Wonderful video as always, thanks you guys! One question I see Sandy ask often is how many people have gone from your school/workplace to the business schools you would like to get into. How that directly influences our chances is a matter of concern for me. Would being from an underrepresented background hurt us due to lack of familiarity on the part of the adcoms, or help us as the applicant pool with a similar background is small or even maybe limited to a handful of candidates over the past few years combined? As an example, I'm an Iranian Canadian who spent his childhood in Canada, later moved back to Iran as a teen with his parents, and is now a dual degree student in Computer Engineering (Software major) and Civil & Environmental Engineering studying at Sharif University of Technology in Iran, which hasn't sent even a single student I know of to top US business schools. I'm ranked first in both departments with an overall GPA of about 97%, a 336 GRE (V166/Q170/AWA5) which ETS translates into a 780 GMAT, and a 119/120 TOEFL, but I'm worried the adcoms at my top choices (Stanford and Harvard, where I'm looking for deferred enrollment/2+2) won't regard my school as a top school. Although Sharif is #1 in Iran, literally called "Iran's MIT" with a great reputation in the engineering world, and sends a ton of students to the top engineering graduate schools such as MIT, Stanford, and UC Berkeley, almost nobody applies for business school. Would this seriously hamper my chances?
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Sir does high school grades are also consider during MBA selection process at top business schools like Harvard, Wharton or colombia or they just consider undergrad GPA.