I'm not sold on the idea of applying to business school yet, but am considering it. I would like to do the MBA as it would either convince me not to become a practicing physician (I would like to use my MBA and previous schooling in a related field), or along with my MD to hopefully put me in a better position to control my own practice (partners make significantly more, and I've seen large practices fall apart over mismanagement). After you start medical school you're on that track and it would impossible to try to do an MBA for a decade plus. I would ideally like to end up at a program in the top 40 of either Business Week or US New's rankings. My current stats are:
3.4 undergraduate GPA from a Top 15 US News Public Uni in Biology [3.1 major GPA]
Made Dean's List 5 quarters total and last 4 quarters consecutively
159V 161Q GRE [84/86% percentile; equates to 640 on official GRE conversion chart] after 3 days studying to apply to my current masters
3.1-.4 masters GPA from State Medical in Medical Science, finishing Dec. and thus range
Career goals were always medicine but have yet to take the MCAT
Lab experience [12 hours/week but only 3 months]
Traveled independently to over 60 countries somewhat subsidized
DJed professionally on 4 continents (I do have press features from big magazines/websites like Vogue and MTV but I'm not a career or famous DJ by any means. It was simply fun to do over breaks and I was always great at networking within the scene but couldn't get over the stage fright.)
I speak enough Spanish to travel, but plan on studying for hours a day after I finish my masters
No work experience
The closest thing to work experience I have is running an at home internet based business in high school that generated about $5000 over 2 years
Ethnically Asian but my parents are from the Caribbean and I was born and raised in the US
Both parents and 2 siblings are MDs/medical students.
26 years old turning 27 in Jan.
I'm considering applying to do a full-time MBA for next fall, and would retake the GRE in Jan. I was very comfortable with test format and didn't find it taxing at all. I assume if I were to put even 2 weeks preparations in I could improve my score. A 3 point improvement on both sections would equate to a 700, a 4 point would be 710 (although I've read that GMAT is preferred regardless of conversion). The current stats for a school like G Tech is 3.38 & 316GRE (
https://scheller.gatech.edu/mba/fulltime ... ofile.html ) and at Vanderbilt it's 3.4 & 320GRE (
https://www.owen.vanderbilt.edu/admissio ... s/faqs.cfm ), which I already have, but obviously my Achilles' heel is a complete lack of work experience, in any field. I was hoping my major, masters, and extracurricular activities (if not prestigious at least they're unique and independently achieved) would hold some weight. I'll have above average essays and recommendations based on what I've had in the past. Do you think that would be realistic to apply to programs of this rank, or is having no work experience too much to overcome at this level?
The programs I am currently considering and their GMAT scores:
Indiana Kelley [671]
UNC Kenan-Flagler [690]
Emory Goizueta [677]
G Tech Scheller [682]
Maryland Smith [666]
Vanderbilt Owen [684]
Texas A&M Mays [649]
Ohio State Fisher [667]
Minnesota Carlson [693]
Wisconsin Madison [675]
Michigan State Broad [649], currently consider a Michigan resident
Washington Foster [682]
Penn State Smeal [653]
Illinois [657]
Arizona State Carey [673]
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03 Oct 2013, 12:25
