Ms. Nonprofit Admin

Hi there Ms. Nonprofit Admin, Jen Kedrowski here from mbaMission (and current resident of the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area myself—great area to live as you know from undergrad!). I have worked with multiple successful UNC MBA applicants with healthcare, non-profit, and even administrative backgrounds, and given that experience plus what I see thus far from your profile in terms of your skills developed in helping others with their career development, creating and managing events, and gaining skills such as sales and likely project management on top of perspective in your industry, I feel that your professional background will qualify you for consideration at Kenan-Flagler. However at the present moment I am concerned that your 620 GMAT may hold you back given their average is around 700. Have you considered trying the GRE? Around 30% of UNC entrants submit a GRE score, and the average scores of those applicants (159V/158Q) are lower than that 700 GMAT equivalent. Additionally, having spent years teaching, tutoring, and running Kaplan’s national GMAT and GRE programs, I’ve seen countless examples of individual struggling to reach mid-600’s on the GMAT who change to GRE and perform much better in terms of percentiles and equivalent score level. It could be an ideal step for you, particularly if you are applying for this fall and you are able to devote a few months this spring to test prep, and could increase your changes by mitigating that current weakness. Good luck and feel free to sign up for our free 30 minute consultation at the link below and/or to reach out directly to jen@mbamission.com if you have any further questions.

Hi Ms. Nonprofit Admin, and Go Heels! I am a fellow UNC Tar Heel alum and have deep experience with UNC Kenan-Flagler as someone who worked in MBA Admissions and the undergraduate business program there over 20 yrs. I am going to give this to you straight up—are there people in the program now with a 620 GMAT? Yes. Are there a lot of them? No. Your challenge is to work on that GMAT score—and also consider other options such as the GRE if you feel you have given the GMAT all you’ve got. I would encourage you to describe your work in terms of the results you have achieved rather than the title as the Event Coordinator title and describing yourself as an executive level assistant is not the best headline. UNC Kenan-Flagler is all about results— quantify your big wins—Can you quantify the value of these partnerships that you developed? Were you x% over your goal of Y? Tell me! I have worked successfully with many candidates at UNC Kenan-Flagler—even those with stats below the averages—and I don’t think there is a person in the admissions consulting space who has deeper UNC Kenan-Flagler knowledge than I do. There is a lot of interest in B Corps at UNC Kenan-Flagler and I encourage you to make connections with the Net Impact club and also reach out to student ambassadors. If you plan to apply next fall, use this spring to visit on campus and make connections to students so that you can apply early next fall and secure an interview during the open interview period. Attend the Women’s Weekend in the fall. I would like to help you clarify the post MBA career goal too as that is vague—and there is time now to do some further research so that you are ready to put your best foot forward in fall applications!