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September 15, 2024 11:24am ET

Applying: Columbia Business School, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, Stanford GSB, Penn / Wharton

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Military

GMAT: 715

GPA: 2.90

Years of Work Experience: 7

Location: Germany

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alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1842 Excellent GMAT! Any context surrounding the lower GPA?

Military experience can be viewed very positively in MBA admissions. Make sure to reach out to the veterans’ clubs of at the programs you’re retargeting. And reach out to service to school.

Be good to learn more about your post MBA goals? Assume it’s consulting in the short term, which is a very popular choice for military candidates.

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anon83106 Likes Earned: 17 Sorry for the delay in responding! Context behind poor GPA is a mix of financial woes, mother's health decline and me generally going to a tough school (UChicago). Consulting is the short term goal, long term is A&D or Def Tech startup using SBIR/STTR funds vice fundraising VC. Alternately, just joining Bus Dev at one of the new DefTech firms. (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1842 No worries. Did you apply to any of these programs in Round 1? Have you completed any additional coursework, since your undergrad degree? (0)

anon83106 Likes Earned: 17 Yep. Applied to all R1. Ding from HBS, Interview from CBS. Waiting all others. I'm about 75% of the way through a MS in Analytics from GA Tech, with a 3.85/4 GPA. Should finish Aug 2025. (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1842 Columbia interview invite is a positive early signal. HBS is always going to be tough, and they take a deep cut for interview invites. The additional coursework should definitely help further mitigate your GPA. (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1842 More details on this candidacy in this episode of Wire Taps: https://www.clearadmit.com/2024/10/mba-wire-taps-389/ (1)

anon83106 Likes Earned: 17 Thanks for coverage and extra discussion - I'll keep you all updated as things move forward! (1)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1842 Great! Best of luck. (0)

anon83106 Likes Earned: 17 Ding from Wharton. Best engagements were with Columbia and MIT, so hoping for some good news next week. Still haven't heard from Stanford or Kellogg, assuming a ding from Stanford but a bit surprised about no news from Kellogg. (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1842 Fingers crossed you’ll hear good news from Sloan. Yes, Kellogg is puzzling regarding hearing no news at this stage. Have you had your Columbia interview? (0)

anon83106 Likes Earned: 17 Negative. Interview is tomorrow. I sent an update to Kellogg since I promoted recently, but haven't heard anything back. I'll wait until 4 Nov and then reach out to Kellogg, it'll be almost 8 weeks since submission by then. (1)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1842 That makes sense. Good luck with your Columbia interview. (1)

anon83106 Likes Earned: 17 Got an interview invite from MIT. (1)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1842 Very good news! (0)

anon83106 Likes Earned: 17 Last update until application results - invite from Kellogg as well. (1)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1842 Phew! Glad that one came through, at last. Good luck! (0)

anon83106 Likes Earned: 17 Waitlist @ Kellogg, Accepted @ Columbia. MIT tomorrow. (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1842 Great news from Columbia, very well done!! (1)

anon83106 Likes Earned: 17 Last update, WL @ MIT. Accepting Columbia, hoping for a 10-20k scholarship, will make my net cost <30k for both years without factoring summer internship or signing bonus. If you have any advice, would love to hear it. (1)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1842 Very well done! (0)