<p>Globaltraveller, you really need to be adding the proper caveats to what you are saying, lest you mislead everybody here.</p>
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YES, you can get admitted to the MBA program without those "7 areas" but you will either have to take those areas as a "provisional admitted student" or the school will jst add those courses to the total needed to graduate
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<p>Look, I'll put it to you this way. I am intimately familiar with the MBA curricula of a number of B-schools and I can tell you as a fact that neither HBS nor MITSloan have any such concept as a "provisional admitted student", nor is there any such concept as adding courses to the total you need to graduate. Every HBS student completes the exact same core as every other HBS student, every MITSloan student completes the exact same core as every other MITSloan student. For example, it doesn't matter whether you know nothing about economics or whether you have a PhD in economics, you will still be required to take the requisite HBS or Sloan Econ core class regardless. You can have a BS in bus ad and it doesn't matter a whit.</p>
<p>Now there are other MBA programs such as Stanford, Wharton and Berkeley Haas that do allow you to test out of certain parts of their core. But that doesn't change the total number of units you need to graduate. For every core course you test out of, you are expected to replace it with elective units. Hence. there is no such concept of "adding to the total credits needed". For example, at Wharton, you need a total of 19 units to graduate (where Wharton's definition of 'unit' is admittedly strange, but that's neither here nor there). You can waive certain core coures, but waivers neither change the number of units you need to graduate, nor themselves give you any units. Hence, waivers effectively simply allow you to trade core for electives. </p>
<p>Now I agree that there are some MBA programs, notably Kellogg's, that do allow you to waive courses without need for replacement, or simply waive an entire year. However, this is NOT a general rule. Hence, if you want to talk about schools that offer true waivers, you need to properly identify EXACTLY which B-schools you are talking about. You simply cannot generalize to all B-schools.</p>
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For example, you cannot just start off taking the graduate accounting course in the MBA program.
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<p>Oh really? Funny, because plenty of MBA students do EXACTLY that. For example, I know that the core graduate Accounting courses at both HBS and Sloan's entire Classes of 2007 just had their Accounting final exams about a few weeks ago. Most of them had never taken any undergrad accounting course or a bridge course, yet, strangely enough, they somehow all got placed into a graduate accounting course right from the start. According to you, that's impossible. So perhaps you'd like to tell the HBS and Sloan Classes of 2007 that what they've done is not allowed. While you're at it, you might want to say the same thing to members of the HBS and Sloan Classes of 2006, 2005, and every single other year for at least the past few decades.</p>