Thursday, June 7, 2012

Hello, first year ADMS students.

My first month at the RED Zone, many students asked me "how can I get in to Schulich after my first year?" "is Atkinson business bad?" "what is the differences between Atkinson and Schulich?" I knew you were worried because you didn't receive the offer from Schulich. Instead of choosing other offers or schools, you chose to come to Administrative study at York.

To be honest, they were totally different. Even thought we used the same materials, the professors and the way of teaching made the differences. You must be thinking how could we compete with them? because only their school title is already better than us.

I would not say you were completely right. I am being one of the Atkinson students, and I said we would have lots of opportunities which Schulish students would not be able to have. Here are my suggestions:  


1. You will have more time to get involved at school, have better school experience and have more fun. At the same time, you can take the advantage of meeting diverse people from different aspects of the campus.


2. York University provides so many opportunities to students who want to get involved. For example:
- Your affiliation colleges
- The school has over 300 organizations which includes Cultural clubs, Hobby clubs and sports clubs
Colleges' intramural
York is U
- e.t.c (You could always find things that could interest you)


3. Career Centre at York could help you to convert those experience into professional skills meanwhile you could use those skills on your resume which would help you compete with the students from Schulich. 


4. You could also use YUConnect to create your reference letter for your future use.


5. York International has some very awesome exchange program and international intern-ship which can enhance your skills and enrich your experience. 


6. Schulich School of Business is good at Graduate Degree but not Undergraduate Degree. It is because the school title makes the Undergraduate Degree sound prestigious. Therefore, you can maintain your undergraduate GPA and use it to apply for a Schulich MBA.


7. If you really want to change no matter what, you have to talk to the people at Schulich School. They will provide you specific courses to take in order to let you to apply to Schulich in your second year.

Anyway, don't worry about your degree and focus on your school work as well as get involved. 

So, Welcome to York and Good luck.
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