What kind of grades do you have to have? What kind of GMAT score do you need?

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not too good, from what I can surmise. Hate to talk smack about a fellow Ag, but there's a chick in my office that did undergrad at A&M, then got her MBA there too. She's dumber than a bag of rocks. Totally ruined my perception of an Aggie MBA.

Why not go to the best school u can get into? From everything I have heard it is not really a good idea to get your MBA at the same place as your undergrad anyways...

Its always highly intelligent to base the value of an entire program on 1 person.

However if you want facts you should look at the rankings. The Wall Street Journal ranked the Mays Program in the top 30 ahead of Rice Jones' School of Business and from what I hear they are doing quite a bit to improve the rankings. I believe the average GMAT is around 660.

Click here for the student info:

http://mba.tamu.edu/prospective/students.asp?nav=5

how can they know what the class of 2004 looks like already?

Back when I was looking at grad school, they told me not to apply unless I had outside work experience

its the year you graduate i would presume. You know, like in High School!!

ah ok

question about the averages

GMAT Range - (mid-50%): 570 - 650
GPA Range - (mid-50%): 3.02 - 3.64

what does the mid-50% mean?

Probably means 25th percentile through 75th percentile.

n/m, you beat me to it

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I am getting my Masters in Business right now and I can tell you it is only going to get harder to get into. Strawser is making some significant changes and with the money people are willing to give, the rankings will go up. The new Cox Graduate wing is incredible.

we have like 6 straight from undergrads in the program right now, but they are all Electric engineer undergrads with 3.5+ GPA's

I don't trust most b-school rankings but The Wall Street Journal is probably one of the worst ones out there. I'm sure that it's easier, based on average GMAT and GPA scores, to get accepted into Mays compared to Rice, Texas, and maybe even SMU.

I think the location of the graduate school is a significant factor holding it back. Not exactly convenient for executives with families.

btt

It is generally considered stupid, and not "redass" to go to grad school at the same place as you went to undergrad.

I highly recommend going to a completely different kind of school for the change of perspective. I loved going to A&M as an undergrad but I liked going to Rice just as much. All you're doing by staying at A&M is adding more credit hours to your transcript.

I got in with a CS degree, 3.31 GPA from A&M and a 680 GMAT.

it wouldn't seem to matter to me that much if both degrees came from different school. The profesors are not the same becuase the classes are different

dime-

it's not about the professors and the classes, by going to another school it shows that you are willing to try something new, and that you can adapt to a different enviornment. Employers may look down on you/it even before meeting you b/c it looks like you were comfortable with A&M and not willing to expand your horizons.

just my .02

I disagree. I don't think it reflects negatively on you at all if your grad school is the same as your undergrad. Generally speaking, though, going to different undergrad/grad universities looks better to most employers, all other things being equal.

I think the swimsuit competition is weighed the most.


hth

generally not one to argue, but i am bored at the moment

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I don't think it reflects negatively on you at all if your grad school is the same as your undergrad"

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going to different undergrad/grad universities looks better to most employers

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so if it looks better to the employers, wouldn't it be a negative thing that you don't have it

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so if it looks better to the employers, wouldn't it be a negative thing that you don't have it

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I don't think it would. A graduate degree (whether or not it's from the same institution as your undergrad degree) is a good thing because if nothing else, it shows your interest in continued education. It may reflect MORE positively on you, however, if have a degree from a different institution. The point I'm trying to get across is that both instances are positive.

Think of it this way. A 3.5 GPR (in, say, chemical engineering) looks good and reflects positively on you. A 3.75 GPR looks even better and reflects more positively on you. That does not mean, however, that a 3.5 GPR would be a negative thing or look bad. It just means that if two candidates are up for the job and are identical in all areas except for their GPR (skills, communication ability, energy, etc.), the candidate with the higher GPR probably stands a better chance of getting the job.