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Thanks, I will continue to do research and see what I can come up with. Also, I am retaking the GMAT and actually studying this time. I am realistic and know I'm not going to get in a top 50 program or anything like that.I would just prefer any school that has AACSB accreditation. I'm lucky that I have the GI Bill, because cost/location of the school is really not an issue at this point.

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The Application has a section that allows students to elaborate on anything that you feel is important for the admission committee to know while evaluating your candidature. It could be relating to academics or even your personal history. For example if standardized testing is not one of your strongest due to some factor then please use this place wisely to explain that. You might need to prove to the admission committee that your GPA won’t be an issue. If you can tell in your application about any extra classes or courses you undertook in the subjects that you did not do well. This would highlight your zeal to learn and improve and in turn improve your low GPA situation.
One of the prerequisites is having significant work experience. Generally candidates have around 4-5 years of full time experience in spite of several term time projects or jobs; so you may be competing with other candidates who have 4-5 years of full time experience and have started significant initiatives at college.
Hence, we would advise you to gain some full time work experience before you decide to apply for an MBA.
All the very best!

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Kavita Singh
FutureWorks Consulting

Jon, you're saying a 700+ and a 2.3 from a state school with military experience is a reasonable profile for any school in the top 5?

I'm not challenging you, you're the expert, not me, but I have a 730, a 2.84 from a Public Ivy (University of Illinois), and 3 years of Marine Officer experience (recently selected for Captain), including a deployment in Afghanistan leading a team of Army soldiers and civilian contractors.

I'm not even thinking about the Big 3 (Stanford/HBS/Wharton), and I feel like a real underdog for my dream school - Northwestern Kellogg.

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2.3 was the original poster. To be fair, I have a GPA that rounds up to a 2.9 (I heard it's acceptable to round up to the tenth haha) and it's from a upper tier state school

But I really feel that 2.84 is a pretty atrocious GPA. I'm retaking the GMAT to make up some more ground for it.

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