<p>I'm in a predicament! I'm a current junior (A semester ahead of schedule) at a small liberal arts college. I play a college sport there, and pay next to nothing <5000 a year including room and board. </p>
<p>My dream is to get an MBA at a top school, preferably in Europe. (Hec, LBS) something top notch, that is extremely tough to get into. My gpa is sitting at a 3.5 or so, and it should only trend higher. Here is where my decision gets tough:</p>
<p>I was accepted into a public school university study abroad program, which would send me to Europe for a year and I would earn an economics degree at a school in Belgium, and also a degree from the public school. It would likely make my gpa drop, as the school in Belgium is taught entirely in French, and is 40-50% math based.</p>
<p>My only concern is getting into an Mba program after graduation. Would 2 degrees, and say a 3.2 gpa with fluency in 3 languages (I assume my french would go from conversational to fluent, and apparently the majority of students get conversational dutch also) be worth the cost (20,000$ extra) and look better to mba programs than say, a 3.7 gpa at my current school?</p>
<p>Why are you inclined to do this program? What is your rationale?</p>
<p>MBA programs mostly care about your work experience, so which one would position you for a good job? What industries/fields are you interested in?</p>
<p>I’m inclined to do the program IF it would allow me a better chance to get into a top European MBA program. (Preferably HEC, Insead) Also, the life experience is supposed to be amazing, so I wouldn’t complain about that.</p>
<p>As far as my work experience, I have already done work as a manager for a gaming company based in the U.K, and have interned with Adobe and Microsoft… definitely not the best, but I have done quite a bit for just having turned 20. </p>
<p>I would like to do consulting for a time, and then eventually move up into upper management roles. HEC appeals to me because of the certificates it offers, and my girlfriend of the past 2.5 years is from France… I visited and fell in love with Western Europe in general. I wouldn’t be doing the program for her, but I found that I want my future to be in Europe.</p>
<p>I should have said that I am VERY open to doing the Ecole program at HEC, that doesn’t require work experience, and this is the more likely scenario.</p>
<p>I’m just not quite sure if the 2 degrees would be worth it knowing the lower gpa I would undoubtably have. Not because I am a poor student, but taking upper level math courses and economics courses in French would not be quite the same as taking it in English. :disagree: </p>
<p>Thank you so much for the reply Titan! Looking forward to hearing your advice.</p>