When taking extra courses to boost an application, are continuing and professional education courses acceptable, or should one just take regular undergrad or grad courses?
That's a very good question.
The real issues here are:
- Does it address your gap (e.g., accounting, finance, stats, calculus, etc.)?
- Is it rigorous enough to actually be useful to you in business school (these should be demanding classes not "adult enrichment" type classes).
- Can you prove that they are rigorous and address your gap?
Continuing education by the CFA Institute would probably go a lot further than a one-day accounting offsite put on by an advertising agency for its copy writers.
Does this answer your question?
Paxton
