<p>I am thinking about going to grad school. I was wondering what schools might waive my out of state fees. I have a 3.4 GPA, 670 GMAT and I will be one of the youngest graduates in the U.S (19)</p>
<p>If you get into a grad school program that is fully funded, your would receive funding for your tuition. But you are looking for MBA programs, and honestly, those are not typically fully funded.</p>
<p>Your ability to get instate status would depend on the school policies for awarding this. It could be granted to you as part of an assistantship or fellowship, if you were selected for either of those awards.</p>
<p>Are there NO MBA programs in your state of residence?</p>
<p>There are MBA programs in my state, but I need a back up plan because the schools I am applying to are very competitive. </p>
<p>If you are looking for funding, then you will need to be a highly competitve applicant yourself. No matter where you apply.</p>
<p>I don’t need money, but a out of state tuition waiver</p>
<p>Then you need money. Grad school programs offer waivers to OOS tuition as part of incentives to get students who they really want in their programs to attend. This would be based on the strength of your application.</p>
<p>If you are asking which schools will simply grant you a fee waiver…just because…there are none. These schools use these waivers to attract highly qualified students to their programs.</p>
<p>You can apply for admission…perhaps the strength of you application will put you on the running for an award.</p>
<p>This is for an MBA? I thought reputable colleges for that do not take people without management track or other related experience. You can’t contribute much to the cohort or get out of it as much as you could with 3 to 5 years work experience. Youth and inexperience is not an asset for these programs. My younger cousin went to an executive program at University of Chicago and he was the youngest they had ever admitted at 5 years out of college. Maybe that is just because it is an Exec program. That also came with the bonus that his employer paid for it. </p>
<p>I am not familiar with MBA programs waiving fees, but some do give first year fellowships to students on a very limited basis. It is a huge search process for you. You have to find colleges where you have something they want. Are you in a group that is underrepresented in the MBA pool?</p>
<p>I agree with Brown Parent,; any worthwhile MBA program (Stern, Wharton, Columbia, HBS, you get my drift), is not going to want a student without work experience (although HBS does have a program with limited seats for people coming out of undergrad). </p>
<p>In addition, your being 19 years old is going to be a hinderance, where the average age is ~ 26 (My D has 8 good friends from undergrad who all have MBAs from HBS. The things that they all have in common; high GPAs, high GMATs and 2/3 years work experience - most of them consulting/IB). </p>
<p>At this stage, you would probably be better served finding a job with a company that has a good tuition remission program, work a couple of years at least until you get some type of management experience and let the company pay for your MBA</p>
<p>Also are you saying you only want public college mba? Because privates don’t distinguish between instate and OOS. I suggested in your other thread to visit the MBA section of this forum, also do some reading on Poets & Quants because I think you could use more info.
<a href=“http://poetsandquants.com/”>http://poetsandquants.com/</a></p>
<p>I agree with others. Your young age is not an asset in this situation, unless you have some valuable business experience. Also, if you are graduating in less than four years because of AP credits or dual enrollment in HS, this also will not aid your MBA application where they want to see college classes taken in college.</p>
<p>What is your business goal? If it is IB that is different than being an entrepreneur and starting your own business.</p>
<p>If you are not a competitve applicant for one of the NC universities that offer an MBA, I find it hard to believe you would be competitive for an OOS public university where you exoect to receive an OOS waiver as part of your acceptance. Those are merit awards given to top applicants.</p>
<p>ETA…you say upstream that you do not need money. If that is the case, and you can afford $60,000 a year, look at the private university MBA programs. Although I’m not sure you would be a competitve applicant at these schools.</p>
<p>I didn’t take any AP classes. I took all my college credit courses at my college. I graduated high school at 16.</p>
<p>Yoyu are going to be in a chicken or the egg syndrome; it is going to be hard for you to get in to a competitive MBA program with out work experience. However, admittance to any MBA program (probably with the exception of Harvard) at 19 and no work experience is going to make it hard for you to get a job when you graduate (because you have no work experience and employers will think that you think that an entry level position is beneath you so they won’t consider you). </p>
<p>Make sure that you have some internship experience, take a couple of years to do TFA or other work experience before pursuing an MBA.</p>
<p>You truncated HS and college as well. I would,also suggest you get some experience in the business field you wish to enter.</p>
<p>I have done an internship with the buffalo bills and chicago white sox the last two summers</p>
<p>What is your goal as a business major? Did you intern in those sport team finance departments? </p>
<p>Even with two internships…you are still quite young for a MBA program. The issue you have posed here is about OOS tuition waivers. As I’ve said…repeatedly…these are merit aid incentives that schools award to those applicants who they REALLY want as part of the grad school cohort. </p>
<p>So…apply and see. Perhaps you will get selected for such a tuition reduction. Perhaps not.</p>
<p>But are there schools that give these OOS tuition waivers just because? No!</p>
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<p>As a former corporate HR person, my advice is your best bet should be to try to get an entry level position with a spots team, NFL, MLB , work a couple of years and then go for an MBA. Because even with a MBA, you will never get an entry level managerial position with out some considerable work experience.</p>
<p>Have you contacted the Bills or Sox about the possibility of working for them? Since you interned with them, perhaps that door will be open for you. Worth a shot!</p>