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undergrad EE & Comp. eng. 3.0 (top 20 eng school).
Grad school Comp. sci 3.3 good school
GMAT 720
Work exp 5+ years in the IT field. Thinking of career change but flexible.
Currently leaning toward FT MBA.
Target schools(leaning into FT MBA with concentration on E-commerce, finance, management):
Yale <- first choice because family lives there (so less burden financially)
Johnson
stern
cornell
Others are in consideration...
I am more interested in schools on the East(family lives) and West coast(love CA) plus schools in illinois.
i went through the GMAT scores and 720 seems to be the mean in many of the top schools so i "barely" made it there... I hope colleges will look at my Master degree GPA more since it is more recent... Can i please get a profile evaluation and possibly some reasonable target schools to add to the list?I also understand that there's only so many colleges one can apply to... my goal is to apply to ~7 schools with maybe 3-4 reach and 3-4 "on target".
undergrad EE & Comp. eng. 3.0 (top 20 eng school).
Grad school Comp. sci 3.3 good school
GMAT 720
Work exp 5+ years in the IT field. Thinking of career change but flexible.
Currently leaning toward FT MBA.
Target schools(leaning into FT MBA with concentration on E-commerce, finance, management):
Yale <- first choice because family lives there (so less burden financially)
Johnson
stern
cornell
Others are in consideration...
I am more interested in schools on the East(family lives) and West coast(love CA) plus schools in illinois.
i went through the GMAT scores and 720 seems to be the mean in many of the top schools so i "barely" made it there... I hope colleges will look at my Master degree GPA more since it is more recent... Can i please get a profile evaluation and possibly some reasonable target schools to add to the list?I also understand that there's only so many colleges one can apply to... my goal is to apply to ~7 schools with maybe 3-4 reach and 3-4 "on target".
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I wouldn't worry too much about your GPA for the kinds of schools you're targeting (especially since it's in engineering/CS, they know that the grading curve is pretty harsh).
In any case, I would focus on 5-6 schools at most. Maybe add UCLA and Haas to your list since you said you like the west coast as well -- and then you'd have 6 schools total.
With these 6, you should be competitive for all of them -- while there aren't any safeties in there, you should have a reasonable shot of getting into at least one of them.
In any case, I would focus on 5-6 schools at most. Maybe add UCLA and Haas to your list since you said you like the west coast as well -- and then you'd have 6 schools total.
With these 6, you should be competitive for all of them -- while there aren't any safeties in there, you should have a reasonable shot of getting into at least one of them.
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Thanks for quick response Alex,
Are there any other schools from the top 30 you think i should put in as safety?
I did a little bit more research and came up with the following list (mix of top and lower rankings):
Yale
Johnson
stern
Haas
Berkely
Sloan
Columbia
Anderson
Kenan-flagler
Tepper
Any schools you think i should take out to reduce the list? i think ~7 is the sweet spot for me. You suggested Berkley and haas so those will be the ones on west coast i want to focus on - although stanford also in my mind.thanks!
thanks!
. But you did raise an interesting point about applying to the west coast schools if i DO get into somewhere R1 - is the rationale "i have nothing to lose" or "save the harder ones for last"? Also, do you know any schools that looks GPA a little bit "less"? it might be a silly question but my GPA doesnt really jump out much... thanks! 
. What is ED-early decision? With the interviews you suggested me to initiate them with kellogg and duke, shouldnt I try with all of them or some schools will ask you for interview if they are interested? Just to clarify, when you say "IN round 1" that means i got accepted to somewhere so i can try to go for more reaches while if i didn't get into any i should go for the 2nd set? It seems the strategy is to go for reaches then adjust accordingly - is this what you did or you did something simpler/more complex? thanks! 
