If I were to go to the same school for undergrad as I would apply to for an MBA, would that boost my chances of acceptance, and if so, how significantly?
not really. Different admissions criteria. The fact that you attended football games as an undergrad and know the campus food spots won’t be in the MBA evaluation criteria. THey don’t really care that you’re a big fan of the undergrad institution
It isn’t likely that it would make a difference.
Depends on the school. Unlikely to make a major difference.
I wouldn’t get an undergrad business degree from the same place. Those professors are going to be looking awfully familiar (too familiar) by the time you get through the 2nd degree with them.
^^^That depends – if you had a liberal arts or other non-business degree from a school and then go back and get a MBA from the business school of the same university would be fine-- you have a whole different set of teachers when you take business courses. I studied business as an undergraduate – I took 4 MBA classes as an undergrad and most professors in the business school taught both undergrad and grad classes so it would have been way too repetitive for me to get a MBA from the same school. However, a friend of mine was an engineering undergrad student at my university and went on to get his MBA there and it was fine (no overlap).
In any event and this is not part of the question, but to get into a top MBA program you will need at least two years of meaningful work experience so a person would not be going directly from undergrad to a MBA program in most cases.