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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How crucial is it to go to a solid undergrad business school for a kid who wants to work in marketing?  Due to a variety of factors, DS probably won't be going to a school much better than say, JMU.[/quote]

1. Narrow a list of schools that your child can get into and wants to go to.

2. Check out linkedin to find alums of said schools that work in Marketing roles that your child wants to. Does DC want to work at an agency like Ogilvy, WPP, omnicom, publicis? or a market research/strategy place like glover park group, penn schoen berland? Or a large market data place like Nielsen, IRI, GfK? Or Marketing in industry for a company like P&G, nestle, fashion brand, car brand, nike, etc? Or ad sales/placement in technololgy: FB, GOOG, MSFT, Twitter, etc.

3. Once your child finds people on linkedin that are alums from interested schools,  email them (pretty easy to figure out corp email addresses), and have your child ask them for advice. You would be surprised how helpful pepole are - especially those higher up. It never hurts to email and ask.

4. Go to school which you can get into that seems to have the best success rate at placing grads in the field or group of companies. I would also suggest your child major or minor in something quantitative along with marketing/business because that's what'll help separate them from the rest of the hordes of applicants - especially if you end up going to a school that doesn't have super strong linkages to to marketing jobs like Northwestern or Wharton.[/quote]

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