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06 May 2013, 13:48
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Work Experience:
~4 years. Started as a recruiter at a financial software company, moved into Project Management. Currently work as a Project Manager for a hospitality company, have been here for 6 mos.
GMAT
Total Score out of 800: 730
Total Percentile (%): 97
Verbal Percentile (%): 98
Quantitative Percentile (%): 77
AWA out of 6.0: 5
Academic profile:
Name of undergraduate college/university: University of Southern California
Undergraduate degree and major: BA, International Relations
Final/overall GPA (4-point scale): 3.5
GPA in major field of study: 3.35
Extra Curriculars:
College: held positions in Fraternity, Heavily involved in student-run Philanthropy benefiting local underprivileged students.
Current: the Lead volunteer (Event Chair) of the Santa Monica Relay for Life. Have been involved for 1.5 years.
No relevant certifications
Target Schools: Columbia, Kellogg, Stern, Haas, UCLA Andersen, and Stanford/Harvard because why not.
Applying R1 2013-14
Post MBA goal: Project Manager role, working on projects to build business processes and structure for small/mid-sized company in its relative infancy. No preference in industry.
Thank you!
~4 years. Started as a recruiter at a financial software company, moved into Project Management. Currently work as a Project Manager for a hospitality company, have been here for 6 mos.
GMAT
Total Score out of 800: 730
Total Percentile (%): 97
Verbal Percentile (%): 98
Quantitative Percentile (%): 77
AWA out of 6.0: 5
Academic profile:
Name of undergraduate college/university: University of Southern California
Undergraduate degree and major: BA, International Relations
Final/overall GPA (4-point scale): 3.5
GPA in major field of study: 3.35
Extra Curriculars:
College: held positions in Fraternity, Heavily involved in student-run Philanthropy benefiting local underprivileged students.
Current: the Lead volunteer (Event Chair) of the Santa Monica Relay for Life. Have been involved for 1.5 years.
No relevant certifications
Target Schools: Columbia, Kellogg, Stern, Haas, UCLA Andersen, and Stanford/Harvard because why not.
Applying R1 2013-14
Post MBA goal: Project Manager role, working on projects to build business processes and structure for small/mid-sized company in its relative infancy. No preference in industry.
Thank you!
12 May 2013, 21:34
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Hello,
Thanks for sharing your profile. Your academic background is pretty strong with the exception of a slightly low GMAT quant score (we usually recommend targeting 80th percentile or above for top programs). I don't think it's that big a deal, but given that your undergrad was IR (not so quantitatively rigorous), it might be worth taking some supplementary accounting/finance/stats courses to show your analytic chops.
As for work experience, I'd say your experience is average. I don't know too much about it, but it doesn't sound like you've had or taken on a lot of leadership responsibility at work; though again, I have very little context! Project management is a good role to be in though, as it inherently requires working with multiple teams/stakeholders, managing people to deadlines, managing upwards, etc. So, perhaps you will have lots of material to draw from.
I see that you have an active community service role, so that is great, but I don't see any other extracurricular activities on your list. This could be viewed as a gap.
All in all, I'd say you are overshooting slightly with your target programs. HBS/GSB are long shots (though I admire your spirit - doesn't hurt to throw in apps, but it just depends on where you want to put your energy!). Kellogg and Columbia are stretches. Haas is a slight reach, while UCLA is a good target. I'd suggest skewing more towards schools like Duke/Darden/NYU/Michigan if they meet your criteria.
Good luck,
Mili
Mili Mittal
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Thanks for sharing your profile. Your academic background is pretty strong with the exception of a slightly low GMAT quant score (we usually recommend targeting 80th percentile or above for top programs). I don't think it's that big a deal, but given that your undergrad was IR (not so quantitatively rigorous), it might be worth taking some supplementary accounting/finance/stats courses to show your analytic chops.
As for work experience, I'd say your experience is average. I don't know too much about it, but it doesn't sound like you've had or taken on a lot of leadership responsibility at work; though again, I have very little context! Project management is a good role to be in though, as it inherently requires working with multiple teams/stakeholders, managing people to deadlines, managing upwards, etc. So, perhaps you will have lots of material to draw from.
I see that you have an active community service role, so that is great, but I don't see any other extracurricular activities on your list. This could be viewed as a gap.
All in all, I'd say you are overshooting slightly with your target programs. HBS/GSB are long shots (though I admire your spirit - doesn't hurt to throw in apps, but it just depends on where you want to put your energy!). Kellogg and Columbia are stretches. Haas is a slight reach, while UCLA is a good target. I'd suggest skewing more towards schools like Duke/Darden/NYU/Michigan if they meet your criteria.
Good luck,
Mili
Mili Mittal
Senior Consultant
https://www.mbamission.com
Read the mbaMission Insider's Guides (16 individual school titles)
Download [url=https:// https://info.mbamission.com/MBA-Personal-Statement-Guide/]mbaMission’s Free Personal Statement Guide[/url]
Visit the mbaMission Blog
Follow mbaMission on Twitter
