Georgetown / McDonough - 07-18-2023 | Clear Admit ApplyWire

July 18, 2023 1:19pm ET

Applying: Georgetown / McDonough, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2024

Pre-MBA Career: Air Force Cyber Warfare Officer (Captain)

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Technology, Investment Banking Companies: Bain , Booz Allen Hamilton , BCG , Deloitte , Goldman Sachs , JP Morgan , Google , Microsoft

GRE: 319

GPA: 3.9

Years of Work Experience: 7

Location: Midwest

Post MBA Location: East Coast

Notes:

Enlisted Army as a Psychological Operations Specialist. Received a BS in IT from a state school, an MS CompSci from a ~T15, both a high 3.8/3.9. Commissioned into the Air Force as an Offensive Cyber Warfare Officer - functioned primarily as a software engineer, leading enlisted developers. Internship/contracting experience from a three-letter agency. GRE is a bit low as I had a 5-day turnaround years ago when I took it, Quant was 156 - hopefully math-centric degrees show competency. Looking to get out of Tech, move towards finance/consulting/banking.

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alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1587 Getting a 319 GRE with little prep suggests that with strong prep your GRE should be much higher? I’d hold off, apply in Round 2, and come in with your best GRE score. This should then give you more opportunities at more programs? Be curious why you selected these two programs? Also, really focus on your post MBA goals, both short term, and longer term. Also be good to get a bit of a time line re your service career and degrees? (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1587 Yale round 3? I’d try to target the January rounds for Yale, with the improved GRE? Not clear to me why you’d target GT with a GRE that you know is not your best score? (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1587 More details on this candidacy in this episode of Wire Taps: https://www.clearadmit.com/2023/07/mba-wire-taps-302/ (0)