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01/20/2025 21:15

Subject: Lessons learned so far: 2024-2025

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Anonymous wrote:Kind of an edge case—but when looking at undergrad business programs, it's very important to consider whether students are accepted into and matriculate as freshmen directly into the business school.

In my experience, many students and parents don’t understand this, and our private school counselors also failed to mention it as a major consideration. My concern was: what if DC gets sick, has a bad freshman semester, etc., but chose the school based on the business major—then ends up getting rejected from the B-school and is forced to choose another major? UGA Terry was one of those schools. Great B-school, but only a 40% acceptance rate. DC just wasn’t really willing to roll the dice with other great options where they matriculated as an incoming freshman. Now a happy freshman already taking core classes in a great undergrad business school!

This applies to all majors. There are plenty of great schools, where 99% of the majors are open TO ANYONE. None of this direct admit or you will never get in to engineering/CS/business/STEm majors. Choose wisely. Given that many kids do switch majors, much easier to be at a school where they can easily do this.
Given that many who switch out of Engineering (Because it's too hard/not their thing) go to Business majors, but that needs to be a viable option at their school.

The Your College Bound Kid podcast recently had an episode on how different schools deal with majors: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-college-bound-kid-admission-tips-admission-trends/id1349060136?i=1000682820473

So, I just listened to this. Is it my imagination or did he not finish the quote from the VT AO? Starting around 37:08. "So here's the quote: 'Here at Virginia Tech, you're going to hear me talk a lot about major specifically. The reason I say that is because major specifically is very important here at Virginia Tech.' Now don't miss this line. This is probably one of the key points I want you to take away after today. Now don't miss the final line. And if you take anything away, it should be this. So hopefully you found this helpful...etc."

I thought he was winding up to tell us the final line. It felt awkward after that. Was the final line edited out? Or was the final line simply that major is very important at VT?

You have to listen to his tone changes. this is the quote:

Here at Virginia Tech, you're going to hear me talk a lot about major specifically. The reason I say that is because major is very important here at Virginia Tech. This is probably one of the key points I want you to take away after today. And if you take anything away, it should be this.

(that is, the parts about not missing the line are YCBK guy and the rest is the quote. And then the hopefully you found this helpful is the guy again.