What type of students do undergrad business schools look for?

College Search & Selection
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I’m new to this so please bear with me if this is being posted in the wrong forum or something.

So basically I am interested in attending an undergrad business school and plan on majoring in either marketing or business management/administration. The problem is, not many of my classes so far during high school (I’m currently a junior) have been related to business and are instead focused on mostly core subjects and language.

Do good undergrad business schools only look at applicants that have a strong business emphasis in high school (in terms of classes and clubs), or are they open to other extra-cirriculars such as lots of volunteering and that type of thing?

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No–most high schools have no business offerings (unless you count AP Econ or sth like that).

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Well my high school is very large and has a whole department devoted to just business related classes (Marketing, Advertising, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Fashion Merchandising, etc.). Would the college I want to apply to be able to see the classes that my high school offers or no?

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Employers consistently complain that new hires cannot write well, speak well in public, think critically, or work effectively in teams. B-schools are getting this message.

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Some undergrad business schools will look closely at your math curriculum and like to see that you have taken calculus

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Some undergrad business schools will look closely at your math curriculum and like to see that you have taken calculus

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So with the below info about myself, would I be able to get into a somewhat good b-school such as Carlson School of Management, University of Washington, and Babson College?

3.45 uw gpa, and a 3.55 w gpa (I know this is fairly low but I’m hoping to raise it to atleast a 3.6 uw by graduation)

ACT: 31 New SAT: taking it this spring but based off of my PSAT score, I’m expected to get about a 1420/1600

Extra-cirriculars:

-I am also currently doing consumer behavior research at the Carlson School of Management with one of the professors there, and our research is likely to be published by mid-next year at most

-Board member for a volunteer club with over 800 students

-Business Professionals of America member (1st in Regions, 3rd in Regions, have gone to state twice for entrepreneurship event)

-Member of Junior Varsity Cross Country in my freshman year

-Volunteer at the North Memorial Medical Center (have worked in gift shop, oncology ward, and patient discharge)

-Member/volunteer at She’s the First, a non-profit organization that raises money for girls education in developing parts of the country

-I teach a senior citizen suffering from Parkinson’s basic computer skills and help him type up his memoirs (was featured as a ‘Standout Student’ in local news channel for this)

-Volunteer at the Hindu Temple of MN where I help out at the front desk

-Have received the Gold Presidential Service Award each year so far (required 250+ hours to receive this award; so far have a total of about 800 volunteer hours from freshman to junior year)

-Attended a business camp called Minnesota Business Venture at St. Cloud University over the summer in which students form “companies” and compete for the best business plan

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