Mr Bear, In you're book The Best MBAs by Distance Learning, this is what you said about the MBA program at California State University, Dominguez Hills....."However the GMAT requirement may be waived if the applicant has an accredited Master's or other advanced degree, a minimum 3.2 GPA on the past 60 credits, or at least five years of verifiable managirial experience." When I contacted CSUDH I was told that there is no such policy at their school and never was. I'm really interested on how you got you're information? Bo
Based on the following message, I gather that there was once such a policy, but it had changed by Sep. 1999: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=37e928d0.4695678%40news.jps.net According to amazon.com, Bears' Guide to the Best MBAs by Distance Learning was published in March 2000. Is that the date on your copy?
Ignorance and imbecility abound From the Internet Archive snapshot from Apr 20, 1999: 3. Students must attain a minimum score of 450 on the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) with minimum scores at or above the 25th percentile on both the verbal and quantitative portions of the test and a minimum score of 4.0 on the Analytical Writing Analysis. Applicants will be exempt from the GMAT requirement if they meet one of the following criteria: a) a master’s or other advanced degree from an accredited institution b) a minimum 3.2 grade point average on the last 60 semester credits c) at least five years verifiable managerial experience. http://web.archive.org/web/19980115184005/som.csudh.edu/mba.htm/admissions/admissions.htm
PO79: When I contacted CSUDH I was told that there is no such policy at their school and never was. John Bear: Do you have any idea to whom you spoke? It does annoy me when people are definitive and wrong simultaneously. I might wish to write a polite note. Where is Nicole Ballard when we need her (the CSUDH administrator who used to check in her regularly)? I am not aware of any plans to revise the "Best MBAs" book, which is a shame. If I owned a publishing company, I'd re-do that one, and our Finding Money for College, as books that seem to fill a need and have a market, if only one actually did some marketing. John Bear
John, Sorry but this happened over a week ago, and I have deleted the e-mail and don't remember the name of the person who wrote it. Bo
I'm reminded of the time I got an irate phone call from a professor at the University of Iowa. He sputtered that he had been teaching there 30 years and by god, if they had a distance degree program he'd know about it, so where did I get off writing that they had one, blah blah blah. I calmly gave him the number of their external degree office and invited him to call or visit them. At least he had the good graces to call me back and sort-of apologize.
John, I was wondering why is the DL MBA from Queens University on listed in you're book? After all Queens is one of the top university's in Canada. Bo
