Mr. Upward Mobility Impact Investor

Hi Mr. Upward Mobility Impact Investor! First off, you are clearly a tenacious, empathetic leader, who has overcome a tremendous amount of adversity and likely has carried a lot of weight on your shoulders to help your family/country through hardships no one deserves. I commend you for this. I imagine some of this explains your moderate GPA (albeit at a fantastic university). A CFA Charterholder in Pakistan also makes you quite a unicorn and gives you an edge amongst others. There are two key things that could significantly increase your odds, up to 2x my 25% rating.

First, we need to showcase your smarts either through (1) getting that standardized test score up or (2) proving that your work outweighs your peers at IFC. Hopefully the latter is true and can be showcased via promotions, endorsement from your recommenders, or key awards/recognition. If not, I encourage you to consider getting surgical around what’s preventing you from increasing that GMAT score. 1:1 tutors can often perform diagnostic assessments and targeted coaching to get you a strong ROI on your time/investment. Especially if Quant is holding you up, I’d also encourage you to consider the GRE – you might surprise yourself.

Secondly, I encourage you to get more specific with your goals. If you had the power to write your future story, what would that look like? The more vivid and concrete you are with your goals, the more AdCom will believe in YOU achieving them. They also want to ensure that you arrive on campus with a plan, as FOMO can get the best of ay first year MBA that isn’t intentional about what they do and (perhaps more importantly) do not get involved in.

By substantiating these two things in your profile, your odds may increase to 50%+! Go get ’em Mr. Upward Mobility Impact Investor!