Responses to your questions below:
-Take the GMAT within the next few months to knock it out. I'm shooting for a 750+.
-Do well in my next job. Will it matter where I work for my MBA application? Big place, small place? Or just work really hard wherever I get a job?
WORK AT THE JOB THAT WILL ALLOW YOU TO MAKE THE BIGGEST IMPACT AND THAT BEST ALIGNS WITH YOUR ST/LT CAREER GOALS POST MBA
-Find some leadership/volunteer opportunity. Volunteer Firefighter? Try to be on a board for something? Start and manage a Meetup group?
FIND SOME VOLUNTEER/EC THAT WILL ALLOW YOU TO MAKE AN IMPACT PREFERABLY IN A LEADERSHIP CAPACITY, IF IT ALIGNS WITH A PERSONAL PASSION EVEN BETTER
-Time permitting, take a finance or management class. Any highly recommended online courses that a top 10 school would like?
TAKE IN PERSON IF POSSIBLE, BUT IF ONLINE CHECK OUT THE UCLA EXTENSION SCHOOL - FINANCE, ACCT, STATS, ECON SHOULD SO THE TRICK
-Is there anything else I should be actively pursuing?
-EDIT: I also have an offer from my roommate to go flip houses with him in Atlanta, would this look better for my application than doing civil engineering somewhere?
UNLESS IT ALIGNS WITH YOUR POST MBA CAREER GOALS IT WON'T MAKE MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE, A FORMAL JOB WOULD PROBABLY MAKE MORE SENSE IN YOUR APP
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