<p>I was just wondering about this out of curiosity.
Can someone get an MBA from a prestigious IVY even if their bachelors degree was from some public/state school? </p>
<p>Thoughts or anyone who knows?</p>
<p>Of course not.</p>
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Can someone get an MBA from a prestigious IVY even if their bachelors degree was from some public/state school?
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<p>If you want to go to:</p>
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<li>Brown Graduate School of Business</li>
<li>Princeton Business School</li>
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<p>You're out of luck...</p>
<p>...otherwise, if you've got solid grades, GMAT and experience, I don't see why not.</p>
<p>(hint: Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn and Yale have b-schools)</p>
<p>wow thank you the_prestige. I wasnt tinking brown or princeton at all. mostly columbia, cornell. and Harvard and Yale? Really? I would've thought they'd be harder than brown and Princeton to get in for an MBA. That soothed me to know. Thank you.</p>
<p>Brown and Princeton's MBA programs are impossible to get into, as they don't exist.</p>
<p>Yikes. I can't believe you needed to say that.</p>
<p>hahaa i wouldnt know that because i didn't look into those two or even glanced is why.
but thanks for that.</p>
<p>public undergrad here, Wharton MBA....but this was in the dark ages.......</p>
<p>Nope. Don't listen to anyone here, because you can't. It's actually against the law for students who graduated from less prestigious schools to go to prestigious graduate schools.</p>
<p>of course you can, but its harder. Not harder for the reason you think, though. Prestigious MBA schools don't care all that much about where you got that undergrad degree from. They care most about what you've done in the 3-6 years AFTER college, because at the top schools they don't take kids right after undergrad. They want their students to have some real business experience.</p>
<p>And that's why its harder. Go to a top-25 U and your job prospects are much brighter for the kind of jobs that impress MBA schools than if you go to Mediocre U.</p>