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Alchemist1320 · Answer

you should surely target few tier-1s...

decent profile...should sail through if put properly

ehunter1973 · Answer

Thanks...i do feel that my profile is fairly strong, but the lack of "blue blood" concerns me when I consider HBS. I have a hard time believing that a tier1 school would accept the grandson of a dirt farmer :D

AlexMBAApply · Answer

H/S/W -- stretch, but may be worth at least giving them a shot. Judging from your post, you might have some potential to wring out some good stories, but only you know whether you're good at that or not

The rest -- you'll be in the mix for all of them, assuming your GMATs are 700 or greater. So with these schools, just pick the ones you really want to go to.

Stick to around 6 schools. Whether you apply H/S/W + 3 others, or a subset of H/S/W + others is really a matter of personal choice - whether you're more willing to roll the dice or play it safer.

FatRiverPuff · Answer

Okay I apologize for randomly jumping in but I just have to respond to this: The vast majority of Bangladeshis (3 of my own siblings included) who've attended H/S/W are also the grandchildren of "dirt farmers". Not that you sound like a self-hating Bangladeshi or anything, but your background actually sets you apart from all the "blue bloods" and you might want to embrace it. I'm just shocked you'd consider your "lack of blue blood" to be a concern at all and the irony is that most of the "blue blood" kids from Bangladesh end up going to lower-ranked schools or Oxbridge because they can afford it, while the dirt farmers' relatives work their asses off their entire lives to get a scholarship at a top US school. Furthermore, I'd like to throw in that all those Indian kids attending H/S/W are not Tata's descendants. I assure you.

ehunter1973 · Answer

thank you, Alex!

Fatriverpuff - I will keep that in mind!

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