<p>I'm a junior and will be applying to schools soon, and have always wanted to keep U of I an option because I have family there and it's in-state. The problem is I want to major in marketing and am not confident that I can get into the b-school. </p>
<p>There is also the option of going LAS and majoring in advertising, because a lot of marketing is advertising. The problem with this is I hear that advertising at UIUC is a blow-off major. Can anyone give me more imput on this?</p>
<p>I just don't know where to apply, any opinions would be appreciated.</p>
<p>well, if you really seem like to like the marketing/advertising aspect of business you should go for that. However, if you look into the curriculum, those majors are not actually in the college of business. the college of business actually deals with the hard business facts like accounting and finance. that's why marketing/advertising is in LAS. before you choose what you really want to do, you shoudl look at the job market and see what is in high demand and what will give you a secure future. Truth be told, there are already a lot of marketing/advertising people out there.</p>
<p>Similar dilemma I had like you have. I also wanted to major in Marketing but I knew my 26 ACT score wouldn't get me into the business school. So I opted for ACES and settled for the Consum. Econ and Finance major, which allows for people to have careers in marketing firms, financial institutions, and governmental agencies. Obviously, for now, I'll stick with that, but in the future, if I feel like it's not going well, I may try to get into the Business school a year or two down the road. </p>
<p>You seem to have about the exact same GPA as I do. My cumulative GPA after my junior year was a 3.72, my unweighted was lower than yours at a 3.4. And you have a higher ACT, so you could defintely make it to LAS. But with compeitition gettin tougher each year, not sure if that combo of ACT/GPA would get you to the College of Business. </p>
<p>As for what tennis fan wrote about there being a lot of marketers already, it's really a wide open career, yea, there's a lot already, but there's a lot of doctors too, but it doesn't matter because COMPETITION outweighs everything. Marketing in my views is wide open b/c it's really a multi-level career cause you can get into Advertising, Consumer Sales, Public Relations, and involves Economics and other forms, so it's really a field where you can get various types of jobs in.</p>
<p>"#1 ADVERTISING SCHOOL IN THE NATION: University of ILLINOIS undergraduate advertising program was selected No. 1 in the nation in a recent poll of advertising educators, who ranked the nation's 84 advertising programs."</p>
<p>graduate program:
"And in its first effort to rank graduate advertising programs, U.S. News & World Report asked Deans and faculty at schools of journalism and mass communication to rank advertising (as well as some other disciplines frequently taught in those schools) programs."..... "1. University of Illinois" </p>
<p>tennisfan, are you sure about marketing being in LAS because I've been looking at the website and all the marketing courses are part of business administration. </p>
<p>Tennisfan might have meant before you go into business or communications you will be an LAS student. I too was under the impression that marketing was business and if Advertising isn't part of the communications college somone's gonna have to explain it to me, cause thats my major and college in the fall.</p>