Hi. You are a tiny bit on the younger side when it comes to experience so for your admission your interview will be important to demonstrate maturity and good presence.

You also want to demonstrate promotion and growth in your application. For your score, I would recommend hitting at least the averages so the score doesn’t keep you out but as a younger candidate you are expected to be still sharp from college and probably have a little bit of a higher score.

There are a number of programs that are strong with tech placements or other used to be strong with tech placements. Some may offer scholarships and those will be substantial savings especially if you end up recruiting on your own off-campus, using your own wits and resources.

The challenge lately with Tech recruiting has been supply and demand and there is a sufficient number of applicants with technical experience which tend to be recruited and preferred due to existing experience. my recommendation for admission and for recruiting would be to try to get some product management experience. Perhaps an internship or volunteering somewhere. Even GMAT Club has an PM internship that we run in October and February each year but it’s quite a bit of ways away. I’m sure there are other organizations that may have opportunities like that.

if you’re looking at education and technology, having teaching experiences also valuable. I’m not sure if you are already volunteering at schools or with other educational organizations but that would build up quite a bit of your authority in terms of being able to use examples in your applications as well as in your interviews. I know a number of tech companies have recruited former teachers for p.m. roles because they wanted people with first-hand experience managing a classroom and managing the technology and so that’s another way you can make yourself stand out.

Thank you bb!! I have over 10 years experience as a tutor for high school, college, and university students so I'm sure I can leverage that.

That works! the more you can make it sound as professional and show achievements, growth, etc (basically saying you are a better tutor than average and that you are serious about it and achieved great results) the better

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