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Hi, delain! Thanks for writing in to us. I'll address your questions in order!
1) Super tricky. Most schools ask for your current direct supervisor. You can, if that's impossible, go with someone else at your firm but they need to be a cheerleader/strong advocate for you and to know your work...sounds like that might not be possible. Given the options presented, I suppose I'd go with the nonprofit - but can you give it more time? You might target R2 to get a few more months with this person and on the job. I'd also then use the optional essay/additional information section to explain why you don't have a recommendation from your current employer.
2) The schools you've listed are really competitive and tend to admit candidates with strong leadership and around 5 years of experience at matriculation (unfortunately, the pre-college graduation internships don't really count) and higher GMAT averages. I would definitely advise you to add other schools to your list and/or wait to apply in another 1-2 years. If you do decide to apply now, keep in mind that top MBA programs also look for leadership, promotions, and impact, so be sure to highlight those. It sounds like you are working toward clarity on your goals, which is good! I think you could be a little more specific - what kinds of problems/projects can you help solve - for what industries, and do the countries matter? What firms do that and where are they?
3) Your 710 is a good start, but is below the averages of the schools you're targeting. I think it's definitely worth a retake so glad to see you're planning one. Most people take the GMAT more than once, especially if they're not happy with their first score. If you don't get a better score, at least you will have tried (and will have demonstrated resilience and effort to improve).
Two more things -a) you have an impressive GPA, but do you have quantitative coursework on your transcript? Business-oriented classes? If not, I'd also recommend taking (ideally, graded) outside coursework in accounting/financial analysis or other relevant topics to show that you can handle the quant side of the MBA. At a minimum, I'd check out MBA Math! and b) Where do you want to live/work? You have such an interesting international background. You might consider non-US schools as you look to expand your list (look at where their grads go). Unfortunately, many of them do look for around the same amount of experience, but you might find yourself closer to their GMAT averages and they often have very strong pipelines into the kind of work that you're describing.
Best of luck!
Julie-Anne Heafey
mbaMission
1) Super tricky. Most schools ask for your current direct supervisor. You can, if that's impossible, go with someone else at your firm but they need to be a cheerleader/strong advocate for you and to know your work...sounds like that might not be possible. Given the options presented, I suppose I'd go with the nonprofit - but can you give it more time? You might target R2 to get a few more months with this person and on the job. I'd also then use the optional essay/additional information section to explain why you don't have a recommendation from your current employer.
2) The schools you've listed are really competitive and tend to admit candidates with strong leadership and around 5 years of experience at matriculation (unfortunately, the pre-college graduation internships don't really count) and higher GMAT averages. I would definitely advise you to add other schools to your list and/or wait to apply in another 1-2 years. If you do decide to apply now, keep in mind that top MBA programs also look for leadership, promotions, and impact, so be sure to highlight those. It sounds like you are working toward clarity on your goals, which is good! I think you could be a little more specific - what kinds of problems/projects can you help solve - for what industries, and do the countries matter? What firms do that and where are they?
3) Your 710 is a good start, but is below the averages of the schools you're targeting. I think it's definitely worth a retake so glad to see you're planning one. Most people take the GMAT more than once, especially if they're not happy with their first score. If you don't get a better score, at least you will have tried (and will have demonstrated resilience and effort to improve).
Two more things -a) you have an impressive GPA, but do you have quantitative coursework on your transcript? Business-oriented classes? If not, I'd also recommend taking (ideally, graded) outside coursework in accounting/financial analysis or other relevant topics to show that you can handle the quant side of the MBA. At a minimum, I'd check out MBA Math! and b) Where do you want to live/work? You have such an interesting international background. You might consider non-US schools as you look to expand your list (look at where their grads go). Unfortunately, many of them do look for around the same amount of experience, but you might find yourself closer to their GMAT averages and they often have very strong pipelines into the kind of work that you're describing.
Best of luck!
Julie-Anne Heafey
mbaMission
delain
