How much would this hurt my chances at a top MBA program?

I'm about to graduate this semester and my grades this semester weren't stellar. I expect to be graduating with a only a little above a 3.5 overall at a semi-target. That's not bad but the problem is that I'm a finance major and of the 5 classes I had to take for my major, I got an A in only one of them. The rest were B/B+, and I feel kinda ashamed. I also experienced some course scheduling problems in prior years, which is why I'm taking these classes just now. Finance classes at my school are hard, and if I were taking them earlier without all the interviewing, I would've done better.

The thing is I know why I did poorly. I had skipped far too many classes for interviews; I had a couple every week and had to fly out of town almost once a week; sometimes twice or more a week. By the time I got a job and could concentrate all on studying, it was already Thanksgiving, and I had about 2+ months' worth of material to catch up on for 3 finance classes and 2 electives.

Also, I couldn't concentrate 100% on my classes because during my time doing interview preps, I also neglected all my friends in my business fraternity; this semester's new members actually didn't know I existed until they already joined. I helped found our chapter, so it looks bad on me that I'm so out of touch with everyone, and I really wanted to spend the remainder of my time to hang out with everyone so we could more easily stay in touch later on.

At the end, my academic performance is my responsibility, but if I were applying for HBS, Wharton, or Booth, you think they'll be more understand as to why I had only one A in a class of my major?

Oh and I'll be working in credit risk at a BB. I've also written an honors thesis and, as I mentioned before, founded a business fraternity chapter.

 

Credit risk to H/S is going to be tough regardless as you'll be in the finance bucket with kids with 3.9s and PE experience. You can't change your grades so just kill it at your job and crush the GMAT (740+) and you should still be competitive at the top 10.

 

Doesn't matter if you take it off your resume if we're talking about applying to MBA programs, they'll still want it. That being said a 3.5 cum won't disqualify you from anywhere. But you will need some pretty strong X factor if you do want to compete with the 3.9 PE kids.

 

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