<p>For berkeley Haas business majors or business-intended. Whats the gpa to have a legitimate shot at a decent busines grad school? say USC stern or UCLA Anderson? Thanks!</p>
<p>first of all, the USC business school is Marshall...NYU is Stern...but anyways</p>
<p>People know that it is harder to get good grades at Berkeley...so a 3.6 ish should get you into USC....you'll need about a 3.6-3.8 for NYU and UCLA because those schools are just more competitive. Also keep in mind that you will be taking the GMAT test also. That and your GPA will be weighted almost equally in the admissions process. What I am getting at with that is that if your GPA is a little lower that the averages for the schools you are looking at, you still can have a great shot if you ace ur GMAT. Don't worry, everything will eventually fall into place since you are clearly all over this and you won't even be going for 7 or 8 years. If you are that on top of this, you are probably a great student and u will get an MBA from an awesome school</p>
<p>haha I hope so. Thanks a lot UCLA</p>
<p>Seriously, the range of GPAs for the students accpeted to top business school is so wide (2.5~4.0) that you cant really determine your candidacy solely based on the criterion alone. And as UCLA2009 has mentioned, there are just too many many "compensating" (albeit not completely) and often times random external factors in the whole application process.</p>
<p>As a result, many MBA applicants call the application process "crabshoot"</p>
<p>its a crapshoot..not a crabshoot
haas students get into top mba programs
its hard enough to get into haas that schools recognize the capabilities of the students
plus..i heard that haas is pretty lenient on its grading, so gpas run higher than the rest of berk</p>
<p>Oh yes, crapshoot. Sorry, I was just thinking of eating crab for tonight's dinner. I just couldnt resist.</p>
<p>i had also heard that although Haas works its students hard, it's GPA is a little high-ish even still (dont want to use the word inflated though). And be careful, up until this recent rankings shuffle the USC grad school was pretty much one spot behind UCLA......something odd happen in the survey testbed this year which caused it to slide, but i think it might bounce right back to being next to UCLA again in the upcoming year, so it's competitiveness is pretty equivicable.</p>
<p>Last i heard the average was around 3.7 for Haas which is a tad high, also means they dont curve it (else it would be a fix number), which many other business programs like to do now.</p>