<p>I have dream of going to a top Business School like Wharton or Harvard. </p>
<p>What exactly do I need, resume, to be able to prove to these schools I'm qualified enought to be accepted there?</p>
<p>Right now I'm in a not so famous University, Chico State with a 3.2 GPA. I am a 3rd Year Student. I've started a company on the side of school with the hopes to become profitable within the next school year.</p>
<p>Please Let me know a few things: on the possible schools I could attend, the GMAT score I need, the work experience I need, the continuing GPA I need. Thank you.</p>
<p>Sorry to sound like a hard ass, but a majority of these things are found rather easily with a little bit of time and research. For example, average GMAT scores are typically found right on b-school websites generally under class profiles - or in general rankings (such as USNews b-school rankings).</p>
<p>If you do a bit of a search on this site alone, you'll find many of the same kinds of questions have been asked multiple times and answered.</p>
<p>The good news is that having a degree from Chico will not keep you out of the top b-schools (especially HBS, Stanford, or Wharton). But you will have an uphill climb compared to many of your fellow applicants, especially in light of your relatively low GPA.<br>
To a certain extent, the admissions committees will base how competitive a candidate is depending on how tough their undergraduate program, coursework/major, full-time work experience, and professional/extracurricular leadership experiences were. If you look at the profiles for most of the students at the top schools, the majority will come from ivies, top public/privates, and service academies.<br>
I think an easy way to answer your question about how Chico compares to the top schools in CA is to ask yourself how easy it is to get into Chico vs. those same schools... in addition to the academic quality/competitiveness of the average students between schools.
Again, it's not impossible... but it'll definitely be much more difficult for you than it will be for a Goldman Sachs analyst who had a 3.5 in Economics from Yale -- and he/she is by no means a lock at the top schools.
Good luck.</p>
<p>So basically I not locked out of the top schools, sweet. But does being in the Economics Club, Business Club, Finance Club, do extracurricular activities help? What type of schools do you think I'm a match for?</p>
<p>Those clubs help in the sense that you will be like most other applicants to top schools since they are similarly involved. But leadership/strategic responsibilities are what adcoms are looking for... positions that have facilitated your personal/professional growth, widened your perspectives on blah blah blah... not just simple membership.
It's impossible to say which schools you're a match for since you have no post-bachelor's fulltime experience yet, your GPA isn't finalized, and you haven't taken the GMAT yet. To be perfectly blunt, based on what you've posted so far (3.2 GPA at Chico), the top 10-15 schools will likely be extreme reaches.</p>
<p>"780+ GMAT, 3.7+ GPA, 2-3 years decent work experience."</p>
<p>Thank you..
Say I got a 710 GMAT, 3.4 GPA at Chico with Business, Econ, Finance Clubs. What Like are my matches if I have not work Experience</p>
<p>Say I got a 730 GMAT, 3.5 GPA at Chico with Business, Econ, Finance Clubs with 2 years, analyst for a mid-size ibank in San Francisco. What are my matches.</p>
<p>Say I got a 800 GMAT, 3.5 GPA at Chico with Business, Econ, Finance Clubs.
What likely are my matches with no prior work experience. Thank you.</p>
<p>If you have no work experience then forget the top 10. Better yet, forget the top 25. Unless you're absolutely amazing and think you can be one of the 4 students out of 750 at Wharton admitted without work experience.</p>
<p>But if you have the 2 years, then you can probably consider most but like the top 5, it's a crapshoot for anyone.</p>
<p>I am also a Chico Student and i have been around the country interviewing with different Business schools and this is what they all say: If there is one position open at their University and their are two students, a mediocre graduate from Yale with a 3.0 GPA, and a Graduate from Chico State with a 3.7 GPA, Summa Cum Lade, Lots of Internships, Speaks 3 languages, has traveled around the world, worked for a top consulting firm for two years, and has a clear career goal, they will definatley choose the Chico Grad. </p>
<p>in other words, the institution that you attend IS part of your application, but it sure isn't a huge aspect. The reason that more people from "top" (although in my personal opinion it doesn't get better than Chico :) ) undergrad programs go to top Grad Schools is because they have a better work ethic, and worked hard in highschool, but if you go to Chico and work your ass off, you'll be fine; a note to everyone else, Chico State Grads will one day rule the world!</p>
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If there is one position open at their University and their are two students, a mediocre graduate from Yale with a 3.0 GPA, and a Graduate from Chico State with a 3.7 GPA, Summa Cum Lade, Lots of Internships, Speaks 3 languages, has traveled around the world, worked for a top consulting firm for two years
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<p>But right there is part of the problem. How does somebody from Chico State, even a summa cum laude grad with a 3.7, speaks 3 languages and has lots o internships, manage to get into a top consulting firm? Whether you like it or not, McKinsey, BCG, Bain, and consulting firms of that caliber recruit at only a select number of schools. If you don't go to one of those schools, you will find it difficult indeed to get an offer, no matter how good you are. To work for one of these firms, you first have to get hired, and to get hired, you have to be invited to interview, and on-campus recruiting through your school's career office is one of the few ways in which you can secure an invitation from firms like that.</p>
<p>Hence, it's more than the fact that Yale grads tend to be harder working in high school that explains why they tend to do better than Chico grads in terms of B-school admissions.. It's also that better jobs are available to them right out of school, and those better jobs will improve their B-school chances.</p>
<p>How many people on this board have started "companies"? What kinds of companies are you all starting? Are you eBay power sellers or something? It seems like every kid who doesn't want to get full time work experience claims to have started a "company".</p>