Texas MBA transfer student

So I missed the boat for auto admits into business schools out of high school, and only now do I learn that a lot of business schools are insanely competitive. I spent a lot of time thinking I was going to do engineering, but ended up deciding to change majors and thought business wouldn’t be any more competitive than engineering. Then I learned that A&M’s business school only takes 100 transfer students a year, UT’s only takes 77. I wasn’t too worried about getting in with engineering, but after seeing these numbers for business I’m a bit worried now.

I finished an associates in software development at a technical school where only psychology and English transfer, but that prevents me from applying as a freshman, so I am currently at a community college doing some basics and getting the requirements to transfer to a university. The problem is I have no idea where to go now. My sights had been set on A&M for so long and I really want to go there, but with them only accepting 100 per year, my hopes aren’t very high. I have some pretty bad grades back from like 2012 when I was doing an early college program in high school, so even if I do great now I don’t think I’ll have the 3.9 GPA that seems to be required to get into these places. Hopefully I’ll manage 3.5+ or so.

With engineering, from what I understand, the school you go to doesn’t really matter. But I imagine the business world is a lot more ‘snobby’ about where you got your degree from. Is this correct?

Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions on where to go as a transfer for an MBA? I’m not opposed to going out of state, I’m just not so sure it will be affordable. I was looking at Southern Methodist but they seem to be hard to get into as well and a bit pricey.

As for preferences other than the quality of the degree, really all I have is that I’d like to avoid more left-leaning schools. I don’t really like highly urban settings either, but I won’t rule out a good school for that.

I don’t think this is the right board for you. The topic here is graduate school admission, and you seem to want to transfer into a college business program. You could ask your question on the TAMU board, which is very active.

As to where to go for an MBA, it’s too early for you to be thinking about that. Admissions will depend on your college grades, your work experience after college (usually they want 1-2 years), and your GMAT score.