<p>I'm going to McCombs and I'm a bit upset about the top 10% rule and the easy admission standards. I have a 2140 SAT but I know at least two girls who were ranked higher than me in high school that each had a 1750ish SAT, and each of them could have easily gotten into UT. In high school there were always a few people in the AP classes that seemed like they didn't really belong in AP classes, and I'm really glad to be leaving that bottom almost 90% behind, but I can't help but feel there are a lot of people at UT that were those people who didn't really belong in AP classes. I'm sure the business program is much much better than the college as a whole, but it really takes a toll on the McCombs image, especially when people belittle McCombs because it's in a school subject to the top 10% rule.
EDIT: Sorry for bumping, I didn't realize how old this thread was.</p>
<p>It seems that UTA and University of Houston (Bauer School) are top recruitment centers for energy trading positions. Is it tough for a Texas born, California resident, to apply for these positions from a good university, such as UCLA?</p>
<p>Wharton + Top Ivies (HYP) > Middle Ivies/ Strong non ivies (Chicago, MIT Sloan, Dartmouth, Columbia etc.) > Stern, Ross, Haas >>> McCombs</p>
<p>yea I agree with the above post</p>
<p>except is chicago famous for i banks?
i thought they usually go for government supporting etc.</p>
<p>arplayer, University of Houston blows. Please don’t mention UT and U of H in the same sentence…can’t spell Duh without UH</p>
<p>Have there ever been cases where UT Computer Science grads went directly into ibanking? Is this possible?</p>
<p>I suppose anything is possible through intense networking.</p>
<p>I haven’t heard of many people making this jump though, at least not IBD in NYC.</p>
<p>I know someone who has actually. He might have been an EE major, but same deal.</p>
<p>The way he got into IBD (at a BB in NYC) was he did a sophomore internship as a technology analyst (back office developer) at a BB, then he networked a lot and managed to get placed in the same BB’s IBD summer analyst program his junior summer.</p>
<p>It’s not that easy though, as you can imagine. Every intern in a back office role at these banks is trying to figure out how to move to front office since thats where they money/interesting work is. So there is a great deal of competition still.</p>
<p>^ But yeah, I was just hoping that as a prospective CS major, I wouldn’t have much of a disadvantage compared to finance/accounting majors. I’m actually applying to both McCombs and Natural Sciences (CS) but if I had to pick ONE, it’d probably be CS.</p>
<p>And also, will most accounting jobs be in peril one day when automation software becomes more efficient?</p>
<p>Perhaps I can chime in. As a freshman with a roommate desperately trying to get into the business school and with all the hype behind the name, I had visions of grandeur and decided to apply to internally transfer. I had a 4.0 in pre-med and transferred in easily as GPA is the only requirement for admission. Many of the people that made the cut-off…basically those taking classes where they could pad their GPAs, and take as few classes as possible freshman year (some even going part-time). I guess it is not too hard to do well in M408C/408K and Microeconomics 304k when those are the only two (difficult) classes you take.</p>
<p>When I started sophomore year in McCombs, I was stunned by how incredibly average the experience was. A supermajority of the students at McCombs: they are either doing it because of the relative prestige in the state (who knows if they want to do business), because it’s an easy course load yet they’ll have a degree that’s marketable, or they have no idea what they want to do and a business degree is general and safe. It did not make a difference whether they were accepted straight from high school or transferred; about 70% were mediocre or average students at best. At least they made it easy to beat the curve… </p>
<p>Further, the PPA/MPA program is not tough in terms of admissions knowing some of the GPAs and how little studying certain people did, who later were accepted into the program. I do not think highly at all of this program and the majority of the students in this program are not spectacular.</p>
<p>I really don’t see how anyone that’s experienced UT can claim that McCombs’ admissions and the college is somehow good and liberal arts/natural sciences is not good. All these mediocre students look the same to me and they make up the same %-age whichever college you’re in. The University’s admissions are the problem.</p>
<p>The exceptions at this university are the honors programs such as Plan II, BHP and Engineering honors. These groups truly have some amazing and brilliant students. I would say that BHP students are of the same caliber as the best at the other top business programs.</p>