EPTUndergrad business is not that well respected in the US (with the exception of a few schools), I'm not sure about Canada. If 150k is a lot of money for your family, I would recommend UT. I don't think the school you go to makes that big of a difference, and UT is an excellent school that has produced many outstanding graduates.
College Acceptance Thread '12 - Page 9
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StarDrive
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Undergrad business is not that well respected in the US (with the exception of a few schools), I'm not sure about Canada. If 150k is a lot of money for your family, I would recommend UT. I don't think the school you go to makes that big of a difference, and UT is an excellent school that has produced many outstanding graduates. | ||
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StarDrive
90 Posts
On March 30 2012 11:05 Froadac wrote: Rejected for engineering: Berkeley. Rejected (wtf): USC Rejected: Princeton USC is fairly competitive. IIRC their acceptance rate is around 25%. | ||
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nohbrows
United States653 Posts
UC San Diego UC Irvine Rejected: UC Berkeley (Applied for kicks anyways...) USC (Dream school. Wanted to go to Annenberg and all. T-T). Waitlisted: UCLA. English for UCLA and UC Berkley, communications or journalism for the rest. Planning on switching to computer science, since I only did communications because a) my math grades suck, b) Annenberg (USC) was a really strong journalism program, and I didn't get it. This year was really tough. Mind you I wasn't the perfect student, but I saw friends with straight As getting rejected from top schools. College acceptance in the US isn't a science. Never will be. Edit: On March 30 2012 15:16 StarDrive wrote: USC is fairly competitive. IIRC their acceptance rate is around 25%. Acceptance rate this year barely hit the 20% mark, IIRC. Colleges all around were just more competitive this year. | ||
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Monoxide
Canada1190 Posts
On March 30 2012 14:35 Panya wrote: Stern actually places just as good if not better than Columbia for finance jobs  . Dartmouth is also very strong, and Berkeley's Haas is just a straight up business management major I think. However, given your list, Columbia sounds like a good choice for you if you can afford it. We don't have a business major but if you're SEAS you can do Operations Research/Financial Engineering, and for CC you can do Financial Economics (or just economics) and we just got a business management concentration. While many people here at Columbia do do finance, it's definitely not the only thing that pays, and a lot of people choose other careers. Plenty of other fields pay well, such as medicine, (big) law, technology, etc. Even within finance IBD and S&T aren't your only options. If you can get into the buy side its actually better for your lifestyle and the pay is just as good. Prop trading is ridiculously lucrative. Some people also choose options such as corporate finance or asset management. There's plenty of opportunity for a business interested person here in NYC, especially as a Columbia grad. You could also choose to go to grad school for PhDs in quantitative science and become a quant if you're science-y, and general professors get paid plenty as well. Finance is obviously an issue but please look at the future opportunities going to a good school as well  . To be a Quant you pretty much have to have a PhD or a very specialized masters ie MFE. As for Toronto, it has a good commerce program, but I would say that the best in canada, especially for finance would be Ivey. Their network and connections make Toronto look amateur. For finance, location is very important imo. Picking a school in a city containing one of the world's largest financial centers is an unparalleled advantage. | ||
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Panya
United States44 Posts
On March 30 2012 15:14 StarDrive wrote: Undergrad business is not that well respected in the US (with the exception of a few schools), I'm not sure about Canada. If 150k is a lot of money for your family, I would recommend UT. I don't think the school you go to makes that big of a difference, and UT is an excellent school that has produced many outstanding graduates. It really depends on what you want to do. In finance its very useful to go to a "target school", (basically meaning a prestigious college that is sought after by recruiting events), as networks and landing internships would be a lot easier than a school that doesn't get recruited at. Some PhD level graduate school programs also take undergrad school into consideration. Top consulting firms are even more school-prestige oriented than banks. However it is true that in some fields they really don't care. As for the business major, it really doesn't matter what major you are as long as it's related to what you want to do and your school is good. I think any major can be respectable in its respective field from the top 10 schools. | ||
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ViP
Canada20 Posts
Harvard University University of Toronto University of Western Ontario McGill Waitlisted Cornell Dartmouth Rejected Yale University of Pennsylvania MIT Glad I will be able to attend a university that values doing research in the sciences! I want to study biochemistry or molecular engineering. | ||
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NoxiousNoodles
United Kingdom61 Posts
On March 30 2012 13:26 GloryOfAiur wrote: How hard would it be for me (a southern Californian) to apply to Oxford? Would getting into Stanford or Oxford be less demanding? Sorry if it is somewhat off-topic, but I am just curious. I applied to (and got into :D) Oxford this year. Admission rates vary of course from college to college and on course but for law it was around 17%. When I went for interviews though there was a tonne of Americans there and I'm pretty certain that they are flexible with arrival and leaving dates for foreigners if you get an interview. | ||
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Ephemerality
United States203 Posts
Gonna cost a ton though | ||
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Starkist
United States23 Posts
On March 30 2012 18:48 Ephemerality wrote: Gonna cost a ton though Harvey Mudd is so expensive. Did you get the 10k a year scholarship? | ||
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Jisall
United States2054 Posts
On March 29 2012 09:51 Froadac wrote: Previous years: Find 2011 here: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=204700 Find 2010 here: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=116308 Find 2009 here: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=89400 Hello. It came to my attention that most previous years have had threads detailing where individuals got accepted to school. Figured we might as well have a little fun this time around :D I got admitted to: University of Idaho University of Alabama UCR - Regents UCD UCSB UCSD Cal Poly Pomona San Jose State Northeastern University Not admitted: UCLA Rice My major is Computer Science at all of these schools. Come to Cal poly we get drunk all day ery day | ||
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Jisall
United States2054 Posts
On March 31 2012 04:16 Starkist wrote: Harvey Mudd is so expensive. Did you get the 10k a year scholarship? Go there if you can. That school has a liquer license. Your school gives your dorms money to buy kegs, and you throw mad ass parties. | ||
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Kelsier.
United States103 Posts
On a different note, I need to decide between Princeton and Stanford for physics PhD programs. . . | ||
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See.Blue
United States2673 Posts
On March 30 2012 15:12 StarDrive wrote: Both are hard. I think applying to Oxford would be harder logistically/administratively. If anyone has questions about Stanford, please feel free to PM me. On March 30 2012 16:40 NoxiousNoodles wrote: I applied to (and got into :D) Oxford this year. Admission rates vary of course from college to college and on course but for law it was around 17%. When I went for interviews though there was a tonne of Americans there and I'm pretty certain that they are flexible with arrival and leaving dates for foreigners if you get an interview. Glad to see some more Liquidians applying/going! If anyone here has any questions about Oxford life feel free to PM me. | ||
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57 Corvette
Canada5941 Posts
Niagara College - Construction Engineering Technology Niagara College - Civil Engineering Techician Niagara College - Game Development Mohawk College - Architecture Technology Mohawk College - Architecture Technician Rejected: None :D GL everyone else. Anyone else going to NC? | ||
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Monoxide
Canada1190 Posts
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SRHdave
United States7 Posts
MIT UCLA University of Texas@Austin Attending: Houston Community I go there because I was not serious about getting into any of those. I want to peruse my music career as a sound engineer. | ||
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McFeser
United States2458 Posts
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hjkim1304
Korea (South)105 Posts
University of Miami University of Michigan: Ann Arbor New York University Boston University waitlisted: Wash. U. at St. Louis rejected: USC Princeton U. Penn. Northwestern U. Chicago man I got rejected in lot of places T.T i'm so torn in choosing between New York and Ann Arbor.... | ||
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