<p>There's no way around it, I was not a good undergraduate student. I graduated with about a 2.8 GPA (B.S. in Accounting) in 2012, and my major GPA was actually slightly worse. No internships, no personal relationships with professors at all. In short, I pretty much wasted my time in college and scraped through doing the bare minimum.</p>
<p>Fast forward 20 months, I am at the same salaried position at a non-profit that I lucked into immediately after graduation. It isn't directly related to the field of accounting, but there are definitely financial and bookkeeping aspects where I use my undergrad education everyday. It's been a wonderful job, but it's funded by a temporary grant that expires at the end of 2014. With the encouragement of my boss, I'm wanting to return to college to get my MACC. The local state university offers a night class program specifically designed for working professionals, the location is convenient and I can afford the extra cost....unfortunately it has a hard minimum of a 3.0 undergrad GPA.</p>
<p>I've looked through similar threads and I'll try to preempt some questions:</p>
<p>Any viable excuse for the poor undergrad performance?
I didn't try as hard as I should have in college, but yeah, shortly after I graduated, my doctor diagnosed me with ADHD and put me on a prescription that dramatically improved my work performance.</p>
<p>Why would this time be different? Well aside from what I just mentioned, I feel like the job has instilled discipline in me, including getting up at 6:30 every morning and having to regularly meet deadlines.</p>
<p>Letters of Recommendation? I have several work-related people who would write very strong LOR's, but unfortunately, no professors from my undergrad days.</p>
<p>GMAT? I've done some light studying, but it's expensive and I don't want to go through with that if I have no chance and am just burning money. That said, I've never in my life scored below the 90th percentile in any of those standardized tests.</p>
<p>So basically, I have 3 questions:</p>
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<li>Is there any way around the GPA minimum?</li>
<li>Who at the school can I talk to? I have a feeling that the admissions/recruitment people would lack the specific expertise on this program, and just sending in an application with no ally on the inside would likely end in failure.</li>
<li>Is there anything else that I can do, outside of throw myself at the mercy of whoever at the school has the power to affect things?</li>
</ol>
<p>Sorry about the wall of text, I was just trying to get all the relevant info out there. Thanks, folks.</p>
<p>Edit----this may be better suited to the Grad School part of the forum, I'll leave that up to the mods.</p>