wondee wrote:
WOW!!
Thanks for the encouragement..... So how many more years of work experience do I need to get into those top 10 schools you are talking about? Also, would my CPA designation help out at all?
There is no magic formula.... I know people going to the Chicago GSB with 3 years work experience (you might try reaching out to yb on this site, I think hes one of the younger ones going there), and I know people who are 30 going.
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Oh yeah... and by the way... you guys didn't answer my question on Georgetown... Haha....
Good school, quality program as far as I know. DC is a great city. As for IB out of George I'd suggest looking at their placement stats on their website, reaching out to the admissions office and asking them for more info, or looking for a contact in the IB group (there must be one) at the school.
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Would you consider Columbia, NYU, and Wharton in the top ten?? With good essays like you talked about, what would be my chances at these schools?
No doubt, people often debate to no end who is in the top 10... the BW list is as follows:
1 University of Chicago -
2 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
3 Northwestern University (Kellogg) –
4 Harvard University
5 University of Michigan (Ross)
6 Stanford University
7 MIT (Sloan)
8 UC Berkeley (Haas)
9 Duke University (Fuqua)
10 Columbia University
11 Dartmouth (Tuck)
12 UCLA (Anderson)
13 Cornell University (Johnson)
14 NYU (Stern)
15 University of Virginia (Darden)
Whatever which way you dice the list - Wharton, Columbia and Stern are all excellent programs. If your goal is IB, I'd suggest considering GSB as well.
I'll also throw a little water on your party. Your profile, while certainly strong in terms of basics, represents only a tiny tidbit of your application. Don't be fooled into thinking that just writing a good essay will get you in everywhere you want to go - there are many many more elements that matter - the kind of leadership you've had at work, your experience in teams, your background and interests, your gender, race and ethnicity (whether you like it or not, it certainly seems to matter), your extracurricular activities and your leadership (or lack thereof) in them, the degree to which you have clearly defined goals and ambitions, the clarity in which you convey them, the quality of your undergraduate alma mater, the degree to which you've progressed quickly, how strong your recommendations are, how well crafted they are, how well balanced you appear, how you conduct yourself during the interview, etc.
In short, there are a lot of variables. I know people at Harvard who got denied by Cornell. I know people at the GSB who got denied by Kellogg - and people admitted at Kellogg who got denied at the GSB. I know people who got denied everywhere and didn't get in this year, and others who collected waitlists nonstop. (I think one guy had 7 waitlists if memory serves me right). I myself got into the school I thought I wouldn't get into, and got denied by the school I would have easily bet money on.
In short.... don't let my previous post lull you into a false sense of security.... It takes a combination of hard work, preparation, research, more hard work and a good hearty dose of random good luck to get into any school.
That said, a 3.5 gpa and 700+ GMAT score certainly doesn't hurt.