<p>My D is a rising senior and trying to finalize her list. She is targeting schools that have an undergraduate business program and are located on East Coast. She is considering Fordham, BC, UVA, Villanova, Northeastern, Georgetown, Providence, UPenn, and NYU, but wondering if there are other "target" schools we should be looking at. Would appreciate your insight!</p>
<p>Taking AP Spanish, Physics, Lit and Comp, and MEH next year</p>
<p>National Honor Society
Science Honor Society
Math Honor Society
Spanish Honor Society
English Honor Society
Music Honor Society (Tri M)</p>
<p>EC
School Musical (3 years)
School A Cappella Group
Participated in Appalachian Service Project (2 years)
Key Club (Publicity Chair)
FBLA (Secretary)
School Leadership Club
Relay for Life (3 years, Team Captain)
Member of School Choir</p>
<p>All good schools, but you knew that, and she is a viable candidate for each. Are the affordable? What is your budget? Other than business program and east coast, what is she looking for in a school?</p>
<p>Hoping to get some merit aid, but will stretch to pay full tuition if need be. She is looking for a urban/suburban school. Mid sized. Would like some school spirit (sports teams, Greek life), but not a deal breaker. More concerned about opportunities for internships, while still having an opportunity to take classes in the liberal arts if she so chooses (which is why we ruled out a school like Bentley). Not sure if UPenn, Georgetown or UVA are too far of a reach. Trying to scale down list to schools that are real targets. </p>
<p>Penn, Georgetown, and UVa are great schools that are enormously competitive for admissions.</p>
<p>I really like her math score, and I’ll note that, in my opinion, unscientifically, if you can put up a 740 there’s a decent chance you could put up an 800, which gets a lot of attention, especially for women.</p>
<p>UNC-Chapel Hill. Well regarded, great school spirit, suburban, pretty cheap for an OOS student. Keenan-Flagler Offers great study abroad opportunities And direct admission to the business school for the top freshman admits. </p>
<p>She would definitely qualify for scholarship and honors at IU/Kelley, mentioned above. Another non east coast school neither my son nor I expected to like much but really liked after visiting is Miami Ohio, but it’s not ranked nearly as high as schools you have listed. Business school is pretty highly ranked. With her scores, she would likely get close to or full tuition, possibly more. I have to put in a plug for UMD CP, our state flagship. </p>
<p>My son and his friends had good results from American University/Kogod School of Business. Amazing opportunities! All had a variety of opportunities and internships, and all of his friends had good jobs at graduation.</p>
<p>If you are willing to look off the east coast, University of Denver/Daniels School of Business is excellent. It’s an undiscovered gem. Very good merit money</p>
<p>Kathmommy - I have been through this twice. Your list is spot on. Careful about chasing merit dollars… One S was underwhelmed and transferred to a more competitive school. Being happy is important Skip Providence and Northeastern. Fordham and Villanova should have merit $. Wharton is a long shot for everyone. BC, UVA and GTown are your sweet spots. NYU requires a healthy credit card to have fun. </p>
<p>Check out Drexel (co-op program like Northeastern) which would be a safety for your D. Also (since you have UPenn on your list) add Cornell – they have the Dyson school of Applied Economics and Management. I found out about it too late – sounds like a great program. My friend’s daughter is at Tulane (where she got lots of merit aid) in their undergraduate business program and she really likes it. Good luck!</p>
<p>Just a point of comparison - good friend’s D had slightly higher test scores, equivalent grades and different but comparable ECs and honors, together with excellent recommendations - she’s an impressive kid. She applied to Georgetown, BC, Villanova and Penn (plus a bunch of other schools not on your list). She was not accepted at Penn, got no merit money at Georgetown, BC or Villanova. Ended up at Wake Forest (also no merit money).</p>
<p>I would also investigate which schools are direct admit programs - where you apply to the undergraduate business program and are accepted into it - and which require a secondary application process after completion of a few prerequisite “weed-out” classes. </p>
<p>If she wants international business, University of South Carolina has top rated undergraduate program. With her scores she would likely be Honors program, if not then Capstone which makes you direct admit into that program if you keep certain GPA. Scores would also probably get her reduced OOS tuition or fully waived OOS tuition.</p>