quixef wrote:
Hello, I am an international student, obviously not a native speaker and my stats & relevant info are as follows:
- GMAT: 750 (Q50 V40 / 90 90 98)
- GPA: 85.65 / 100 (Approximately 3.55 / 4.00)
- TOEFL : 112 (Reading: 30/30 Listening: 30/30 Speaking: 23/30 Writing: 29/30)
Work experience: I have 8 years work experience at the Supreme Audit Institution of my country (think Government Accountability Office of the USA), participated in the audits of Treasury and the Central Bank, as well as numerous universities and municipalities. Since our institution is organized as a Court instead of an Office like GAO; I have the rights & privileges of a judge in my country.
I attended two meetings among the Supreme Audit Institutions of the countries participating in the Joint Strike Fighter (F-35) Project, as the sole representative of my country at that level. The projected total cost of this project for my country is $8 billion, it is a lot more than that for the USA.
I interned at Deloitte during school one summer.
Unrelated but, I took LSAT in December 2010, scored 176, applied to Harvard Law and got waitlisted and soft rejected later on. I stopped pursuing that route, as I could not find a satisfactory enough answer for the question why I would want to pursue a legal education in the USA.
My most glaring weakness is my complete and utter lack of extracurriculars. Had the same problem with the HLS application, all those pages were empty. I did not publish anything, I did not receive any awards, I have nothing to write that would be considered worth writing.
What I consider:
- Wharton R2 (Only if you think I have a chance, $265 is rather steep to spend on a dare)
- MIT MFin
- London School of Economics MSc Accounting & Finance
I realize the bottom two are not MBA programs, but hope you can help me still. What do you think my chances are for the above 3 schools?
(Goals after the program: With or without a PhD on Finance in an equally nice school, going for any one of general corporate finance, asset evaluation, investment routes. My current job is nice enough, but I do not find enough opportunities to use my analytical abilities, would appreciate a heavily math oriented job)
Hi,
thanks for writing to us at the forum and apologies for delay in response.
I would encourage you to apply at Wharton, please understand that one can never give a sure shot decision on if one can get into XYZ school or not. I am sure you would not mind spending a few dollars for a life time opportunity. You do stand chance, but yes nothing is certain in this world.
In case of extra curricular, if you do not have one, you are not rejected for this simple reason. If you have a few, it helps.
You have not talked about your leadership experience, with an experience of eight years, the schools would expect some leadership experience unless you have a very different profile e.g. a big time painter, Olympic runner etc
You definitely stand better chances for the last two programs, if you are looking for a too technical finance program, i think MBA is not the right degree for you, you should look at typical master programs
Hope this helps
thanks