Affirmative Action and MBA Admissions

Graduate School Business School - MBA
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<p>Is there affirmative action in MBA Admissions? Law schools and medical schools take race into account when making admission decisions. Do graduate business schools also do the same?</p>

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<p>Why? Trying to exploit the system?</p>

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<p>unfortunately, yes, affirmative action is at play for business school as well. but since b-school acceptance is so arbitrary, it’s hard to prove anything.</p>

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<p>liu02bhs, how do you know that affirmative action is at play? I’m wondering if there are published statistics on B-school graduate admissions?</p>

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<p>there’s no published stats on this. but I’ve know enough applicants to know.
for example, this year a hispanic applicant with GPA 2.99/ GMAT 650 got in
Kellogg (w/$)
Yale(w/$)
Tuck
Darden(w/$)
Olin
Owen(w/$)
Kelley
McDonough(w/$)</p>

<p>however, he was a D1 athelete and a soldier.
Either way, those stats (include W/E) normally will not get you into (Kellogg, Tuck, Yale, or Darden), but he got in with scholarship.</p>