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From MBA Admit.com: Proudly, one of the most affordable MBA admissions consulting companies
Most candidates can work directly with our founder, Dr. Shel Watts, a graduate of Harvard and Oxford who has Harvard admissions experience and worked previously for McKinsey & Company and Morgan Stanley
Email: info@mbaadmit.com, Website https://www.mbaadmit.com
Current Special, valid for enrollments before November 27, 2014: 40% off Gold Package Comprehensive Services for One MBA Application (our pricing is currently 50% less than our direct competitors, $1195 for 1 Gold Comprehensive Application). Click here for more information: https://mbaadmit.com/category/school-specials/
Is My GPA Good Enough?
Many MBA applicants write to me highly concerned about their undergraduate GPAs and ask, “Do you think my GPA is too low?” They are particularly concerned if they are targeting Top-10 MBA programs. Similarly, if they have a string of low grades on their undergraduate transcript, such candidates are very nervous.
In many cases, there is no cut-and-dry answer to this question about whether a certain GPA might be high enough for your target school. Certainly, statistics about each business school’s average GPA for matriculating students can help you gain a sense of your chances for admission. But beyond this, specifics matter a great deal. For example:
Where did you attend college? If your school was a top-ranked college in its country, your GPA likely can be lower than the GPA of a candidate who attended a much lower-ranked college.
Did you have to work your way through school financially? The admissions committee will often cut you some slack if they realize you were juggling work with your academics.
What was your major? Some majors are known to be very difficult, and so what might look like a low GPA in a much “softer” major may be perceived by the admissions committee as a relatively high GPA for your major.
Are you an overrepresented profile or an underrepresented profile? If you are overrepresented (that is, lots of candidates with your profile – country, ethnicity, industry – apply to business school), your GPA will likely need to be higher. If you are an underrepresented profile, you can usually have latitude to have a GPA that is lower than the average for matriculating students.
What is your gender? Sorry guys – gals do sometimes have an easier time because, for many business schools, fewer women apply. As a result, women sometimes receive a little more leeway on their GPA.
Did you participate in a varsity-level sport in college? If so, most admissions committees will realize that you were diverting a lot of time to the sport, and they might cut you a little slack on your GPA. Representing a school in a varsity-level sport is generally seen as very admirable and an indication of multifaceted talent.
Other factors beyond these also affect the GPA assessment. If you are concerned about your GPA, try to evaluate how these and other mitigating factors might affect the way admission committees will view your GPA. These simple methods can help you understand whether your GPA will be seen as a strength or weakness of your MBA application.
At MBA Admit.com, we are skilled at identifying whether your GPA will be considered strong enough for your target programs. We are also excellent at assessing whether candidates might override less-than-ideal GPAs in order to gain access to top MBA programs. We have helped bring about extraordinary success stories – from candidates who gained admission to Harvard and Stanford with 2.8 GPAs, to candidates who gained admission (with scholarship!) to Wharton with 2.7 GPAs.
What was the key to these successes? The ability to look at the candidate’s full background and identify aspects of their background that could persuade the admissions committee to overlook the GPA and weigh more heavily other factors that were indicative of success. So, don’t give up!
Feel free to reach out to our company to secure written feedback about the strength of your candidacy. Just send us your most recent resume and we can take a look!
Best wishes,
Dr. Shel (Shelly Watts)
President, MBA Admit.com
info@mbaadmit.com
https://www.mbaadmit.com
Most candidates can work directly with our founder, Dr. Shel Watts, a graduate of Harvard and Oxford who has Harvard admissions experience and worked previously for McKinsey & Company and Morgan Stanley
Email: info@mbaadmit.com, Website https://www.mbaadmit.com
Current Special, valid for enrollments before November 27, 2014: 40% off Gold Package Comprehensive Services for One MBA Application (our pricing is currently 50% less than our direct competitors, $1195 for 1 Gold Comprehensive Application). Click here for more information: https://mbaadmit.com/category/school-specials/
Is My GPA Good Enough?
Many MBA applicants write to me highly concerned about their undergraduate GPAs and ask, “Do you think my GPA is too low?” They are particularly concerned if they are targeting Top-10 MBA programs. Similarly, if they have a string of low grades on their undergraduate transcript, such candidates are very nervous.
In many cases, there is no cut-and-dry answer to this question about whether a certain GPA might be high enough for your target school. Certainly, statistics about each business school’s average GPA for matriculating students can help you gain a sense of your chances for admission. But beyond this, specifics matter a great deal. For example:
Where did you attend college? If your school was a top-ranked college in its country, your GPA likely can be lower than the GPA of a candidate who attended a much lower-ranked college.
Did you have to work your way through school financially? The admissions committee will often cut you some slack if they realize you were juggling work with your academics.
What was your major? Some majors are known to be very difficult, and so what might look like a low GPA in a much “softer” major may be perceived by the admissions committee as a relatively high GPA for your major.
Are you an overrepresented profile or an underrepresented profile? If you are overrepresented (that is, lots of candidates with your profile – country, ethnicity, industry – apply to business school), your GPA will likely need to be higher. If you are an underrepresented profile, you can usually have latitude to have a GPA that is lower than the average for matriculating students.
What is your gender? Sorry guys – gals do sometimes have an easier time because, for many business schools, fewer women apply. As a result, women sometimes receive a little more leeway on their GPA.
Did you participate in a varsity-level sport in college? If so, most admissions committees will realize that you were diverting a lot of time to the sport, and they might cut you a little slack on your GPA. Representing a school in a varsity-level sport is generally seen as very admirable and an indication of multifaceted talent.
Other factors beyond these also affect the GPA assessment. If you are concerned about your GPA, try to evaluate how these and other mitigating factors might affect the way admission committees will view your GPA. These simple methods can help you understand whether your GPA will be seen as a strength or weakness of your MBA application.
At MBA Admit.com, we are skilled at identifying whether your GPA will be considered strong enough for your target programs. We are also excellent at assessing whether candidates might override less-than-ideal GPAs in order to gain access to top MBA programs. We have helped bring about extraordinary success stories – from candidates who gained admission to Harvard and Stanford with 2.8 GPAs, to candidates who gained admission (with scholarship!) to Wharton with 2.7 GPAs.
What was the key to these successes? The ability to look at the candidate’s full background and identify aspects of their background that could persuade the admissions committee to overlook the GPA and weigh more heavily other factors that were indicative of success. So, don’t give up!
Feel free to reach out to our company to secure written feedback about the strength of your candidacy. Just send us your most recent resume and we can take a look!
Best wishes,
Dr. Shel (Shelly Watts)
President, MBA Admit.com
info@mbaadmit.com
https://www.mbaadmit.com
