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Anonymous wrote:In state Va, business major. Annual costs below.

JMU honors college $32k
U South Carolina. Capstone scholar With merit, $37k
WM waitlist, NOVA this fall/ guaranteed spring admit. $42k
Indiana Kelley direct admit. $57k
Pitt Dietrich direct admit, no merit $55k.

Pitt, get good grades, transfer to UVA or William and Mary.

why would you have him pick almsot the most expensive option? Pick from JMU, USC, Indiana whichever felt best after visiting.

In case he can't transfer and is at Pitt...it is the best of the lot other than William and Mary.

Pitt is better than IU Kelley?

For undergrad, yes. I know a kid from the Gym there now at Pitt doing business. He got money but he turned down Gtown, GW, and W&M for it.

With all due respect, I don’t believe that’s the right question. I would expect there to be differing opinions - and variations in rankings (that we pay too much attention to, and don’t often even know how they are determined). And “business” covers a lot of different majors and specialties. Where will your student enjoy living? Size of school? Is student more excited about one or the other? Visit if you can - nothing like walking the campus while students are there. Good luck!

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Anonymous wrote:University of Miami Herbert Finance

University of Richmond Business

Fordham Gabelli Finance

Live in New York Metropolitan Area

Hmm tough if going to be in NYC after grad. Miami is up and coming but would do Fordham for alumni connections.

Totally agree with you.
I do feel Fordham is not ranked well recently. Personally I prefer to Richmond, but I just do not know which is better regarded in the business world between Richmond and Miami.
I immigrated to US about 10 year ago, and this is my only son which will go to college this year. I do not know much about colleges in the US.

Does your child speak Spanish or have any ties to Latin American culture? That is definitely a big part of Miami if he wishes to stay in that area after graduation.

Fordham Gabelli is well-regarded and has name recognition, plus NYC business ties are invaluable.

Richmond is a much smaller city (and has some Southern culture to it) so just a very different feel from NYC or Miami. But, it’s not a bad place to go to college!

UMBC
UMD/Honors College
Case Western
Pitt/Honors College
Emory/Oxford

Math major, likely double major with a social science
Values the scholarship and learning above all. Wants to be among smart people really interested in learning. Doesn’t care about frats or social atmosphere, doesn’t care about sports. Wants a diverse campus.

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Anonymous wrote:University of Miami Herbert Finance

University of Richmond Business

Fordham Gabelli Finance

Live in New York Metropolitan Area

Hmm tough if going to be in NYC after grad. Miami is up and coming but would do Fordham for alumni connections.

Totally agree with you.
I do feel Fordham is not ranked well recently. Personally I prefer to Richmond, but I just do not know which is better regarded in the business world between Richmond and Miami.
I immigrated to US about 10 year ago, and this is my only son which will go to college this year. I do not know much about colleges in the US.

Working in the corporate world for large companies in the DC area, I have never heard of anyone from either business school being hired locally in the DC area. I would say Miami because it has a bigger alumni network, probably has more connections/alumni in business in NYC. My gut says both probably stay locally though. Call career services at each school and ask about placement in NYC. I would speak to alumni of each school if you can find them on LinkedIn. Most folks pretty responsiveness. And I mean your son speaks to them not you.

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Anonymous wrote:In state Va, business major. Annual costs below.

JMU honors college $32k
U South Carolina. Capstone scholar With merit, $37k
WM waitlist, NOVA this fall/ guaranteed spring admit. $42k
Indiana Kelley direct admit. $57k
Pitt Dietrich direct admit, no merit $55k.

Pitt, get good grades, transfer to UVA or William and Mary.

why would you have him pick almsot the most expensive option? Pick from JMU, USC, Indiana whichever felt best after visiting.

In case he can't transfer and is at Pitt...it is the best of the lot other than William and Mary.

Pitt is better than IU Kelley?

Anonymous wrote:Brown
Duke
Penn

undecided--probably social science--major, no financial aid

Brown!!

