I am trying to write the "Why Us" question. I plan to study business management, but I am having a hard time finding a successful formula for a good essay. Supposedly, the essay is one of the critical pieces. Do any of you who have already gone through this experience have any tips? Links? ------------------ Nederland 2002 Rocketman95 on board. Check out his latest game recaps.
I have a perfect essay you can use: "i want to go skool so i can be learned n stuff" ------------------ Ceo of the Walt Williams fan club. Web site coming soon atheistalliance.org
http://www.college-essays.com/essay.htm http://www.admissionsessays.com/ ------------------ When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox [This message has been edited by BobFinn* (edited December 17, 2000).]
and always mention KT. ------------------ Ceo of the Walt Williams fan club. Web site coming soon atheistalliance.org [This message has been edited by DEANBCURTIS (edited December 17, 2000).]
go to www.collegehumor.com click on texts on the left scroll down. you will see one called "best college essay ever" use that!!! ------------------ The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on my plate with just a little piece of meat. And if someone asks me why i didn't get more meat, ill just say, "Oh, you mean this?" and pull out a big piece of meat from inside the blob of potatoes, where ive hidden it. Good magic trick, huh?
How do you know what you want to study already?? ------------------ "There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them." Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)
Whoa, whoa, JayZ, let me make a comment here. I may be totally misinterpreting what you're saying, so if so, ignore me. It looks like you're asking Ace how/if he's sure he wants to study business management. I'm going to assume you think that it might be better for him to delay deciding on a field of study...? I did that. It's still the worst mistake I made in my entire life. I could have gotten into UT's business school out of high school-- I had the GPA and the boards for it. But, I thought, how do I know that business is right for me? Jeez, I don't want to turn into my old man. I think I want to be a writer. I think I'll study liberal arts for a while and then make up my mind!" I came to my senses in April of my freshman year. I had loaded up on the math and science portions of the liberal arts degree-- not to mention loading up on some other things-- and my GPA sunk like Stanley Roberts. I went to the business school's admissions advisor to ask what I had to do to transfer in. "Well," she said, smiling sweetly, "we start with the 4.0 GPAs and work our way down". In other words, tough luck. SO the point of all this, aside from the obvious lesson of actually applying yourself, is that you can always ditch business for liberal arts at a later date (one guy in the class I took this summer was a former petroleum engineer who'd gotten tired of it and just quit one day. Now he's a full time history major). But it's not as easy to forgo business for liberal arts initially and then switch in. Like I said, maybe this has nothing to do with what you meant. I just like to give this advice as often as possible because I really, really regret how ****ing stupid I was to pass up a UT School of Business degree.
Some people really do know what they want to do with their life straight out of high school. My Dad knew from about age four that he wanted to be a doctor. I've known other people who knew exactly what they wanted to do. But even if a person isn't entirely sure, it's not a totally bad idea to pick something that sounds interesting when one enters college. Even if you get partway into a degree before you realize it's not for you, you probably won't be wasting any time. Your basics are going to be mostly the same regardless of major and classes in your major could count as electives if you change your major. And Kagy's point is probably true, too. I never went to that college in Austin, so I don't know. It's not that hard to transfer into the business school at Texas Tech (or wasn't back in my day. You know, the late '80s and early '90s). ------------------ Houston Sports Board The Anti-Bud Adams Page
I am being somewhat hypocrtical myself as I am presently in a business program right out of high school. And I enjoy it thouroughly. But I have simultaneously learned that there are many other great things to study so I am just saying dont get to bogged down in what you already think you want to do. You might not like it but even if you love it, there are still other cool things out there. ------------------ "There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them." Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) [This message has been edited by JayZ750 (edited December 18, 2000).]
Are you serious, Brian? Not to be rude, but business as a major is being increasingly seen as not that great. This does not come from me - this comes from things I have read by CEO's of large corporations. It seems that today's graduates, while smart and fully capable of working in a corporation, are very limited and lack skills for conversation, independent thought, writing, etc. There are already math classes "for business" that are accepted (I actually had a roommate who took "Algebra for Business" - didn't even know they had algebra in college, much less a watered down version), well some programs are now trying to get english/writing for business classes. Nice. Not to insult anyone on this board, but it is getting rediculous. Also, keep in mind that UT is always (nationally) in the top 15 for undergrad and grad in business and that UT makes it difficult to transfer into just about anything. It is the machine. Most business programs are far from difficult to enter. Besides, your grade problems were your fault and not everyone will follow the same path. Not trying to be rude here, just honest. ------------------ EZLN
Texas Tech had a English/Writing for Business class that was counted as the required sophomore English class back when I was there. In my experience, though, every company that I've ever interviewed wanted candidates to have a degree that was specifically related to the job at hand. Some were even sticklers for the specific discipline within the business field (i.e. marketing, etc.) Maybe that's changing, but I've not seen any evidence of that in the companies I've talked to. ------------------ Houston Sports Board The Anti-Bud Adams Page
Ace, what I would do is slip a 20 spot in with your college application. It wouldn't hurt. ------------------ "I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence ?
Right. But corporations also don't recruit Sanskrit majors. Right. I have those things, and I am on the doorstep of a client management position at work-- I expect that once Q4 of the fiscal year is over and hiring picks up, I'll have it. Had I graduated from UT with a business degree, though, it would not have taken three years to work my way into such a position. What is getting ridiculous? Studying business at college...? It is the machine that I could have gotten into straight out of high school, if I had had the good judgment to apply there. Yes and most do not carry the reputation of UT's business school. I know full well my grade problems were my fault. However they are not at all unusual. Had I hedged my bet by going to business school, I would have still been enrolled there when my GPA hit 3.5. If I can help one person avoid what I consider to be a big mistake, then I'll be happy.
