Business School Questions --- Help Me Please

Graduate School Business School - MBA
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<p>Do you have to major in something related to business to get into a competitive business school. I can't decide whether I should get my JD or MBA. I go to Vanderbilt which doesn't offer an undergraduate business but most kids just study economics and they get a business minor. The problem is the econ classes are pretty hard and my GPA would suffer but I am sure I'd learn alot. Or -- is it possible to take something I enjpy like Philosophy or History which I'd have a higher GPA in, get an internship, and then apply for an MBA. I thought maybe double-majoring [Economics and Philosophy] but I might have to stay 5 years if I do that, is it better just to major in one thing? Should I maybe do a MBA/JD joint program after college?</p>

<p>Also -- should I take any summer business programs. My school just started offering one this year. Do you think that would help my chance at an internship?
<a href="http://www.owen.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbilt/Programs/accelerator/index.cfm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.owen.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbilt/Programs/accelerator/index.cfm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Thank you so much if anyone can help me out.</p>

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<p>bump --- anyone?</p>

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<p>It will obviously help, but it is not necessary.</p>

<p>However, why would you not want to major in business if you are sure thats what you want to do? The major you choose will land you a job in that specific field. And of coarse, the #1 thing the universities look at for graduates is work experience.</p>

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<p>At many if not most MBA programs, the vast majority of the students will not have majored as an undergrad in business or in one of business's close cousins (i.e. accounting, finance, marketing, etc.). </p>

<p>Consider the MBA program at MIT-Sloan. It should surprise nobody that about 40% of entering MBA MIT-Sloan students are engineers. (I saw this statistic in hard-copy, I'll post an Internet link for it when I find it). </p>

<p>Now you might be thinking, well yeah, sakky, that's MITSloan. Of course MIT is going to be engineering-heavy. But consider some of the other top MBA programs, and notice the prominent position the proliferation of engineers and other non-business people.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/bmag/sbsm0211/spreadsheet_class.shtml%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/bmag/sbsm0211/spreadsheet_class.shtml&lt;/a> </p>

<p><a href="http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/downloads/publications/mbacareer02.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/downloads/publications/mbacareer02.pdf&lt;/a> </p>

<p><a href="http://www.kellogg.nwu.edu/admissions/apply/entering.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.kellogg.nwu.edu/admissions/apply/entering.htm&lt;/a> </p>

<p><a href="http://www.bus.umich.edu/Admissions/Mba/Profile.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.bus.umich.edu/Admissions/Mba/Profile.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>I did not major in business and I am currently applying to business school. I didn't major in business/economics because I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life when I was an undergraduate, so I ended up doing biology. But after college I started working and a couple years later I decided I wanted to pursue an MBA for a number of reasons. Just make sure that you have a good GPA, have good ECs during and after college, get a good job, and dominate on the GMAT and you'll be fine.</p>

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<p>thanks for the replies sakky and alicante</p>