<p>im a freshmen at Colby College (top20 LAC)
finished 1st semester with 3.93 GPA<br>
found out that my interests are strictly business which liberal arts colleges do not offer.</p>
<p>College EC: rugby, ccf, asian club</p>
<p>Highschool: 94.5/100 GPA, 1420 SAT, no SAT2s, two 5 APs. eurohist, calc AB.
Highschool EC: model UN, young democrats, leadership clb at church, and etc..</p>
<p>I was wondering about my chances at top business schools... ive applied as high school student and was rejected.
my questions:
1. What is the best recommendation you can provide me if i wanted to get in to schools like wharton, stern and etc..<br>
2. What are the good business schools and where should i apply to?<br>
3. What kind of things that i could do that could help me increase my chances? thanks alot!!</p>
<p>You have to make sure that you are eligible first. Check those schools, I'm sure they have a couple of eco/calc prerequisites and without those, you have a very little chance. </p>
<p>There are a lot of good business schools, but you should give us more information on what you want from a college. I don't really believe too much in rankings (although theyre good to get an idea from), I think it was something like this:
UPenn
MIT
UC Berkeley
UMich
UVA
UNC - Chapel Hill
NYU
UTexas - Austin
UWisconsin - Madison</p>
<p>And it goes on. You have very good stats so I'd aim high if I were you, but your almost nothing without completing the requirements. In order to increase your chances, I'd focus on getting an A in calc and economics classes.</p>
<p>I took Microeconomics and Multivariable Calculus (calculus 2) in my first semester college. I received A- from both classes (math was taught by one of the hardest teachers at colby and econ department at colby never gives out A+ or hardly A). I'm taking Macroeconomics right now. I find it is really hard to get a intership from school like Colby. Do you think going to business school will open a wider door for opportunities in business jobs?</p>
<p>What i want from my business education is real vocational (professional) learnings about business applications. I'd like to become an investment banker.</p>
<p>Studying business at a top undergrad business school will open a lot of doors for you, but you should also take into account that if you want to get an MBA, you should think of another major. Not to say that business majors don't get into top MBA programs, I think roughly 15-25% of accepted applicants were business majors, but that's a fairly low number, and as far as I know, it becomes even harder if you've graduated from a well known business college. You can find out more about this in other forums of collegeconfidential.
I think with those grades and GPA, you are pretty much set. good luck</p>
<p>...I don't think dartmouth brown and yale have business programs for undergrads...and I know UChicago doesn't. </p>
<p>If you are doing very good in college and your HS record wasn't that great, I'd apply sophmore year. Also, if you got a low SAT score, usually the further you are in college, the less important your SAT score would be. However, if you have a great SAT score and HS GPA and are doing good in college, you should apply freshman year. Keep in mind that most schools don't accept junior transfers, so if you decide to only apply as a sophmore, then you risk it because you don't have a shot at applying again if you are rejected. If you apply as a freshman, you can get in sooner, and if you get rejected you can just apply again later. </p>
<p>There are a lot of threads about spring vs fall, I suggest you search for them using the search tool.</p>
<p>"If you are doing very good in college and your HS record wasn't that great, I'd apply sophmore year. Also, if you got a low SAT score, usually the further you are in college, the less important your SAT score would be. However, if you have a great SAT score and HS GPA and are doing good in college, you should apply freshman year." </p>
<p>lol? his hs stats are right there stop talking hypothetically.</p>
<p>By the way concerning spring vs fall check with the individual colleges most will only accept fall transfers. I'd say you have a pretty good shot at those three colleges you mentioned. You should apply now, if you get in great. if you don't just apply next year. If colleges see imporvement or consistent effort I don't think they'd hold it against you that you have been rejected once already.</p>
<p>By the way I'm assuming you wan't to study econ not business because Dartmouth, Brown, and UChicago don't have business they have econ. But this isn't a problem for job opportunities. They are still recruited form as much as undergrad business schools</p>
<p>Good point, but I thought I'd also give him my reasoning and where I'm coming from rather than just saying 'apply now'. And also what I consider bad maybe good for him or whatever. </p>
<p>...ok you got me I forgot about his HS stats.</p>
<p>Apply now! Deadline for UPenn is March 15th, NYU and UChicago is April 1st! If you want to apply for those schools this year you should start NOW because you have to do all the transcript/rec stuff.</p>
<p>thanks alot!
I'm wondering my chances at Upenn, Mit and nyu stern and maybe columbia. can u guys give me what percentage i might have at these schools? what will be a safety for me? Thanks alot jacknjill, FrddyGV!!</p>
<p>Hmm good point.
I can't give percenteges but I'll give you an idea
UPenn: You have a good shot, you should apply. But it may get tricky if your applying to wharton...
MIT: Don't bother applying, they accept only a couple of ppl.
NYU Stern: Good shot
Columbia: Their transfer acceptance rate is about 9%, so I don't know, but you have good stuff so you can try and you might get in. </p>
<p>Easiest for you to get into: UPenn Wharton, NYU Stern, UPenn (anything but Wharton) , Columbia, MIT</p>
<p>jacknjill i'm not really understanding what you are saying... plz clarify.. but thanks ur so helpful...<br>
And equine i got A- on two 4credit classes and A+ on 5 credit class so i got 3.93.</p>
<p>Since you want to go to a business school you will applying to Wharton in UPenn, which is harder to get in to than the other colleges at UPenn. NYU Stern is pretty hard to get into and I'd say it's a little harder to transfer into than any part of UPenn besides Wharton, but I'm not sure about this.
Columbia has a lower acceptance rate than UPenn (in general) and NYU which is why it may be harder to get in. It's also a very hard school to get into in general, which is why I placed it second to last. I think MIT accepted like 5 transfer students in total, so it's REALLY hard to get in. You can always try, but I'd rather focus on my other applications where I'd have a higher chance.</p>
<p>o weird--the whole different classes counting differently and A+ thing confuses me :) I took 4 classes, got 3 A's and an A- and have a 3.91 (they don't give A+'s here), which is why I was so confused. sorry for the randomness</p>