How Does This Banker Overcome Meh Stats & Get Into Yale, Cornell & UVA

Luke has a 710 GMAT and a 3.2 GPA from Boston College. He’s an operations analyst and risk associate for a major bank in Georgia. And he wants an MBA from a highly selective U.S. business school.

What are his chances?

In this Fridays With Sandy episode, HBSGuru.com Founder Sandy Kreisberg puts the candidate through his paces and assesses his odds of admission at Yale School of Management, Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, UVA’s Darden School of Business, Wharton and Harvard Business School. He also offers some valuable advice to offset his 3.2 grade point average.

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