Due to COVID, my university is allowing students to pass/fail.
Anyway, should I pass/fail A-'s. How do you all think MBA programs and recruiters will treat pass fail. Is it better to have a higher GPA and pass/fails or lower GPA and all 'legit'.
Thoughts?
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Recruiters don’t care. MBA programs will.
It’s fine to P/F all classes but doing it for cherry-picked classes looks suspicious (like you’re trying to protect your GPA, which you are). Better to P/F all or get your letter grade for all than to cherry pick only the ones you got A’s in.
If you don’t believe me for some reason then search it - tons of people asked this question last semester.
100% correct.
Be a man and take the grade.
MBAs wont care. Look it up on their websites. There's no evidence that they would be lying to everyone. Anecdotal, but my sibling also talked to someone in MBA admissions at an HSW about this (as an undergrad at the university) and she told them they look at overall GPA, and even then it's just one part of the application. Not even surprising to me, considering all the changes to policy due to COVID, but even then, MBA would be the least to care. My older brother got into HBS with a couple withdrawals on his transcript, which imo is worse than a p/f. The interns and others on WSO are usually just going to be talking out of their ass, but the truth is none of us are on the admissions committee, and most haven't even applied to an MBA program.
Agree with this take. I've commented on previous threads on the same topic. I took 5 classes P/NP in undergrad. Had a solid overall GPA and good grades within quant classes. Got admitted to M7 with merit-based fellowship. I think at the end of the day, overall GPA matters the most (given this is what is reported and affects rankings).
No one cares. It's an MBA, not med school
Neither recruiters or MBA programs will care. Do what you gotta do to get the GPA up.
No shot bankers have the time or energy to pick apart your transcript. P/F whatever will drop your GPA. If you’re applying to grad school it’s definitely more important, but I still can’t imagine MBA programs care that much.
what if you fail P/F?
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