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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>Based on all the data you provided, my choice would clearly be Ohio State Fisher College of Business given that she was directly admitted to the business school honors program with the scholarship money. It is a very good and well-respected business school. The building is state-of-art.</p>

<p>Michigan and Wisconsin are also very good business schools, but I wouldn’t take the risk of not being admitted at the end of her sophomore year.</p>

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<p>Has your daughter visited all these schools? Which one did she like best?</p>

<p>Honestly, all these are very good universities. Your daughter will be able to learn all she wants and needs at any of these schools. Her future success depends 99.9% on her and only 0.1% on the school. Her probability of success will depend much more on how she feels about the school, then on what the school has to offer.</p>

<p>You may send her to the best university in the world, and if she doesn’t like it, she will make the point in proving that you made a poor choice her. But if you let her choose the school herself, odds are she will put much more effort into her studies.</p>

<p>School choice is as much as about statistics, as it is about the “feel”. Of course, you shouldn’t send your daughter to a school that is obviously failing, but this is not the case of any of the universities you have listed. So let her decide based on some of the “subjective” criteria such as campus looks, how “nice” is the housing, where will some of her friends go, social life, surroundings. It will be her, not you, who will have to live (and survive) at this place over the next four years. It’s her choice.</p>