求助!!! Wait listed by Yale

blemebriller

Yale suggested wait listed candidates to (1) retake GMAT, (2) clarify career goals and (3) submit a letter of interest. I am especially not sure if I should retake GMAT... Please give me some advices!!

My Background: GPA 3.6 / GMAT 700 (Q49 V37 AWA6.0); 1 yr big 4 audit + 3.5 yrs commercial banking from management trainee; processing CPA license; CFA L2 candidate this June.

Looking forward to hearing from lovely CDers

blemebriller

CDJJMM, thanks for your advices and congrats to your admission too The example you told is definitely an encouraging one. I will bear in mind; will also pay tons of attention when writing the career goal clarification essay^^

CDJJMM

我也觉得Career goal相关的话题都得小心谨慎的回答.

如果是我的话,就会123都做. 认识一个Chicago的GG,Gmat考了六次,最后拿到790.   天道酬勤.

Best wishes, blemebriller.

blemebriller

Many thanks to piscalab and Brightsnow + congratulations to your admission I will bear your advices in mind.

For career goals, I stated that I aim to further develop my current career path. As I did not take business courses during undergraduate and learnt most accounting & finance knowledge on the job / self study, I wanted to return to school to integrate my experience and new knowledge systematically.

However, during my interview, when I was asked what would be the one change I would make if I could live my college life again, I honestly said that I wished I could have been more goal- / career-oriented back then. Then I was later asked what internship I plan to look for if admitted, I slipped... ><  I wonder if this would be a proper new scope to focus on for my essay clarifying career goals?

Brightsnow

I got 700 at the beginning.  finally got 760 after completing all the guidebook Qs.  Of course, managed to understand almost every one.  did not do any other exercise.  So it's very likely to improve your score after 2 to 3 weeks' work.  of course, you need to be serious and confident on it.

don't know if you should reset your goals.  I guess maybe the stories from your goals and other essays/experiences don't match well.  or the goal itself is not clear enough.  better to show your essays to someone for advice.

piscalab

其实学校有回复就说明希望还是很大的，LZ把GT考高一点应该就比较有把握了
我的推荐信就是一个YALE的PHD+JD写的，非常出色的一个人，是我的偶像，可惜我没来得及申请SOM

blemebriller

Thank you very much Jon Frank for your advices I would keep your words in mind. I would like to further ask how applicants are divided into country pools. While my ethnicity is Chinese, my nationality is another country. In this case, would I be put in the country pool of China or the other country?


May I also ask your advices on the scope of the essay clarifying career goals and letter of interest confirming my interest in the school? I am a bit confused on how to set the scope to provide new insights to the AdCom on my career goals and why Yale. Many thanks in advance!

Hey there—as a Chinese applicant, (as you likely know) the bar for GMAT scores is higher than that for US citizens.  So if you feel like you do have a shot at raising your GMAT score, you should do so.  Now, if your sense is that you don’t have a great shot at raising the score, then don’t worry about it—it is only worth it if you DO have a good chance at driving that score up.  Since you got a 6.0 on the AWA, Ive gotta believe that if you studied a bit, you COULD get your verbal score up.  That’s what I’d do, if possible.  Hope this helps!

Jon Frank

-- by 会员 JonFrank (2011/3/31 3:32:07)

JonFrank

Hey there—as a Chinese applicant, (as you likely know) the bar for GMAT scores is higher than that for US citizens.  So if you feel like you do have a shot at raising your GMAT score, you should do so.  Now, if your sense is that you don’t have a great shot at raising the score, then don’t worry about it—it is only worth it if you DO have a good chance at driving that score up.  Since you got a 6.0 on the AWA, Ive gotta believe that if you studied a bit, you COULD get your verbal score up.  That’s what I’d do, if possible.  Hope this helps!

Jon Frank

blemebriller

hey wish both of us best of luck! seems like there r quite a lot wait listed by Yale out there... saw 10 from gmatclub already.
but anyhow, let's fight on~

楼主加油哈，同waitinglist的人飘过，尽人事，知天命了

Thank you very much to tianya111, jiandaobu, 长风破浪 and other NN for your prompt advices!! Also big congrats to you guys' admission to great schs (i remembered you guys all got admitted^^)!!

Your insights are valuable advices!! I will definitely bear all these in mind. Big thanks once again!

-- by 会员 blemebriller (2011/3/29 22:29:49)

-- by 会员 maerlucky (2011/3/29 22:43:43)

maerlucky

楼主加油哈，同waitinglist的人飘过，尽人事，知天命了

Thank you very much to tianya111, jiandaobu, 长风破浪 and other NN for your prompt advices!! Also big congrats to you guys' admission to great schs (i remembered you guys all got admitted^^)!!

Your insights are valuable advices!! I will definitely bear all these in mind. Big thanks once again!

-- by 会员 blemebriller (2011/3/29 22:29:49)