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July 19, 2024 9:46am ET

Applying: Cornell / Johnson, Emory / Goizueta, Georgetown / McDonough, Michigan / Ross, Northwestern / Kellogg, U. Chicago Booth, Undecided, UPenn / Wharton, USC / Marshall

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: I graduated from Cornell in 2017, where I majored in Hotel Administration in the College of Business. I began my career working in Corporate retail in Merchandising as a Sales Planner at J. Crew (2.5 years) afterwards, I spent 2 years working as an Events Specialist at Google, I currently work at the Walt Disney Company as an advertising planner

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Media, Consumer Goods Companies: Accenture , Deloitte , 21st Century Fox , CBS Corp , Viacom , Walt Disney , Other , Anheuser Busch InBev , Coca Cola , General Mills , LVMH , Nestle , Nike , PepsiCo , Proctor & Gamble , Unilever

GRE: 294

GPA: 2.78

Years of Work Experience: 7

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Post MBA Location: United States: West Coast, Southeast, Northeast, Mid-Atlantic

Notes:

My GRE score is my first attempt at the GRE without any studying.
I am still researching schools but post MBA- I am looking to work in Marketing/Marketing Strategy company.

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anon10057 Likes Earned: 135 Showing impact at your work will be so important. Also selecting the right recommenders who can speak to your impact in the workplace as well as your quantitative skills can definitely help your profile. It will be nice to know your clear short and long-term goals. As far as your academic profile, your GPA and Test score is very low for most of the programs you are aiming. Even though this is a holistic approach, schools put a lot of weight on your academic performance (i.e. Undergrad and Test Score). Do you have a story for why the GPA is low? I think you should use the optional essay to explain this. Also, did you take any quant courses in undergrad? I'm assuming you did since you majored in hotel management. How did you do? You may want to take MBA math, an extension online course from UCLA Anderson/Berkeley Haas or HBS CORe to show quantitative ability. Being able to show quantitative skills on your resume is going to be so important. Do you think you can give the GRE another shot? I would try to get that score up as high as I could. Hope this helps! (1)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1736 Agree. I’d really push hard in prep for the GRE retake, while also doing additional coursework to show that you’re ready for the academic rigor of the MBA program. (0)