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Assessing Your Odds Of Getting In
Ms. Credit Card- 660 GMAT (planning to retake)
- 3.75 GPA
- Undergraduate degree in business from a small top private school in mid-Atlantic region; studied abroad at the London School of Economics
- Work experience includes three-plus years as a brand manager at a big brand credit card company.
- Extracurricular involvement providing pro bono marketing strategy for non-profits; also took a month off last winter to volunteer at an orphanage in Ghana
- “I want to get an MBA in order to further develop my leadership and analytical skills and grow my global network to transition into a consumer packaged goods brand manager role (preferably with the opportunity to work internationally).”
- Fluent in French
- 25-year-old female originally from Montreal, Canada
Odds of Success:
Harvard: 20% to 30%
Stanford: 10% to 20%
Wharton: 25% to 35%
Dartmouth: 25% to 35%
Columbia: 30% to 40%
Duke: 35% to 50%
Sandy’s Analysis: HBS and Stanford don’t like credit card companies (like most normal consumers!). For among other reasons, those jobs are not seen as hard to get as jobs at such companies as Procter & Gamble or Nabisco, and also less interesting. Schools think most credit card companies spend all their time trying to find suckers who will run up late charges, and a marketing/brand manager job at a credit card company is sort of like a pig hunting for those late-paying truffles. My apologies if that is not what you do. Just letting you know what you are facing.
HBS and Stanford use credit card companies, as well as Big 4 firms (not consulting), as a way to recruit minorities. There was a streak of African-American women from the Big 4 at Stanford, one or two a year, for about five years in a row, and then I lost count. If anyone reading this is non-minority and worked for a credit card company or Big 4 (only, not as a step to private equity) and is now at HBS or Stanford, and is not an Olympic medal winner, please write in and tell me.
Let’s assume you get a 700+ GMAT. I’d still say H and S are going to be hard. Wharton takes folks like you, as do other schools like Tuck, Columbia, Duke, and Darden based on all the wonderful stuff you highlight above. But you will really need an improved GMAT. I don’t mean to stress you out, but at places like Wharton and Columbia, the difference between a 660 GMAT and a 680 GMAT is HUGE. That would be the minimum for someone like you.
Reading this over, there is a lot to like, and if you worked at J&J instead of Mastercard or Visa, you’d be a solid case for Harvard and in the lottery at Stanford. You still might squeak by at HBS, with a ~700. |
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