<p>Asian rising junior at a top 20 in Pennsylvania by USNews
GPA: 3.90 (W), 3.63 (UW)
School doesn't rank but around 14-15%
ACT: 32 w/ writing
5 AP's by the end and 10 Honors. Taken up to AP Calc B/C and AP Stats
Concentration: Marketing </p>
<p>Extracurricular:
FBLA (leadership)
Mock Trial (leadership)
Student Gov.
International Affairs Group (Semi-leadership)
Media Team (1 year)
Volunteer 80 hours at hospital
Volunteer 20 hours at Community Center
ASPIRE program</p>
<p>Awards
National Honors Society
School Excellence Award
Principal's Honors List
NSHSS</p>
<p>Current Reach- Babson, Richmond, Boston College
Target-Lehigh, Boston U, Oxford
Safety-Bentley</p>
<p>Financial aid extremely important. Current EFQ is around $22,000. Eliminated NYU, Northeastern, UT-Austin, and Kelley because of lack of aid. Please suggest other colleges that I should take a look at. Essays will be 9 or 10. 1 Rec will be great. 2 will be good.</p>
<p>By Oxford, you don’t mean the school in Engand, do you?</p>
<p>edit: I’d argue that NEU gives more than BU simply because of a more generous merit scholarship system, but that is just my personal experience and may not hold true for everyone</p>
<p>Just want to get some more suggestions on colleges that fit my stats. Also want to know what schools have respect nationally as well as domestically and regionally. To my understanding Richmond, Lehigh, and Bentley are great regionally but is not that well know on the west coast or nationally. @sally305 </p>
<p>I don’t know anything about Bentley but Richmond and Lehigh are fairly well known outside the east coast. Plus, why does it matter? If a school had to have national name recognition to make a graduate attractive as an employment (or grad school) prospect, a whole lot of us would be leading unsuccessful lives.</p>
<p>It would just give the prospect a little boost. A storing Alumni process is important in business. And since business is a global field having some brand reputation is important in order to get a good job.</p>
<p>Will you consider a liberal arts college or must your UG offer business courses? That makes a big difference. </p>
<p>You might want to check the schools that have a no loan policy. But most of those schools are liberal arts colleges. </p>
<p>Finally, will you consider a women’s college? Scripps College and Mills College are very good schools where you should be admitted and may qualify for a scholarship. Both of those schools, however, are in California.</p>
<p>@Tampa2015 I cannot consider a girls college because I am a male. If I go into a LAC w/out business how would I take business oriented classes? Babson and Bentley are Specialized LAC’s, according to what a tour guide told me. I am comfortable with California, or all of the east cost; north to south. Northern midwest is also fine.</p>
<p>MANY schools (particularly large state universities) have really powerful, supportive alumni networks.</p>
<p>Business is a global field but all hiring is local. The first person in most organizations to look at your resume is going to be the hiring manager in HR. This person is likely a product of local schools. For instance, they might know that certain schools are known for certain things (MIT or CalTech for CS), but they might also know that the University of Illinois graduates they hire in CS are excellent because they have an established track record in hiring them. “Business” is a very general field too, and many people who wind up running companies did not attend business school as undergrads or even get MBAs after that.</p>
<p>All I am trying to say is, don’t overestimate the “reputation” factor when you make your decisions about where to attend college. It’s better that you find the right fit for you, do your best while you are there, create contacts with faculty and alumni, and graduate with reasonable or no debt. That is what will position you best for success.</p>
<p>Note that some economics departments, particularly at schools without business departments, have a strong “business” flavor that can be seen in their elective course selections (CMC is an example; see <a href=“Program: Courses in Economics - Claremont McKenna College - Acalog ACMS™”>Program: Courses in Economics - Claremont McKenna College - Acalog ACMS™; ). However, such “business” electives are more likely to be found in such areas as finance than in such areas like marketing and accounting, so such economics departments may be less likely to be suitable for you.</p>
<p>Many top colleges offer no undergraduate business courses. Vanderbilt, Brown, and Northwestern do not offer undergraduate business majors for marketing. You may want to consider Emory and Georgia Tech. Both have highly regarded business programs. NYU also has a business school that is highly regarded. Finally, you may want to consider Univ of Michigan, Univ of Maryland, and Univ of Virginia.</p>
<p>Babson is a business school that still has a full liberal arts curriculum. </p>
<p>Is UVA out of reach for me? It is one of the public schools that is giving me good financial aid. UMich, UT, Indiana and the UC’s are offering me minimal</p>
<p>Why aren’t you considering public universities in PA? Penn State, Pitt, and Temple all have good business programs, and would be affordable for you.</p>
<p>Penn State is about $29,000 in-state; if the parents contribute $22,000, the student would have to take a direct loan of $3,500 to $5,500 plus work to earn $1,500 to $3,500 – doable, though it does not leave much margin of safety financially. The assumption is no or minimal financial aid or scholarships, as PA publics are known for poor in-state financial aid, and Penn State does not have much in the way of scholarships (but Pitt and Temple apparently have more scholarships).</p>
<p>That is true but the other schools are less cheap after the grants that they give. For example Bentley is 25000 after the grants and gives 4000 in work study then 21,000 for parents and leaves me loan free. Boston U leaves me with 17000 for family after grants with no work study or loans.</p>
<p>I have considered Wake Forest but they do not have a marketing concentration. Elon is a bit too expensive for us. It comes to 35,000 with only 5 grand of loan and 30,000 for family. Elon would be a safety and its too costly for a safety.</p>