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Re: Profile evaluation please
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01 Apr 2008, 12:57
nyctennis82,
Your profile is good and a bit unusual. Your non-common career track, strong extracurricular leadership, high GMAT score, and gender all work in your favor. However, the lack of leadership at work and the fact that your profile is not extremely unusual and does not show unusual impact make HBS and Stanford longshots in my book. Columbia, Wharton, and Kellogg may all be doable, but if I were you I would not worry about taking quant courses, I would concentrate on beefing up the leadership and impact (especially at work if you can) between now and the fall. Your 77th percentile is close enough to the 80th--your GMAT will not hold you back. If you could ramp up the leadership and impact by the fall you could aim as high as you are with greater confidence.
Hope this helps.