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Concentration: Entrepreneurship, General Management
Schools: Marshall PM '19 (A) Anderson FEMBA '19 (A) Haas EWMBA'19 (A$) Stanford '18 (D) HBS '18 (D) Wharton '18 (M$)
GRE 1: Q157 V166
GRE 2: Q160 V167
GRE 3: Q163 V166
GPA: 3.72
WE:Law (Law)
Schools: Marshall PM '19 (A) Anderson FEMBA '19 (A) Haas EWMBA'19 (A$) Stanford '18 (D) HBS '18 (D) Wharton '18 (M$)
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Chances with 650 GMAT, 3.7 GPA Updated on: 23 Oct 2015, 12:00
Originally posted by CrucialTaunt on 23 Oct 2015, 09:29.
Last edited by Narenn on 23 Oct 2015, 12:00, edited 1 time in total.
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My stats:

GRE: 323 total; 166 verbal and 157 quant (ouch), roughly translates to 650 GMAT
GPA: 3.72 from H/Y/S (humanities major, science minor)
Grad: JD from top 15 law school w/ 3.0 GPA and significant ECs
WE: 7+ years practicing corporate law (M&A, finance) in major legal market at big firm and then in-house at Fortune 500
Other factors: female, American; strong writer (my essays are good); will have excellent rec letters from senior business attorneys
Location: California, willing to commute out of town as needed on weekends

Applying to following programs:
USC Marshall (MBA.PM)
UCLA Anderson (FEMBA)
Berkeley Haas (WEMBA)
Chicago Booth (Weekend)
N'western Kellogg (Saturday)

I know my quant is low. I am trying to explain in my optional essays (without sounding too whiny) that in college I was great at math and physics, and am just a little rusty. I am retaking the GRE (not GMAT, since quant is my obvious weakness) next month and hope to bring up the quant but can't make any promises.

My questions are: (1) is the list of schools I plan to apply to realistic? (2) are there any I have included that I should omit, or are there any I have omitted that I should include? Since I am part time and don't want to quit my awesome job (not yet, anyway :wink: ), and would be commuting from California, that limits my choices.

Any thoughts you can give would be most appreciated!

Thanks,
-Crucial
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Hi there,

I think you have a strong profile for the schools you're targeting. The only question I have is why Anderson's EMBA? The other part-time programs are more targeted to folks with your level of work experience. The EMBA at UCLA will have a different class profile that may not be the best fit for you. The other programs on your list are certainly worth a shot this season. What about your involvement experience? And also, you might want to think twice about what you write in your optional essay. Your UG academic performance and your GMAT sort of speak for itself. You may want to consider other topics or extenuating circumstances that need to be communicated to the AdComm that don't come through clearly in other parts of your application. Let us know if you'd like to chat in more depth about your profile!

Hope this information helps. Feel free to get back to us with the answers to the above questions. Also, feel free to check out our free resources to get you started for your R2 preparation. Best of luck this season!
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Location: United States
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GRE 1: Q157 V166
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Schools: Marshall PM '19 (A) Anderson FEMBA '19 (A) Haas EWMBA'19 (A$) Stanford '18 (D) HBS '18 (D) Wharton '18 (M$)
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Chances with 650 GMAT, 3.7 GPA 24 Oct 2015, 10:29
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Thank you so much for the great feedback. It is reassuring to hear that you don't think I'm a crazy person for applying to Haas, Booth and Kellogg. I know those programs are especially competitive so it is encouraging to think I have a shot at admission there.

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The only question I have is why Anderson's EMBA? The other part-time programs are more targeted to folks with your level of work experience. The EMBA at UCLA will have a different class profile that may not be the best fit for you.
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I've applied to Anderson FEMBA, not EMBA; the FEMBA felt like a good fit for me because I can keep my full-time job while getting the MBA. Do you think I should have applied to a different program at Anderson?

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What about your involvement experience?
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I'm not sure what this means. Is this a reference to activities outside of work? Sorry for my ignorance - I am new at all the MBA application vocabulary.

Thanks again for the response. I really appreciate it! (And thank you also to the moderator for moving me to the right spot - sorry I posted in the wrong place!)

-Crucial
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Thanks for sharing your profile. I think your list aligns well with your profile and you should be in play at many of the schools listed. You have a diverse background so the AdComm should not beat you up too much about your GPA but if you have the real estate in your application consider a brief explantion.