Been wondering this for a while, when you apply to any MBA program on the application your asked to place all the previous institutions that you've attended before. How do institutions check for this? For all I know there isn't a federal database of your academic history. This is why there are some guys that I've read about and seen in the news that lie about their history and get away with it, unless they get caught because they are criminals.
What is the process at admissions? or is it an honor system, what ever the student sends and puts down on the application? I find this hard to believe.
Does anybody here know what is checked...?
Thoughts...
t-r-a-n-s-c-r-i-p-t-u-n-d-e-r-g-r-a-d-u-a-t-e ?
yea...I guess u didnt get the point Balba
if your point is about how MBA programs verify your undergrad attendance/grades, then the simple answer is in fact spelled:
t-r-a-n-s-c-r-i-p-t-s
Guys,
The point is that students send their transcripts along with their application, right? thats the process.
But dudes can still get two bachelors from two institutions and then apply for an MBA and say you only went to one (the one with the best grades).
My question is, its an honor based system, right? Universities do not check somewhere that you lied on your application by omitting an institution.
well
I don't know anyone who's done undergrad twice. in fact, i don't think you are allowed to in most countries.
If you are talking about someone having transferred mid-undergrad, the MBA program is only interested in the institution from which you graduated. the transcript is what provides proof of this.
if you are talking about omitting your attendance at a post-undergrad masters programme, how would you explain away the 1 or 2 year gap?
It's a good question. Hope you actually get some proper replies here because I was a bit curious about this myself.
They always say you have to submit transcripts from ALL post-secondary institutions attended... but how could they know. Many people have transferred to a different school after a bad year at their first location. They may start from scratch at the new school and do extremely well.
If they would submit transcripts only from the school they graduated from then their grades might look quite good, but if they include that 1 year where they got a bunch of Cs Ds and a couple of Fs they might get rejected all over the place because of it -- including apps to lower ranked schools.
So there's a strong incentive to omit such transcripts and to force the admissions committee to evaluate you on your merit at the school you graduated from as well as other relevant experience, rather on the basis of old grades from someplace you briefly attended and where for whatever reason you achieved uncharacteristically poor results.
Finally someone that got the point of the post
Thanks Nauru...Lets wait and see
Anybody else ???
hey dumbshits
your questions have already been answered on this page
if you really need it spelled out for you AGAIN
T-R-A-N-S-C-R-I-P-T-S
if you transferred to a different school mid-undergrad, THAT SHOWS UP ON YOUR TRANSCRIPT FROM THE SCHOOL YOU EVENTUALLY GRADUATE FROM
There you go AGAIN affirmative, not getting the point.
this is starting to feel like a twilight zone episode
what is your point
.....
bcbunker, you got my point.
I did not take classes somewhere else but Im asking because I was curious. After a careful thought of the process of applying to any MBA program, I realized that it is up to the honesty of the student to send their transcripts from their chosen school.
There is no national database of the schools individuals have attended that MBA programs can tap into.
I answered your question in my second post- namely, if you attended a masters program post-undergrad, how are you going to explain the 1-2 year gap in your educational/professional timeline? there's really no way around it, admissions will ask and you will have to submit transcripts from that masters.
Now, if you are talking about having taken some night classes or on-line courses, then no, admissions likely won't find out about it. But, if they really wanted to they might be able to because there IS such an online database
www.studentclearinghouse.org
Finally, your question could have been posed in a much more cogent way, such as, " would I be able to get away with omitting my attendance at a post-undergrad program when I apply to MBA programs?"
How about..... answering the application question honestly....?
Or, if you think it's simply an issue of materiality, how about you just call and ask someone at the admissions office?
Of course, this is just a hypothetical question [cough] out of curiousity [cough]...
If applicant A has some screw-up they feel is worth hiding and applicant B does not, maybe applicant B deserves to get admitted ahead of applicant A.
The application instructions often address this themselves. Some schools only asked for transcripts from degree granting institutions (summer school at community college and 1 yr of law school didnt need to be concluded). Others asked for every school you've ever attended. Obviously if you did something post-grad that you didnt want to disclose that's on you but even if you failed out of the damn thing it is better to disclose than get caught lying.
Whomever mentioned 2 bachelors degress, in what kind of mud hut country is such a thing common?
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