Which college should he choose?

[nyholdem]

Hi All.... My son is a High School senior and is currently applying to many colleges. He has good grades 97 avg. and about a 1350 SAT. He is interested in Business and Finance but that changes monthly lol. His strengths in school subjects are math and science. He is very into sports and has played 3 sports in HS. He has mostly applied so far to larger universities such as, Michigan, Wisconsin, Maryland, Boston, etc.

Please give me your insight about these schools and any others large or small that may help him. I am relying on your experiences on schools you attended or currently attend.

Thanks

[miajag81]

I went to Maryland. They have a highly respected business school FWIW. I wasn't in it though, so I couldn't really give much detail.

[canis582]

Michigan. Make sure he goes to a big school with at least 10k students or a state school. Even if he goes to Party U, all he has to do is get into a good grad school and he is set.

[SackUp]

I went to Pomona College of the Claremont Colleges in California.

Yout cannot beat the education, he would be able to play a varsity sport, and he gets to live in Southern California. Also, their acceptance rate into grad school is off the charts.

sounds like hes pretty smart. I would go wherever he can get the best scholarship, cause college is freakin expensive. I had a full scholarship and still ended up 18 grand in debt somehow. I guess I'm too lazy to work a real job and go to school at the same time. But have your kid look into as many scholarships as possible, and have someone knowledgeable review his applications. Best of luck

[4_2_it]

Well, if he wants to play college varsity athletics, either he will get a full ride at a large school or need to go to a smaller school. Any thoughts of sending him to a Princeton, Penn or Dartmouth. Bucknell is also very good. My cousin went there and has a great career on Wall Street right now.

[jnalpak]

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Hi All.... My son is a High School senior and is currently applying to many colleges. He has good grades 97 avg. and about a 1350 SAT. He is interested in Business and Finance but that changes monthly lol. His strengths in school subjects are math and science. He is very into sports and has played 3 sports in HS. He has mostly applied so far to larger universities such as, Michigan, Wisconsin, Maryland, Boston, etc.

Please give me your insight about these schools and any others large or small that may help him. I am relying on your experiences on schools you attended or currently attend.

Thanks

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if he (you) are serious about b-school for him undergraduate look into applying INTO the programs before he gets there..

Michigan - great b school for undergrads but highly competitive before you get in and after. once you are a freshmen you have to make up your mind rather quickly and must keep your grade at a A level to get in

Maryland - if your from NY its just a glorified SUNY schools for kids in NY to get away to and just be with other NY'ers especially from LI and NYC

Boston - GREAT TOWN and great school, same thing said about the b-school.

Wisco - if he has is legit about his schooling
DONT GO TO WISCO, a glorified party school and COLD

If its possible the best thing is WARM WEATHER AND A GOOD SCHOOL

the rest will fall in place [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
Good luck


BTW, this is all of memory from 10years ago but im sure it hasnt changed much.

[ddollevoet]

I went to Wisconsin. I agree with a previous poster (even though he went to Michigan). Make sure he goes to a big school. Anything the Big Ten will suffice. Job hunting is a lot easier when you go to a school that everyone has heard about.

Wisconsin and Michigan are both fine choices, if he can endure the winters.

[JordanIB]

Bottom line is whatever school your son goes to (and it'll be a good one with those grades and scores), he will be absolutely fine, because any of those schools will have great alumni and job networks, as well as great on-campus job recruitment.

I can't speak to other schools, so I'll put my $0.02 in on my alma mater, Cornell. I had the same business and finance interests and graduated from their undegrad business program (now the 2nd accredited undegrad business program in the Ivy league, along with Wharton). Solid well-rounded program that doesn't pigeon-hole you into any one aspect of business, so you can pick and choose to put your own program together.

It certainly fits the trend of larger universities.

His interests are constantly changing, which is absolutely fine at a place like Cornell where you can pretty much study anything and take classes in anything. I value my time in Science & Crime, Intro to Bible, Wines, and Pscych & Law as much as -- if not more that -- my time in business classes.

Finally, if cost is an issue at all, being in NY, if your son chooses the business program (or anything within the 3 state-funded schools), you're getting the same education that other people are paying through the nose for at a $10,000/year discount. (And you can still take whatever you want in whatever school or subject you want, just like everyone else.)

As for sports, there's likely a high bar for playing on the varsity teams -- it couldn't hurt to contact the coaches and inquire about those sports -- but there's a wide variety of club teams available (and intramurals).

Good luck...

My overall advice is don't fret too much over the entire application process and decision on where to go. Like I said at the start, any of your kid's options are gonna be great ones.

[asofel]

wow...I don't think I've ever seen 100% of the replies be serious...i find myself almost wanting to shout SIIHP!!11ELEVEN just to bring things back to normal....


But with regards to schools, people have touched on the important stuff. My college experience was fun, but I owe a lot of money on it, and it doesn't matter so much given my line of work (computers/programming). Visit as many as you can and go by feel and atmosphere, scholarship, and location. As long as its a good school he'll do fine with jobs, etc.