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Kathmandu2013
11 May 2014, 18:50
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Dear GMAT community,
Any help / advise / suggestions would be much appreciated. I'll try to make this brief while providing all the necessary stats for you. If you've any questions please feel free to ask.
My goal is a top 10 program and from what one consultant told me, I should be "OK" but I want to hear what you all think as there's a few question marks I want to make sure I address (and prior to spending big $ this fall working with a consultant).
-Went to a Top 25 public university - Majored in Business Administration with a Major GPA off 3.6
-Minored in Mandarin Chinese, which was tough, which pulled my overall GPA down to 3.3.
(Note, transferred to above university after leaving a small D3 school where I played lacrosse. GPA prior was 3.6.)
-Did I-Banking as an analyst in NYC at one off the usual suspects
-Recruited from the bank to a small tech company and grew the business from pre-revenue to $10mm+ (SAAS business)
-680GMAT (took it twice)
-Active in the community as a Big Brother as a part of BBBS
-Will have a total of 5.5YR WE
-White male
Is there anything you'd recommend I do to help improve my chances of being admitted to a top 10 program? I know for HBS, GBS it's a very, very long shot but for the other programs do I have a strong chance? Any giant red flags you see at first glance / should I take the GMAT again?
thanks,
Any help / advise / suggestions would be much appreciated. I'll try to make this brief while providing all the necessary stats for you. If you've any questions please feel free to ask.
My goal is a top 10 program and from what one consultant told me, I should be "OK" but I want to hear what you all think as there's a few question marks I want to make sure I address (and prior to spending big $ this fall working with a consultant).
-Went to a Top 25 public university - Majored in Business Administration with a Major GPA off 3.6
-Minored in Mandarin Chinese, which was tough, which pulled my overall GPA down to 3.3.
(Note, transferred to above university after leaving a small D3 school where I played lacrosse. GPA prior was 3.6.)
-Did I-Banking as an analyst in NYC at one off the usual suspects
-Recruited from the bank to a small tech company and grew the business from pre-revenue to $10mm+ (SAAS business)
-680GMAT (took it twice)
-Active in the community as a Big Brother as a part of BBBS
-Will have a total of 5.5YR WE
-White male
Is there anything you'd recommend I do to help improve my chances of being admitted to a top 10 program? I know for HBS, GBS it's a very, very long shot but for the other programs do I have a strong chance? Any giant red flags you see at first glance / should I take the GMAT again?
thanks,
11 May 2014, 21:02
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Kathmandu2013
Retake the GMAT. For the top 8 schools like Booth, Columbia, Kellogg, Sloan, Tuck or Wharton, you need 700+ and ideally a 720+ or you'll be a big stretch. There are plenty of high caliber finance guys they can choose from (and frankly more than they want to take in), and so you're up against other guys like yourself with GMATs that are closer to the averages. Yes, and many of them will also have a strong profile, some notable extras, etc as well as strong applications - in fact, none of these things are a competitive advantage - they are simply what you need to be competitive in the first place.
Do whatever it takes to boost that GMAT. I know it's a pain in the ass to prep for it yet again, but it's essential.
Kathmandu2013
12 May 2014, 06:00
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Thanks Alex, that's what I assumed going into my first conversation with the consultant but she said I should be fine and recommended I take a quantitative class at Berkley over this summer to prove my ability since that was what was on the lower end of the spectrum. I appreciate your advise though and will solicit some more feedback and probably start up the studying again. thanks!
