The Toughest Business Schools To Get Into: Princeton Review List

What do Warren Buffet, Charles Schwab, and George W. Bush have in common? They all went to business school... and then made millions.

Our chums at the Princeton Review recently named the toughest business schools to get into. Stanford's MBA program topped the list, with Harvard Business School coming in second.

Check out the below slideshow of the 10 hardest business schools to get into. Need more information? Click over to the Princeton Review for many more lists and admissions strategies.

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[altollew]

05:56 PM on 10/12/2011

For many the hardest part is getting in.graduating not so much.

[shortleash]

05:41 PM on 10/12/2011

I wonder if someone once said that to BHO that is why he relies on teleprompters so excessively.

[Flight]

05:29 PM on 10/12/2011

Another list with suspect merit. Very unrealistic to believe most of the schools featured are clustered in only two parts of the country. Hmmm....

[ShatterTheIllusion]

05:24 PM on 10/12/2011

Chapel Hill and Texas are tough schools to get into, as well.

[Pilatunes]

05:22 PM on 10/12/2011

Given the number of amoral thieves these schools produce, I am reminded of Groucho Marks' line 'I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member'.

[Spike5]

07:47 PM on 10/12/2011

You actually quote someone without knowing his name? It's Groucho Marx. Is that too socialist-sounding for you?

[Pilatunes]

11:41 AM on 10/15/2011

Darn right, I used to wish they were called The Fascist Brothers.

(People do make typos once in a while you know.)

[Roommate]

05:13 PM on 10/12/2011

Harvard nerds

[dwilson424]

05:02 PM on 10/12/2011

I find it funny when I applied to get into a MBA program they told me I did not have the Grades. I set up a meeting to see if I could talk my way into school. After a conversation with admissions and staff they told me that my grads did not warrant an opportunity. At the age of 26 I had started 2 business employing 18 team members. I doubled the sales of my father’s business and branched out 7 states. Developed our own web site, wrote the employees handbook and the company’s standard operating procedures. After all this the lady looked me in the eye and told me “your scores just don’t warrant you admissions to our MBA program. I wanted to toss the keys to my MB on the desk and ask the lady do you drive a S500, but I did not.

[JJK]

05:37 PM on 10/12/2011

Sounds like you didn't need Business School anyway. They probably saved you tens of thousands of dollars and you were probably just as successful without them.

[Spike5]

07:51 PM on 10/12/2011

I'm guessing that your GMAT scores weren't outstanding either. MBA programs generally require a lot of mathematics these days. Maybe they just didn't think you could handle the statistics and probability, cost accounting, finance, and other classes that require the ability to work through a lot of complicated math problems.

[jokerdanny]

04:44 PM on 10/12/2011

to get into? or in which to get...it is princeton you know

[TheJibreelaMonsters]

04:29 PM on 10/12/2011

ah schools I have no business getting into... but somehow would manage to get into

[SDindependent]

03:39 PM on 10/12/2011

What do they have in common? Apparently they teach execs how to balance books on the backs of employees instead of how to get new market share...... The dropouts like Jobs and Gates seemed to have missed those courses.

[ChaCubed]

03:59 PM on 10/12/2011

The also missed the courses on opening businesses, bleeding them dry, then laying people off to get more money out of the business before filing bankruptcy. And the world is a better place because of that.

[camnhuff]

03:37 PM on 10/12/2011

Wharton seems like a CEO factory.

[rosepierre]

03:11 PM on 10/12/2011

The Yale school looks like a parking garage attached to the back of a modest dance club.

[TheJibreelaMonsters]

04:27 PM on 10/12/2011

New Haven, I was not impressed by any means

[Caryn Banker]

10:10 PM on 10/12/2011

Ha! No one goes there for the sheer joy and pleasure of living in New Haven!

[Trittydi]

02:10 PM on 10/12/2011

Shame there's nothing on the west coast.
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[bsultan]

02:30 PM on 10/12/2011

You missed slide 1...

[DessLoch]

02:40 PM on 10/12/2011

...and slide 3

[TheJibreelaMonsters]

04:28 PM on 10/12/2011

classic: I didn't read the article only the headline

[Spike5]

07:52 PM on 10/12/2011

Shame you didn't look at the slides listing the schools before commenting.

[thebigbike]

01:33 PM on 10/12/2011

Unless your parent went there and has a serious prestige surplus or money surplus to donate. Not sayin you can buy your way in, but you can buy your way in. After all, that's business at its most basic , duh!

[choppychop]

01:33 PM on 10/12/2011

Those are exactly the schools I would expect to find on such a list.