<p>Hey everyone, I'm actually only going to be a freshman in college next year, but I plan to go to a good business school and have a few questions to ask. The first, from your experience, how similiar are college and business school admissions? One particular area of interest for me is wether ec's are weighted as heavily for b-school admission as they are in college admissions. Secondly, I wanted to know wether top business school programs are more impressed by students who double major (i was thinking to double major in econ and chinese) and get good gpa's than by those who only have one major. Thank you for your help.</p>
<p>You should read through many of the threads already created. They have a wealth of information. Especially look at the ones about how work experience is a significant pre-requisite for admission.</p>
<p>I was looking at your posts Vissanik and you are bashing UC Berkeley yet you are looking to go to a school with a good business school. I hope you get your facts straight (Haas = one of the best undergrad business schools in the nation).</p>
<p>Oh by the way, you are not welcome to Haas.</p>
<p>Your ignorance in your other posts is far beyond respectable.</p>
<p>Berkeley is one of the top school's in the nation to begin with, so it's not surprising that Haas is up there</p>
<p>Though if you really are bashing berkeley, I don't know what your perception of a "good B-school" is... if you want to get into a top MBA, Harvard wharton stanford columbia berkeley chicago northwestern duke, you'll need work experience, for sure; quant classes help a lot as well</p>
<p>Planning on going to graduate business school prior to even attending college seems kind of backwards to me. Personally, I would plan on being highly successful without an MBA and would only consider graduate business school as a backup plan (a plan which certainly doesn't need to start when you are 18...unless u are very anal).</p>
<p>ec? who the hell has time for ec's when you're working 80+ hours a week. I think i put down some fluff hobbies on my applications. It's all about work experience. If you were looking to go to an MBA program right out of undergrad, 1) dont. 2)if you did, then ec's are all that you have but don't expect to get into anything top 50</p>
<p>"Planning on going to graduate business school prior to even attending college seems kind of backwards to me. Personally, I would plan on being highly successful without an MBA and would only consider graduate business school as a backup plan (a plan which certainly doesn't need to start when you are 18...unless u are very anal)."</p>
<p>Sounds like you definitely need a plan! Maybe your definition of "highly successful" is different from mine, but good luck on attaining it without an MBA.</p>
<p>you don't really need an MBA to be successful in a career or in life.</p>
<p>No, but you don't need an undergraduate degree, either. Hell, you don't even need HS. PPL have made it without education, but your chances to advance are a lot slimmer without an MBA.</p>
<p>pearfire, you are confusing correlation with causation.</p>
<p>In fact, many people who are "successful" do get MBAs or other professional degrees. However, that is not evidence that the MBA leads to success or lack of success. You need to learn a bit more about endogeneity and you should look at some of the work by Jeffrey Pfeffer from Stanford GSB.</p>