<p>University of Southern California 2012
-B.A. Economics, Math minor
-GPA: 3.7/4.0 (Summa Cum Laude)</p>
<p>Stanford Business School (Summer 2011)
-Taking finance courses</p>
<p>SAT > 2100; anticipate GMAT > 700</p>
<p>Honors/Memberships
-Varsity Athlete (2 years)<br>
-Marshall Finance Club
-Budgeting Committee
-Economics Honors Society
-Deans List</p>
<p>Work Experience
-Analyst Intern; small/boutique investment management firm ($1B assets)
(Summer 2009)
-Derivatives Valuation Intern; investment management firm ($100B assets)
(Summer 2010)
-Analyst; JP Morgan Chase (Summer 2011)</p>
<p>*I recognize that I have little work experience relative to other admitted applicants of these schools and in general. However, I intend to only apply to programs that specifically allow or encourage college senior applicants.</p>
<p>LIST THUS FAR
-Harvard (2+2)
-Stanford
-MIT
-U Penn
-Northwestern
-U Chicago
-Yale University (Silver Scholars Program)
-UCLA</p>
<p>All comments and feedback are appreciated, thank you :)</p>
<p>I’m assuming that you are talking about attending MBA straight from college (with the exception of special programs).</p>
<p>-Harvard (2+2): Very little chance. This program is geared towards entrepreneurial and science/engineering leaning students at Ivies, Stanford, MIT, etc. Your work and study indicates that you are a very traditional finance student, so you have almost no chance. If they accepted traditional students often, everyone going into investment banking and consulting would be doing the 2+2.</p>
<p>-Stanford: No chance.</p>
<p>-MIT: No chance.</p>
<p>-U Penn: No chance.</p>
<p>-Northwestern: The most absolute no chance.</p>
<p>-U Chicago: No chance.</p>
<p>-Yale University (Silver Scholars Program): Your chance is as good as any.</p>
<p>-UCLA: Not sure.</p>
<p>So I think Yale Silver Scholars should be your priority and target.</p>
<p>Thanks for your reply. I feel that seems to be an underestimation of potential admissions, but alas, I am new to the MBA process.</p>
<p>Care to elaborate on your reasoning behind each chance prediction? Have any suggestions for improving my chances at each school or overall?</p>
<p>I know for sure that Kellogg does not even consider applicants with less than 2 years of work experience. </p>
<p>Why get an MBA right out of undergraduate? You lose a large piece of the value of an MBA going that route.</p>
<p>Another question, you are summa cum laude with a 3.7?? I have a 3.94 and won’t be summa…</p>
<p>@goose
Thanks for the update on Kellogg, I’ll be sure to remove it from my list. Also, I realize the arguments both for and against MBA directly after undergrad but after weighing my options I decided it was best for my personal situation.</p>
<p>BTW, I meant magna not summa lol</p>
<p>I think it’s a waste of money to attend MBA schools without significant prior work experience. If getting a well pay job is your ultimate goal, then you won’t achieve it this way.</p>
<p>"Thanks for your reply. I feel that seems to be an underestimation of potential admissions, but alas, I am new to the MBA process.</p>
<p>Care to elaborate on your reasoning behind each chance prediction? Have any suggestions for improving my chances at each school or overall?"</p>
<p>It’s not an underestimation of potential admissions. You would be a stellar applicant only if you have two or more years of full-time work experience. Like someone has already mentioned, Kellogg is very much against applicants who have less than two years of WE. Other MBA programs are against such students as well, probably due to the reason mentioned by cbreeze. Therefore, you would have a better than almost 0 chance only at special programs designed for students with no WE. I wouldn’t recommend the Yale Silver Scholars Program though. No MBA is worth 3 years; it should just be 1 year imo. I would recommend working for a couple of years and then apply to the MBA programs you mentioned, then you chances would be good.</p>
<p>You have no chance. Zero. None. You would add zero value to any MBA class. Why are you even considering an MBA? </p>
<p>You have decent internship experience. Get a job in banking/finance from UG and work for 3-4 years. Then decide if you want an MBA. </p>
<p>An MBA is not a huge knowledge gain from UG business. It is basically a re freshening, re branding and another shot.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say you have absolutely no chance. It all depends on what varsity sport you played at USC and how good were you. If you were a starting QB at USC, I would say your chances are pretty good.</p>
<p>There is a kid at my school who is a starter on a national champ team without work experience.</p>
<p>Hi-</p>
<p>My credentials:</p>
<p>Graduated cum laude (3.8) from Loomis Chaffee (CT Prep School)
Graduated Vassar College (3.65) cum GPA; BS History, Italian
Speak fluent Italian and Spanish
President of Mentoring/tutoring group; taught Italian for 2 years
White Jewish male
Dad went to Columbia Business School, uncle went to HBS- both have donated for 20+ years
Have worked for a gourmet food importer for 1 year
Job description: sales, PR, marketing, consulting, research, analytics, among other jobs
Am taking the GMAT in the spring
Looking to apply for MBA for Fall 2013</p>
<p>Would ideally like to go to HBS, Columbia, NYU or Cornell.</p>
<p>Can someone answer the following:
What are my chances of getting into these schools?
Is History a well regarded major for b schools?
If I had a 3.65 in History and Italian from Vassar, worked for 3 years and broke 700 on my GMAT, could I get into these 4 schools?
Thanks,
Robert</p>
<p>^she interned at goldman friggin sachs lol. Im a freshman at USC too doing computer science and business. I have one internship this summer for sure, looking to add 1 more if possible and I reaaallly want to get in 2+2 as well. </p>
<p>Tell us if you get accepted/rejected lol</p>
<p>@ HappyBuddha </p>
<p>Will do! I don’t have a good feeling about it, though lol</p>
<p>“^she interned at goldman friggin sachs lol.”</p>
<p>That’s not why she got into the 2+2. Her internships aren’t spectacular. I would assume that she got in the 2+2 for her leadership experiences.</p>
<p>Just wanted to mention that if Kellogg was a school you were more interested in, they used to admit people and ask them to defer a year – that’s what happened to me. I was working in consulting and our firm strongly encouraged us to apply at the end of our first year/during our second year of employment (so we would enter business school with only 2 years experience). I applied to Kellogg and Stanford and was rejected by Stanford and accepted by Kellogg with a stipulation that I wait one more year to attend (I could stay at my current employer, travel, etc…they just wanted me to have more life experience). My DH was a PhD student at the time and wasn’t ready to finish up, so that worked for us. I did re-apply to Stanford the next year and was waitlisted and ultimately admitted and also applied to UCLA (in case DH still hadn’t finished his PhD).</p>
<p>I know you say you want to go straight to B-School, but if you do decide to get full-time work experience, just wanted to emphasize that Kellogg does sometimes accept people with only 1 year of experience and then defer them (there were two of us in my section).</p>
<p>Honestly, I wouldn’t go to b-school without working first. Even with three years of diverse/varied consulting experience, I was young in years and on experience at Kellogg. It worked out great for me, but there were a few others with 2-3 years experience who struggled – didn’t contribute much to class, had a hard time finding groups, etc.</p>