Hi, I trained for a month for the GMAT and took it the 21st of December. 430 was the result even though I had reached a 500 in some practice test before.
I see the MBA as the one and only chance at getting back into the business race. I was working in private banking shortly, then transferred to treasury analysis. This was becoming very boring after a year. I tried to get into consulting from there, but basically everyone told me to get an mba if you don't want your career to end in a boring way.
I have really prepared the best possible way and like I said I also saw some improvements while preparing. It would really be a dream for me to get into a business career and believe me in terms or determination and discipline there isn't a whole lot out there that would compete with me - I just need to feel that I can belong to a good business school and then take it from there.
Really don't know if I can improve my score by taking the test again - out of desperation I have still applied to Darden and Harvard. I think this shows that I want it badly. I basically also found out that there would be financing options once getting accepted into a top program ( that was another huge concern until now, half the time I was preparing for the GMAT I thought it was a waste of time because I could never afford the program anyways)
Prodigy Finance has loans for international students and with an acceptance letter anything is possible!!!
It comes down to this in my life. I want it badly (but don't know if I can bring up the energy and improve the GMAT again) and options are very limited for my life if I don't get into a good MBA program. Anybody out there, any suggestions coming from you guys would be very helpful. One advantage I would maybe have in this situation is I am currently living in DC, enrolled in a boring sports management program at Georgetown. Maybe I have a better shot at improving my score since I'm in the US and I feel overall much better here than in Switzerland where I used to live.
As a last resort I would have to teach tennis to kids for the rest of my life and that would be sad. Please guys, any suggestions are so much appreciated because I am trying everything to improve my situation. Thanks a lot in advance. Michele