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Re: Profile Eval With Recommendations
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20 Jul 2010, 16:07
where do you want to go? Seeing your age and how you want to work only 2 years, you'd be on the younger side of town in your class. Harvard and Stanford are two schools that are more forgiving on the younger applicants, whereas Wharton and other top b-schools are still geared towards the 4-5 years of WE. The names matter to a certain degree, I believe, and the rest is up to how the AdCom sees it. A regional bank doesn't necessary mean that you won't gain the right type of experience. Perhaps you'll be promoted three times in the regional bank, with increasing responsibility and leadership, whereas your responsibility at a name-brand bank would be to analyze spreadsheet, and buy Starbucks coffee for people. Quality means a lot more, but spinning it on your application will take some deep thoughts as well.
My recommendation for you is to focus on graduating with as high of a a GPA as possible and to land a job that you'll enjoy. Do all of these without thinking too much of what's going to happen in 2014. Truth is, there's just too many variables in life and you can't plan for all of them. I wouldn't worry too much about your 2014 applications just yet. Do keep in mind that you will be borderlining your GMAT expiration date come 2014 if you take it this year. If you plan to re-take it some time later, also keep in mind that the GMAT format will change in 2012, so you'll have to add in the additional prepping time.