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<p>My D has been accepted to some wonderful colleges and now is time to pick one!
A little bit about my D-Her goal is to go in to corporate law at a Fortune 500 company with a back up plan of working for a Fortune 500 company in Marketing or Management if she ultimately changes her mind about law. She has done well in a competitive Public HS with competitive grades and pedestrian SAT's for all the colleges listed. She will have taken 8 AP courses, strong leadership activity (Editor in Chief of Yearbook and other things), is mature for her age, a hard worker, creative, good writer and decent in Math (B's unweighted/A weighted in honors PreCalcand AP Statistics.</p>

<p>We will have visited all of the colleges before she makes her choice but for this exercise lets assume that she can fit culturally in any of them and that we are willing to pay tuition for whichever one she chooses.</p>

<p>Here are her options:</p>

<p>U Mich-USNWR Overall rank 28, B School rank 3, WSJ Corporate Recruiter overall rank 6 and for Business 1 (obviously the best school with the others one notch below but is it the best one for her?)
D did not get in to Ross direct, will have to apply for sophomore year (about 37% get admitted), daughter is in low end of 25/75% admitted student profile. </p>

<p>Ohio State-USNWR 55, B School 14, WSJ CR 12/Business ranked 2
Direct Admit to B School, honors program and Scholarship $ that will bring tuition below instate Cali costs.</p>

<p>U Wisconsin-USNWR 42, B School 14, WSJ CR 16/not ranked for Business but ranked 5 for Management
Direct Admit L&S honors program but will have to apply to B school while at Wisconsin (60% admitted)</p>

<p>U Florida-USNWR 58, B School 28, WSJ CR 9/Business ranked 23
Direct Admit to B School and honors program</p>

<p>U Wash-USNWR 42, B School 20, WSJ CR overall not ranked but ranked 18 for business
Will have to apply to B school while at U Wash (50% admitted)</p>

<p>So which one do you think and why? Please keep the thread focused on the topic and it will be very helpful to my D as we go through the process.I will post this on the forum for each college on this list.</p>

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<p>I doubt many people here have the ability to compare the schools for you, but I bet a decent number can tell you about the program at the UW. Yet, most are likely unwilling to help you given that you have summarized schools in the least flattering of ways: rankings.</p>

<p>I’ll try to ignore you’re unflattering phrasing and jump to the point. </p>

<p>UW has a very good business school. If your daughter is a very good student she will get into the program and she will likely succeed here.</p>

<p>If your daughter is pretty good student, send her elsewhere: the admissions processes of competitive majors at the UW are incredibly unforgiving, and the non-competitive are not as nearly strong as the competitive ones, leaving a weak fallback.</p>

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<p>I would tell her to go to Ohio State. That’s just me though. If she got DA to the business school then do it.</p>

<p>I will say this though, Michigan, Wisconsin and Florida are pretty rough for the weather. Columbus, Ohio, can get rough but UW is by far the best weather.</p>

<p>I would also wonder, if I were her father, what sort of business she wants to do. If she wants to work in international law/business in the latin world, Florida would presumptively have the best opportunities while UW has wonderful connections to Japan and Hong Kong.</p>

<p>Does your D like Football? If so, she’ll be here for Sark’s first national championship. ;-)</p>