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Registration for the 2024-2025 Wharton Global High School Investment Competition is now open!

By Brittany MaschalJun 18, 2024

Don’t miss your chance to compete in the Wharton Global High School Investment Competition.

Important details, dates, as well as helpful resources and tools can be found here: https://globalyouth.wharton.upenn.edu/investment-competition/

The competition is a free, English-based, experiential investment challenge for high school students and teachers that includes an online trading simulator. Participants compete with other students from around the world and learn about finance, teamwork, strategy building, analysis, communication, and the stock market.

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Business Bound Workshop for High School Students

By BMC BloggerDec 12, 2023

Business Bound is an on-demand, interactive workshop led by Dr. Brittany Maschal (no boring PowerPoints, promise) to help high school students who are undergrad b-school hopefuls set the foundation for competitive, differentiated applications. This workshop is offered in a small group setting (5 students max) or 1:1, and covers:

Academic Foundations: Math is your friend! You’ll learn how to choose the appropriate foundation and extension courses both in and out of school and understand the nuances of standardized testing in the undergrad b-school admissions process.

Why B-School: You’ll benefit from developing a compelling reason to study business in college. After this workshop, your why could change drastically and for the better.

Extracurriculars: Your activities are the key storytelling elements of your application. They back your why, and they highlight what you’ve got to bring to the table.

Leadership & Impact: Leadership is everywhere, and everyone can make an impact. We’ll show you how. No title of Captain or President needed.

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Top Undergraduate Business School Admit Rates

By Brittany MaschalJan 10, 2019

Cornell Dyson is one of five schools with single-digit acceptance rates among the 88 in P&Q’s third annual ranking. The others, in order, are: UC-Berkeley Haas School of Business (4.30%), the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (6.49%), NYU Stern School of Business (8.00%), and Washington University in St. Louis Olin Business School (9.70%). These are the same five schools that were the most selective in last year’s ranking of 82 schools, though all five reduced their acceptance rates this year. In fact, all of the top 17 schools this year saw their rates go down!

Berkeley Haas — a two-year program — sliced its rate in half, from 8.62%; NYU Stern dropped three percentage points, from 11%; and Washington Olin shaved off nearly two points, down from 11.48%. Wharton, the top school in our ranking last year and this year, had an acceptance rate of 7.1% in 2017.

Acceptance rates, average SATs, and percentage of students in the top 10% of their high school classes. The admissions score was one of three categorical scores for the entire P&Q ranking.

