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November 29, 2025 10:17am ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Columbia, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, NYU Stern, UCLA Anderson

Intake Year: 2026

Pre-MBA Career: Military

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting

GRE: 321

GPA: 3.19

Years of Work Experience: 5

Location: San Diego, CA

Post MBA Location: Boston or DC

Notes:

Applying to NYU, UCLA, and CBS round 1 with EA score of 160. Interviews with all 3 complete. If I get into CBS, I will only apply to Sloan (that's my number 1, number 2 is CBS). My GRE score is lower (321, 156V 165Q) but the quant is significantly higher... hopefully this offsets for Sloan? Strong profile, Masters in CS, undergrad in CS from service academy.

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alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1830 Good luck with your Round 1 results. I hope the interviews went well. Your Round 2 plan makes sense if accepted at Columbia. If not, assume you may include other targets?

Make sure to reach out to the veterans’ clubs of all these programs. What are your longer term goals, post consulting?

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tombraider Likes Earned: 7 Thank you! Yes, if not, I'll be applying to the other programs as well (I did have a very good CBS interview... hoping that did it) Reached out to all Vets clubs, they've been very helpful. Post consulting, want to pivot into some sort of defense tech... figured with my background/MS in CS it would be a good match Your opinion... is my GRE score okay enough for Sloan? I've retaken 3 times at this point. (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1830 Having taken it x3, I assume you think there’s no more scope for improvement? Your undergrad GPA will also be on the low end of the spectrum, assume you did well in your masters program? I think the longer term goals make very good sense. (0)