Hi, thanks for this great forum of advice.

I took the GMAT in October and received a 670 (42V, 96% and 39Q, 57%, AWA 5.5) I was very disappointed with the Quant score and studied like crazy and retook in November and received a 690 (41V, 93% and 42Q, 66%, AWA 6.0) As you can tell, I raised the Quant score but still not great. I am not going to retake the GMAT because I know this is about the best I can probably do give or take 10 points.

Here is some profile info and my questions are below:

- I graduated from The University of Texas- Austin in 2000 with an MIS-Business Degree, graduated with Honors in 3 years, GPA of 3.54

- Since then I have worked at PwC (IT Consultant), a start-up company (Business Analyst, consumer packaged goods focussed) and most recently for the last 3 years at a health care diagnostics company in Marketing (decided to switch careers, I have been promoted each year I have been there).

- I am an analyst and work heavily with analytics so I do lots of quantitiatve work. My undergrad GPA is a 3.54 with A's in stats and finance but a C in accounting, and I was born/raised in US.

I would like to apply to Kellogg 1 year, Columbia and I'm not sure where else to study Marketing. (I'm more interested in one year programs but I'm not completely against 2 year at all)

My questions:
1. am I competitive?
2. Will my GMAT quant score hold me down?
3. What can i do to make this look better?
4. What schools do you recommend based on this background?

I would like to focus on Marketing and am going back to get more experience in Marketing, learn from others, help bolster my business/mkt acumen because I would ultimately like to start my own small marketing consulting firm.

Thanks very much in advance, I know I wrote too much!