Real Humans
Clear Admit’s Real Humans series features personal profiles of business school admissions representatives, current MBA students and MBA alumni from leading U.S. and international programs.
Real Humans: Current MBA Students
Current students comment on their decisions to pursue an MBA, reflect on the business school application process, and provide firsthand insight into academics and student life at their schools of choice. Read through our series features to get better acquainted with these students and MBA programs.
Real Humans: MBA Alumni
Our Real Humans: Alumni series features graduates from top business schools and their journeys to joining the consulting, financial, tech or other industries. Learn about alumni’s MBA experiences, and how business school prepared them for their careers at leading firms.
Real Humans of MBA Admissions
If you’re applying to their schools, you’ve probably heard their names. Peruse our list of Real Humans of MBA Admissions to get to know these admissions directors and other leaders on a more personal level.
MBA Applywire
Currently working at Big4 Tax Advisory for Foreign Portfolio and Institutional Investors. Have a low GPA but positive trajectory from 2.00 in Semester 1 to 3.73 in Semester 6 and a Finance Major GPA of 3.64. CFA L3 candidate, hopefully cleared by the time I join.
Profile handicaps also include a 3 year gap post graduation and had to repeat Year 1 in college due to failing a subject.
4 YoE at matriculation. T1 Indian engineering college (Mech Eng.). Long term entrepreneurial goal building sports infrastructure and improving access to high quality training facilities and credible pathways to professional leagues. Played football (soccer) extensively through school and college as captain in school. Football community head in Hyderabad with around 60-70 members.
-5 year Division I student athlete
-3x captain
-3.97 masters gpa (business analytics)
-undergrad major is sport management
-4 years at Fortune 500 med tech company (3 different positions)
-started a fund 5 years ago to help families affected by cancer in memory of my mom (plan annual events, present to 200+ people per event, allocate funds to event beneficiaries)
-targeting round 2
-Taking the GRE in Oct
Any advice on a range for a target GRE score and based on my profile do you think the 3.3 will hold me back from those top M7/T15 schools that I plan to apply to?
(I assume to help offset the 3.3, my GRE score will need to be pretty high)
MBA LiveWire
Applied on August 27.
Applied on August 13
Submitted on 5th September
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