Help with a rising junior's academic profile

[Anonymous]

Don’t apply to business. She does not have a business application and it would require doing a lot of things between now and next fall.

Apply for an arts and sciences major so it’s easy to pivot to economics.

Lean into the things that make you different. don’t try to be a finance bro.

The things that look different here are the French and the literary /poetry stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t apply to business. She does not have a business application and it would require doing a lot of things between now and next fall.

Apply for an arts and sciences major so it’s easy to pivot to economics.

Lean into the things that make you different. don’t try to be a finance bro.

The things that look different here are the French and the literary /poetry stuff.

Apply to Kelly and other lower-ranking schools as a biz major; apply to the reach schools as another major.

[Anonymous]

Apply to Kelley for business. They are clamping down on transfers from other majors. If you are not admitted business or prebusiness you are shut out besides a business minor.

It will be interesting to see admission rates after their first year of holistic admission.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apply to Kelley for business. They are clamping down on transfers from other majors. If you are not admitted business or prebusiness you are shut out besides a business minor.

It will be interesting to see admission rates after their first year of holistic admission.

Very well said. Always apply to top business schools to have the recruiting access, brand halo, like-minded folks and practical skill building/real world application available to you at once, and double major or minor in an interest to be well rounded.

And they just finished the first cycle of holistic admissions for the class of 2030. 2000 direct admit seats, assuming 25% yield, given 33,300 applicants = ~24%. Far cry from pre-covid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apply to Kelley for business. They are clamping down on transfers from other majors. If you are not admitted business or prebusiness you are shut out besides a business minor.

It will be interesting to see admission rates after their first year of holistic admission.

Very well said. Always apply to top business schools to have the recruiting access, brand halo, like-minded folks and practical skill building/real world application available to you at once, and double major or minor in an interest to be well rounded.

And they just finished the first cycle of holistic admissions for the class of 2030. 2000 direct admit seats, assuming 25% yield, given 33,300 applicants = ~24%. Far cry from pre-covid.

I think a business degree is garbage...pure vocational Excel crap. The networking is good, but for a kid who wants access to interest liberal arts classes, its hell.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apply to Kelley for business. They are clamping down on transfers from other majors. If you are not admitted business or prebusiness you are shut out besides a business minor.

It will be interesting to see admission rates after their first year of holistic admission.

Very well said. Always apply to top business schools to have the recruiting access, brand halo, like-minded folks and practical skill building/real world application available to you at once, and double major or minor in an interest to be well rounded.

And they just finished the first cycle of holistic admissions for the class of 2030. 2000 direct admit seats, assuming 25% yield, given 33,300 applicants = ~24%. Far cry from pre-covid.

I think a business degree is garbage...pure vocational Excel crap. The networking is good, but for a kid who wants access to interest liberal arts classes, its hell.

I personally have an opposing view. Business degrees, by nature of the core curriculum, force you to take liberal arts Gen Eds in various schools on campus.

[Anonymous]

The profile is weak. Top rigor in math alone will not play well in the eyes of T20s.
The ECs are generic as well.
The SAT is ok but not in range for the too scjools

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apply to Kelley for business. They are clamping down on transfers from other majors. If you are not admitted business or prebusiness you are shut out besides a business minor.

It will be interesting to see admission rates after their first year of holistic admission.

Very well said. Always apply to top business schools to have the recruiting access, brand halo, like-minded folks and practical skill building/real world application available to you at once, and double major or minor in an interest to be well rounded.

And they just finished the first cycle of holistic admissions for the class of 2030. 2000 direct admit seats, assuming 25% yield, given 33,300 applicants = ~24%. Far cry from pre-covid.

I think a business degree is garbage...pure vocational Excel crap. The networking is good, but for a kid who wants access to interest liberal arts classes, its hell.

I personally have an opposing view. Business degrees, by nature of the core curriculum, force you to take liberal arts Gen Eds in various schools on campus.

A gen ed is the worst way to get exposure to real liberal arts classes: remember your intro to sociology class?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Marketing is a "business" major - it is the toughest major to be admitted to other than STEM/CS. Beware.

Look at these profiles - pivot fast from business/marketing if you can.

https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/1lf88w0/rejectionfilled_applicant_clutches_a_solid/

https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/1slnoki/white_girl_majoring_in_finance_targetmaxxes/

https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/1co64cf/conflicted_business_major_lowkey_disappointing/

Marketing can be a great career, a student just has to be disciplined about:

a) picking the right branch of marketing long term (e.g. growth, product, content, brand, research and insights, strategic planning)

b) their industry (is it B2B SaaS, healthcare, CPG, etc.)

c) choosing their summer internships - it’s not like finance where there’s a clear ladder so you have to be very intentional about your sophomore and especially junior summers since the latter becomes your full time offer and you don’t have to ee-recruit senior fall

d) networking - lower percentages of business students are going for it or majoring in it, and it’s not like the big banks coming to campuses en masse, so resources are hidden and alumni lists are smaller

and e) intentional movement - marketing is low paying at first but can get very comfortable, so it’s easy to solve for stability. Moving towards the managerial and top levels requires effort.

With AI creating so much slop out there, marketing will become more popular because taste and judgment are the differentiators. People who can take all of the messy inputs, pick what’s important, and create a clear revenue-driving narrative will be winners, especially as IB/MBB roles contract (most folks start in the latter then move to marketing) and not everyone is technical enough to do SWE/Product or have the desire to grind through law/med school.