Columbia - 12-13-2021 | Clear Admit ApplyWire

December 13, 2021 5:39pm ET

Applying: Columbia, Cornell / Johnson, Dartmouth / Tuck, Harvard Business School, Michigan / Ross, NYU Stern, UPenn / Wharton, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2022

Pre-MBA Career: Financial Services

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting Companies: AT Kearney , Bain , BCG , Deloitte , Ernst & Young , McKinsey , PWC

GMAT: 650

GPA: 3.35

Years of Work Experience: 4

Location: New York

Notes:

URM, MLT, college drop-out

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anon11516 Likes Earned: 12 forgot to fill out notes: extremely marketable life story overcoming significant disadvantages, former d1 athlete, huge de&i impact at workplace, multiple promotions. also have a 312 GRE and may retake before r2 deadlines (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1577 Impact at work will be important, assume that’s there. What are your long term goals? “College drop out”, can you expand on that? Be great if you can push up your GMAT or GRE, appears to be your weakest aspect. (0)

grichmond Verified User. Likes Earned: 1151 I agree with Alex; your GMAT (and GRE) are well below the averages at your target schools. GPA seems OK/more in range, but I would want more context on the drop-out story (presume you went back and finished at some point)? Your URM status and the assist from MLT are clearly going to be feathers in your cap, but there are some programs on this list that may need more assurances on the academics front to be convinced you are ready for the rigor of their program. In short, as long as you are shy of a 680/320 on the GMAT/GRE, you'll have a bit of a red flag. That red flag will lead to the schools carefully scouring your transcripts to look at grades in quantitatively rigorous 'foundational' courses (statistics, calculus, accounting, economics, finance, sciences) as proof of your ability. Have you taken MBA Math or HBS CORe Online? Might be a good hedge.
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anon11516 Likes Earned: 12 Had a 690 gmat but there was a proctor error and ended up with a T on the report, no more attempts left. Academic/quant ability is fine and transcripts for it are all fine with a business major background. Low gmat is due to verbal side and the 312 gre actually has median average quant. Dropped out due to poor family situation/life circumstances and wove it into career goal catalyst. (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1577 More details on this candidacy in this episode of Wire Taps: https://www.clearadmit.com/2021/12/episode-205-wire-taps/ (0)