Michigan Ross BBA Admissions
I am currently mid way through high school and dream of going to UMich Ross for undergrad. Does anyone have advice or recommendations on what extracurriculars I can do to get accepted? (Obv. w good scores, etc.)
Can’t go wrong with things like volunteering, student council, and club leadership positions (ideally something business related).
If you can snag an internship of some sort, it’ll help a lot when writing essays as you can use your experiences to articulate why you want to pursue business. These are usually pretty difficult to get since you’re a high schooler with no experience in anything, but even shadowing friends of your parents can help too.
Focus on good grades and try to get 1500/34 or better on your standardized tests.
I was wondering if you can elaborate on the involved in business part that you want to show to them. I am a HS senior applying soon and I have been in my school’s pre-business program for the last 4 years with some club positions and outside ECs for investing and finance specifically, along with doing an 8 week internship this summer at a family office, do you think that is good enough?
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Not really sure what a pre-business program in high school is, but if it includes things like personal finance, accounting, micro/macroeconomics I'm sure that is good to show admissions officers.
Being a leader in a school club is a tried-and-true extracurricular in high school and college. Of course, there needs to be some substance- if you're, for example, the club vice president but all you do is sit in on the meetings and make a comment here or there it means nothing. You could embellish your role for the sake of the application, but it's a lot easier not to jump through a bunch of hoops to describe what it is you do.
Outside ECs for finance and investing I assume are either summer programs through universities, online classes in finance, or investing via a brokerage. All are completely valid and will look great for your application. If these were particularly impactful in any way (in terms of long term goal formation), these would be great to write about in the essay.
Family office internship this past summer is extremely impressive. I think it's awesome that you have that experience, but don't try to oversell your role. If a firm is taking a high school intern, I'm assuming they're doing next to nothing that actually adds value and is more of a shadowing type role. If you did a project, you can write about that. If you loved certain aspects of working at the family office, write about that.
Another poster in this thread mentioned that you need a killer essay to get into the top universities these days, so I would make sure to write something cohesive that talks about all aspects of your profile and how it relates to business.
"Good enough" no longer exists in college admissions in my opinion. Too many kids with straight A's, 1500+ SATs, and high quality ECs are applying to the same schools so it's tough to really say how good your odds are without doing something truly extraordinary. However, I would say that you definitely have done enough to demonstrate that you're interested in finance.
Best of luck.
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At Michigan. Having an incredible essay is the most important way to stand out. All kids have good scores, good extracurriculars, etc. Focus on a great essay.
Ayyy I’m in the same kind of situation. Ross at Michigan is one of my top schools, I’m a senior though with 1560/35. I was wondering if anybody else could answer this, but how do you highlight an internship? I did an 8 Week internship as investment analyst this summer at a PWM firm, 30 hours a week, it was great and I got a lot of say on investments and all, much more than average college intern would probably get at a PWM
circling back, did u get in?
I actually got postponed from Umich and somehow got into UNC as an out of state student with legit half the acceptance rate lol, kinda nice. Im hoping for UT Austin tomorrow as I got an interview for their business honors program which only one fifth of applicants get (its invite only) and 50% of interviewees get into the program.
Also, after looking into Umich postponing though, it isn’t a bad sign rlly. Asked somehow who got in after being postponed (their version of deferral) and it legit said on her admissions that they didn’t even look at her application until after being postponing, she was just automatically put in that pile because they ran out of time.
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