Is it hopeless for me to get into a decent business school?

Graduate School Business School - MBA
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<p>I did really poorly during the first part of my undergrad - I had undiagnosed ADHD, my father died in the beginning of my 2nd year and I had very bad crohn's disease, which made it impossible to sit through entire classes sometimes.</p>

<p>I transferred schools and did somewhat better, but I was still plagued by ADHD and crohn's. I made dean's list once or twice, but some of my grades weren't exactly stellar. I graduated with a BA in Math.</p>

<p>Anyway, after college, I got my crohn's under control, somewhat gotten a handle on my ADHD, I got a job as a software engineer, which I've been doing for 12 years now. I've worked at well known companies, and now my title is principal software engineer. One of the companies I worked for was a major investment bank, several dealt with securities trading.</p>

<p>I also took a graduate CS class, and a hard-science undergrad class (a major-track class, not the watered-down version) at Berkeley and got As in both. I realize these have little relevance to a business major.</p>

<p>I have not taken the GMAT yet, but from some sample questions I think I would do extremely well on it (esp. the math-oriented portions).</p>

<p>Is there any chance at all for me to get into a decent business school? If not, would I have to redo all the undergrad classes that I choked on? What do you think the best course of action would be for me?</p>

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<p>You need to define what you mean by “decent”.</p>

<p>At the lower ranked (below top 30ish), you can get in with a good GMAT.</p>

<p>Unfortunately, you shot at a top b-school is low, not because of all your problems during UG, but because you’ve worked 12 years already. It’s exceedingly difficult for older applicants to get into a full time program at a top b-school. You can try the executive or part-time programs, but those don’t afford the same job opportunities at the full-time program.</p>