SMU Full Ride or UT Austin Business Honors?
SMU Full Ride as a BBA Scholar and University Honors Program (about 2-3K per year for books/misc)
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UT Austin as a BHP Scholar (about 28K per year)
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UT Austin.
Mjs, I'm unable to.
SMU full ride. Get into alternative assets your junior year and you will have the same if not better options than at UT and recruit against less people (~30). If you can get a full ride and BBA Scholar you can get into alternative assets if you keep your grades up. I can't stress enough how much better it is to recruit against less people for NY/Houston IB. I am not that familiar with UT Austin BHP but I have heard its ~75 people. Unless your the top of that class you will have to compete with every single kid in there plus the rest of UT Austin and be paying 28k a year. 30 people in alternative assets is much easier and there is enough OCR and personal connections with banks/HF/PE to place every kid in the program. UT BHP might be better just by name brand and placement historically but I know for sure it is not 28k a year better.
Did not go to either school, but from knowing people who went to both would agree with the above. I did not consider either school (mostly just due to their rankings/perceived prestige when I was in high school), which was stupid. Great quality of life, competition that does not seem as fierce as at the ivies, warm weather, oh and hot girls... where can you go wrong?
Thank you SO much everybody! Especially MJS3
SMU. The full ride is a big deal on your resume and BBA Scholars is fantastic. I'm a mentor for the Cox MBAs and see the BBA Scholars with tables at lots of special events.
SMU BBA --
Not just for the whole IBD/Finance route but they place into every single decent place in Dallas. When I am looking around I am always finding that SMU is everywhere in every big name throughout Dallas.
Campus life @ SMU will be great for you.
Coming from a UTDallas guy I wish I would've applied to SMU (was tricked into thinking most people pay sticker).
Thanks everybody! I committed to SMU as a PS!
Congrats!
UT Austin.
Campus life @ SMU will be great for you.
Hook 'Em Horns.
That is all. Also, best IB placement tbh.
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Go to SMU. Full ride= prestige in and of itself. Plus, not having to pay for school means a lot more money for trips, study abroad, and other activities (including trips to NYC for networking)
It appears the thread disagrees with me, but I would have leaned toward UT.
you're an investment advisor and you would've advised this kid to go in debt $100k+ interest for a marginally better program? Wow.
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