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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You typically can’t get into an MBA program without work experience. Your kid should go to the career center and network with alumni on linked in. Can your kid take a few stats and math classes? That will help. [/quote]

This is OP. DS did go to career services this past semester, and they encouraged him to apply for the types of internships I noted above, which he has done/is doing, but the timelines seem later or more vague on those so he doesn't expect to hear from any until some time in second semester.

When you say he should take some econ and math classes, which ones do you mean? DS took macro and micro his freshman year, didn't like either enough to want to pursue econ. (Btw, his friends who are econ majors didn't seem to like the micro/macro classes any more than DS did, they just slogged onward because they knew they wanted to "be" econ majors and get jobs in finance.) DS received ap credit though Calc 2 when he entered college, what other math classes would you encourage him to take? I don't think his college has accounting classes. I'm not sure what the point of taking linear algebra, etc would be - would he really use those in an MBA program? He also got credit for basic stats from his hs ap class, but would taking econ stat help with applying to (or succeeding in) an MBA program eventually?

The poster who said that DS has no idea what he wants to do is entirely correct. And I don't know if he actually will apply to MBA programs in the future (and he knows he wouldn't be applying until he has some work experience). But he doesn't think nor does his career center think he's a candidate for the rare finance jobs that recruit at his school, as many of the econ majors pursue those. DS has gotten to the point that he wants to feel some job and salary security like many of his stem-major friends are starting to, and he has also expressed that those same friends don't seem to "want" to do the jobs any more or less than he does, they just focused earlier on in college on pursuing majors that led to well paying jobs. Shame on us his parents for encourging him to pursue studying what he's actually interested in  :roll: . [/quote]

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