Top Business Schools

<p>I'm interested in applying to Michigan Ross, Georgetown McDonough, Cornell Applied Economics and Management, UPenn Wharton, and Berkeley Pre-Business/undeclared..</p>

<p>In terms of employment opportunities, are those the right schools to apply to? please rank those 5 schools for that criteria.. Also, if I attend Berkeley, it isn't guaranteed that I'll get into Haas afterwards, unlike the other business schools (as for Michigan you only need to meet certain requirements and you are into Ross the sophomore year). Do a lot of top students who want to pursue a business career actually go to the Berkeley undeclared/pre-business and risk being rejected from Haas? Any thoughts/comments would be appreciated.</p>

<p>Penn is the best</p>

<p>the rest are about the same, depends where you want to work full time. UCB is more california; michigan dominates Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Lous and of course Detroit; georgetown can place anywhere from New York to a Miami.</p>

<p>You get where I am going with this.</p>

<p>I agree with above poster... undergrad business... Wharton is the best (also the most competitive, on par with Harvard arguably)... I applied to all those you mentioned except Mich/Ross and Berkeley/Hass... got into AEM and McDonough and rejected at Wharton after being deferred... didn't go to Cornell because I didn't like the environment (but some do), choose Georgetown because of its immense presence in New York (not like Wharton's, but it's big)... so in terms of banking opportunities, those are some of the best to apply to, don't follow rankings to much, it's more reputation and presence on Wall Street that determines whether a firm is going to recruit at your school... if you do get into all 5, choose Wharton... also all the Ivies (though other than Penn, none offers undergrad business) are targets for Banking firms (especially Harvard, Yale, and Princeton)... Northwestern also offers a good program... University of Virginia is another one... depends on where you want to work...</p>

<p>have you given nyu stern a look?</p>

<p>UVA and Carnegie Mellon are pretty good too.</p>

<p>yea... what happened to tepper and Mcintire... they're great...</p>

<p>yea i've looked at all those but I'm more leaned towards 4-year programs so stern is definitely a possibility..and berkeley would be a top choice since I'm in California but do a lot of ppl risk being in undeclared for 2yrs at cal and not ending up in Haas?</p>

<p>It's 50/50 at Haas from inside. Georgetown doesn't haqve the recruiting the others have. I'd choose Stern above all but Wharton for best job ops.</p>

<p>go to wharton</p>

<p>Are you kidding? Georgetown has a huge presence on Wall Street (can't say about other cities)... I think 5th most represented undergraduate school on Wall Street... of all the schools mentioned... only Wharton and maybe Stern (location) has better recruiting than Georgetown... and that a Goldman Sachs recruiter told a friend of mine who goes to Wharton, that Wharton and Georgetown are their biggest recruits...</p>

<p>Georgetown is the 5th biggest? That fails the laugh test.</p>

<p>He is going to Georgetown...people just have to talk big about their schools....</p>

<p>Yeah, it was in their information session...</p>

<p>Sheed30... haha... I'm not going to disagree with what you said... we all do...</p>

<p>sheed & milki - to asian parents, the words 'UVA' and 'carnegie mellon' are as foreign as xbox360 or playstation 3 to anyone over 60</p>

<p>if juventus10 decides to go to mcintire or tepper, his parent's realization that they'll never be able to brag to their friend about their son attending a school (of course, to asians, the word "school" really just means ucla, uc berkeley, and the ivy leagues) dawns upon them, and they'll have no choice but to disown juventus10</p>

<p>second options for his parent include adopting an young black kid</p>

<p>if he maintains the same grades as juventus10, affirmative action comes into play and he might just get that coveted spot in UPenn's wharton school of business that his parents longed for ever since...well....seventeen years ago</p>

<p>^ haha. I thought about Haas when applying, but was turned off by not having a guaranteed spot. Wharton is the way to go to receive a very solid, well-rounded business education that will open many opportunities for starting and developing a career.</p>

<p>How about Dartmouth? I'll be an incoming freshman and I definitely want to go into business and finance.</p>

<p>All the Ivies are considered targets for IB firms and I'm sure all of Wall Street...</p>

<p>i'd rank it like...</p>

<p>-Penn: Wharton
-Cornell: AEM
-Berkeley: Haas, Mich-Ross
-Georgetown: McDonough</p>