Which US Schools can I apply for this year

[Bingao23013]

Hello! I would really appreciate if you could evaluate my profile please. I have work experience of 5 years now in Energy and Finance. I graduated from a top 10 british university with 2nd Class Honors and I scored a 630 V 43 Q 32 on my third attempt. I plan to apply for some schools in US. Your advice would be really appreciated. I have finance background with 4 years of corporate banking experience in Dubai and 1 year experience of Working in Energy in Singapore. I have led teams in Singapore and Dubai and have strong extra curricula's including helping a school for autistic children with its marketing efforts to increase enrolment and doing free lance consulting projects.

I was going through the business week rankings and found out a few schools where my score of 630 is within the middle 80% gmat. I am wondering if any of these schools would accept me. I am more interested in US ones:

My Target Schools in the US would be

U Washington.
Indiana University 678 GMAT Average
George Town 690+ Average GMAT

Your advice will be really appreciated since I plan to do my MBA this year. I do not plan to retake the GMAT due to a busy work schedule.

Regards
T

[mbamissionjenK]

Hi there,

Thanks for posting. Sounds like you've got some interesting positives to your profile (international experience is great; some diverse industry experience; possibly even nationality to a small degree; the projects for the school for autistic children). However your GMAT and academics are weaker than would be ideal given the rest of your experience. I also don't know what your goals are generally/why the MBA... be sure you have a strong explanation for that question as it gets to application time. ;)

Without a higher GMAT yes you'd be better off to aim for schools with an average GMAT around 620-680 max. Those on the upper edge could be 'reach' schools for you. Do people ever get accepted outside the 80th percentile group/range of the prior class? Sure, after all, 20% are outside that range (though most likely on the upper edge).... but it's TOUGH and rare. ;) From your list, U Washington would be more reasonable than the others, but if interested in them all you could give them a shot, depends how much time you have for applications/essays etc. Wonder if you've also looked into schools like Kelley; Boston College (Carroll); Smeal (Penn State)? Just some other thoughts to research. Good luck to you, let us know if you have further q's!