Schools Academic Policy Sharing.

[lpwpete]

Since so many students are looking for MBAs, they probably would be interested in some school policies.

Just last week, I was talking with my American classmetes. Why JHU is so strict on PGA, at least 3.0, while giving the admission. (As I know my best American friend who had GPA only 2.7 in U Penn is living in some conditions, above B grade in fist year. However, he has GMAT 670 as well as more than 10 years WE and is a product manager, so he got the admission.)
The reason is the school policy:

Academic Policies
Johns Hopkins University, Carey Business School graduate students are expected to maintain at least a B average (3.0 on a 4.0 scale) throughout their enrollment. In addition, graduate students must have minimum cumulative grade point averages of 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) to receive approval for graduation.

Grades Quality Points
A 4.0
A- 3.7
B+ 3.3
B 3.0
B- 2.7
C+ 2.3
C 2.0
C- 1.7
F Fail

The same reason, when you are doing MBA in JHU, you also have to get 3.0 to graduate. Moreover, in whole program, you only allow to have one grade below "B-", that is, if you have 2 "C+ or lower", you will need to prepare to go back home.

Can other MBA students share their academic policy? Or this is just regular one. I think it will be very hard to get a good grade in Ivy schools.

[polarbear]

Since so many students are looking for MBAs, they probably would be interested in some school policies.

Just last week, I was talking with my American classmetes. Why JHU is so strict on PGA, at least 3.0, while giving the admission. (As I know my best American friend who had GPA only 2.7 in U Penn is living in some conditions, above B grade in fist year. However, he has GMAT 670 as well as more than 10 years WE and is a product manager, so he got the admission.)
The reason is the school policy:

Academic Policies
Johns Hopkins University, Carey Business School graduate students are expected to maintain at least a B average (3.0 on a 4.0 scale) throughout their enrollment. In addition, graduate students must have minimum cumulative grade point averages of 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) to receive approval for graduation.

Grades Quality Points
A 4.0
A- 3.7
B+ 3.3
B 3.0
B- 2.7
C+ 2.3
C 2.0
C- 1.7
F Fail

The same reason, when you are doing MBA in JHU, you also have to get 3.0 to graduate. Moreover, in whole program, you only allow to have one grade below "B-", that is, if you have 2 "C+ or lower", you will need to prepare to go back home.

Can other MBA students share their academic policy? Or this is just regular one. I think it will be very hard to get a good grade in Ivy schools.

I don't know about under for Ivy. But for MBA, well, this is "b'-school. It will be extremely easy to get B if you attend all classes, be on time, hand in all assignments, and do average or even slightly below average in exams. Of course you need to put some efforts to get A; but it is not too difficult to get good grades in b-schools, even Ivy. For b-schools, tons of people just want to focus on networking or job-searching. It will be relatively easy to stay in the right-hand side of the curve if you really want to.

[lpwpete]

I don't know about under for Ivy. But for MBA, well, this is "b'-school. It will be extremely easy to get B if you attend all classes, be on time, hand in all assignments, and do average or even slightly below average in exams. Of course you need to put some efforts to get A; but it is not too difficult to get good grades in b-schools, even Ivy. For b-schools, tons of people just want to focus on networking or job-searching. It will be relatively easy to stay in the right-hand side of the curve if you really want to.

Hi polarbear,

I think you must be very smart. B school for you is a piece of cake. That's why MIT students are so unique and intelligent.

I just finished the first semester last week. I am sure some classes are really easy to get A or at least B+. However, I have one class I think our new professor is not in the condition. He gave not few students a C grade and majority students around B grade. Fortunately, I got B-, but I am still a little pigged-off, because I worked very hard on this course. Anyway, I gave him a very low evaluation at the end of the class. He was horrible and didn't even teach well.

Now I got the lesson. I have to be careful to find a good course with a good professor, not just working hard. As you said, we still need to spend time on net-working, job-searching..... instead of whole time in courses. But bad GPA let me feel awful.

[MarkHsu]

Grades don't really matter at top business schools....

It's the JOB!

No one cares if a person graduates #1. It's how many offers, how much? how much the sign-on bonus?

MBA really simplifies life to its simplest & also greediest terms.

[polarbear]

I think it all depends on what you want out of business school. Lots of people just want to find a job and get lucrative sign-on bonus. It is true that you will feel extremely relief and do not have to feel the peer pressure once you have an offer. But I think that is the time when you may have no excuse and try to focus more on academic works.

Grades may not be important in business schools but, for some people, it still a committment. As long as you treat the classes you choose seriously, you will do well and gain lots of knowledge out of school. The point is you have to treat the studying experience at business school seriously. You pay a big chunk of money and I persoanlly do not think that finding a top job is the only goal.

I just want to say that never forget that you come to school for knowledge. There are so many good professors in every school. Even though I find some of them do not know how to teach, I still gain the opportunity for exploring different kinds of topics I am interested in. So, if you study hard, I believe it will not be difficult to get a good grade even though you already do not care about it.