Re: Profile evaluation
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15 Dec 2007, 13:34
You have a very unusual profile, and your region of origin, distinctive personal story (obstacles overcome), and unusual career profile will help you. Your GMAT score is good enough to apply to all these schools, especially given that your GPA is good. Your personal story largely compensates for your age 'problem.'
Your career progress (i.e., increasing responsibility), leadership profile, and career focus seem a bit too imperfect to make HBS feasible for you. However, if you can put together essays and reco letters that effectively highlight your leadership, then I would not discourage you from applying to the other schools on your list. Cornell is the most doable school on your list (you're in there as far as I'm concerned), but I think you can get into the other schools as well (except HBS IMO) if you can 'package' yourself well and your profile's apparent blemishes.
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Thanks a million Paul, I really was bashing myself about my GMAT score. Its such a relief to hear from someone else that its good. I have been working on my essays for the last two and half months and have enlisted the help of current student contacts from these schools so hopefully they will be top notch.