- Keep your GPA as high as possible: Take challenging courses and load up on business-related electives. Talk to your advisor about his or her suggestions for a pre-business school course load, as well as suggestions on business schools that consider students coming straight out of undergrad. Ask your counselor if there is an organization on campus for students who plan to go on to business school - many colleges have them. 

Major in something that truly interests you: Don't be tricked that you need to major in business to go on to business school. Take a few hardcore math, economics, statistics, and/or accounting courses. These courses can give you the skills you need with spreadsheets, calculus, statistics, accounting, and economics that you will need for all the quantitative work in business school.

- Get to know professors who could be good future recommenders: Greater part MBA program applications require two to three letters of recommendation from third parties capable of commenting on your qualifications for business school. Your work experience lack will put more weight on every other aspect of the application, including your letters of recommendation. These one should particularly mention why you should be an exception to the rule. If a work supervisor or professor also teaches or lectures at a business school, so much the better. 

- Make your goals known: Friends, family, and faculty behind you for support while you prepare to apply can make all the difference both in how you approach the process and how able you are to stick to your goals and follow through with the application. 

- Join an organization in which you can gain a leadership position: This might be a fraternity or sorority, a political group, or any group that interests you. Demonstrating control and long-term commitments is like a gold star on your application. 

- Get in touch with your inner entrepreneur. It’s not incredible for us to suggest that you consider starting your own business, while in college or even before. At the same time as some big-time companies have had their beginnings while their CEOs were in college, your business can be as modest as t-shirts made for school events, a messenger service, an editing service for term papers, or anything else that strikes a passionate chord in you. Operating even a small business demonstrates many traits of a true businessperson.

Admissions committees look at several factors, including academic record, work experience, and GMAT scores. The best business-school candidate is strong in all three areas; however, it is possible to make up for shortcomings in one area with strong showings in the other areas. Academic record and GMAT scores, for applicants with limited work experience, play a more prominent role. 

- Consider getting some real-world experience before you go to the trouble of applying with underdog chances: Get a job anyway, if you don't get in to business school. Consider working a few years before applying, if your grades are weak. The more success you have, the greater the likelihood that the admissions officials will be more forgiving of that GPA. A recent MBA grad with little or no job experience, even with a weak MBA, often finds the job search to be a more thorough trial than a recent college grad or a recent MBA grad who worked before heading to business school. 

Whichever way you decide to go, don't get discouraged: In most business programs it takes a mix of people with different assets, backgrounds, talents, and experiences to run a successful machine.