<p>Hi.
I am an A/mainly B student prospectively searching colleges. My SAT is relatively high at 2120 but my GPA is strictly average-low. I am barely in the second quartile in rank at an extremely competitive school. I slacked off during my freshman and some of my sophomore year, unfortunately. I am strictly a right brained person and all maths/sciences have always been my achilles heel.</p>
<p>Ideally, I would prefer a finance major since I plan on working with finance after college. However, I am fine doing a degree in business admin. for my undergraduate, first and foremost.</p>
<p>The flip side is......My family can't afford to pay exorbitant fees of $35,000+ at certain schools. I would prefer to get some financial aid, if anything. However, with my low GPA/rank, that seems like a stupid fairytale. Heck, if I was a college, I would NOT want to give a kid like me aid. </p>
<p>This leads me to my question.......</p>
<p>What are some good undergraduate business schools for B students? (Potentially needing aid)</p>
<p>Look at schools in the US News’s 50-80 range with decent good bschools-places like Indiana, Minnesota, Michigan State, Texas A&M, Miami OH, etc.</p>
<p>Indiana is #10 in the U.S. News ranking undergraduate business rankings. With your class rank and GPA you would not be able to enter straight into Kelley though. And Texas A&M is #28 in the same ranking.</p>
<p>What exactly would be considered “struggling”?</p>
<p>I’ve heard you need decent math for business/finance, but nothing too extreme. </p>
<p>I ask because I am similar to the OP. I am pretty bad at science (plus no motivation hahaha) but math has never come super easy for me. I’m in AP Calc now and I got an A- first semester, but I did have to work a little bit for it. </p>
<p>I think I will be fine because while math doesn’t come easy for me, I make things harder on myself by putting things off and not learning until the day before the test…so in reality I don’t work that hard, except when need be. I know, not good, but I took a different approach with a math class at a local CC and I ended up with a solid A, so if I adjust I think I will do ok in college.</p>
<p>Was this friend “barely in the second quartile”. At my in-state high school 50% percentile and 2100 SAT is probably a complete reject from UT Austin, no way in hell are they getting into Mccombs.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the great replies! I will definitely look into Newsweek.</p>
<p>Finance/business has always seemed like a profitable degree to go into that I would somewhat enjoy even with my hatred of math. I almost flunked Algebra 2 and Physics last year. I do not exaggerate my difficulties. Something in my brain fails to click. My only saving grace for my GPA has been my acing of English, history, and humanity subjects.</p>
<p>The reason that I choose to major in finance/business is that I heard that you can not do much with a major in the humanities after college except teaching. I sincerely hope that majoring in business won’t require too much advanced maths from me. I want to get a lot of bang for my buck, you know?</p>
<p>I agree that business is a good route to take in terms of making good money, as opposed to a humanities degree. There are other concentrations of business, however, that can set you up to make good money and are much less math intensive. I’ve heard that investment banks like to see calculus 2/3 and linear algebra which would probably be problematic for you. How are you at economics courses?</p>
<p>Within the business field, I HIGHLY doubt that you’ll ever need to take high-level math. You’ll be fine if that’s your main concern.</p>
<p>As for your financial concerns, just stay in your state. Suppose that you aren’t accepted into the school that you want to go to. You can always transfer, right? Don’t focus too much on time, but don’t let it slip away.</p>
<p>Also, it’s not true that the main thing that you do with a liberal arts degree is teach. Many do pursue that route, but many only do that because they enjoy what they do. Getting a Ph.D in English or History isn’t exactly “easy,” but comparing it to something like the natural sciences throws the scale off.</p>
<p>I was saying Indiana and A&M were in the 60s and 70s for overall undergrad. Obviously IU>A&M for business if you get into both and cost isn’t a factor.</p>
<p>B students are not typically getting into Mays at TAMU, it’s possible with some high SATs or ACTs and some amazing essays but by no means the norm. It’s a top 30 program in US NEWs, plus Texas’s auto admit policy…to the OP, apply for UT, TAMU or HOUSTON. Houston, you have a good shot and its in Houston so enough said. UT or TAMU apply general studies and transfer internally.</p>
<p>Like others said, look at school rankings. </p>
<p>If cost in an issue, try to attend the best state B-school in your state, so that your not saddled with out-of-state tuition. And if you want to live in the same region, chances are most businesses that operate in your state will hire from the best b-school located there. </p>
<p>Going a little off topic but…</p>
<p>If cost really is an issue, I would recommend going to community college. In my experience, community college for your GERs/1st two years you will get a better education than you would at a 4-year, due to the small class sizes. The teachers dont have PHDs but you don’t really need a phd to teach you introductory courses. Even if you do get into that expensive college, you could have a TA teaching it anyways. Also, colleges nowadays, my college anyways, loves to admit transfer students from cc or other universities. Because if they did well, it shows that they can handle a college education and I’d imagine that a high performing community college student is more likely to succeed than a high performing high school student.</p>
<p>CC is a great option if cost is an issue. I chose to attend a CC because I had no idea what I wanted to do. I felt it best to figure things out when classes cost $250 and not $900. To be honest though, I had to learn the hard route of trying to transfer externally into these top b schools in Texas. I have a 3.86 through 60 hours and just got accepted to Mays for the summer. Thats why I said apply general studies, take the intro business courses and apply INTERNALLY. </p>
<p>FYI, External transfers into Mays is 12% for the Fall semester only…McCombs is even worse, the acceptance rate is 10 to 13% as well but they require Cal 1 and Cal 2 before you transfer. Those two classes alone would be B’s for most business majors.</p>
<p>OP, sent me a private message if you have any questions about anything for a Texas school. Quite literally, chances are I have made the mistake or done it already…</p>