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They won't even process your application without at least a 3.0. Some schools are a 3.25.
My suggestion is to prolong graduation and fix your GPA. But then again, MBAs are more about the certificate than the knowledge anyway.
Can't prolong graduation -- don't think my company would be too thrilled by me asking for a postponement of my start date because my grades suck and I doubt my dad would be very happy about shelling out an extra $20,000 for another semester.
And I don't want to belabor this point, but I've been told from a few semi-reliable sources (career counselors, people in b-school, etc...) that getting into a top 10 school with everything stellar except for <3.0GPA is possible. Maybe not Harvard or Wharton for sure, but at least one of a place like Michigan, Haas, Tuck, NYU, Chicago, MIT or Columbia. And I'd be pretty happy with any of those.
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Deluks917 Assuming can get a 720 GMAT why couldn't you get a 3.5 GPA.
FWIW, I was a hard science major, had intense extracurriculars for 3 years (2 years of 20hrs/week and 1 year of 50hrs/week), got an internship sophomore year that led to my current job (so a bit of complacency, I'll admit) and frankly, I just don't care about getting grades for grades' sake. I felt like I learned a lot and had a good time at a great school. Yes, obviously that was a bad attitude in retrospect but too late to change that now.
Anyways, keep the suggestions coming. They're much appreciated. Like I said, I'm not doing this solely for the purpose of padding my resume -- I've never seen Asia or Europe so I want something that can kill two birds with one stone.
