Alt transcript questions :: Manhattan GMAT Forums

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:42 pm

I live in the New York City area and I am looking to take classes to build up an alternate transcript to mitigate the impact of my ugrad grades (GPA = 3.0 at top 20 school). I have a few questions:

1) Does the reputation of the school matter? I am considering NYU, Rutgers-Newark and local Comm colleges, obviously there are cost differences but I would be willing to pay if it makes that much of a difference

2) I have a degree in econ but my econ gpa was low (<3.0) - should I retake any econ classes or is my degree enough (I feel like I won't learn anything by taking the classes and won't be proving much to admissions)?

Thanks in advance

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:14 pm

(1) No, it doesn't matter. Not sure if the search function works well on this forum, but this has been covered quite a number of times in prior threads.

(2) Yes. Good grades on recent courses will demonstrate that your GPA wasn't due to lack of brains, but lack of effort, which is the lesser of two evils.

Alex Chu
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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 4:16 pm

Thanks Alex

The search feature doesn't work too well on this forum so I do have a follow up question that may have already been answered elsewhere (sorry)

In light of your comments I plan on taking calc, stats, econ and accounting. What course level should I take for these?

- In college I took introductory courses for calc, stats and accounting and got grades from C to B. Should I retake an intro course or should I aim for an intermediate level?
- No clue as to what Econ class I should take given that I majored in it. My grades in macro classes were lower than micro if that's any help

Thanks again!

Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:32 pm

It doesn't really matter what level, so long as they are undergraduate level courses. You won't get brownie points for taking some hardcore course that fails half its students or anything.

Don't over think this. Just take 2-3 quant courses that you find reasonably interesting (I know that can be hard, but at least humor yourself into believing that calculus can be oh so fun) and that best fit your schedule.

Alex Chu
alex@mbaapply.com
www.mbaapply.com
http://mbaapply.blogspot.com