Special Circumstances

If you have submitted an application to the program within the past two years, but were not admitted or did not register, you are required to complete and submit the following portions of the online application:

• Test scores
• Employment section, including current resume
• Education section
• Applicant acknowledgement
• Application fee
• Transcript for any new coursework completed since your prior application
• Assuming that an application was complete at the time of submission, you will need to answer additional supplemental questions designated in the instructions.
• For fall 2010, you must submit new test scores if your test was taken before June 1, 2008 (TOEFL) or October 1, 2004 (GMAT).

Updating any other application materials is optional, although the Admissions Committee does note the effort that candidates put into their reapplication.

We strongly recommend that you submit a statement outlining how you have improved your candidacy since your last application, as the Admissions Committee will be looking for substantive change in your qualifications. You can use the optional essay question to provide this information. In addition, you are encouraged to submit one or two new letters of recommendation.

If you have taken the GMAT and TOEFL again, ask the Educational Testing Service to forward the new official scores to the Haas School and note your new score on the Test Score section of the application.

Students currently enrolled for graduate study in any department on the UC Berkeley campus must file a petition to change or add a major in order to apply to the MBA program. No fee is charged for this petition.

If there has been a break in registration, students must also file a petition for readmission along with the petition to change or add a major. A $70 fee is charged for readmission petitions in lieu of the application fee. This fee must be paid by check and cannot be paid online.

Petitions are accepted for fall semester only. Both petitions (for readmission and for add/drop/changes of major) are available from the Degrees Unit of the Graduate Division, 302 Sproul Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-5900, (510) 642-7330, or can be downloaded. (requires Adobe Reader.)

Students from both categories must file a complete MBA application, in addition to the petition, within the appropriate deadlines. They will be expected to complete the MBA program, if admitted, within the same period of time as students entering the program from outside the Berkeley campus.

We do not accept transfer credits into the MBA program. You may waive out of core courses at the discretion of the faculty, but you must replace the waived course with another class.

Requests for deferred admission will only be considered under exceptional circumstances.

All admission decisions are final, and there is no appeal process.