<p>Thank you turtlerock. Temple could be a possible safety as well as JMU, or more locally Duquesne. As far as my top 3 majors, which would be the most lucrative? I know a finance degree can open many doors, but if someone were to rate 1-3 could they for me?</p>
<p>This is the UPitt B-school page with majors I found: [Undergraduate</a> | College of Business Administration | Pitt Business](<a href=“http://www.business.pitt.edu/cba/]Undergraduate”>http://www.business.pitt.edu/cba/)</p>
<p>And PSU: [Undergraduate</a> Degree Programs: Business, Smeal College](<a href=“http://bulletins.psu.edu/bulletins/bluebook/college_campus_details.cfm?id=22]Undergraduate”>http://bulletins.psu.edu/bulletins/bluebook/college_campus_details.cfm?id=22)</p>
<p>It seems UPitt doesn’t offer Acturial Science or Supply Chain explicitly as PSU does.</p>
<p>The Risk Management (RM) option from PSU sounds interesting if you want to work in insurance or other business risk management fields. Supply Chain sounds very specific, but I would contact the faculty on job placement or recruitment for the program at PSU. Not too many schools offer a specific Supply Chain major like that, so it may be promising.</p>
<p>Both offer Finance, and while it is proven more lucrative, it will be highly competitive especially if you plan to go to heavier markets like NY. If you’re set on doing local banking and working up perhaps, then this is a viable option, IMO.</p>
<p>RM and Finance seem like they would be more math intensive and the SC would be more business, though I haven’t look into each curriculum.</p>
<p>I will suggest you think about Accounting (also offered by both). It’s also more math related, but at a more simplistic level and just involves a lot of rules and processes more than anything. It’s considered the language of business and it helps to understand the business operating environment more intimately as it relates to decision making. Accounting is historically known to not pay as much as other business fields, but are more stable in work.</p>
<p>I have a meeting with my parents financial advisor tomorrow to talk about some of my future plans. Depending on what he says I may consider doing something along those lines.</p>
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<p>My original comment about SATs was referring to OP’s target scores as well as the current scores … sorry for the confusion.</p>
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<p>you seem to have a realistic attitude. BTW, I see nothing wrong with applying to a couple of real reaches – and students are admitted every year who reach. The important thing is to have enough targets and safeties on your list. It seems like you’re doing a good self evaluation, which is super important.</p>
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<p>Absolutely agree. It’s kind of a breath of fresh air here.</p>
<p>Haha thank you. I will post back after tomorrow when I get some advice from the meeting</p>
<p>At the meeting I was told that the school where you get your MBA is 10x more important than your undergrad school. Is this true? And also he noted that my SAT’s need to improve which I am aware of haha</p>
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<p>Yes, this is true for any grad school. Once you complete your MBA and that goes on your resume, typically employers won’t even care/look at where you went to undergrad because you now have a higher credential than that.</p>
<p>It’s generally understood that graduate programs, like MBA, don’t put too much weight on where you went to undergrad either. Your GPA and graduate tests scores (MCAT, GRE, LSAT - all kind of like taking an SAT for grad school) will be the main factors that determine program eligibility or admittance. For an off-the-wall example, if a student went to a non-T1 school, but scored 175 on the LSAT with a 3.9+ overall GPA, then they may have a great shot at, say, Harvard Law or any other T14 LS for that matter.</p>
<p>But yes, once you are accrddited with an MBA, your undergrad is pretty much out the window, which is why it’s doubly important to do as much cost cutting on your undergrad and then splurging on your MA/MS or PhD, if you know ahead of time you want to do gradaute education.</p>
<p>Thank you. What about going to grad school and then working, or working then getting my MBA</p>
<p>Many students take a year or two between undergrad and MBA.</p>
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<p>Many (but not all) MBA programs will require (x) amount of years work experience as a requirement for admissions. You can think of a few MBA programs now and look up their reqs, or you can cross that bridge when you get there and start to look at them Jr-Sr year in college.</p>
<p>Okay sounds great</p>