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10 Apr 2007, 00:56
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Dear Hjort,
I am from PAkistan with 5+ years of experience in Finance. My CGPA was 3.05 in MAster in Business Economics. I sat my GMAT on Jan 08 this year and got 660 (Q 46, V 36, AWA 5.5). Before the test they ask whether you want to participate in GMASS, and I agreed to it. Since then I have received e-mails from a variety of schoold both US and non-US to apply to theri programs. Such schools include Boston University School of management (for MBA), UC Irvine (MBA), Moore (MBA), Rochester Simon (MBA and Notre Dame Mendoza (MBA) and some EU and other US schools, and to my surprise Duke Fuqua(MBA), UC Berkeley Hass (MFE; Master of Financial Engineering) and MIT MLOG (Master of Engineering in Logistics).
There are a few things that I would like you to shed some light on:
1. Some of these schools have average GMATs way above mine. For example MFE at Hass was around 710 (I guess), MLOG at MIT has 715 and Fuqua has 700. My question is why have they contacted me? These are the schools that I can only dream about? When I contacted these schools, they gave varying responses. Like Hass people said that I should sit GMAT again and raise my score and should get knowledge of C++ language. If they want me to raise my score, then y did they contact me in the first place. The MIT people encouraged me to apply so did the Fuqua people.
2. Boston have waitlisted me. So why the hell ask me to apply? I think that my essays and recommendations were ok. So y such decision.
3. If I get rejected by such scools (I have applied to MIT, Duke, Mendoza, Siomn and Boston), does it mean that they wanted to raise their selectivity rate? I m pretty sure that other aspects of my applications are satisfactory. Only Boston ahs given me a decision yet.
4. I have applied in the last deadlines of these schools and they all have said that it is ok to apply even in third round. But whatever I hear or read is different from this notion.
5. What is the significance of their contacting me, (some even waived my application fee), and what should i make of when the admissions director of a program tells me that ur profile matches those of successful candidates. If i am rejected is it totally my fault or there could be something that the schools have up their sleeve?
I hope that u canprovide me a good and logical explanation of this issue coz i couldnt find it anywhere on this website.
Thanks and regards
Shahrukh
I am from PAkistan with 5+ years of experience in Finance. My CGPA was 3.05 in MAster in Business Economics. I sat my GMAT on Jan 08 this year and got 660 (Q 46, V 36, AWA 5.5). Before the test they ask whether you want to participate in GMASS, and I agreed to it. Since then I have received e-mails from a variety of schoold both US and non-US to apply to theri programs. Such schools include Boston University School of management (for MBA), UC Irvine (MBA), Moore (MBA), Rochester Simon (MBA and Notre Dame Mendoza (MBA) and some EU and other US schools, and to my surprise Duke Fuqua(MBA), UC Berkeley Hass (MFE; Master of Financial Engineering) and MIT MLOG (Master of Engineering in Logistics).
There are a few things that I would like you to shed some light on:
1. Some of these schools have average GMATs way above mine. For example MFE at Hass was around 710 (I guess), MLOG at MIT has 715 and Fuqua has 700. My question is why have they contacted me? These are the schools that I can only dream about? When I contacted these schools, they gave varying responses. Like Hass people said that I should sit GMAT again and raise my score and should get knowledge of C++ language. If they want me to raise my score, then y did they contact me in the first place. The MIT people encouraged me to apply so did the Fuqua people.
2. Boston have waitlisted me. So why the hell ask me to apply? I think that my essays and recommendations were ok. So y such decision.
3. If I get rejected by such scools (I have applied to MIT, Duke, Mendoza, Siomn and Boston), does it mean that they wanted to raise their selectivity rate? I m pretty sure that other aspects of my applications are satisfactory. Only Boston ahs given me a decision yet.
4. I have applied in the last deadlines of these schools and they all have said that it is ok to apply even in third round. But whatever I hear or read is different from this notion.
5. What is the significance of their contacting me, (some even waived my application fee), and what should i make of when the admissions director of a program tells me that ur profile matches those of successful candidates. If i am rejected is it totally my fault or there could be something that the schools have up their sleeve?
I hope that u canprovide me a good and logical explanation of this issue coz i couldnt find it anywhere on this website.
Thanks and regards
Shahrukh
