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Hello everyone. I'm planning on taking some pre-MBA coursework to strengthen my application and was looking for opinions on which one of the following courses would be better. Any advice would be appreciated.

Math for Finance - UCLA Extension

Pre-MBA Statistics: Inferential Statistics - UC Irvine Extension

My apologies for not posting a link. I just joined and must wait five days before I can post any links. Thanks.
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Pre MBA Coursework 11 Jan 2011, 09:30
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Both courses will make you look good to adcoms, so no preference there. You should take the course in which you feel you are weakest or most unprepared. If you have never had statistics, it might be good to have an intro there. If you are a neophyte with all things financial, perhaps you should lean in that direction. Ultimately you will only have to take one stats course in b-school, but you will use what you learn in other courses. Contrarily, you will have options to take several finance courses, and if your post MBA career vision involves any type of corporate finance, it may behoove you to be prepared to hit the ground running in that department when you begin your MBA. Not sure if any of this helps, but best of luck....and congrats on thinking ahead!
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Hi Adave. Thank you for sharing a great question.

If you are looking for other career development / b-school planning resources, please consider our professional group, USA Leadership Corps (www.usaLeadershipCorps.org).

USALC partners with pre-MBAs who are looking to enhance their leadership, consulting, entrepreneurship, and/or community-involvement backgrounds by leading volunteer nonprofit & small business strategy consulting projects.

Thank you & good luck.

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A search for "alternative transcript" on this forum yields several hits where people mention that they are taking classes through UCLA Extension. As an East-coaster, I'm not too familiar with UCLA - is its Extension program highly regarded (or are all these people simply from CA?)?

Also, anyt thoughts on whether it makes a difference to adcoms if the course was taken online or in person?
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both seem good. I guess it depends where your holes are and what message you need to send. Finance, Accounting, Stat, Calculus, Economics, all good...just depends where your transcript is weak.
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Adave- I'm going through the same decision making process right now regarding building a quantitavie alternative transcript. Did you end up making a decision as to what classes to take? How did it go? Any advice you could render would be much appreciated as I'm looking to enroll in a couple classes in May.

BryantMichaels- if I work in finance, have passed the CFA L1, and majored in Finance in college, does it matter how advanced my math classes sound/appear? There's a couple C's in math on my undergrad transcript that I'm trying to negate in addition to showing that I can compete and perform in the academic world, but I want to make sure if I'm spending this money that I'm taking the right courses. Right now I'm thinking (1) Introduction to Calculus and (2) Advances Statistics and Quantitative Methods; both are courses at UCLA extension.

Any advice/thoughts?
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A search for "alternative transcript" on this forum yields several hits where people mention that they are taking classes through UCLA Extension. As an East-coaster, I'm not too familiar with UCLA - is its Extension program highly regarded (or are all these people simply from CA?)?
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Most of the UC campuses have extension programs I believe, and most are pretty good but they might not all have the same focus (e.g., UC-SD has a lot of life sciences stuff). Both UCLA and UC-Berkeley have extension courses that I think would be a good fit. In an admissions chat transcript a McCombs adcom recommended UCLA's Mathematics for Managers class as a good class. Personally, I took both Math for Managers and Calculus concurrently through UCLA Extension last summer. It had been ages since I took math and I didn't do well in the classes that I did take, so I felt like I needed to show I could at least add.

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Also, anyt thoughts on whether it makes a difference to adcoms if the course was taken online or in person?
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It depends I would think. Taking something like UCLA-Extension is not the same thing as taking a class through an online diploma mill. I would think something like UCLA-Extenion or UC-Berkeley Extension would be likely be a bit better than a local community college. You also need to consider costs. Taking extension classes through UCLA or UC-Berkeley is relatively cheap compared to taking classes from 4-year schools live.