MBA Handicapping: 40% Quant Yet High Odds For HBS 2+2. Find Out Why by: John A. Byrne on February 05, 2021 | 3,183 Views February 5, 2021 Copy Link Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email Share on LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp Share on Reddit Nick is one of four quadruplets who are all seniors at Yale University. If that alone doesn’t make him an unusual MBA candidate, there’s much more. The 22-year-old from Cincinnati, Ohio, is fluent in Arabic, having been awarded two State Department scholarships to study the language in both Morocco and Jordan. After a summer internship at Goldman Sachs, the political science major immediately got a full-time offer which he is taking up after graduation. So he’s applying to four top business schools under their deferred admission programs: Wharton and its Lauder Program, Harvard Business School’s 2+2, Stanford, and Columbia. Though he has a strong 3.75 GPA at Yale, there’s one blemish on his application: It’s a 40% quant score on the GRE. Nick is clearly a poet, scoring in the 90th percentile on the verbal, to notch a total GRE score of 313. Will that Q score sink his chances? In this episode of Fridays With Sandy, HBSGuru.com founder Sandy Kreisberg is pretty high on Nick’s chances. It’s his keen interest in the Middle East, his fluency in Arabic, and his extras that speak loudly. Among other things, he’s a board member of a refugee resettlement group at Yale and he helps to facilitate the tutoring of more than 100 school kids annually. He has traveled to Israel and Palestine on a joint Yale-West Point trip to meet with government officials to learn about the Israel-Palestine conflict. He’s been a researcher on the Syrian Civil War at Yale’s political science department and has also done research on Syrian and Egyptian Ā immigrants.Ā His post-MBA goal? To work at a development finance institute such as the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund. 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