<p>Hey guys. This is my first post on here so a real quick life story.</p>
<p>-graduated from high school
-worked for the department of defense doing low level office work for 2 years
-became a part time actor for a year and even had a very small role in the second and third matrix movies
-joined the US Navy for 4 years as a logistics specialist.
-got out and got an associates degree in math and transfered to UC Berkeley.</p>
<p>So now I'm almost done with an economics degree and an industrial engineering and operations research minor. The upper division statistics and engineering classes at Berkeley have really pulled down my GPA and now I'm around a 3.2</p>
<p>So am I still likely to get accepted to a top tier MBA program if all of my work experience is Pre bachelor's degree and My GPA is just average. I have some impressive accomplishments from my time in the Navy and I think I can get some glowing letters of recommendation. I feel like if I had the same resume after Berkeley I would be a strong candidate, but right now I'm not sure.</p>
<p>haven’t taken the real test, but on the practice tests I’m scoring in between 690 and 700. Hopefully if I do some more studying I can boost that up a little more for the real test. I’m not applying for fall 2011. Planning on 2012</p>
<p>I’m targeting Berkeley, UCLA, USC, and for my reach school Oxford in England.</p>
<p>Also I’m from an under represented minority group (Black)</p>
<p>I dont know what your chances are, but check out some other top tier schools that are military friendly. I have a few friends who were Navy who went to Carnegie Mellon and seemed to like the program.</p>
<p>3.5 is the entry requirement at Oxford, so it would be auto-reject. Employment experience would make up for it, but it would probably need to be more along the lines of business and 6 years worth of it post-undergrad. If you want to do a UK school, look more along the lines of Cass. Or do an MSc instead of MBA.</p>
<p>Oh and Navy’s going to kill Army next weekend. Thanks for your service.</p>
<p>Where did you guys find the minimum requirements? I looked on their site and didnt see it. Is that the minimum for all Oxford schools or just the business school?</p>
<p>Overachiever91, don’t post if you have no idea what you are talking about. You are an idiot thinking that Oxford has a minimum entry requirement of 3.3. </p>
<p>I actually saw the 3.5 posting on oxford’s website also, but is that concrete or more like a guideline??</p>
<p>I have a good friend who is getting his MBA at Haas at Berkeley. He said that he had a 2.9 GPA as a math undergrad at Berkeley and was accepted. he had some pretty good work experience and some good letters of rec. </p>
<p>Berkeley has some pretty bad grade deflation and the average math major graduates with a 2.70 and the average econ major graduates with a 3.10 so I’m hoping that they take that into account.</p>
<p>UK schools differ from US schools in that entry requirements are minimums. This weeds out the riff raff. They are very objective and predictable in admissions. You have a 3.5+/690+ and you’re essentially in. It isn’t like applying to US schools where you apply to 5 top schools in hopes of getting into one.</p>
<p>Adam, you could try being nicer to people. I admit I was wrong, but only because I was thinking about the Cambridge MBA which has minimum entry requirements of 3.3 (or 2.1 for that matter). And this still didnt give you the right to call me an idiot.
[Our</a> Requirements - ApplyingMBA - Cambridge Judge Business School](<a href=“http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/mba/apply/requirements.html]Our”>http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/mba/apply/requirements.html)</p>
<p>The UK schools really differ from the US ones. Even when comes to undergrad admissions, the numbers are the most important and if you don`t have the minimum ones, you are theoretically out of the competition for that uni (or Business school) .</p>
<p>adam0302, the admissions set on the oxford website are just guidelines. Anyone with a 3.0 has a chance at Said provided s/he excelled in some areas. I applied to Said in 2006 and was accepted with a 2.1 and a GMAT score of 700. A guy from Notts has a Fist Class Honors and a 620 GMAT score was also accepted. A Canadian guy I met in the pre-interview at Said has an engineering degree from UBC with very subpar GPA and a GMAT score of 650 was also accepted. </p>
<p>Said is a tough school to get into, and by and large, favors older and more experienced applicants (something that discourages me from enrolling). But I honestly think that Berkeley-Haas is much more difficult to get into, because Haas admits only about 12% of its applicants.</p>