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Rank	School	Admissions Score	Acceptance Rate	Average SAT	Percentage of Top 10%
1	University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)	100.00	6.49%	1486	97.00%
2	Washington University in St. Louis (Olin)	98.37	9.70%	1510	91.00%
3	University of California-Berkeley (Haas)	94.09	4.30%	1490	80.85%
4	Cornell University (Dyson)	92.14	2.90%	1453	83.33%
5	University of Michigan (Ross)	89.58	12.00%	1470	82.22%
6	New York University (Stern)	88.73	8.00%	1468	77.08%
7	Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)	88.00	12.00%	1473	78.00%
8	Georgetown University (McDonough)	87.64	15.84%	1431	90.00%
9	University of Virginia (McIntire)	86.79	12.15%	1407	90.00%
10	University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)	83.74	19.00%	1429	84.60%
11	University of California-Irvine (Merage)	81.60	22.00%	1359	98.00%
12	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)	79.60	12.17%	1367	82.70%
13	Southern Methodist University (Cox)	77.50	11.12%	1494	49.00%
14	Emory University (Goizueta)	76.65	17.21%	1470	58.00%
15	Boston College (Carroll)	75.98	25.00%	1402	78.65%
16	University of Texas-Austin (McCombs)	75.71	22.80%	1384	80.00%
17	Villanova University	75.40	22.07%	1408	73.33%
18	Wake Forest University	72.52	24.80%	1378	76.00%
19	Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller)	70.99	23.70%	1376	72.00%
20	Boston University (Questrom)	69.55	17.76%	1422	53.16%
21	Northeastern University (D’amore-McKim)	68.68	18.68%	1463	43.00%
22	Indiana University (Kelley)	68.35	40.38%	1437	67.97%
23	University of Wisconsin-Madison	65.64	35.00%	1405	64.00%
24	Tulane University (Freeman)	65.46	22.00%	1420	48.33%
25	The College of William & Mary (Mason)	63.67	22.40%	1346	61.00%
26	University of Richmond (Robins)	62.99	30.31%	1363	63.00%
27	Lehigh University	62.71	22.39%	1376.39	52.13%
28	University of Washington (Foster)	62.48	20.95%	1310	64.94%
29	University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (Geis)	60.15	48.98%	1365	73.37%
30	University of Minnesota (Carlson)	60.00	28.44%	1371	52.80%
31	Babson College	59.21	24.00%	1353	50.91%
32	Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Foisie)	58.01	36.00%	1395	50.00%
33	Fordham University (Gabelli)	55.16	44.90%	1361	59.30%
34	University of Pittsburgh	55.05	44.00%	1345	61.76%
35	University of Miami	52.71	30.44%	1327	48.00%
36	University of Georgia (Terry)	50.90	47.44%	1300	65.52%
37	University of Houston (Bauer)	49.92	25.18%	1309	40.87%
38	Rutgers Business School (New Brunswick)	47.47	46.00%	1349	45.70%
39	Texas A&M University (Mays)	47.13	34.07%	1281.72	48.80%
40	Syracuse University (Whitman)	46.42	38.10%	1304	46.00%
41	University of Massachusetts-Amherst (Isenberg)	45.56	30.60%	1336	30.10%
42	University of Utah (Eccles)	44.75	40.80%	1270	52.24%
43	American University (Kogod)	44.43	31.60%	1256	46.15%
44	Ohio State University (Fisher)	44.41	38.60%	1340	34.00%
45	Brigham Young University (Marriott)	43.12	63.16%	1325	57.01%
46	Pennsylvania State University (Freeman)	42.55	37.00%	1319	33.00%
47	University of Denver (Daniels)	42.15	46.30%	1299.3	45.00%
48	Texas Christian University (Neeley)	40.43	46.56%	1265	48.94%
49	University of Kentucky (Gatton)	39.70	69.79%	1395	40.00%
50	Hult International Business School	39.39	50.00%	1264	50.00%
51	Purdue University (Krannert)	39.32	62.00%	1268	60.00%
52	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Lally)	38.20	42.00%	1291	34.00%
53	Michigan State University (Broad)	34.82	32.19%	1241.77	28.27%
54	The College of New Jersey	34.52	41.00%	1254	33.00%
55	University of San Diego	33.89	53.00%	1275	38.00%
56	Santa Clara University (Leavey)	32.48	43.50%	1366	6.00%
57	Miami University (Farmer)	31.38	62.60%	1323	30.60%
58	St. John’s University (Tobin)	31.09	59.00%	1208	52.00%
59	Christopher Newport University	28.58	74.60%	1270	47.06%
60	University of South Carolina (Darla Moore)	27.02	65.10%	1299	28.41%
61	University of Delaware (Lerner)	26.53	46.40%	1285	13.20%
62	Seton Hall University (Stillman)	26.45	57.60%	1257	29.50%
63	University of Texas-Dallas (Jindal)	24.66	60.00%	1242	31.00%
64	Providence College	24.65	51.00%	1247	21.60%
65	Rutgers Business School (Newark)	22.92	55.00%	1157	41.25%
66	University of Tennessee-Knoxville (Haslam)	22.86	85.00%	1212.6	56.44%
67	St. Thomas University (Opus)	21.04	83.00%	1215	50.00%
68	James Madison University	20.13	68.31%	1217	34.00%
69	Drexel University (LeBow)	19.55	74.00%	1262	28.00%
70	University of Akron	19.19	73.99%	1154	51.02%
71	Elon University (Love)	17.71	72.10%	1249	25.00%
72	University of Missouri-Columbia (Trulaske)	15.62	69.17%	1220	24.00%
73	Florida Southern College	15.57	50.00%	1203	10.00%
74	Lipscomb University	15.35	61.00%	1156	30.00%
75	University of Oklahoma (Price)	14.39	61.77%	1212	16.20%
76	Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders)	13.29	72.10%	1204	25.00%
77	University of Arizona (Eller)	13.13	79.00%	1110	51.72%
78	University of North Carolina-Wilmington	9.39	61.00%	1177	12.00%
79	University of New Hampshire (Paul)	8.02	64.10%	1171	13.10%
80	Ithaca College	7.82	80.18%	1221	16.40%
81	St. Louis University (Chaifetz)	7.28	83.03%	1241	13.40%
82	Sacred Heart University (Jack Welch)	6.39	60.80%	1156	9.70%
83	Northern Illinois University	6.01	53.84%	1110	12.60%
84	University of Michigan-Dearborn	5.13	62.00%	1147.8	9.80%
85	Duquesne University (Palumbo Donahue)	5.12	76.00%	1197	11.80%
86	Texas Tech University (Rawls)	4.53	76.40%	1093	33.78%
87	Bowling Green State University	1.09	70.00%	1128	12.46%
88	Evansville University (Schroeder)	0.00	88.60%	1171	17.64%

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These Business Schools Produce the Most Billion-Dollar Startup Founders

By Brittany MaschalMar 02, 2017

When it comes to making what Sage refers to as “unicorns,” one business school is making everyone else look bad. As a recent Fortune article reports:

Founders of the meal delivery service Blue Apron, health insurance startup Oscar, and content delivery network CloudFlare all pursued business degrees at Harvard Business School. Altogether, 23 HBS grads have founded a private company valued at $1 billion or more, according to research by Sage.

With 19 unicorn founders, the Stanford Graduate School of Business comes in second, followed by Wharton, with nine.

It’s important to note, however, that for undergrads, Harvard and Stanford swap places: Stanford’s undergraduate program has produced 51 founders of billion-dollar startups, followed by Harvard with 37.

Below are the top business schools, ranked by how many of their students and alumni went on to found billion-dollar companies.

Harvard Business School: 23
Stanford Graduate School of Business: 19
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton: 9
INSEAD: 5
WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management: 5
University of Southern California: Marshall: 4
University of California at Berkeley: Haas: 3
Columbia Business School: 3
HEC Paris: 3
Indian Institute of Management: Calcutta: 3
UCLA Anderson School of Management: 2
Brigham Young University: Marriott: 2
George Washington University: 2
London Business School: 2
Northwestern University: Kellogg: 2
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Business: 2

Note: Founders are classified based on their highest level of education. (For instance, if they received a Master’s degree at Harvard University and a PhD at Stanford Business School, they would be placed in the latter category.) The list also includes founders who didn’t graduate. For more information, see a breakdown of the research here.

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