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Hi All,
Can you guys please look at my profile and see if I have a shot at the schools I'm looking at. At the moment I have 5 schools I would like to apply to (ucla, usc, uc Irvine, university of Rochester, and Boston College). I'm also interested in Indiana and Carnegie Mellon, but had crossed them off my list previously. If I'm not competitive for some of these other schools, I may replace them with these ones.
School: Mid-tier UC school
Major: Double major economics & communication
GPA: 3.44
GMAT: 630 (Q 42 V 34 IR 5) I've improved since my first try from a 580 to 630. I took a Manhattan prep course which helped a lot, but each time when I get to the verbal portion, I blank out on critical reasoning and reading comp) should I retake as I've already taken the test 3 times and want to start focusing on starting my essays.
Work Experience: 3 years at a Mortgage Bank (1 year in Customer service, previous 2 in Accounting after promotion) - I've trained over 10 people while in customer service and another 2 while in accounting. I feel that I've been making a large impact on the job so far, working on projects that shorten reporting time for my team as well as other departments.
Extracurricular activities: Community Service organization in college (3 years - held a leadership position within) - got back into community service volunteering at a Pet Rescue since January, but took a break since July to focus on my gmat. I'll be going back to it starting this week.
Post-graduate goals - I want to get into finance, particularly wealth management as an analyst working on models and technical analysis of publicly traded companies. I always thought it was great to have the opportunity to work through analyzing large sets of data and making interpretations of it. That's similar to what I do now at my job, but a completely different function and different type of data.
If anyone could help, I would really appreciate it!
Can you guys please look at my profile and see if I have a shot at the schools I'm looking at. At the moment I have 5 schools I would like to apply to (ucla, usc, uc Irvine, university of Rochester, and Boston College). I'm also interested in Indiana and Carnegie Mellon, but had crossed them off my list previously. If I'm not competitive for some of these other schools, I may replace them with these ones.
School: Mid-tier UC school
Major: Double major economics & communication
GPA: 3.44
GMAT: 630 (Q 42 V 34 IR 5) I've improved since my first try from a 580 to 630. I took a Manhattan prep course which helped a lot, but each time when I get to the verbal portion, I blank out on critical reasoning and reading comp) should I retake as I've already taken the test 3 times and want to start focusing on starting my essays.
Work Experience: 3 years at a Mortgage Bank (1 year in Customer service, previous 2 in Accounting after promotion) - I've trained over 10 people while in customer service and another 2 while in accounting. I feel that I've been making a large impact on the job so far, working on projects that shorten reporting time for my team as well as other departments.
Extracurricular activities: Community Service organization in college (3 years - held a leadership position within) - got back into community service volunteering at a Pet Rescue since January, but took a break since July to focus on my gmat. I'll be going back to it starting this week.
Post-graduate goals - I want to get into finance, particularly wealth management as an analyst working on models and technical analysis of publicly traded companies. I always thought it was great to have the opportunity to work through analyzing large sets of data and making interpretations of it. That's similar to what I do now at my job, but a completely different function and different type of data.
If anyone could help, I would really appreciate it!
13 Sep 2016, 15:23
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Thanks for sharing.
Consider retaking the GMAT, boosting your scores would improve your chances significantly. For your application essays, start articulating how your experiences plus an MBA at your target program can be leveraged towards your post-MBA goals.
All the best!
Consider retaking the GMAT, boosting your scores would improve your chances significantly. For your application essays, start articulating how your experiences plus an MBA at your target program can be leveraged towards your post-MBA goals.
All the best!
13 Sep 2016, 18:01
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Thanks VeritasPrepEdison!
Do you think I should exclude UCLA from my list if I stuck with my GMAT score, or what would be an acceptable GMAT score given my profile for me to be competitive for UCLA? If I'm not competitive, which of the 2 schools I listed above would be a suitable replacement (Indiana or Carnegie Mellon)? Also, do you think my background and stats would be competitive at the other 4 schools listed? The schools are USC (top 30) and UC Irvine, University of Rochester, and Boston College (All 3 are Top 50). My GMAT score is within the middle 80% range for these schools, but below the average.
I do plan on taking the GMAT again maybe in early to mid November, but I'm just afraid I won't improve as much as I need.
Forgot to mention, I'm an Asian Male, 26 yrs old. Will be 27 by the start of the school year. I'll have 4 years of work exp. by the December as well.
Do you think I should exclude UCLA from my list if I stuck with my GMAT score, or what would be an acceptable GMAT score given my profile for me to be competitive for UCLA? If I'm not competitive, which of the 2 schools I listed above would be a suitable replacement (Indiana or Carnegie Mellon)? Also, do you think my background and stats would be competitive at the other 4 schools listed? The schools are USC (top 30) and UC Irvine, University of Rochester, and Boston College (All 3 are Top 50). My GMAT score is within the middle 80% range for these schools, but below the average.
I do plan on taking the GMAT again maybe in early to mid November, but I'm just afraid I won't improve as much as I need.
Forgot to mention, I'm an Asian Male, 26 yrs old. Will be 27 by the start of the school year. I'll have 4 years of work exp. by the December as well.
