With a 3.0, you have no shot at Berkeley or Stanford. The other top program in the Bay area is Wharton West — which you have no shot at either.

With your improvement in grades through time, you can get into a good program if you get 650+ on your GMATs. Address your improvement in your essays. You should be looking at schools that are ranked in the 15-30 range.

I suspect that you can do better than Santa Clara — which is not ranked. In my opinion, it isn’t worth getting an MBA from a school that isn’t ranked — unless you go part time and someone else pays for it. I wouldn’t even apply there (unless you can’t get a high GMAT score).

In order to go to a ranked school, you are going to have to move away. Apply to a couple of reach schools. There are some schools that are as good as Stanford or Berkeley that are easier to get into. Those two schools have incredibly low yields.

Apply to schools like Rice, Georgetown, Maryland, Minnesota or Georgia Tech. If you want to stay on the West Coast, think about mid-ranked schools like USC, University of Washington or Arizona State.

faculties at that time will in many situations forget a small hollow in GPA, exceedingly in case you have a sturdy tale to describe it. i might prepare on that now, because of the fact your obscure “psychological well being motives” isn’t a great promoting factor for you. think of with regard to the type you desire that to sound on your college purposes. i’m no longer asserting to lie approximately it, yet think of approximately what’s the final thank you to observe the story approximately what befell on your sophomore 12 months. yet, straightforward answer, sure. you will get in to an excellent college. merely ensure that your junior 12 months and the 1st a million/2 of your senior 12 months mirror your capacity. Then be arranged to prepare to 3 dozen faculties, merely in case.

700-800 i imagine (to get into the top MBA programs)

But they also look at other things as well….such as work experience, activities, interview, essays, etc.

I say give it a shot

Simple…Go to the school’s website and look up the admission criteria and also ask for info to be sent to your home, then you know what they are looking for. You can also try to go to their open house.

im sorry. nearly impossible i went into the top MBA progrm myself with 3.8 GPA