What Colleges Could I Shoot For?

<p>Lists of top undergraduate business programs:
<a href=“Bloomberg - Are you a robot?”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?;
<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/business”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/business&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>From these two pages you can drill down to details about individual schools.
If you want full details about admissions statistics, you can look that up in each college’s Common Data Set file, section C. That will show distributions of entering students by test score, class rank, GPA, etc.</p>

<p>Here is a ranking of colleges by ACT scores:
<a href=“Top 500 Ranked Colleges - Highest ACT 75th Percentile Scores”>USA University College Directory - U.S. University Directory - State Universities and College Rankings;
Schools where a 33 would place you in the top quartile start on page 2 (Cornell).
Emory University is ranked #25 by ACT scores and #9 in the Bloomberg list of top undergraduate business programs. However, according to its Common Data Set for 2010-11 (the most recent I could find), 84% of entering freshmen were in the top 10% of their HS graduating classes. So if you’re outside the top 10%, Emory might be a pretty long reach for you. Try looking a little farther down in the ACT rankings for schools that also show up fairly high on the Bloomberg ranking, then investigate them to see if they have any appeal (for size, location, etc.) and are realistic for your stats.</p>

<p>You also need to consider costs. How much are your parents able and willing to pay? You can estimate your Expected Family Contribution by using each school’s online Net Price Calculator. </p>