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sandiegostudent
Joined: 23 Feb 2015
Last visit: 07 Oct 2017
Posts: 1
Concentration: Finance, Strategy
GMAT 1: 700 Q44 V41
GPA: 3.74
WE:Corporate Finance (Energy)
23 Oct 2015, 15:59
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Hi,
I was hoping I could get an outsider's perspective on where I stand as an applicant. Quite frankly, I'm not entirely sure what range of schools I should apply to and would love an opinion on what the best schools I could reasonably get into are.
At matriculation:
26 y/o white, American male
51 months work experience
GMAT 1: 700 (44Q/41V)
GMAT 2: About to take, aiming to bring my Quant score up
GPA: 3.74, Finance degree from a good but not great, private university in CA (USN Top 100)
Work Experience:
3 year management finance rotation program at a Fortune 500 energy company (not one of the big ones, definitely lesser known). Rotation 1: Risk Management, Rotation 2: FP&A, Rotation 3: M&A
1 year working for Booz Allen Hamilton as a financial consultant for federal clients
I have also been a Military Intelligence Officer in the Army Reserves since graduation. Training one weekend every month, I oversee a staff of four soldiers focusing on international affairs and such. Upon becoming an Officer, I ranked in the top few % of my peers in my commissioning class. I have also graduated with honors from every training school I have attended and had a research paper in my field published.
My issues are my low GMAT and Quant scores as well as not knowing how much, if any weight, being in the Reserves will carry. My goal after MBA is to work for a top-tier strategy consulting firm (MBB) in the private, not public, sector.
Thank you!
I was hoping I could get an outsider's perspective on where I stand as an applicant. Quite frankly, I'm not entirely sure what range of schools I should apply to and would love an opinion on what the best schools I could reasonably get into are.
At matriculation:
26 y/o white, American male
51 months work experience
GMAT 1: 700 (44Q/41V)
GMAT 2: About to take, aiming to bring my Quant score up
GPA: 3.74, Finance degree from a good but not great, private university in CA (USN Top 100)
Work Experience:
3 year management finance rotation program at a Fortune 500 energy company (not one of the big ones, definitely lesser known). Rotation 1: Risk Management, Rotation 2: FP&A, Rotation 3: M&A
1 year working for Booz Allen Hamilton as a financial consultant for federal clients
I have also been a Military Intelligence Officer in the Army Reserves since graduation. Training one weekend every month, I oversee a staff of four soldiers focusing on international affairs and such. Upon becoming an Officer, I ranked in the top few % of my peers in my commissioning class. I have also graduated with honors from every training school I have attended and had a research paper in my field published.
My issues are my low GMAT and Quant scores as well as not knowing how much, if any weight, being in the Reserves will carry. My goal after MBA is to work for a top-tier strategy consulting firm (MBB) in the private, not public, sector.
Thank you!
24 Oct 2015, 11:45
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You have a good profile--not sure why you are worried about GMAT other than the quant, which could be improved, yes, but it's not bad by any stretch. When you couple your GMAT with your high GPA from a top 100 school, you should have a strong core academic profile for most schools. Consulting is clearly very common post MBA career track, so I would say to go for whatever schools you feel would be a good fit, while still keeping in mind the size of your applicant pool (whilte males from US is definitely the largest pool). Considering this, make sure you ask yourself over and over in the application process how you stand out from someone else who looks similar to you on paper.
