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Internships at: SEC, White House, Senator’s office
Target School: Harvard
Considering: StanfordĀ GSB, Berkeley Haas, MIT Sloan, Wharton
Invited to Interview: Berkeley Haas
See More Profiles For: Harvard
Application Status: Open
Undergrad School: Cornell University
Undergrad Major: Economics
GPA: 3.7
GRE: 313
Age: 30, Ethnicity: Asian or Indian
Other Degree/Certification: JD
School Name: Northwestern University School of Law
Extracurriculars:
Title: Attorney
Industry: Government / Military
Company: Army
Length of Employment: 3 yrs
Consulting/IB
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Congrats on your invite to interview at Haas. Berkeley’s MBA program is a tough one to crack because the incoming class size is small (283) and the admit rate is just 17.7%, lower than Wharton, Chicago Booth, Columbia, and Kellogg. While your GRE score is 13 points below the class average of 326, you do have degrees from highly selective universities: Cornell and Northwestern and I assume you qualify as a military candidate given your service as an attorney in the U.S. Army. I don’t imagine many military attorneys apply to HBS so that puts you in your own bucket. My guess is Harvard will at least want to take a look at you, despite your low GRE, but if you have time and can …
Congrats on your invite to interview at Haas. Berkeley’s MBA program is a tough one to crack because the incoming class size is small (283) and the admit rate is just 17.7%, lower than Wharton, Chicago Booth, Columbia, and Kellogg. While your GRE score is 13 points below the class average of 326, you do have degrees from highly selective universities: Cornell and Northwestern and I assume you qualify as a military candidate given your service as an attorney in the U.S. Army. I don’t imagine many military attorneys apply to HBS so that puts you in your own bucket. My guess is Harvard will at least want to take a look at you, despite your low GRE, but if you have time and can get that GRE up, you really should retake the test and aim for a better score. It’s super hard to judge this one, too, because your profile is so sparse, as Julie-Anne notes. Actually for all future posters, it’s really important to give as full a representation of your application as possible for us to provide a strong assessment of your odds and to allow us to give you suggestions as to how to improve your chances.
Hey, this is Julie-Anne Heafey from mbaMission. Congrats on your interview invite to Haas! Your profile is very brief, so it’s a little bit hard to figure out what’s happening, and a pretty key aspect for HBS is what kind of impact you’ve had where you are and what you’ll add to the classroom. Obviously, we don’t know what’s behind your pivot from law to business, and that will be an important part of your application. It’s not impossible, and I’ve worked with similar candidates who managed to do it successfully, but you will need to convince the schools of your motivation and show them both that you can handle the switch and add a valuable perspective to the classroom. …
Hey, this is Julie-Anne Heafey from mbaMission. Congrats on your interview invite to Haas! Your profile is very brief, so it’s a little bit hard to figure out what’s happening, and a pretty key aspect for HBS is what kind of impact you’ve had where you are and what you’ll add to the classroom. Obviously, we don’t know what’s behind your pivot from law to business, and that will be an important part of your application. It’s not impossible, and I’ve worked with similar candidates who managed to do it successfully, but you will need to convince the schools of your motivation and show them both that you can handle the switch and add a valuable perspective to the classroom. From the above, I just don’t have enough information, but an invitation at Berkeley shows promise. Your GRE score is quite low for HBS, and while scores are not the only thing schools consider, they do matter. In particular, I’d want to see your V/Q split there – with lawyers, we tend to see high verbal scores and lower quant scores, so I’d be concerned about the quant score that might be lurking behind your 313 total. I’m putting your odds at about double the normal rate of HBS acceptance because of the positive hints I’ve seen (White house internship, good schools, military service) and the invite at Haas, but overall, for me, your GRE’s a concern, your path is a bit unclear and there’s not much to go on here, so I’d want to hear more. Best of luck with your interview and remember that Berkeley’s pretty mission-driven, so really think about your motivations and how they fit with the program.
GRE is surprisingly low. Retake and the rest of your profile will get you in the door.
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