Pre-MBA industry: Consulting
Post-MBA industry: Education
2 years ago
11 Oct 2023 05:10
Division 1 Student-Athlete Captain, Business Major at Top 3 Undergrad Business School with Concentration in International Business, President of Sports Analytics club, Led club for special needs students, Helped Establish executive education program for African university, Returning Full-Time at Tier 2 Consulting Firm in Strategy Division, 3.8 GPA, have not taken GMAT yet but strong test taker, applying to Tier-1 and Tier-2 Deferred MBA programs this upcoming year.
Good luck with the test. It’s tricky to recruit and do athletics and also apply so awesome job and being able to focus on it.
I would consider your strength and weaknesses since you will be able to take a new version of the Jim at about a month. The new one is leaning more towards quantitatively inclined people. if you know that’s not you, then it’s an easy choice to take the old test. However, I recommend taking whatever test you can get the highest percentile in… it would be very helpful to be able to get a solid score which is basically anything above 700 though looking at your schools, a 730 or a 740 would be advisable to match the average. GRE of course is another option if you can get a high score.
I would say it’s worth putting in good effort into a test score because unless you get into Harvard or Stanford, you will most likely reuse this score in three or four years when you make another round and try to take another shot at Harvard and Stanford. And having to retake the test would be annoying and would basically use up quite a bit of time to prep again for a high score.
So awesome profile!
Good luck with the test and the applications.
PS. If for some reason you felt you did not have enough to do, something that always looks good on a profile is a startup of some kind. It doesn’t have to be functioning or successful and can be purely on paper but it needs to be an interesting idea and you need to be passionate about it. That has a whole new depth and dimension but I don’t think you’re looking for more things to do and that would probably recommend getting the test done as best as you can.