Should I be looking at top schools?

RoaringMice
Tue, 18 Jul 2017 17:44:38 +0000

Without knowing your GMAT scores/GRE, there’s no way to know if you should be looking at top schools. I’d recommend you take a full length, timed, sample GMAT or GRE and see how you score cold, without prep. Use that as your baseline.

All decent MBA programs, and especially the top MBA programs, strongly recommend that you work full time 2-3 years before you apply. Ideal jobs would be consulting, business analyst, product management, programmer/CS, investment banking, but I’ve seen people from all types of jobs get into the top programs. They normally do keep a few open spots for people right out of undergrad, but the competition there is normally even more intense than for there “experienced” spots, so be aware of that.