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14 Feb 2010, 17:52
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Hello! I am planning on applying this year for Fall 2011 matriculation (class of 2013)
male, 26 upon matriculation
Graduated 2007 from a large state university in the South.
3.06 GPA (3.5GPA in my major, Marketing) BBA degree
730GMAT, Q48 83%, V42 95%, overall 96%
Work Exp: 4 yrs (at matriculation) at a global IT consulting firm.
- started out doing project management/reporting type work for a large outsourcing project.
- currently doing QA-testing work on the same project.
- recently promoted to team lead, now managing 9 people. (note: this is a ROLE change, not a title promotion, ie no salary adjustment)
Personal:
President of a young local fraternity in school; as an alum helped start the alumni association and the fraternity's endowment.
Instructor for several driving clubs (if you've heard of "DE's" or "track days", thats what i do) - youngest instructor at many clubs, developed 30+ students without incident (ie no crashes on my watch), demonstrate extreme confidence and technical prowess in a ridiculously dangerous environment - imagine abt 150 cars at a weekend event, probably 2 on average will get "totaled". dunno how to phrase this one better..
questions:
- GPA is probably the biggest standout. i am considering taking online classes in Calculus to demonstrate my quant abilities (since i got a C in college). I have no "story" to explain my GPA, other than the fact that my Major GPA was 3.5. don't know if thats significant or not. Grades didn't get significantly better my senior year, and in fact they probably suffered since i was interviewing nearly every day (which was because i was having so much trouble finding a job, which was cause i had pretty poor grades...
) thoughts on that?
- Any thoughts on having a single employer this whole time? I've shown progression at the company but not sure if adcoms will want to see multiple employers.
- My current salary: when i was hired in 2007 it was at market value, cause our firm does a pretty good job of hiring people at market rate. Raises, however, are not consistent with the market, and as such, my current salary is less than what a fresh 2010 grad would be getting! Will this be looked poorly upon since the adcom's likely won't know the salary structure at my firm? is this worth explaining?
Schools:
Georgetown, Darden, Fuqua, Stern, Columbia, Tuck.
Thanks in advance for you kind suggestions!
male, 26 upon matriculation
Graduated 2007 from a large state university in the South.
3.06 GPA (3.5GPA in my major, Marketing) BBA degree
730GMAT, Q48 83%, V42 95%, overall 96%
Work Exp: 4 yrs (at matriculation) at a global IT consulting firm.
- started out doing project management/reporting type work for a large outsourcing project.
- currently doing QA-testing work on the same project.
- recently promoted to team lead, now managing 9 people. (note: this is a ROLE change, not a title promotion, ie no salary adjustment)
Personal:
President of a young local fraternity in school; as an alum helped start the alumni association and the fraternity's endowment.
Instructor for several driving clubs (if you've heard of "DE's" or "track days", thats what i do) - youngest instructor at many clubs, developed 30+ students without incident (ie no crashes on my watch), demonstrate extreme confidence and technical prowess in a ridiculously dangerous environment - imagine abt 150 cars at a weekend event, probably 2 on average will get "totaled". dunno how to phrase this one better..
questions:
- GPA is probably the biggest standout. i am considering taking online classes in Calculus to demonstrate my quant abilities (since i got a C in college). I have no "story" to explain my GPA, other than the fact that my Major GPA was 3.5. don't know if thats significant or not. Grades didn't get significantly better my senior year, and in fact they probably suffered since i was interviewing nearly every day (which was because i was having so much trouble finding a job, which was cause i had pretty poor grades...
) thoughts on that?- Any thoughts on having a single employer this whole time? I've shown progression at the company but not sure if adcoms will want to see multiple employers.
- My current salary: when i was hired in 2007 it was at market value, cause our firm does a pretty good job of hiring people at market rate. Raises, however, are not consistent with the market, and as such, my current salary is less than what a fresh 2010 grad would be getting! Will this be looked poorly upon since the adcom's likely won't know the salary structure at my firm? is this worth explaining?
Schools:
Georgetown, Darden, Fuqua, Stern, Columbia, Tuck.
Thanks in advance for you kind suggestions!
15 Feb 2010, 09:50
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Hi!
You're right to focus on your GPA as probably the one thing that really jumps out from your application (as a potential weakness), and you're doing the right thing by taking a calculus class now... The school doesn't matter as much as the grade you earn. Since you don't have an obvious reason for the low GPA (e.g., an illness in the family), you'll really need to be able to show two things: 1) the intellectual horsepower to do well in tough subjects, and 2) the discipline to earn a good grade.
Don't worry at all about the single employer thing. In fact, this is an asset more than a liability, all other things being equal. Who do you think admissions officers will be more interested in... Someone who's stuck with something and worked his way up the ladder, or someone who hops jobs every time he doesn't get a promotion or encounters a tough situation at a job? Definitely the former!
I think we already traded messages about your salary... Your salary is a piece of supporting evidence to demonstrate how you've moved up and taken on more responsibility, but not much more than that. So, don't stress over it too much or let the tail wag the dog (by delaying your whole application just to be able to show that you got a nice raise next year).
If you can really knock it out of the park with one or two college classes, I actually think you might be able to aim a little higher than Georgetown-level schools. (I don't mean to knock G'town.) I bet you can be competitive in the Fuqua/Darden set with a well crafted application.
Good luck!
Scott
You're right to focus on your GPA as probably the one thing that really jumps out from your application (as a potential weakness), and you're doing the right thing by taking a calculus class now... The school doesn't matter as much as the grade you earn. Since you don't have an obvious reason for the low GPA (e.g., an illness in the family), you'll really need to be able to show two things: 1) the intellectual horsepower to do well in tough subjects, and 2) the discipline to earn a good grade.
Don't worry at all about the single employer thing. In fact, this is an asset more than a liability, all other things being equal. Who do you think admissions officers will be more interested in... Someone who's stuck with something and worked his way up the ladder, or someone who hops jobs every time he doesn't get a promotion or encounters a tough situation at a job? Definitely the former!
I think we already traded messages about your salary... Your salary is a piece of supporting evidence to demonstrate how you've moved up and taken on more responsibility, but not much more than that. So, don't stress over it too much or let the tail wag the dog (by delaying your whole application just to be able to show that you got a nice raise next year).
If you can really knock it out of the park with one or two college classes, I actually think you might be able to aim a little higher than Georgetown-level schools. (I don't mean to knock G'town.) I bet you can be competitive in the Fuqua/Darden set with a well crafted application.
Good luck!
Scott
15 Feb 2010, 12:41
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thanks scott!
I do have some reach schools on my list (Stern, Columbia, and Tuck) - and maybe they are just "reaches" for me, but do you have any suggestions on my choice of schools? Say if these were the 6 i plan to apply to, do you think this is a good mix of reach/target schools?
I do have some reach schools on my list (Stern, Columbia, and Tuck) - and maybe they are just "reaches" for me, but do you have any suggestions on my choice of schools? Say if these were the 6 i plan to apply to, do you think this is a good mix of reach/target schools?
