<p>I’m not sure where some of you have come up with the ideas about what is necessary to obtain any specific job, but you’re making blanket statements that do not hold any universal truth. Case and point; I went to a private liberal arts university in California and majored in communications. I currently work in due diligence and strategic planning at a venture capital firm that currently has over 1/2 billion in managed funds. It’s a small firm but not tiny. One of the VPs had very very average undergrad grades. She graduated from a small “who’s heard of it” college in Texas. She went on to be a leading Inv. banker for Anderson - starting divisions, etc. Then graduated as some blah blah scholar from Harvard B-school. AND she scored UNDER 650 on the GMAT! How did she and I get the jobs that we have? Tenacity, intelligence and personality. Not GPAs or what school we went to etc. that helps, but if you’re book smart but cannot make an intelligent decision in a crisis situation, you might as well stick to doing the financials in the back office. btw - i just got accepted to babson’s mba program - people in my industry - even on the west coast HAVE HEARD OF IT and think it’s a great program!</p>