<p>Hello. I am very interested in business, especially in finance. However, I am not 100% sure I want to dedicate most of my undergraduate career to this so I am leaning toward liberal arts with a major/minor in economics or finance. </p>
<p>Anyway, I am looking for universities that have good liberal arts colleges where I can major in economics/finance but also have a good business program so that I am able to take many business classes of my preference (such as being a CAS student at Upenn or Cornell for example where the undergrad business programs are top notch). Can anyone suggest some schools (especially those with finance majors)? If you need to see my stats, you can look at my "what are my chances" thread.</p>
<p>SAT I:
CR - 670
Math - 780
Writing - 750 (10 on essay)
total - 2200/2400 ; 1450/1600</p>
<p>*Because I’m not sure about how much my parents would spend, let’s keep that aside for now</p>
<p>I am looking for safeties but I am primarily considered with matches and low reach schools.
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<p>Since this is your senior year and you’re applying to schools NOW, you really need to ask your parents how much they’ll spend. If this was last spring or summer, it would be one thing, but at this point, you don’t have time to be considering schools that aren’t affordable.</p>
<p>Are you worried about asking your parents? Some kids avoid asking because they fear the answer might not be what they want to hear. </p>
<p>Have you applied to a financial safety school? If not, why not?</p>
<p>Emory’s Undergraduate business has been ranked as high as 4th in the nation not too long ago. Emory might be a low reach for you. If you visited, it is probably a high match.</p>
<p>btw im a junior, some of the things on my chance thread are assumptions but not many things (such as senior courseload although I am pretty sure about it)</p>
<p>mom2collegekids, I didn’t ask my parents about our financial situation b/c when I talk to my mom about colleges she is always enthusiastic to hear about my reach schools and she urges me to go visit them. She was also happy when I asked her if I can go to cornell summer college which is pretty expensive in my opinion. She always wanted me to go to a good school, but I definitely will sit down and talk to her about this.</p>
<p>And yes I am applying to financial safety schools like my state university.</p>
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<p>I really don’t mind about any of these however I do not want the college to be bam in the city (NYU) and not have a real campus or very rural. Anything in between works fine, but I also don’t want the college to be too small (Colgate). And I am definitely in favor of the population comprising mostly of college students. </p>
<p>You’ve got to be kidding me. Any ranking that would put Emory’s business school at number 4 is a bogus ranking. </p>
<p>Right at the top of my head I can already think of 5 schools that are significantly superior to Emory’s: Wharton, Haas, Sloan, Ross and Stern. And I’m quite sure that Emory’s business program isn’t any better than UNC’s, UVa’s, USC’s, Cornell’s, Texas’ to name a few.</p>
<p>RML,
How much longer do we have to suffer your slander toward Emory? It’s a terrific school with excellent students and faculty, a huge endowment and a widely respected undergraduate business school. </p>
<p>You just don’t get it—there is room for more than just a few schools to have quality. This is not Italy. We have over 300 million people in this country and dozens of outstanding colleges. </p>
<p>For example, here is the Business Week Top 10 (listed alphabetically so that this won’t turn into a b*tchfest about rankings). All of these are excellent places. Trying to claim that a few are head and shoulders above the others is just plain…(fill in adjective-I’d say “ignorant”). </p>
<p>BYU (Marriott)
Cornell
Emory (Goizueta)
MIT (Sloan)
Notre Dame (Mendoza)
U Michigan (Ross)
U Penn (Wharton)
U Texas (McCombs)
U Virginia (McIntire)
UC Berkeley (Haas)</p>
<p>And yes, BYU belongs in this group. If you know anything about this school and its students, you see it. Academia may hate BYU, but that’s academia’s problem. Employers “get it.”</p>
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SAT I:
CR - 670
Math - 780
Writing - 750 (10 on essay)
total - 2200/2400 ; 1450/1600</p>
<p>I didn’t ask my parents about our financial situation b/c when I talk to my mom about colleges she is always enthusiastic to hear about my reach schools and she urges me to go visit them. She was also happy when I asked her if I can go to cornell summer college which is pretty expensive in my opinion. She always wanted me to go to a good school, but I definitely will sit down and talk to her about this.</p>
<p>btw im a junior, some of the things on my chance thread are assumptions but not many things (such as senior courseload although I am pretty sure about it)
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<p>Ok… yes, definitely sit down with the parents and tell them that private schools are costing about $55k per year and ask if that’s ok with them (actually by the time you’re in college, the cost will be about $60k per year). </p>
<p>Once you get the agreement, then you’ll have many, many schools to consider! :)</p>
<p>However, if your parents say, “well, we can only afford $40k per year” - then it’s good to know that so you can strategize for the best situation for you. :)</p>
<p>Your scores are very good, but you should also take the ACT just to see if you can get a 34 or higher (which I think you could )</p>
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