Columbia - 02-04-2024 | Clear Admit ApplyWire

February 4, 2024 4:21pm ET

Applying: Columbia, Dartmouth / Tuck, Georgetown / McDonough, Harvard Business School, NYU Stern, U. Chicago Booth, UPenn / Wharton, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Military/SWE Engineer for IC

Post-MBA Target Industry: Investment Banking, Private Equity, Asset Management, inc. HF Companies: Goldman Sachs , JP Morgan , Morgan Stanley , JP Morgan Chase , Blackstone , Carlyle Group , KKR , Blackrock , Goldman Sachs , JP Morgan Asset Management , State Street , Vanguard

GRE: 323

GPA: 3.9

Years of Work Experience: 6

Location: Midwest

Post MBA Location: Northeast

Notes:

- Enlisted Army, Psychological operations.
- Air Force officer, Cyber Warfare, out as a Captain.
- Currently a Senior software engineer for a three letter.
- 3.9 GPA, undergrad was BS in IT from a state school.
- 3.8 GPA MS in Computer Science from a near Ivy, think Duke/WashU.
- Small business owner.
- 28, Male.

Yale is my absolute top choice.

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alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1586 Make sure to reach out to all the veterans’ clubs for the programs you’re targeting. Sounds like very good progress during your military career. Be good to learn a little more about your post MBA goals,

323 GRE will be below the median of several of your target programs. Have you considered a retake?

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anon37130 Likes Earned: 1 OP here - I have, in fact the 323 is up from my first time taking the exam in 2019. It was a 160V/163Q. Realistically I think on my best day, I could probably get a 325 or 326. I was pondering the ROI of a 2-3 point gain and if, given the rest of the application, it would make any truly tangible difference all things considered. (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1586 It might. Pulling the score up to the medians can help. Your strong acad record helps, too. But you are targeting the very top programs. (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1586 More details on this candidacy in this episode of Wire Taps: https://www.clearadmit.com/2024/02/mba-wire-taps-338/ (0)