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29 Jun 2019, 21:52
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Hi All,
I’ve got an interesting profile and wanted to get your thoughts on whether or not it’s plausible that I will get into any of the schools on my list.
Background
Bad Stuff - 2.7 undergrad GPA in liberal arts and 2.8 GPA in law school (I only got in because of a high LSAT).
I was 17 when I went to college and 20 when I went to law school. In all honesty, I just wasn’t mature enough to handle either one. I was 23 when I graduated law school and passed the NY bar on my first try. That’s not to say I’m a lazy brilliant person, but that I’m not as dumb as my GPAs suggest. I’m unsure how I’ll relay this over effectively, 10 years have passed since I graduated law school, lots has changed (see below).
Gmat - 690 (47Q, 38V)
Post school experience -
2 years as a project manager as a claims administration company
1.5 years as a contract attorney
2 Years at JPMorgan in Anti Money Laundering Compliance
5 years as a successful entrepreneur in Anti Money Laundering Consulting. Recently was informed that my company will be listed in Inc Magazines list of top 5000 fastest growing companies. I’ve done $20m in revenue in 3 years and hopefully $25-26m over 4 years. While that’s not all profit (that would be great!), the business is definitely profitable.
Extras - I’m a member of the board on the Asian Advisory Board of Nassau County and the father of 2 beautiful kids.
Will my GPAs be an anchor that I can’t get out of, or do I have enough years away from school, Gmat and good enough post grad experience for an admissions team to give me a shot?
I’m looking at mostly PT schools
1) NYU Saturday program or Tech MBA
2) Columbia EMBA
3) Booth - EMBA
4) Kellog - Weekend MBA
I’m open to other schools, but am primarily going to business school to grow my network and use the skills I’ll learn to work on another idea I have.
Thanks in advance.
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I’ve got an interesting profile and wanted to get your thoughts on whether or not it’s plausible that I will get into any of the schools on my list.
Background
Bad Stuff - 2.7 undergrad GPA in liberal arts and 2.8 GPA in law school (I only got in because of a high LSAT).
I was 17 when I went to college and 20 when I went to law school. In all honesty, I just wasn’t mature enough to handle either one. I was 23 when I graduated law school and passed the NY bar on my first try. That’s not to say I’m a lazy brilliant person, but that I’m not as dumb as my GPAs suggest. I’m unsure how I’ll relay this over effectively, 10 years have passed since I graduated law school, lots has changed (see below).
Gmat - 690 (47Q, 38V)
Post school experience -
2 years as a project manager as a claims administration company
1.5 years as a contract attorney
2 Years at JPMorgan in Anti Money Laundering Compliance
5 years as a successful entrepreneur in Anti Money Laundering Consulting. Recently was informed that my company will be listed in Inc Magazines list of top 5000 fastest growing companies. I’ve done $20m in revenue in 3 years and hopefully $25-26m over 4 years. While that’s not all profit (that would be great!), the business is definitely profitable.
Extras - I’m a member of the board on the Asian Advisory Board of Nassau County and the father of 2 beautiful kids.
Will my GPAs be an anchor that I can’t get out of, or do I have enough years away from school, Gmat and good enough post grad experience for an admissions team to give me a shot?
I’m looking at mostly PT schools
1) NYU Saturday program or Tech MBA
2) Columbia EMBA
3) Booth - EMBA
4) Kellog - Weekend MBA
I’m open to other schools, but am primarily going to business school to grow my network and use the skills I’ll learn to work on another idea I have.
Thanks in advance.
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29 Jun 2019, 22:36
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It’s a little difficult to answer this without more detail about the quality of your work experience, in terms of what your fellow EMBA colleagues could learn from you to help them. This is generally measured by leadership, teamwork and problem solving that has quantifiable value. It’s a bit tough to do this as an attorney which is a bit more about win/lose and status than meritocracy/value add.
Quality of work experience is really the key to the EMBA; they good thing is that JP Morgan is obvs a good brand. I am wondering if you have left any money on the table with your GMAT. Usually for lawyers they do better on verbal than quant; could you find a tutor or put in some applied effort on whatever is holding you back there? Would like to see you break the 700 mark for the GMAT to be competitive for Booth and to be honest, Wharton. Not much over 700 but enough to make up for the bad grades.
Check out my article on how to strategize with this limitation: https://mbaessaycoaching.com/2019/06/22/submitting-mba-applications-with-low-grades/
If you live on Long Island I think Philly is a quick train in every other week and easier to figure out than Chicago but maybe I am missing something. Also, since you have some entrepreneurial interests, Wharton offers the entire full MBA curriculum that the full time students get, nothing watered down.
Wondering how you selected your target schools and why you are going for EMBA in some cases and PT in others. Curious. What is the other idea and if you are in stealth mode give me a ball park. Is this why you are attracted to a Tech MBA? Are you interested in doing a one year MBA or weekend or executive (which can be every other week but in the case of Ross, Duke and Kellogg, no GMAT required and every other month; MIT, no GMAT and every 3 weeks. )
It’s a little difficult to answer this without more detail about the quality of your work experience, in terms of what your fellow EMBA colleagues could learn from you to help them. This is generally measured by leadership, teamwork and problem solving that has quantifiable value. It’s a bit tough to do this as an attorney which is a bit more about win/lose and status than meritocracy/value add.
Quality of work experience is really the key to the EMBA; they good thing is that JP Morgan is obvs a good brand. I am wondering if you have left any money on the table with your GMAT. Usually for lawyers they do better on verbal than quant; could you find a tutor or put in some applied effort on whatever is holding you back there? Would like to see you break the 700 mark for the GMAT to be competitive for Booth and to be honest, Wharton. Not much over 700 but enough to make up for the bad grades.
Check out my article on how to strategize with this limitation: https://mbaessaycoaching.com/2019/06/22/submitting-mba-applications-with-low-grades/
If you live on Long Island I think Philly is a quick train in every other week and easier to figure out than Chicago but maybe I am missing something. Also, since you have some entrepreneurial interests, Wharton offers the entire full MBA curriculum that the full time students get, nothing watered down.
Wondering how you selected your target schools and why you are going for EMBA in some cases and PT in others. Curious. What is the other idea and if you are in stealth mode give me a ball park. Is this why you are attracted to a Tech MBA? Are you interested in doing a one year MBA or weekend or executive (which can be every other week but in the case of Ross, Duke and Kellogg, no GMAT required and every other month; MIT, no GMAT and every 3 weeks. )
Nameballer
