- 07-04-2017 | Clear Admit ApplyWire

July 3, 2017 8:24pm ET

Applying: U. Chicago Booth, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, Harvard Business School, Michigan / Ross, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, Stanford GSB, UPenn / Wharton

Intake Year: 2018

Pre-MBA Career: Finance

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting Companies: AT Kearney , Bain , BCG ,

GMAT: 780

GPA: 3.0

Years of Work Experience: 4

Location: NYC

Notes:

Multiple promotions & high impact at BB (not GS/MS/JPM), will get excellent recs. Using optional essay to address GPA. Top 10 undergrad (Ivy), studied Econ

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Anon Likes Earned: 0 Outstanding GMAT should help, and with consulting recruiting. 9 schools is a lot, which programs for round 1? (0)

OP Likes Earned: 0 Thanks. HSW, Kellogg, Fuqua in R1, Tuck in Nov., Ross in R2. Not sure about R1/R2 for Booth or Sloan, more worried about rec writer burnout than the essays/apps (0)

Anon Likes Earned: 0 Managing recs can be tough. Maybe push one of HSW to r2, and add booth or Sloan to r1. You'd have a nice spread of schools in r1, then adjust plan for r2 if necessary. (0)

Anon Likes Earned: 0 You might also consider taking a class or two, get As. Great GMAT and modest gpa could signal a lack of motivation during undergrad. (0)

got in to one of those this year Likes Earned: 0 went the same route w/ high count. make sure to schedule your self initiated duke/tuck interviews early because your sept/oct schedule is gonna suck w that many back to back deadlines (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 You do not need to apply to this many schools. Honestly, would you really be happy going to ANY of these places? I made the same mistake when it was clear to me that deep down there are like 4 schools on this entire earth I would actually be happy to attend. You'll do fine with that epic GMAT score so cut like half of this list off. (0)

Anon Likes Earned: 0 You should consider Darden, it's phenomenal for consulting. The Darden dean also happens to be a McK veteran. (0)