Required to brush up on Quant?

[JavertHL]

The last time I took Calc II and Stats was in community college back in 2003-2004. I'm applying now to matriculate in 2014. For quant schools such as Haas and Anderson, is it recommended (if not required?) that I retake Stats (and even Calc?) to be realistically considered by admissions?

In terms of work experience, I have experience in tax and financial accounting, but it is not my main job title.

Thanks!

[money9111]

What's your GPA and GMAT score? and btw - Haas & Anderson (or any b-school) wouldn't someone to have taken Calculus. If you decided to take a class then Stats would be good... so would Accounting....Finance...

[JavertHL]

3.55 (liberal arts major), 710 (47Q/44V, 2012). I took Accounting and Finance (Aced accounting, didn't do too well in Fin) in regular college. Should I even bother sending my community college transcripts?

[CriticalSquareMBA]

Hey there,

1) You really don't need to retake anything. It doesn't matter if you took it in 2003 or 2009, most applicants will have forgotten most of it anyway so they want to know how you did, not when you took it

2) You should definitely send your community college transcripts. If you didn't do too well in college for some of your finance courses, and then took some quant heavy courses later on, why not showcase that? It's all in how you spin it. If you're embarrassed by it and say "well, I didn't too well, so I had to go to cc" well they'll view it that way. But if you say, "I didn't do too well in some of these courses and I saw that as an opportunity for improvement and learning so I proactively pursued community college courses, etc." then that's a different story altogether.

It's a little bit fact, and a little bit marketing and spin

Nice GMAT by the way! And you have a solid GPA so you should be ok.

Bhavik