<p>My son wants to attend a top 20 business school. He's going to graduate from Berkeley with about a 3.2 gpa. As for his race he is Mexican. What score would he need to get on his GMAT to be considered for admission?</p>
<p>I think it depends a lot on the work experience, but i would think in the 700s or high 600s.</p>
<p>does it seem like the OP thinks her son should get added consideration/bonus points for not being white?</p>
<p>some of the schools my son is considering are Columbia, NYU, USC Marshall and Harvard</p>
<p>@rcoll So do admission officers.</p>
<p>you need work experience, work for 2-3 years then apply if you want to go to a top program</p>
<p>yes, we’re well aware that work experience is required.</p>
<p>nothing weirds me out more than over-invested parents. your son is now 21, he should be able to figure these things out on his own. if 4 years at berkeley hasn’t taught him that yet, nothing will…</p>
<p>and it sounds like your son has had many advantages already afforded to him that others have not such as being able to attend one of the top universities in the world. it’s unfortunate that the system still allows one to milk the URM status regardless of circumstances…</p>
<p>baycroberts, when you make a comment like this:</p>
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<p>Have you taken the time to review the admissions policies of the UC schools like Berkeley regarding race?</p>
<p>Particularly without knowing the details of the high school success of the student that got him into UC Berkeley?</p>
<p>it doesn’t matter whether i know berkeley’s admission policies or not (affirmative action, tacit AA or what not). what i do know is that this individual, having already attended a top university, should not be leaning on their URM status to have admissions advantages afforded to him.</p>
<p>but bayvcroberts, your comments and attacks on the college student assume that he got into UC Berkeley with affirmative action, which is NOT the case.</p>
<p>and not knowing his background, you have no factual knowledge about how disadvantaged he was and what adversities he had that would lead you to make such statements as:</p>
<p>"…having already attended a top university, should not be leaning on their URM status to have admissions advantages afforded to him. "</p>
<p>so get your chewing tobacco and white pointed hood and have fun at that campfire in North Carolina that you attend once in a while - you are a little late for the scheduled “meeting”.</p>
<p>johnadams, i’m talking about the now and not the past. regardless of how he got into college, as far as now is concerned, he certainly isn’t in such a disadvantaged position, having gone to berkeley, that he should be claiming URM status to get into a top MBA. in fact, if we rewound the story and he was an underprivileged minority high school student, i completely and utterly believe that he or any other student in a similar situation should receive admissions benefits. </p>
<p>and before you make any further racist comments, i suggest you to stop making assumptions of your own. and for your knowledge, i’m from sf (hence bay) and happily married to a non-caucasian wife.</p>
<p>In top b school, claiming URM status doesn’t help as much as undergraduate admissions because most of the b schools have about 30% of their classes made up of international students which take care of the diversity issue. From my personal experience, most of the US minority students who gain admissions to top b schools have credentials that are competitive, not needing any AA advantages.
For the OP, I think your son’s GPA is fine, but his GMAT should be at least 700+ to be competitive with the schools you mentioned.Far more important will be his essays and work experience.</p>
<p>bayvcroberts, as you take off your white pointed hood to see the rest of the world through your racists views against Hispanics, having a mail-order Vietnamese wife does not give you the right to make such racist comments as you have made above and below.</p>
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<p>your maturity level is astounding low. you’ve resorted to nothing more than name calling and racism yourself - the very things you claim to be fighting. i may have been a bit harsh with regards to my first post but certainly not with the others. i have nothing more to say to you. </p>
<p>to the op, your son will do just fine. your son will get into bschool on his laurels and achievements thus far (berkeley being one of many i’m sure) and not his minority status. good luck.</p>
<p>ok, i just found out that columbia business school’s student body is only around 3% hispanic despite their efforts to attract hispanic students so him being mexican should help out. i’m just trying to help broaden my son’s choices so that he knows what’s available to him.</p>
<p>if my son’s gmat score and gpa end up being slightly lower than what some some top school’s average is but it turns out that the school’s goal is to attract hispanic students that could change my son’s chances from reach to match. he told me he was interested in some top schools but kinda shied away from considering applying to them thinking it would probably be unrealistic to get into them.</p>
<p>i also found this program that might interest others [The</a> Consortium](<a href=“http://www.cgsm.org/]The”>http://www.cgsm.org/)</p>
<p>Kaley, having been admitted to some of the aforementioned business schools as well as having attended one of the top 5 schools, here’s my two cents. So long as your son scores ~700 gmat and has good work experience, he shouldn’t have too much difficulty gaining admissions to any of the programs between the 12-20 range. If he has solid work progression and scores well above 700, then the 8-12 range is achievable (stern included). For the top 7 or 8 schools, good scores are required and the rest is all about accomplishments and other intangibles you bring to the table. Many who attend such programs have blue chip work experience with great career progression from the likes of GE, McKinsey, Bridgespan, etc. Programs such as Stanford and Kellogg boast about how many top 1% GMAT scores (760-770+) they reject.</p>
<p>bay, excellent post</p>
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<p>Where is this stat?
Columbia is a top school in a very diverse city where the hispanic population is huge. I am sure every qualified hispanic student would include Columbia as their target school. If your statistics is accurate, it only reflects the school’s selectivity in not admitting unqualified students even they have URM status and not that Columbia has difficulty getting minority students to apply.</p>
<p>You just made the assumption that only 3% of the student body at Columbia is Hispanic because Hispanics are unqualified to go there.</p>