<p>How much does the reputation of the university where the bachelor degree is from counts in post graduation selection process?</p>
<p>How can someone improve their chances of being accepted? (what can the student do during 4 years of bachelor to improve his chances of entering in a better university for master)</p>
<p>For example what are the chances of an individual with a business administration degree from West texas A&M that is Regional Universities (West) and has aacsb accreditation with a very high GPA to enter in a Little Ivie and receive financial aid? </p>
<p>This question has been asked ad nauseam on this forum.</p>
<p>In short, your undergrad reputation matters some but not a lot. What matters much more is what you’ve done in undergrad - your past experience, research, work experience, etc. Your degree from WTAMU won’t keep you out of a highly-ranked institution in and of itself, if that is what you are worried about. Your GPA, work/research experience and other factors will matter far more.</p>
<p>What you can do during college to increase your chances depends entirely on what program you are talking about. You didn’t specify what you want to get your master’s in. If it is in an academic field, you can increase your chances by getting research experience, forming strong relationships with professors who can write you recommendation letters, selecting schools at which your interests and background are a good ‘fit’ and crafting an excellent statement of purpose. If you aim to get into a professional field, getting internship and work experience, as well as volunteering/participating in meaningful extra-curricular activities on campus, may increase your chances in some fields (etc., Model UN for a public policy degree, or working with the Peer Health Exchange for a public health degree).</p>
<p>If you want an MBA and you want to go to a top program, you need to get work experience post-college - and preferably 2-5 years of it. You should also know that financial aid to MBA programs is nearly non-existent, and if you want one, you should expect to finance it almost entirely if not entirely with loans. The trade-off for this is that graduating from a top program greatly increases your chances of being able to make enough money to repay those loans.</p>
<p>Also, I’m not sure what you mean by “little Ivy”, but the term has historically referred to the elite small liberal arts colleges. Given that these colleges are undergraduate focused, few if any of them have graduate programs.</p>