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profile eval for West Coast MBAs / humanities+education background
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30 Dec 2014, 19:41
Hi there,
I'm new to this forum, and I'll be brief. I would love if you could give me a general evaluation of where I stand.
I am a 26 year old Asian American male, living in Boston, MA.
Undergrad (graduated 2010): U of Penn (Philadelphia, PA)
Undergraduate major: History / 3.9 gpa (summa cum laude)
Prominent extracurriculars: played college football, writing tutor
Work: I am the science department chair and athletic director at a low-income urban charter high school in the city. At the school, I wear a lot of additional hats including teaching engineering and AP English classes, head coaching the varsity basketball, soccer, and track teams, serving as our school's reading specialist, etc. In the summer I teach ESL classes at a local university.
GMAT: 720 (47 quantitative, 42 verbal, 6 IR).
I am planning to apply for the Jan. deadlines to
U Washington (Foster)
UCLA (Anderson)
USC
Stanford
UC Berkeley (Haas)
UC Irvine
Goals: I am switching from an education/teaching background to the MBA because I'd like to start or join/grow a network of charter schools serving on West Coast or in the South (one of the reasons all my schools are West Coast based). The schools would serve primarily low-income high school students who are looking for high academic expectations and also state-ranked competitive athletic programs. Right now there are not many schools that can claim both, and most of those schools are highly affluent suburban schools.
My GMAT quantitative score isn't great- it's around the 68th percentile, while my verbal is in the 96th percentile. But I've studied hard for the test, taken it twice, and I don't know if I could do THAT much better on the math sections in subsequent retests. And in the 3 math courses I took in college, I received either As or A+s in all of them.
I've thought about retaking the GMAT again for a third time and applying in round 3, but I'm planning on just applying as it is. What are your thoughts?