<p>How much more difficult is it to earn admission to the bachelor program of business at SMU than it is normally for regular admissions? What types of stats should I have? Is it a good idea to apply straight into the program, or apply to SMU undeclared and then declare business?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Just apply straight into SMU. That’s what I did, even though I had the full intention of going engineering. They’d be willing to set up appointments for you to sit in on classes, meet with professors and academic advisers etc…in order to decide what you do want your major to be, even if you are undeclared but have the full intention of going business.</p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>
<p>Anyone have more info on the BBA program, which is automatic first-year entry to Cox? What type of SATs are they looking for?</p>
<p>I didn’t take the SAT…I took the ACT instead. Chances are if you made whatever is the equivalent of 30+ on the SAT that you could get into their business school and get some financial aid. The only, and I mean only, advantage to doing it as you insist is probably department financial aid, which a lot of departments don’t offer to Freshman. You may consider looking into which departments at SMU do offer departmental aid and how competitive admission to those departments are. If you’re going to do that I’d recommend declaring some insane major like Forestry or Paleontology (SMU has their Taos division that is big on that stuff) just to get their departmental aid.</p>
<p>i scored a 2170 and got direct entry into the cox business school</p>
<p>Thanks tays, that helps out a lot. Anyone else?</p>
<p>My S had a 33 ACT and was directly admitted to Cox as a BBA scholar.</p>
<p>You can get into Cox 2 ways:</p>
<p>1) Acceptance through the scholars program - a select amount of students are offered automatic admission into the Cox school their senior year in high school. Academics prior to applying to SMU will determine whether you are offered this. This is not typical for a Cox student though. </p>
<p>2) The majority get accepted to SMU as pre-business and have to take the 7 courses (accounting, calculus, ect.) required as a pre-business major. You take the 7 courses, and have to get atleast a 3.3 in the 7 courses, then you apply. This is usually done your sophomore year.</p>
<p>Hope this helps!
Pony up :)</p>