Cornell / Johnson - 07-21-2017 | Clear Admit ApplyWire

July 20, 2017 8:32pm ET

Applying: Cornell / Johnson, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, London Business School, Michigan / Ross, Northwestern / Kellogg

Intake Year: 2018

Pre-MBA Career: Big Data Finance

Post-MBA Target Industry: Technology Companies: Apple , Facebook , Google

GMAT: 710

GPA: 3.07

Years of Work Experience: 6

Location: USA

Post MBA Location: San Francisco

Notes:

Worked in commercial banking for 3 years then transitioned to working for big data tech company in finance.

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Anon Likes Earned: 0 Big data tech company might be interesting pre MBA experience. Your list of schools shows you are not aiming at the very best, which I think makes sense. Your GMAT/gpa combo is on the weaker end for some of these schools. If you think you can bump the GMAT up 20-30 points, it will be worthwhile. As well as any additional coursework. (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Agreed with the below that you shouldn't be aiming at the very best with your stats - Tuck and Kellogg will be a reach. However, given your career goals, you should be worried that you will be competing with people who DID go to the very best schools. Nothing you can do about the GPA but the GMAT is worth a retake for sure and then you can aim higher. My advice - spend a little time beefing up your application to the point where you can apply to some top tier places. Then, you should consider adding UCLA and Berkeley to your mix if you want to be on the West Coast. (0)