<p>“I think UMich puts a lot more weight on the application essays than most people realize”</p>
<p>hmmm… you sure? A way overqualified kid (3.6, 2300s type) from my high school decided to do an experiment. He applied to many top publics with essays that do not make any sense… just random words put together. He got into U of M with a huge merit scholarship…along with a UC (I think LA…maybe SD i dont remember) among others… interpret it however way you want</p>
<p>Essays are a tricky thing. For my Penn essay a few years ago, I wrong a three word response to the “submit page 217 of your autobiography” and for my Duke essay, I used a very general and unremarkable essay that I had written for a class assignment. Needless to say, that essay did not address the prompt whatsoever. Duke and Penn were two schools I did not care much for, so I was willing to take a chance. I got into both schools. </p>
<p>On the other hand, a student I know who was rejected by Michigan a couple ago strongly believes it was her essay that kept her from getting in. She was a 4.0 student with a 2280 on her SAT and her application was completed in October. However, her essays were very poorly written. </p>
<p>In other words, it really depends who reads the application. Some members of the ad-com will really care bout the essays, others will not.</p>
<p>This said, if an applicant takes the school they are applying to seriously, they really should make an effort with the essay(s).</p>
<p>“Out of curiosity, why did you apply for a job that said they didn’t want people of only your major? Obviously it worked out for you in this situation but you wouldn’t have expected anything like that, so why did you apply for it?”</p>
<p>You will not achieve anything in life if you just blindly not do anything you are not “supposed to”. It takes 5 minutes to fill out an application. What harm can it do? I got interviews from a lot of middle markets who specify they want finance/accounting majors, including robert baird, harris williams and houlihan lokey.</p>
<p>you lose daily depreciation. I never look to hold options more than 2 days. I buy it right before earnings day, and sell it right after. <em>You have to follow the rules you set for yourself, no matter how painful it is or what your emotion tells you to do.</em> You lose 20%, and you feel like you might be able to make it back holding onto them. nope, you sell it. You make 100% but you feel like if you hold onto it you might make more, doesnt matter, you still sell it.
that’s how you prevent total loss.</p>
<p>If you can get into HYP, you can major in almost anything and be in a position for a decent job. If not, in most instances, the most lucrative degree is engineering, almost anyone with an engineering degree can get a 55k starting job.</p>
<p>people say liberal arts people start low and then outearn engineers, but that’s not true on average. Let’s say the average engineer starts at 55k at age 22. Let’s say a modest 3.5% raise per year, compounded over 20 years, that’s over 100k. I know there’s inflation, but an average liberal arts major does not out earn the average engineer.</p>
<p>in general, liberal arts majors that do not lead to a professional track like business, med school, or law school will not make more money than engineers.</p>
<p>What’s the point of this thread anyways? Copy and paste Bearcats’ posts, and condense them into one thread? I hardly consider his posts " The best of Michigan board "…</p>
<p>I did a textbook arbitrage with another friend by buying from Amazon Used Book online and selling them back to the campus bookstore and made a couple thousand dollars.</p>
<p>The same used engineering textbooks that they sell at amazon for ~$10-$20, they were buying them back at the campus bookstore for like $80… so I took advantage of the system… took their price list and bought used books on amazon accordingly and sold them back to the campus bookstores…legally.</p>
<p>One of the campus bookstores has blacklisted me from selling my textbook to them even though it’s their own fault that they have a flaw in the system.</p>
<p>who gives about classroom experience? The end goal of going to college is to get the best job possible, and all else being equal, it is more likely that you get a better job coming out of Michigan than from Tulane.
If anyone wants to pull the “school only matters for your first job”, you probably should look into the fact that your first job has a lot to do with what you get for your next job, and so on.</p>
<p>“If you want to go into business and have an advantage in you industry like Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Consulting you need to study these before you go into that career, which you can’t in LSA.”</p>
<p>No you don’t, with accounting as the only exception. Source? Every single MBB and BB interviewer that I have met with. You learn business by doing business. There is a reason a kid from Harvard/Yale/Princeton/Stanford, when all else being equal, get hired over a Ross grad most of the time, even though you know every single thing on your finance textbook.</p>
<p>This is the weirdest thread I’ve ever read. If you’re an ignorant high schooler/freshman, I suggest you take this amalgamation with a grain of salt.</p>