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March 30, 2026 4:58pm ET
Applying: Columbia Business School, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Penn / Wharton, Stanford GSB
Intake Year: 2026
Pre-MBA Career: Technology
Post MBA Career: Technology
GMAT: 675
GPA: 3.76
Location: Canada
Post MBA Location: United States
Notes:

’m applying for deferred mba. Here’s my app:
Ethnicity: Middle eastern female (international student)
University: T3 Canada with full-tuition scholarship
GPA: 3.75 (will graduate with distinction in CS/Math)
GMAT Focus: 675, all parts above 85 percentile
Work experience: 2 FAANGS, 2 Hedge funds, 1 AI lab, 1 unicorn.
Research: 2 papers under review; 2 years of TAship for math and cs courses; received a grant
Extracurricular: 2 VC-based fellowships in Silicon Valley; I also won a funding for developing my non-profit project in the college which we tested in multiple orgs across our province; some little women in cs things; top Canada in trading competition
Post-grad plan: got return offer from all my internships and currently planning on a startup (very early stage)