Asidrop wrote:
Hello,
I need help deciding on my business schools and how my stretch, target and safety schools stack with my credentials.
GPA. 3.5
GMAT 700
American PR card
Experience: 2.5 years at time of program start
Pre-MBA experience across 4 industries: in house consulting (Pakistan)
Post-MBA goal: Management consulting (US)
Long term goal: Public sector consulting (MENA region)
Stretch: Wharton, Northwestern (Kellogg), Duke (Fuqua), UChicago (Booth), Columbia Business School
Target: Yale (SOM), Cornell (Johnson), Virginia (Darden), Dartmouth (Tuck), Georgetown (McDonough), Carnegie (Tepper), UT Austin (McCombs)
Safety: Emory, Toronto (Rotman), York (Schulich), Queens Canada, Indiana (Kelley)]
Of this list, I need to get down to a reasonable number. Please help!
Hey dude,
So far so good. And I’d love to help you out but without more info it’s gonna be hard. Where do you work? What do you do? How quickly have you advanced? Do you have any leadership? What are your great achievements? Do you have notable community service or extra curriculars? Which school did you graduate from?
All of these will play important roles in your evaluation.
What I can say from here is that with only a 700 all of your stretch schools are probably totally out of range, as the average for incoming students from Pakistan and India will likely be about 20 points over the school average, so about 740....
With more detail I may be able to better advise you.
Best,
Jon