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10 Jul 2015, 01:01
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1) Brief description of your full-time work experience.
Project engineer at Global Fortune 500 company (located in Australia)
5 month international stint in Singapore
Total 42 months work exp as of now.
2) Your GMAT
First attempt: 700 Q48 V38 (low IR 25th percentile! - didn't study for IR but was in 80th percentile on practice tests)
Please advise if I should retake, I'm certain I can get ~730 with another 2 months of study and certainly can pick up the IR score.
3) College info:
Top university in Australia (usually ranked somewhere from 3rd-5th nation-wide)
Major: Engineering and Accounting (in Australia we are allowed to do a longer degree with two different majors)
Graduation: Nov 2011
GPA: converts to about 2.9/4.0. Failed two subjects. Did end up on deans list in my last year.
Extenuating circumstance: Long story short, I struggled with coming out and with the family and had to move out of home - which required me to work part-time to support myself. My work included two years at PwC Tax Team as an undergrad consultant.
4) Significant college and post-college extra-curricular activities or community service, especially leadership experience.
College :
2 years :Committee member on the board of Young Engineers Australia (sub-group of the national Engineers Australia professional body)
2 years : Committee member of the largest student organisation at my university.
Current
sub-committee member of the largest LGBTI Business Oraganisation in Melbourne
Mentor for LGBT College student (through an organisation that organises these mentor/mentee partnerships)
5) Important certifications
Started my Chartered Engineering (unlikely be completed before applications)
6) Your target programs.
Stern, Kellog, Booth, Columbia
Please recommend schools if these are completely out of reach with my GPA.
7) Application cycle:
Need advice on this.
I believe with my GPA I need all the advantage I can get. Therefore, I think I need to apply in R1.
R1 2015 (deadlines in Sept/Oct) - seems too rushed if I'm to retake my GMAT. Will R2 be a huge disadvantage? If so, I'm happy to wait one more year (as it also will distance myself from my GPA even more)
8) Your post-MBA goal.
Strategy Implementation
9)Personal:
Female; Asian-Australian; LGBT
I understand my GPA is very low. Please advise if I have a shot at these schools and whether I should retake my GMAT for a higher score to at least somewhat offset the GPA.
Thanks in advance!
Project engineer at Global Fortune 500 company (located in Australia)
5 month international stint in Singapore
Total 42 months work exp as of now.
2) Your GMAT
First attempt: 700 Q48 V38 (low IR 25th percentile! - didn't study for IR but was in 80th percentile on practice tests)
Please advise if I should retake, I'm certain I can get ~730 with another 2 months of study and certainly can pick up the IR score.
3) College info:
Top university in Australia (usually ranked somewhere from 3rd-5th nation-wide)
Major: Engineering and Accounting (in Australia we are allowed to do a longer degree with two different majors)
Graduation: Nov 2011
GPA: converts to about 2.9/4.0. Failed two subjects. Did end up on deans list in my last year.
Extenuating circumstance: Long story short, I struggled with coming out and with the family and had to move out of home - which required me to work part-time to support myself. My work included two years at PwC Tax Team as an undergrad consultant.
4) Significant college and post-college extra-curricular activities or community service, especially leadership experience.
College :
2 years :Committee member on the board of Young Engineers Australia (sub-group of the national Engineers Australia professional body)
2 years : Committee member of the largest student organisation at my university.
Current
sub-committee member of the largest LGBTI Business Oraganisation in Melbourne
Mentor for LGBT College student (through an organisation that organises these mentor/mentee partnerships)
5) Important certifications
Started my Chartered Engineering (unlikely be completed before applications)
6) Your target programs.
Stern, Kellog, Booth, Columbia
Please recommend schools if these are completely out of reach with my GPA.
7) Application cycle:
Need advice on this.
I believe with my GPA I need all the advantage I can get. Therefore, I think I need to apply in R1.
R1 2015 (deadlines in Sept/Oct) - seems too rushed if I'm to retake my GMAT. Will R2 be a huge disadvantage? If so, I'm happy to wait one more year (as it also will distance myself from my GPA even more)
8) Your post-MBA goal.
Strategy Implementation
9)Personal:
Female; Asian-Australian; LGBT
I understand my GPA is very low. Please advise if I have a shot at these schools and whether I should retake my GMAT for a higher score to at least somewhat offset the GPA.
Thanks in advance!
13 Jul 2015, 07:22
Kudos
Bookmarks
Hi there,
Thanks for the post and we'd love to help you out here. A couple of quick questions before we do if you don't mind?
