Selectivity of Undergrad Business Programs

<p>Does anyone here know what selectivity is like for top undergrad business programs (i.e. Wharton, McIntire, Ross, Stern, Haas..etc)? Which are the hardest to get into? Which has the highest acceptance rates?</p>

<p>Wharton: ridiculously hard*
Sloan: I have no idea*
Ross: 50% of Freshman transfer applicants
Haas: I have no clue.
Stern: around 28%*
Tepper: around 20%*
McCombs: I have no idea.
Kenan-Flagler: 50+%
McIntire: I don't know
Marshall: ??????*</p>

<p>*Denotes schools that offer direct admission to the business program.</p>

<p>um, depending on how you perceive it, Ross has a 'direct' admission thing to thier business program now, where you can apply as a hs senior and basically get a 'guarantee' transfer by meeting certian requirements in your fresh year. That, i think, is quite selective to get into though.</p>

<p>For the regular McCombs you have to be in the top 5% of your class (in-state), and even then there is a good chance you may not make it. Out of State is even harder. </p>

<p>Business Honors Program had stats like these for 2006 applicants:
800 applied, 150 accepted. Acceptance rate: 19%. They had an average SAT score of 1480 and had to be in the top 1.8% of the class.</p>

<p>"Ross: 50% of Freshman transfer applicants
Stern: around 28%* "</p>

<p>I have a little bit different view about Ross and Stern:</p>

<p>Ross: 2006, Ross admits about 1/4 of the entire class ( ~ 75-80 out of ~ 320-330) as preferred admission freshman. So, that might give the remaining spots more competitive. Every year, there are usually about 700-750 raising sophomores across UMichgan apply Ross, that gave about a little less than 50% acceptance rate. But now, only ~ 240-255 spots left, the math would be different, I guess 35% or less is the future rate. Considering almost all the Ross applicants are top UMich students, I'd think it's very hard to get into Ross.</p>

<p>Stern: 28% is the admission rate for the whole NYU, not Stern. Sally ( the dean of Stern) said in "Sunday on the Square" open house April 2, 2006, this year, Stern's admission rate is 1 out of 12 !!! For some reason, 35,000 applicants to NYU make NYU the 2nd largest applicantion pool in the whole nation.</p>

<p>No. Stern ends up matriculating 1 out of 12. What she said specifically was "We received 12 applications for every spot in the Stern class"</p>

<p>ULTIMATELY, one out of every 12 will be going to Stern. However, they accept probably 2 or so out of the 12. </p>

<p>Anyhow, I think the # for Stern is something like 22% admit rate, with Stern Scholars being the top 15% or so of the incoming class.</p>

<p>btw, Sloan's admit rate is comparable to MIT's on a whole. Something like 13%, maybe a little higher.</p>

<p>dylin88: You think the yield rate for Stern is only 40% or so? I thought it would be a little higher than that. </p>

<p>You are right about the Stern admit rate: 1 out of 12 is the ratio of going to Stern vs applying Stern.</p>

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btw, Sloan's admit rate is comparable to MIT's on a whole. Something like 13%, maybe a little higher.

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No. Sloan does not have direct admit. You can't apply to sloan until you're at MIT.</p>

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This year the Stern School of Business received approximately 6,000 applications. Of these 6,000 about 28% (or around 1,680) were offered admission to achieve our freshmen class goal of 500 students. You are correct that our yield rate (the percentage of students who are offered admission that choose to attend) is approximately 30%.

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<p>This is what NYU Admissions has to say about Stern's admit rate. Go to the NYU forum and do a search for Stern.</p>

<p>Haas accept 263 out of 447 applicants (59%, year 2005-2006)</p>

<p>That Haas number is for UCB sophmores only I am assuming. There transfer admission rate is only 8%.</p>

<p>Iunno if NYU Admission's data is correct though....that sounds realy really high. And...Businessweek's data does not correspond with it. I would think BusinessWeek would make sure they got the right data. Rather, stern would be sure to give BW the correct stats.</p>

<p>Anyhow, you do not apply directly into Sloan because you are not commited to anything during the application process. However, if u get accepted into MIT you are guaranteed a spot in wherever you choose I believe.</p>

<p>McIntire's acceptance rate fluctuates, somewhere between 60%-70%.</p>

<p>just to add a note, you apply to McIntire at the end of your second year at UVa. The average GPA is 3.4-3.5</p>

<p>what about wharton? any know the stats?</p>

<p>It's very dangerous to assume Haas admissions are easy from the acceptance rate as most applicants are deterred by their counselors from applying.</p>

<p>Just a correction to biztogo's statement that NYU has the 2nd largest number of applications for admission each year. NYU has the largest number of applications for private college admissions. (around 33,000 to 35,000 the last two years). There are quite a few public colleges that have a greater number of overall applications than NYU</p>

<p>Two such schools are SDSU, which had 52,000 applications this year
<a href="http://advancement.sdsu.edu/marcomm/news/releases/fall2005/pr120205.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://advancement.sdsu.edu/marcomm/news/releases/fall2005/pr120205.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>and UCLA which had 60,000+ undergraduate applications, 47,000 of which were for freshman status alone. At this site they claim they had the largest freshman application class of any school in the country: <a href="http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=6980%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=6980&lt;/a> They also had another 13,000+ apply for transfer status.</p>

<p>I believe other schools with a large number of applications for admission are Ohio State and Penn State.</p>

<p>Calcruzer : Thanks for the correction. That means NYU website lies. :-)</p>

<p>Yes, such an exaggeration leaving out that one word--I'm sure they meant to deceive everybody. ;-) </p>

<p>Ha, ha, ha--Not very likely</p>