People with Autism/Aspergers Getting an MBA

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That and it depends what kinds of social skill issues do or don't go with your particular case of AS. Mine for instance, my problems seem to stem from when I can't get a foothold in the door with people, more or less because I looked creeper than I was so it was to my benefit to open my mouth and to my detrement not to be able to engage myself in conversation and at least prove myself to be likeable or respectible.

Groups in college are also a whole other sort of social interaction all together. When your in a group its structured, easy to follow, it has an on-task purpose. Being that my social skills only seemed to crumble when it got to the NT extreme of real amorphous small talk that seemed to come out of nowhere and seemed too random for me to do correctly, that never seemed to happen - and with the sorts of people I was meeting in college it didn't seem to happen even when we were sitting around and chit-chatting before class, that just wasn't their style of thinking. For one you do want good empathy skills and social knowledge to want to venture into groups but as long as your willing to work hard, prove to be a solid group member or even a leader, and people know they can trust your common sense and judgment on things - unless you really have no idea how not to offend people you can do very well and make a lot of friends in the process.

Here's the antidote that I'd prescribe to that last bit - go to a commuter college. If its a more local 4 year university where there aren't really that many students staying in dorms and many of them are real people working 30 or 40 hours a week to put themselves through school, you get a much more likeable crowd.

In my experience, you're right techgeneration8 guy/gal.

Have done most of my upper levels in local universities. They even have an MBA degree for working professionals.

Good bet.

I attend a commuter college....you mean this could be worse?!
Most of my classmates work and are already managers. But they work at the types of jobs that popular "normal" types tend to get.

Have to say my situation is unusual, though, because I'm a non-MBA student [graduate accounting is my program] having to take MBA classes as part of my program.

As far as group projects, I think it's good to be responsible and do your share of the work on time, but be careful to not let people take advantage of you.

Well yeah, but then again I have had a few classes but it was more my earlier classes like the prerequisites and maybe when I got to the business classes there were a couple like Business Communication and Ethics and Business Law that ended up with the more popular and fratty types of personalities - mostly the marketing majors. Though for me I guess I'm lucky in the sense that even people like that, once I can actually get a straight conversation with them I usually have their respect pretty quick; so if I did go to a Big 10 campus in the midwest, like my friend down at OSU, I think my biggest drawback would just be the partying - I'd have a hell of a time getting anything done let alone another $7,000 per year in bills because I needed a place to stay.