{"id":28468,"date":"2015-05-12T23:36:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T06:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=28468"},"modified":"2015-05-12T23:36:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T06:36:47","slug":"columbia-entering-class-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/columbia-entering-class-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia Entering Class Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reports.accepted.com\/mba\/columbia_business_school\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3598\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Columbia-2837-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Learn how to get accepted to Columbia Business School!\" width=\"237\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s entering class at CBS reflects the school\u2019s interest in building a class composed of \u00a0\u201cintellectually driven people from diverse educational, economic, social, cultural, and geographic backgrounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www8.gsb.columbia.edu\/programs-admissions\/mba\/student-life\/class-profile\" target=\"_blank\">class profile<\/a>, 41% of the class are international students, 36% are women, and 32% are minorities. They come from a range of previous industries (Financial Services 28%; Consulting 25%; Marketing\/Media 10%; Private Equity 8%; Technology 7%; Non-profit 5%; and smaller numbers from other fields), and studied a range of fields in college, from Social Sciences, to Business, to the Humanities.<\/p>\n<p>They share a strong record of achievement and leadership, whatever field they are coming from. They are also strong academically: applicants\u2019 average undergraduate GPA was 3.5 (middle 80%: 3.1-3.8) and their average GMAT was 716 (middle 80%: 680-760). Of 5799 applications received, 1056 were admitted, for an ultimate entering class of 743.<\/p>\n<p>Are you planning to apply to CBS? <a href=\"https:\/\/reports.accepted.com\/mba\/columbia_business_school\">Register for our FREE WEBINAR <\/a>for vital guidance on the application process!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reports.accepted.com\/mba\/columbia_business_school?utm_campaign=blogcta&amp;utm_medium=CBSwebinar&amp;utm_source=CTA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30476 \" src=\"https:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Columbia-Webinar-2015-CTA.jpg\" alt=\"Want to get accepted to Columia? Click here to reserve your spot for the webinar!\" width=\"510\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-28527 size-full alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Accepted_PremierAdmissionsCosultancy.png\" alt=\"Accepted: The Premier Admissions Cosultancy\" width=\"429\" height=\"69\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Related Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/2015\/05\/03\/columbia-business-school-2016-mba-essay-tips-deadlines\/\">Columbia Business School 2016 MBA Essay Tips &amp; Deadlines<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/2015\/04\/22\/the-admissions-team-at-the-very-center-of-business\/\">Podcast Interview With the Columbia Business School Admissions Team<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/mba\/columbia.aspx\">Columbia Business School Zone<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/2015\/05\/12\/columbia-entering-class-profile\/\">\u200b\u200b<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><i><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/2015\/05\/12\/columbia-entering-class-profile\/\">This article<\/a>\u00a0originally appeared on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog.accepted.com<\/a>, the official blog of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Accepted.com<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><i><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/2015\/04\/27\/4-things-to-do-if-you-cant-define-your-mba-goals-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u200b\u200b<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><i><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/2015\/04\/27\/4-things-to-do-if-you-cant-define-your-mba-goals-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u200b<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s entering class at CBS reflects the school\u2019s interest in building a class composed of \u00a0\u201cintellectually driven people from diverse educational, economic, social, cultural, and geographic backgrounds.\u201d According to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3,243],"tags":[967,1716,1891,479,132,918],"class_list":["post-28468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mba","category-b-school-life","category-blog","tag-applying-to-business-school","tag-bschool","tag-b-school-life","tag-cbs","tag-columbia","tag-columbia-business-school","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28469,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28468\/revisions\/28469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}