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可以刷刷托福冲M7呀！作者: 不知所云 时间: 2020-9-3 21:35
托福可以在提高一下，如果口语不行，在美国学习/找工作/networking会很困难。其实我觉得英语水平比GMAT/GRE更重要。。作者: RajPatil_Brown 时间: 2020-9-9 10:39
Hey there,
Congratulations on your GMAT score and clearing the first CFA exam! These are great developments for only being out of college for 2 two years. Despite some great aspects to your profile, however, you are facing some headwinds for top-10 type US-MBA program. The good news is that many of these headwinds are fixable. The most notable headwind is that you lack the work experience that most schools are seeking. In general, accepted MBA applicants to top-tier programs apply with 4-5 years of work experience. With 2 years of work experience, you will be less tenured than most accepted applicants, especially from your very competitive demographic. Your GMAT is very good (objectively higher than even the highest averages ~730 at H/W/S) but potentially below average for your demo for the highest tier MBA programs like Duke. Most of the top programs also have GPA averages around 3.6 or so, so you'll be below that, and you might get "points" deducted for not going to a top Chinese undergraduate university. It's great that you'd be applying from a Fortune 500 insurance company -- international applicants applying from a well-known foreign multinational in front-office jobs do tend to do better than applicants applying from an unrecognizable employer name.
If you are intent on applying to MBA (vs. another non-MBA masters that cares less about # of years of work experience), then I'd try to do the following before you apply in two years or so: clear the next two levels of the CFA, get promoted at work, take on some leadership projects at work that you can talk about in your essays (leading initiatives across function and geography -- international lens is paramount), build out some hobbies/extracurricular engagements that show you care about more than work. Get involved as a volunteer within your community or as an alum from your undergraduate institution. Having good extracurriculars outside of work is "table stakes" now and a way to differentiate yourself within your demo.
The other option of course is to do your MSBA offer next year (I'm guessing you deferred for a year due to CV). You may prefer to get your graduate school over with sooner rather than later for personal reasons or you may want to take advantage of the "sure thing" rather than wagering your future MBA success. If it's possible for you, you may want to try to defer another year to see if you can get into an MBA program (after trying to maximize your profile through a promotion at work, leadership projects outside of work, CFA credentials and a higher GMAT score) and then use your MSBA as a back up if you don't get in.
Regardless of the MBA application strategy you take, your essays will need to be flawless and your strategic positioning (e.g., what type of involved, engaged MBA student you'll be, what classes/major you'll take and why, what clubs and conferences you'll lead, what you'll do immediately and long-term professionally post-MBA and why that's ambitious/imminently achievable given your background) will be very important. You can start thinking about strategic positioning (in fact, you SHOULD) several years before your MBA application is submitted.