>
<p>can acceptances/rejections please post your gpa, courses, and ecs? Thank you!</p>
<p>Also--for a 2011 who will be applying to Ross after freshman year--does it matter what you did the summer before college? I am currently working my butt off and just got promoted to retail lead. Can that help at all?</p>
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<p>Yeah , it does matter as long as you include it in your application that is. </p>
<p>And yeah , HauckT and florahzo , if you could post a few of your stats , that'd be great.</p>
<p>Did anybody actually get rejected? I only have one friend who did. unless i hang out with an unusually high performing group, which i don't, this does not seem inline with the ~30% acceptance rate expected.</p>
<p>I know like 5 people who got in and 1 who got rejected as well.</p>
<p>I don't think the rejected would want to post here.</p>
<p>GPA : Cumulative 3.963/4.0 Took Jap and UROP besides all the pre-req</p>
<p>EC included UROP , International student advisory board, and lots of volunteering.</p>
<p>yeah I know like 3 or 4 people who got in and 1 who didn't... I really hope there wasnt like some sort of mistake lol.</p>
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<p>oh that would be brutal</p>
<p>My son was rejected. He's got about a 3.6 at U-M, has taken the more difficult Calc class (116), in which he got an A, and both Macro and Micro Econ, in which he got B+ -- and Stats - got an A. So his grades were good, especially in the quantitative stuff. I thought his essays were really good. But - for whatever reason, he didn't get accepted. H.S. grades and SATs also good. Something like a 3.9 avg with lots of APs, etc. He also did community service in college - and one of parents is U-M B-school alumni. Of five of his friends who applied, only one was accepted. Obviously 2 of 3 people were rejected. He's really heartbroken.</p>
<p>Sorry to hear that snorky. Unfortunately, some very qualified students don't make it. I know one guy who was sure he would get in (and he seriously deserved it, too) but didn't. Similarly there are some kids (GPA ~3.2) who didn't think they could get in and did. And admissions officers say it all the time, starting with "Due to the extremely qualified applicant pool we had this year..."</p>
<p>If your son has a quantitative mindset, he could major in math and/or econ and get the same (if not better, arguably) career opportunities as Ross students.</p>
<p>snorky, your son had amazing stats and i feel like he should have been accepted. although, i honestly think the main reasons that he wasn't accepted was because of the B+'s in macro and micro.</p>
<p>i know a lot of students from umich last year that applied to other business programs as a transfer just in case they didn't get into ross. programs such as wharton, stern, georgetown-mcdonough, uva-mcintyre, etc. your son probably would've gotten into one of those schools, but i'm assuming you are michigan residents?</p>
<p>can't beat the in-state price tag i guess :]</p>
<p>I think its the essays that sets them apart. Because I think if you really look at it, the difference between a 3.3 GPA and a 3.7 GPA is simply 1 grade...usually only a couple of percentage points in the class.</p>
<p>From everything you hear from BBA admissions, they stress the essays. Also, if your essays are just like the other 500 they read, then your grades usually aren't reason enough for them to accept you.</p>
<p>Snorky , if your son really wants it , he could apply again as a sophomore . but then he would have to do three more years at Ross , which would entail and extra years expense. </p>
<p>Pity to hear about him though , he looks as if he deserved it.</p>
<p>5 of my friends got accepted and i'd say approx 10 others didnt</p>
<p>Snorky-- H and I knew quite a few kids who went the Ross BBA route when we were students. After a few years of working post-grad, almost all felt they needed the MBA on their resume and went back to school. H did the Econ BA and Ross MBA combo which he swears by and has counseled our S to do the same who has similar academic interests. H never applied to Ross BBA since he felt it was too pre-professional at the undergrad level. The only opportunity to explore a broad liberal arts curriculum is as an undergrad. He LOVED the Econ department at Michigan and felt most of the upper-level courses/profs were outstanding.</p>
<p>Two of my good friends are going next year...I know that one of them had an A+ in Econ 101, enough said. The other one had decent grades, but I can't really see either one of them being big essay writers. I think they both did theirs in about a day.</p>
<p>yeah, i didn't spend much time on my essays either. they were basically all first drafts with a few edits for grammar.</p>
<p>but i had all A's in:
macro, micro, calc 1, financial acc</p>
<p>getting top grades in those classes are a good indicator to how successful you are going to be in the b-school compared to your other ross applicants, gagued by the admissions committee of course.</p>
<p>My D desperately wants to get into Ross as a sophmore. She is trying to figure out her freshman classes and doesn't know if she should take the basic micro and macro econ classes since she has the AP credit. Same with calculus. Since she lost interest about half way through senior year (only because of senioritis, she loved those courses), should she take them again next year? Obviously her grades would (should) be good if she does so, but does it look really bad to re-take them? What have others done? I suspect a number of the Ross admits have had the same situation.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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