Strong Business Schools

<p>Looking for colleges strong in business, junior this year, from florida, love the weather, sister goes to Boston college, i dont want anywhere as cold and grey,so im limiting myself geographically to the south/southwest area, california is a little far for my taste, would like suggestions for reaches, matches, and safeties, (for optimism's sake assume all of my probably's are definites since it's a little early in the game lol) </p>

<p>considering: Florida, Texas, Wake Forest, SMU, UNC, UVA, Duke (last 3 major reaces if im not mistaken)</p>

<p>any thoughts on the schools listed, suggestions of other schools would be appreciated</p>

<p>-white</p>

<p>-small competetive private boarding/day school w/ excellent but not N.E. Prep school level rep</p>

<p>-3.9 UW, 4.1 W, course load pretty rigorous but not the most (freshman 2 honors, school offered 5, sophmore 5 honors school offered 5, junior 2 AP 3 honors, couldve done 3 AP)</p>

<p>-not sure of class ranking, school doesnt give out exact rankings, probly top 10-20%</p>

<p>-202 PSAT sophmore year, have been doing alot of prep so i should do significantly better, probly enough to be NMSF, florida cut-off 215 (i think, correct me if im wrong), havnt taken SAT yet but il probly be around 2100-2200, complete conjecture however</p>

<p>-EC's:alot of school and travel basketball, coaching basketball youth league, youth group, not anything else 2 significant, will get a job or volunteer alot this summer, involvment probly biggest weakness</p>

<p>Indiana University - Bloomington
University of Illinois
New York University (Stern)
University of Notre Dame
Washington University (Olin)
University of Penn (Wharton) </p>

<p>I went from easiest to hardest for schools in the midwest and east coast. You might want to throw Michigan on there but I'm pretty sure it's kind of cold up there.</p>

<p>Sorry to burst your bubble but Duke and Wake Forest don't have a undergrad business school and the rest arn't that good besides University of Virginia and Chapel Hill.</p>

<p>There are so many good B schools in warm-mild weather. Here are a couple, in order of excellence:</p>

<p>University of California-Berkeley (Haas)
University of Virginia-McIntire
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (Kenan Flagler)
University of Texas-Austin (McCombs)
University of Southern California (Marshall)
Emory University (Goizueta)
Wake Forest University (Calloway)
University of Arizona (Eller)
Arizona State University (Carey)
University of Florida (Warrington)
Texas A&M University-College Station (Mays)
University of Georgia (Terry)
Georgia Institute of Technology
College of William and Mary
Southern Methodist University (Cox)
Tulane University (Freeman)
University of South Carolina-Columbia (Moore)
Virginia Tech (Pamplin)</p>

<p>TPeck, Wake does have a B School...I think. And if you are going to add Wharton and Stern, you might as well add Ross. But I think all three are too cold for the OP.</p>

<p>I think Emory would be a great fit.</p>

<p>thank u all for all of ur responses</p>

<p>I know you dont like the Northeast, but just in case you change your mind, you might want to look into Babson College and Bentley.</p>

<p>Babson is a pretty good business school but c'mon now, Bentley is lucky to be considered mediocre by any stretch. Bentley == bunch of meatheads.</p>

<p>I'm sorry I thought Wake Forest's Business School was Babcock and it was for graduate students only. Had no idea they had a second business school.</p>

<p>tpeck, im glad to hear that since its one of my top choices thanks</p>

<p>Bentley is actually a very good business school as well. Babson is the best for entrepreneurship while Bentley has excellent programs in Accounting/Finance and Management Information Systems. </p>

<p>(Bentley is ranked 47th on the list of best undergraduate business programs and is ranked #20 for accounting and #13 for MIS)</p>

<p>I was about to go to Bentley but I decided on Penn State and I regret switching my mind but I'm looking to transfer elsewhere preferrably on the west coast.</p>

<p>*Just beware I've heard from a few people that Bentley is a haven for rich kids as it is common to see Porsche's, Ferrari's, BMW's, Mercedes, Audi Etc... on campus.</p>