I'm looking to apply for business school and wanted to get everyone's thoughts on my profile. 29yr old male Undergrad GPA: 2.26 in Economics from a small unknown state school Grad GPA: 3.7 Masters in Applied Economics from Southern New Hampshire University GMAT: 730 Work Experience: 6 years at a F500 financial services company (1 yr in Sales, 5yrs in Investment Management)CFA Charterholder I'm looking to apply to the University of Chicago, Cornell, Dartmouth, NYU, and Columbia. Do I have a shot or is my undergrad GPA going to get me dinged at each school?

Southern New Hampshire is an online school, a 3.7 has got to carry way less weight than if that was a larger program. I think people are doing you a disservice telling you that you have a shot at the schools you listed. As was pointed out, your GPA is far below the 10th and 0th percentiles of your schools. Think of it this way, how many people with 4.0s are they going to need to admit to offset your GPA and maintain their average? With a 2.26, they would need to admit three 4.0 GPAs just to maintain a 3.5.

Hi rightonit10, That 2.26 is a hurdle no question. I have a few suggestions for overcoming it. 1) Say what happened. What caused those grades and then point to top performance (and you have a lot of it) when you weren't dealing with whatever you were dealing with or when you had learned to handle it. 2) Apply to more and a broader range of schools than you indicated above. CBS and Tuck are real long shots. As someone in the thread suggested also consider a few schools slightly lower ranked that still support your goals.

The GMAT is definitely a plus but tbh even though your masters GPA is solid, SNHU is not really that reputable of a school so I dont know how much it would help. The undergrad GPA will hurt you but try to explain it in essays. I honestly think where you went to school could hurt you here. If you did the same thing but did the undergrad and masters at a better school (top 50 maybe even top 100), you could have a shot. I'd write off most of those programs.

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The double whammy is that your u/g GPA is not only low, but from a no-name state school. Why did you choose SNHU of all places? There are more reputable schools with online graduate programs.

Anyways, if you have the money to spare, I would take a gamble on the schools you listed and add some lower ranked programs to the mix as well. From my perspective, your GPA will definitely make you stand out, not in an ideal way obviously. At least you won't just blend in though-- use this to your advantage. Treat the essays like PhD students do their dissertations. My understanding is that adcoms only put weight on u/g GPAs.

Your overall profile suggests that you're not as dumb as your u/g GPA implies. Your GMAT, work experience, and the CFA are collectively 50% of the applications. Lastly, but very importantly, you'll have astronomically higher chances of getting into a part-time program. I know UChicago has an evening/weekend program for working professionals. Keep you're day job, because the financial aid is less, but if you're working for a F500, they should foot most, if not all, the tuition bill.

Good luck and keep us posted.

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