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Anonymous wrote:Cornell
Williams
Rice
UCLA
Cal

Math/Applied math
No financial considerations

This is a nice problem to have.

Williams will have the weakest Math/Applied Math program. Would choose Rice or Cornell over the UCs. Both UCLA and Berkeley have classes with more than 1500 students. They're fine for grad school, but undergrads are just cogs in the machine. Much better educational experience at Rice or Cornell.

! Somebody apparently unfamiliar with Williams. Order would be Williams, Rice, Cornell, UCLA, Cal...

Totally agree that Williams is the obvious choice, unless they want to work on the west coast (UCLA and Cal) or hang with gear heads (Rice and Cornell).

Williams all the way. My boss was a math major there and he loved his experience and is the smartest and most dynamic person I've worked with.

Williams is a completely different experience than the others. There are smart and accomplished graduates of all these schools, but Williams is tiny and quite remote and cold/gloomy during the Winter. Just make sure that is the college experience you want (which some very much do).

Anonymous wrote:DD science with a STRONG music component, the options are:

Carnegie Mellon (BXA, loves both music mentors)
Boston U. (12k merit annually, loves 1 of the music mentors)
UMD (in state full merit tuition annually + FIRE program, loves 1 of the music mentors)

Kid values social aspect (wants to have fun as well), I value $ and closeness to home, would like to not be impressed with the name of the school (is that possible???

BU but it is a very urban campus. UMD I believe is a very spaced out campus in several locations?

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Anonymous wrote:In state Va, business major. Annual costs below.

JMU honors college $32k
U South Carolina. Capstone scholar With merit, $37k
WM waitlist, NOVA this fall/ guaranteed spring admit. $42k
Indiana Kelley direct admit. $57k
Pitt Dietrich direct admit, no merit $55k.

Pitt, get good grades, transfer to UVA or William and Mary.

why would you have him pick almsot the most expensive option? Pick from JMU, USC, Indiana whichever felt best after visiting.

In case he can't transfer and is at Pitt...it is the best of the lot other than William and Mary.

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Anonymous wrote:University of Miami Herbert Finance

University of Richmond Business

Fordham Gabelli Finance

Live in New York Metropolitan Area

Hmm tough if going to be in NYC after grad. Miami is up and coming but would do Fordham for alumni connections.

Totally agree with you.
I do feel Fordham is not ranked well recently. Personally I prefer to Richmond, but I just do not know which is better regarded in the business world between Richmond and Miami.
I immigrated to US about 10 year ago, and this is my only son which will go to college this year. I do not know much about colleges in the US.

Anonymous wrote:Northeastern or VTech

Northeastern for sure - Boston is a great college town and Northeastern is very hard to get into congrats (not saying Vtech isn't)

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Anonymous wrote:Cornell
Williams
Rice
UCLA
Cal

Math/Applied math
No financial considerations

These schools are quite varied in size and geography. If $ not a factor, have student pick too 3 and visit or re-visit.

Cal (Berkeley)

Anonymous wrote:In state Va, business major. Annual costs below.

JMU honors college $32k
U South Carolina. Capstone scholar With merit, $37k
WM waitlist, NOVA this fall/ guaranteed spring admit. $42k
Indiana Kelley direct admit. $57k
Pitt Dietrich direct admit, no merit $55k.

Thank you for being the one person to finally post annual costs for each school, which is the only way to do a proper comparison!

Between the cheaper options, I’d lean towards USC (if student okay with big school and Southern/Greek culture). IU Kelley definitely has the prestige and name recognition for business and Pitt also a very solid option.

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Anonymous wrote:In state Va, business major. Annual costs below.

JMU honors college $32k
U South Carolina. Capstone scholar With merit, $37k
WM waitlist, NOVA this fall/ guaranteed spring admit. $42k
Indiana Kelley direct admit. $57k
Pitt Dietrich direct admit, no merit $55k.

Pitt, get good grades, transfer to UVA or William and Mary.

why would you have him pick almsot the most expensive option? Pick from JMU, USC, Indiana whichever felt best after visiting.