Dear Jon Frank, call you for help!!!

风林火山

Hi Jon Frank,


I have a question here for you about business school selection. I graduated from a Chinese Top 3 university and majored in Finance. After graduation, I worked for a state-owned commercial bank in Beijing, China
for almost 4 years. I started off my career as a G7 currency trader. Since I have been on the buy side, I feel like that there is sort of lack of something exciting and challenging. I am considering making a career switch to sell-side firms. In 2007, I was temporarily and internally transferred to HK branch. Now I have been covering US treasury trading for nearly 3 years.

I remembered that you said somewhere that schools in the US will look for candidates from China
who are slightly younger and have a slightly higher GMAT score. To be frank, I am 29 years old now and 30 years old until admission in 2011 Fall. My GMAT score is not that competitive, only 720. Am I too old to be considered by admission directors? Could you please give me some recommendations about school selection? I mean a rank range.

Looking forward to your early reply. Thank you for your time.


Best regards,
Cynric

flyeoc

他的回答对你不会有多少价值的，你在中国的pool里，他了解的是美国的pool。
你还不如问admission的人呢，好多学校都有info session和online chat的。
我参加了几所学校的info session和online chat，有一所m7的从头跟到尾，有人问过这些问题，年龄和gmat都不会单独地比其他占得比重大，但是在你自己的pool里，这一家相对喜欢年轻和高gmat的，因为各方面他们都想要找个最好的。

smthbigur

Cynric ,  哪个学校是TOP3啊，很疑惑啊

hughlv

按喜欢top n说法的人来说，前10名的非清华北大的都可能自称top 3。

pawpawbear

中国的undergrad只要不是太差的，申请的时候我觉得还真没啥大用。最后录取的啥样都有。

hourich

倾向于=/=一定 （有些东西是你改变不了的，那就努力从其他方面补长并做到最好）

cannedpineapple

What is a "rank range"?

stevencaoy

What is a "rank range"?

-- by 会员 jelt2359 (2010/9/1 23:21:36)

他应该指得是申请学校的排名范围(eg. 1-15 or 10-20)

JonFrank

Hey there ,thanks for your trust! Yes, it would be my pleasure to offer up some guidance for you.  Now regardless of where you come from, the first place to look when considering schools is the GMAT.  So right away, we see that certain schools have average GMAT scores that are precisely in the range of 720: Berkeley, NYU, Yale, Wharton, Stanford, and Harvard all have averages that are within five points of your score.  So this means, in the simplest terms, that NONE of these schools will be easy for you to get into.  They will all be either stretch programs, or “in your range.”  Now, as we have explained, since you are competing with so many smart, talented Chinese applicants, in many ways the standards will be even higher for your application.  I am not worried about age, but the GMAT score is a bit low for the top schools.

So to answer your question (sorry to be long-winded), you should select a good range of schools.  Schools where your GMAT is “in your range,” and schools where your GMAT is HIGHER than the target schools.  So Kellogg, Booth, NYU, Michigan, Darden, Duke, Yale…these would be the types of schools I would focus on if I were you.  Ranked 5-15.  You could add HBS and Stanford, but if you do you should also add an easier target school, such as UCLA, USC and Cornell.  I hope this helps!

Jon Frank
Founder,
jfrank@mba2005.hbs.edu

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