<p>I am a high school senior, who kind of slacked off all through high school. SO, i cannot get into the steller undergrad schools but for an MBA i would like to hit the ball out of the park and would just like to know how i can get into the top business schools out there.</p>
<p>Get a good GPA, a good GMAT score, and make sure to have great work experience after graduating from college.</p>
<p>what exactly does one mean when he or she says "good GPA, a good GMAT score, and make sure to have great work experience after graduating from college."</p>
<p>3.5+ GPA, GMAT over 700, and work experience at a large/reputable company involving some amount of responsibility.</p>
<p>why don't you be more specific and then you might actually get some better feedback...</p>
<p>your first question is way to broad to be taken seriously, and yet, a poster has generously taken the time to answer. You deliver in kind with a petulant response...</p>
<p>Judging by those two posts, MythBlazer, i'm afraid you're in no danger of getting into Wharton or Sloan - so I wouldn't sweat it.</p>
<p>well IvyGrad, first off what ivy school have you graduated from?, secondly no one has put a gun to your mouth and made you reply and lastly what do you mean by "Judging by those two posts, MythBlazer, i'm afraid you're in no danger of getting into Wharton or Sloan - so I wouldn't sweat it." i really need much more clarification. </p>
<p>thanks for your reply jpps1 and IvyGrad once you answer my modest questions please let your self out and donot let the door hit you behind once you leave.</p>
<p>oooh tension rising...</p>
<p>My advice is to go to college and ask these questions to your college counselors or career center professionals. Don't ask us on this board. For all you know, we could be a bunch of maniacs.</p>
<p>But the answer to your question is quite obvious. Good grades, good GMAT, good work experience. Go to the website of what you perceive to be a "good" business school and look at their GPA and GMAT ranges. And you don't necessarily have to work for a company with a "name brand", as long as you get meaningful experience and can show the admissions people that it gave you the tools to help you succeed at the next level.</p>
<p>And yes, you do need to work full time after college. Unless you're some whiz kid from Stanford or Harvard with near perfect grades and test scores.</p>
<p>Do I even have a chance at Business schools like Columbia and Harvard with JUST internship experience (maybe like a couple summers), even if I have like a 750+ GMAT and like a 4.0 UGPA? I hear people who don't have full time experience are at a severe disadvantage. BTW, I'm not in college yet. Just looking around to see what my next move should be. I'm probably going to go to a mid-high second-tier college like NYU, Michigan if I'm lucky.</p>
<p>I'll be majoring in economics and/or journalism.</p>
<p>Of course you have a "chance", the question is, what kind of chance?</p>
<p>Perhaps this will put it in perspective. I've known people who completed PhD's from MIT who applied to top B-schools and didn't get in anywhere because they didn't have work experience. Academics not even elite graduate academics, does not count as work experience. Ask yourself, what's harder - getting a 750+ GMAT and a 4.0 GPA, or getting a PhD from MIT? </p>
<p>Look, if you have no work experience but you have top academic qualifications, then a PhD in business administration is probably more appropriate than an MBA (although many of these programs also want work experience). Otherwise, if you want an MBA, wha'ts so bad about working a few years beforehand? Is getting a job really such a terrible thing?</p>
<p>ok...then do I have to get a masters before I pursue a PhD in business? What's it called? Doctor of Business Adminstration (DBA)? How long does it take? Can I get a JD in addition to a PhD in business by way of simultaneous enrollment? Will I be in school until I'm like 30? Just wondering.</p>
<p>No, you don't have to get a masters before you pursue a PhD in business. You can (and many do), but it's not necessary. If your qualifications are strong, you can be admitted without it.</p>
<p>As far as what it's called, it depends on the school. Some schools call it the PhD. Some schools call it the DBA. Some schools (like Harvard Business School) strangely offer both the DBA and the PhD (don't ask why). </p>
<p>How long does it take? That's largely up to you and your topic. Some extremely fast people can take only 2 years. Some people can take a decade or more. It all depends on how well your research dissertation goes. There is no set time. </p>
<p>I doubt whether you will be able to get a JD and a doctorate in business simultaneously. A business doctorate is a huge commitment, particularly the dissertation. Besides, I don't know why you'd really want to do that anyway. </p>
<p>You may well be in school until you're 30. It's akin to PhD's in other disciplines - in which many students end up in school until they're 30 and beyond. Heck, I know a person who took over 15 years to complete her PhD (in French Literature, I think). </p>
<p>Look, like I said, I am not sure that the doctorate in bus-ad is entirely appropriate for you either. Lots of those programs also place a premium on work experience. My point is that they place less of a premium than do MBA programs.</p>
<p>Ok so Wharton requires alot of work experience. What's the average age of a person in Wharton's MBA program? Like 28 I assume? If a person graduates college with a degree in business, how many years of a low-paying job must they put up with before they can apply to Wharton and get a high paying job?</p>
<p>Who says you'll have a low-paying job before b-school? There are people who are making over $100k a year before b-school. At orientation, they said that the pre-MBA salaries of my class ranged from $5k/year to $450k/year.</p>
<p>who the hell would go to b-school if they were making 450 k a year. that is rediculous... it seems like a waste of time. damn, the forgone salary alone is so high that business school would end up costing 7 figures plus</p>
<p>That's what I thought when they said it. I suspect it's one of the international students who probably "works" for their rich parents. A lot of them are sent here to get MBAs and then they return to their parents' companies.</p>
<p>"I suspect it's one of the international students who probably "works" for their rich parents."</p>
<p>Yes, because being rich and working for your parents implies that you're lazy. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I didn't see the word lazy in alicantekid's post.</p>
<p>But if I had millionaire parents that gave me money for barely working, I'd be lazy as hell man.</p>
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<p>That presumes that you're actually forgoing salary. Some people still get sponsored to go to B-school, meaning they still earning their regular salary while they're going, in return for committing themselves to returning to the firm and working X number of years afterward.</p>
<p>Yeah, I never said lazy.</p>