School with these qualities????

College Search & Selection
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<p>-good business program
-in or near a city (or somewhere that has something mildly entertaining to do)
-students that are not obssessed with athletics
-students that are not OBSSESSED with drinking (#3 party school here)
-housing that does not require me to share a room with someone</p>

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<p>you can always dream</p>

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<p>Well, you can find people at anyplace from Berkeley or Stanford or UCLA who hate sports, but it's less common, or people at Uni of Arizona that hate to party, so it's less common than not. The point I'm making is that you will find a faction of whatever at just about any school, so perhaps Berkeley might do for you, or USC. Many students at both schools love to party or love sports (or both), but both schools have large factions of people who don't like either. There are many other schools like this, too. I don't what else to reccommend. Perhaps ask for schools that best match those qualities.</p>

<p>UPenn?</p>

<p>Here's a list from which you can start to narrow things down.</p>

<p>Wharton is generally considered #1.</p>

<p>GROUP II (not far bellow Wharton):
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
University of California-Berkeley (Haas)
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor</p>

<p>GROUP III (amazing programs):
- Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)
- New York University (Stern) Note that NYU is second only to Wharton in Finance. So if IBanking is something you want, NYU belongs in the group above.
- University of North Carolina-Chapell Hill (Kenan Flagler)
- University of Southern California (Marshall)
- University of Texas-Austin (McCombs)
- University of Virginia (McIntire)</p>

<p>GROUP IV (excellent programs):
- Cornell University (yes, Cornell does indeed have a Business program for undergrads)
- Emory University (Guizueta)
- Georgetown University (McDonough)
- Indiana University-Bloomington (Indiana)
- Michigan State University-East Lansing (Broad)
- Ohio State University-Columbus (Fisher)
- Pennsylvania State University-University Park (Smeal)
- Purdue University-West Lafayette (Krannert)
- University of Illinois- Urbana Champaign
- University of Maryland-College Park (Smith)
- University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (Carlson)
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Washington
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Washington University (Olin)</p>

<p>GROUP V (other solid programs)
- Arizona State University (Carey)
- Babson College
- Boston College (Carroll)
- Boston University
- Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead)
- Texas A&M University-College Station (Mays)
- University of Arizona (Eller)
- University of Florida (Warrington)
- University of Georgia (Terry)
- Wake Forest University (Calloway)</p>

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<p>i can anybody narrow it down for me?</p>

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<p>We need to know your stats in order to narrow down the schools.</p>

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<p>Agreed. . .</p>

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<p>OK well you won't be impressed</p>

<p>-High School Stats-</p>

<p>-1380 SAT score 710V 670M
-ranked 35 out of 532
-no APs but all honors, (plus a full day senior year as opposed to many students who left early) took 5 years of spanish, 4 years of math, science, and english, 3 years of history
-2 years marching/concert band, 2 years orchestra (activites are my weak point)
-1 year physics and math club ( I went to just enough meetings to put them on my app)</p>

<p>Yeah so my high school stats really arent too impressive at all. I'm guessing that applying ED really helped me get into Lehigh. Right now I am taking 15 credits, mostly intro classes plus 1 credit for percussion lessons. I am currently in the college of business and would like to continue studying business(hopefully at another school). </p>

<p>I guess the main things I am looking for are a good business program, a good college town or city, and a school that isn't way into sports. I would also like to stay somewhere around the same level of prestige as Lehigh if not higher.(although their business school is nothing to scream about) Thanks.</p>

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<p>Gibson I'd say aim at the 2 B's (Bentley & Babson) along with other schools such as Emory etc...</p>

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<p>anyone else?</p>

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<p>I heard that Lehigh has a lot of drinking... i'm not sure whether that's true or not, though.</p>

<p>How about the University of Rochester?</p>

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<p>Well as a student here, I can tell you that drinking is HUGE here, and i'm not into it at all.</p>

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<p>I'd love to say Michigan State, b/c the business school is excellent, esp for undergrads. But there are a lot of students who like to drink, I can't lie; it is known as a "party school" although, thankfully, it dropped off the Princeton Rev Top 20 list. And as a Big 10 school, well … you know about athletics, so...</p>

<p>But this is a very diverse school that is big enough to have a wide diversity of kids, including many who study all the time; some into the arts, and many who could care less about sports. It's also a beautiful campus with lots of little niches within the huge super structure. And despite the overwhelming number of kids are from Michigan, there’s a very strong out-of-state and international community – and MSU sends more kids to study abroad than any single campus school.</p>

<p>And the town of East Lansing is lovely, friendly, lively, artsy and safe... what more can I say?</p>

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<p>We won't even be able to guess at your transfer prospects until we see your grades from your first term. They are critical to your transfer application. If you want to have schools like NYU in your ballpark, you need to ace as many of your classes as possible. A B average will narrow your options considerably.</p>

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<p>wow really? i don't know if I will be getting ANY A's. I am finding the work here to be extremely difficult. I am praying that I can pull a B average due to a very poor start here.</p>

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<p>At most schools, transfer admissions are tougher than freshman admissions. If you don't have the high school grades and scores that would have gotten you into that school as a freshman, then you have the double burden of showing them that your high school performance didn't reflect your actual ability to succeed in college. At a minimum, competitive schools are going to want to see B's. If you really want to transfer, do whatever you need to do to get those grades up as high as possible. Nail your butt to a chair in the library, go to office hours, start a study group with the sharpest kids in your major, get a tutor. There's still a lot of time to make this semester count.</p>

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<p>I totally agree with Hanna. When my D transfered, she aimed at schools much more selective than the one she was coming from, but she brought a 4.0 average to the application, and got accepted into all three really good schools. YOu need to do what Hanna says--drop everything and study to give yourself your best shot.</p>

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<p>what schools did your D apply to Garland? (prospective transfer also) you can pm if you'd rather not say on cc</p>

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<p>No, that's alright. I'll list where she applied, but not where she came from. She applied to and got into Oberlin, Tufts, and Wesleyan, and went to Wesleyan.</p>

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<p>ok guys,</p>

<p>You have all been pretty helpful so far and I am very appreciative of your comments. The problem I am having is that everytime I find a school that I might be interested in, I read horrible things about it on studentsreview.com. So I will give this thread one last bump to see if you guys have anymore suggestions or advice.</p>

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<p>On studentsreview.com you will find lots of horrible things about EVERY school. Not that the schools are horrible or even bad. The problem is that the people who are most likely to write reviews are the ones who have an axe to grind. The satisfied customers are too busy enjoying themselves.</p>