Wisconsin does, if you’re talking Madison. So many grad school programs are very highly rated in usnews. So even though undergrad numbers aren’t like Cal’s, say, it is overall a prestigious school. No dog in the fight, but I have a couple friends who went there.

" Unless DC is an A student with some sort of business experience, don't let him apply to Wisconsin as an out of state student directly to the business school. Apply to L&S and transfer over.

Horrible advice."

Not horrible advice, this advice will increase a student's chances of getting a business degree from Wisconsin, Slightly.

However, as someone else said, most people are more comfortable being directly admitted and having a straight path to graduation.

To make up numbers, the straight path might offer a 50% chance of admission to business and a 90% chance of graduation once enrolled. That is a 45% chance of completing the path.

The advice might offer a 70% chance of admission to LS an 80% chance of transfer to business and a 95% chance of graduation once enrolled. That is a 53% chance of completing the path.

The problem is that many see the group that get into LS but not business as having a big problem.

But really most of this group would never have been accepted to business straight away and this is the way they can build themselves a second chance.

My only advice is to look at each school regarding their business school admission policy. For example, at Penn State, you apply to the B school after your sophomore year. Need a good GPA, etc.

Anonymous wrote:Unless DC is an A student with some sort of business experience, don't let him apply to Wisconsin as an out of state student directly to the business school. Apply to L&S and transfer over.

Horrible advice.

Wisconsin is pretty good. Avoid Penn State it's famous for the worst reasons.

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Anonymous wrote:Unless DC is an A student with some sort of business experience, don't let him apply to Wisconsin as an out of state student directly to the business school. Apply to L&S and transfer over.

Why is that? I was under the impression that being a direct admit to the business school is the way to about applying . Sometimes it is close to impossible to transfer into the business school.

Talk to your college guidance advisor, but for a school like UW, applying from out of state directly is almost impossible to gain admittance.

The problem sometimes is that you end up not being able to transfer into say your program of choice, you might not be able to graduate with the degree you wanted to get in the first place. Pointless ! Wisconsin or any of these schools are expensive to begin with especially as an OOS. The better choice would be to attend a school with admittance into the desired program. Also not everyone wants to go into Business to study Finance. Lots of options with a Business Degree.

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Anonymous wrote:Unless DC is an A student with some sort of business experience, don't let him apply to Wisconsin as an out of state student directly to the business school. Apply to L&S and transfer over.

Why is that? I was under the impression that being a direct admit to the business school is the way to about applying . Sometimes it is close to impossible to transfer into the business school.

Talk to your college guidance advisor, but for a school like UW, applying from out of state directly is almost impossible to gain admittance.

Anonymous wrote:Unless DC is an A student with some sort of business experience, don't let him apply to Wisconsin as an out of state student directly to the business school. Apply to L&S and transfer over.

Why is that? I was under the impression that being a direct admit to the business school is the way to about applying . Sometimes it is close to impossible to transfer into the business school.

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Anonymous wrote:Undergrad business majors aren't viewed positively by anybody that matters....they're akin to a trade school degree. And of that list I'd say that VT and UW are the most well regarded but far from prestigious. Your son has solid credentials.....if he is seeking more prestigious schools I'd encourage him to look at colleges that used to be referred to as Di-AA......bucknell, lehigh, colgate, lafayette, etc. Those will at least get him into the ballpark.

NYU Stern is probably the top WS feeder....Michigan Ross, Texas McCombs, Berkeley Haas, UNC Flagler, etc. all do very, very well with placement to elite firms.

Those are all clown colleges. Bulge bracket will always prefer a social science major from williams over a trade school loser from XYZ.

Said no one ever.

+1 Williams's contribution to finance amounts to next to nothing. Look at any of the charts on Wall Street Oasis- they even have per capita analytics- and Williams never shows up.

Unless DC is an A student with some sort of business experience, don't let him apply to Wisconsin as an out of state student directly to the business school. Apply to L&S and transfer over.

Anonymous wrote:Undergrad business majors aren't viewed positively by anybody that matters....they're akin to a trade school degree. And of that list I'd say that VT and UW are the most well regarded but far from prestigious. Your son has solid credentials.....if he is seeking more prestigious schools I'd encourage him to look at colleges that used to be referred to as Di-AA......bucknell, lehigh, colgate, lafayette, etc. Those will at least get him into the ballpark.

Tell that to the GU, UVa, Cal, Michigan, Texas, Indiana, Nyu b-school kids making $115,000 their first year out of college at investment banks.

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Anonymous wrote:Undergrad business majors aren't viewed positively by anybody that matters....they're akin to a trade school degree. And of that list I'd say that VT and UW are the most well regarded but far from prestigious. Your son has solid credentials.....if he is seeking more prestigious schools I'd encourage him to look at colleges that used to be referred to as Di-AA......bucknell, lehigh, colgate, lafayette, etc. Those will at least get him into the ballpark.

NYU Stern is probably the top WS feeder....Michigan Ross, Texas McCombs, Berkeley Haas, UNC Flagler, etc. all do very, very well with placement to elite firms.

Those are all clown colleges. Bulge bracket will always prefer a social science major from williams over a trade school loser from XYZ.

Said no one ever.

What is your DC's GPA? The average at VT for class of 2022 ranges between 4.15 and 4.22 depending upon reporting service.

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Anonymous wrote:Undergrad business majors aren't viewed positively by anybody that matters....they're akin to a trade school degree. And of that list I'd say that VT and UW are the most well regarded but far from prestigious. Your son has solid credentials.....if he is seeking more prestigious schools I'd encourage him to look at colleges that used to be referred to as Di-AA......bucknell, lehigh, colgate, lafayette, etc. Those will at least get him into the ballpark.

NYU Stern is probably the top WS feeder....Michigan Ross, Texas McCombs, Berkeley Haas, UNC Flagler, etc. all do very, very well with placement to elite firms.

Those are all clown colleges. Bulge bracket will always prefer a social science major from williams over a trade school loser from XYZ.

And that my friends is why I wouldn't want any of my kids to go into Finance. Smartest kids in the room until they're not. Was it one of your Williams buddies that helped blow up the economy in 2008 - perhaps you should have hired some of those trade school losers instead. If you knuckleheads in Finance were only half as smart as you thought you were we'd all be better off. And the Wall Streeters I know - everything's a trade so they're always looking for an angle or just straight up cheat. And speaking of clowns - we will all be better off when technology displaces you clowns. It's coming. And you think you are going to hang out a shingle and get 2/20 - think again. Our country would be so much better off without your lot.

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Anonymous wrote:Undergrad business majors aren't viewed positively by anybody that matters....they're akin to a trade school degree. And of that list I'd say that VT and UW are the most well regarded but far from prestigious. Your son has solid credentials.....if he is seeking more prestigious schools I'd encourage him to look at colleges that used to be referred to as Di-AA......bucknell, lehigh, colgate, lafayette, etc. Those will at least get him into the ballpark.

NYU Stern is probably the top WS feeder....Michigan Ross, Texas McCombs, Berkeley Haas, UNC Flagler, etc. all do very, very well with placement to elite firms.

Those are all clown colleges. Bulge bracket will always prefer a social science major from williams over a trade school loser from XYZ.