Looking for advice: Small state college to big school MBA?

Analog
Fri, 25 Apr 2014 18:41:10 +0000

Hello everyone!

I am currently a senior attending a small state school: The University of West Georgia. About 12,000 students and typically ranked as a top 10 school in the state. Nothing special.

I am a double major student (Management and Marketing) and I would like to attend a larger and well-respected MBA program in the future. I love the small school atmosphere, but I am ready to move on to new experiences.

I currently have a 2.91 GPA (Goes up every semester) and I will graduate next Spring.

I was a pre-engineering student when I first attended college, and I failed pretty miserably. I honestly failed many things to my junior year. I was immature, had no direction, had a poor work-school balance, in a destructive relationship, and just not where I needed to be mentally to succeed.

Now, I am really trying to improve my overall profile to improve my chances at a solid MBA program.

I have a very positive GPA trend over the last year. Over my last 30 hours I have averaged a 3.78 GPA. I have also joined 3 clubs, and I am a board member on one. I am hopefully going to compete in an economics competition this December in India as well.

I know I will continue to make good grades as I advance toward graduation, and I have begun re-taking classes I had taken earlier and made D’s in. (Finance, Statistics, and Calculus) These classes required dedication that I simply did not give them due to my immaturity. I know I can make an A or B in them now.

Have my past mistakes screwed my profile to the point where I am dreaming to enter a top 50 program? I am looking at a realistic 3.1-3.2 at graduation with an upward sloping GPA trend.

Do you guys have any advice on how I can improve my profile further?

Would studying abroad make me more attractive for MBA admission?

Potential MBA hopefuls are:

Hopefuls: University of Miami, University of Georgia

Stretch: USC (Marshall)

Dream: UCLA (Haas), UCLA (Anderson)

Thank you for reading!

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