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What’s in it for you- Live Profile Evaluation Chat Session with Jenifer Turtschanow, CEO, ARINGO. Come with your details prepared and ARINGO will share insights! Pre-MBA Role/Industry, YOE, Exam Score, C/GPA, ECs Post-MBA Role/ Industry & School List.
May 2110:00 AM EDT
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Most candidates submit a resume built for a recruiter. Admissions committees are reading for something else entirely. This session covers what adcoms actually evaluate, where strong candidates lose ground before a single essay is written, and why...
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May 2203:00 PM EDT
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May 2611:00 AM EDT
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From Dr. Shel (Shelly Watts), https://www.mbaadmit.com, email: [email protected]
To benefit from our FREE WEBINARS on topics such as how to gain admission to Top-10 MBA programs and how to override a low GPA or GMAT score, clickhttps://mbaadmit.com/webinars/.
Ask about our current special – currently 40% off! – Comprehensive packages beginning at $1595 (Compare with our competitors who charge $4,400!). Valid through June 10, 2015.
MBA Admit.com: Specialists in helping candidates override weaknesses to gain MBA admissions success, and proudly, one of the most affordable top-quality MBA admissions consulting companies, with prices nearly 50% lower than our direct competitors.
Factors to Help Override a Less-than-Ideal GPA
There are some broad factors that the admissions committee will take into account as reasons that can justify a lower-than-ideal GPA (and hence the admissions committee might not be looking at your lower-than-ideal GPA as a problem at all). These factors can vary from what we at MBA Admit.com call “extreme extenuating circumstances” to “reasonably acceptable explanations.” When trying to override a less-than-ideal GPA in order to gain admission to a top MBA program, it is often helpful if you have one of these extenuating circumstances or reasonably acceptable explanations as to why your GPA was lower. Let’s consider some examples…
Major event that explains the lower-than-ideal GPA: Did you lose a very close relative and your grades suffered for a while? Did your parent lose their job, causing stress on the family and anxiety for you, causing your grades to drop? Major events like these can help explain a lower-than-ideal GPA to the satisfaction of the admissions committee.
Challenging circumstances to overcome: Were you the first in your family to attend college and it took a little adjustment in your first 18 months before your grades reflected your abilities? The committee will often take circumstances like these into consideration.
Working your way through school financially: In many cases such as this, the committee will realize you were juggling work with your academics and may be more understanding if your GPA is slightly lower.
Medical or physical challenge: If you had to overcome some major medical or physical challenge, the admissions committee will sometimes give you leeway on the GPA.
There are, of course, other variations. See a link below for a list and explanation of eight additional “extreme extenuating circumstances” and “reasonably acceptable explanations.”
The take away: a less-than-ideal GPA is not always a deal-killer in MBA admissions. If any of these circumstances above apply to you, or if you had comparably difficult circumstances, then the admissions committee may still consider your GPA – while lower than the matriculating average – to still be acceptable.
For a more comprehensive list of “extreme extenuating circumstances” and “reasonably acceptable explanations,” click https://mbaadmit.com/category/overriding-a-low-gpa/.
Feel free to reach out to us if you would like assistance in the MBA application process.
To benefit from our free webinars, click https://mbaadmit.com/webinars/.
Best wishes,
Dr. Shel (Shelly Watts)
President, MBA Admit.com
https://www.mbaadmit.com
Email: [email protected]
To benefit from our FREE WEBINARS on topics such as how to gain admission to Top-10 MBA programs and how to override a low GPA or GMAT score, clickhttps://mbaadmit.com/webinars/.
Ask about our current special – currently 40% off! – Comprehensive packages beginning at $1595 (Compare with our competitors who charge $4,400!). Valid through June 10, 2015.
MBA Admit.com: Specialists in helping candidates override weaknesses to gain MBA admissions success, and proudly, one of the most affordable top-quality MBA admissions consulting companies, with prices nearly 50% lower than our direct competitors.
Factors to Help Override a Less-than-Ideal GPA
There are some broad factors that the admissions committee will take into account as reasons that can justify a lower-than-ideal GPA (and hence the admissions committee might not be looking at your lower-than-ideal GPA as a problem at all). These factors can vary from what we at MBA Admit.com call “extreme extenuating circumstances” to “reasonably acceptable explanations.” When trying to override a less-than-ideal GPA in order to gain admission to a top MBA program, it is often helpful if you have one of these extenuating circumstances or reasonably acceptable explanations as to why your GPA was lower. Let’s consider some examples…
Major event that explains the lower-than-ideal GPA: Did you lose a very close relative and your grades suffered for a while? Did your parent lose their job, causing stress on the family and anxiety for you, causing your grades to drop? Major events like these can help explain a lower-than-ideal GPA to the satisfaction of the admissions committee.
Challenging circumstances to overcome: Were you the first in your family to attend college and it took a little adjustment in your first 18 months before your grades reflected your abilities? The committee will often take circumstances like these into consideration.
Working your way through school financially: In many cases such as this, the committee will realize you were juggling work with your academics and may be more understanding if your GPA is slightly lower.
Medical or physical challenge: If you had to overcome some major medical or physical challenge, the admissions committee will sometimes give you leeway on the GPA.
There are, of course, other variations. See a link below for a list and explanation of eight additional “extreme extenuating circumstances” and “reasonably acceptable explanations.”
The take away: a less-than-ideal GPA is not always a deal-killer in MBA admissions. If any of these circumstances above apply to you, or if you had comparably difficult circumstances, then the admissions committee may still consider your GPA – while lower than the matriculating average – to still be acceptable.
For a more comprehensive list of “extreme extenuating circumstances” and “reasonably acceptable explanations,” click https://mbaadmit.com/category/overriding-a-low-gpa/.
Feel free to reach out to us if you would like assistance in the MBA application process.
To benefit from our free webinars, click https://mbaadmit.com/webinars/.
Best wishes,
Dr. Shel (Shelly Watts)
President, MBA Admit.com
https://www.mbaadmit.com
Email: [email protected]
