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Re: Profile Evaluation Please
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01 Dec 2010, 15:35
PallMall,
A few things right off the top:
1) What are your aims short-term and long-term? That will dictate not only the right fits, but also will help shape your chances at some of these places. They all have different philosophies, reward different experiences, demand different professional equations, etc. Honestly, your professional potential and ability to "place" in the desired job is just as important as your #s.
2) Being a little on the young side (at least in terms of a traditional path) means you have to really nail the timeliness of this whole thing. Factoring in your UG GPA means you have to double down on maturity.
3) What this basically means is that once you avoid the super high GPA schools (HBS, Stanford, Wharton, maybe Haas), you can take a great run at pretty much any other program (save for maybe Kellogg, INSEAD, and again Haas because they have really stayed rigid on requiring 50-60 months of path-appropriate work experience). But it will absolutely come down to how you execute your apps. Everything hinges on that.
4) As for schools, just from that tiny bit of information, Tuck and Yale jump out at me. I also like MIT and Ross (schools you didn't list) because they both greatly prize multidisciplinary learning which means that all your political experiences would be of enormous value to the educational process. Not that they wouldn't be elsewhere, but you want to play to your strengths and identify schools that have placed a big part of the experiential burden on the class of students bringing interesting perspectives and experiences to the table. With the rest of the schools it is just to hard to say without knowing the path in front of you. They will all be dictated by how appropriate they are as a vessel to get you from A to B.
Young(ish), lower GPA ... you are pretty much the exact type of client we seem to be able to help the most, so I would encourage you to PM me and set up a free consultation.
Hope this helps!
Respectfully,
Paul Lanzillotti