1) What's your raw GPA and what was your graduation status? Honors? Rank?
2) The time period where you came out to your family (and we are sooo sorry that was a rough experience for you) - was there a coordinated drop in grades? Is that when you failed?
3) If you take the GMAT again, would you be studying hard for it? Or are you planning on retaking it without studying too much? Also, as a FYI, GMAC has changed their policy. From the 19th onwards, cancellations won't show up and you only need to wait 16 days between retakes
4) The classes you failed - when you retook them, how did you do? Which classes did you fail?
5) Which year of uni did you come out to your parents in?
6) Did you support yourself from that point on?
Let us know the answers to those questions - it'll help us help you!
Thanks for the post and we'd love to help you out here. A couple of quick questions before we do if you don't mind?
1) What's your raw GPA and what was your graduation status? Honors? Rank?
2) The time period where you came out to your family (and we are sooo sorry that was a rough experience for you) - was there a coordinated drop in grades? Is that when you failed?
3) If you take the GMAT again, would you be studying hard for it? Or are you planning on retaking it without studying too much? Also, as a FYI, GMAC has changed their policy. From the 19th onwards, cancellations won't show up and you only need to wait 16 days between retakes
4) The classes you failed - when you retook them, how did you do? Which classes did you fail?
5) Which year of uni did you come out to your parents in?
6) Did you support yourself from that point on?
Let us know the answers to those questions - it'll help us help you!
20 Jul 2015, 06:45
Kudos
Bookmarks
Thanks so much for the feedback.
Bare with me if I'm being too detailed...
1) Raw GPA was 4.9/7 on my university's 7-point scale. Missed honours
2) Yes, it was second year when I failed my first subject - see point 5.
3) I just booked the GMAT for Sept 4th. I will be studying for it.
4) I failed one engineering subject called "Machine Element Design". I only managed a pass for the retake.
Another subject was corporate finance - I didnt get a mark for this (it reads "X" - no accessible work submitted) - this requires quite some explanation. I was originally majored in finance, not accounting. After I landed an internship and subsequent permanent job offer at PwC they told me I HAD to change my major to accounting. And as this subject was no longer part of the basic core curriculum of general business it would not have counted as credit towards my degree. At the time I had passed the date to withdraw without academic penalty. Without any foresight for an MBA I thought I was set as I already had a job offer from PwC and happy to just not hand in a single assignment or sit an exam as it does not count towards my major GPA.
I was all over the place - I got myself elected onto the board of the largest student organisation, I networked well, threw myself into UBS Investment Banking Challenges for the hell of it (and made it to the state finals), worked hard at my job - basically all sorts of things except sit down quietly for long enough to get through a text book.
5) Second year. It was a rough year and I moved out (it's typical for students in Australia to attend university in their home state and remain at home during this time). To be fair I reconciled with my parents after that year but remained supporting myself and living out of home in part out of stubbornness and in part out of the freedom it gave me.
All in all, I think I was dealt some bad cards but at the same time I was immature and unfocused.
Bare with me if I'm being too detailed...
1) Raw GPA was 4.9/7 on my university's 7-point scale. Missed honours
2) Yes, it was second year when I failed my first subject - see point 5.
3) I just booked the GMAT for Sept 4th. I will be studying for it.
4) I failed one engineering subject called "Machine Element Design". I only managed a pass for the retake.
Another subject was corporate finance - I didnt get a mark for this (it reads "X" - no accessible work submitted) - this requires quite some explanation. I was originally majored in finance, not accounting. After I landed an internship and subsequent permanent job offer at PwC they told me I HAD to change my major to accounting. And as this subject was no longer part of the basic core curriculum of general business it would not have counted as credit towards my degree. At the time I had passed the date to withdraw without academic penalty. Without any foresight for an MBA I thought I was set as I already had a job offer from PwC and happy to just not hand in a single assignment or sit an exam as it does not count towards my major GPA.
I was all over the place - I got myself elected onto the board of the largest student organisation, I networked well, threw myself into UBS Investment Banking Challenges for the hell of it (and made it to the state finals), worked hard at my job - basically all sorts of things except sit down quietly for long enough to get through a text book.
5) Second year. It was a rough year and I moved out (it's typical for students in Australia to attend university in their home state and remain at home during this time). To be fair I reconciled with my parents after that year but remained supporting myself and living out of home in part out of stubbornness and in part out of the freedom it gave me.
All in all, I think I was dealt some bad cards but at the same time I was immature and unfocused.
