<p>Hey, I was trying to see what my odds would be of getting into NYU, Columbia, USC, UCLA, Georgetown, and UNC given the following:
GMAT: 750
Undergrad: Top 30 Undergraduate Business School
Degree: Finance & Operations Management
GPA: 3.2
Work Experience: IBM 2 years, public sector consultant
Extra Facts: graduated with bachelors in 2 years</p>
<p>WHY ON EARTH did you push yourself to graduate UG in 2 years with such a crappy GPA? It would’ve been infinitely better to give yourself even 3 years and pull a 3.6+.</p>
<p>Alas, what’s done is done.</p>
<p>How many years at the consulting job?</p>
<p>Great GMAT score.</p>
<p>Someone else wanna weigh in?</p>
<p>Your GPA will be offset the longer you work. I would work more than two years (six at least) and then apply.</p>
<p>I’m planning on enrolling into a MSF program, if I were to pull above a 3.5 in that program along with increasing my work experience to 3 years would i have a chance then?</p>
<p>Work experience, and not necessarily an academic program, will increase your chances.</p>
<p>really? I thought that a graduate degree with a 3.5 gpa or higher being more recent than the undergrad would help greatly</p>
<p>Also after the masters I was planning on working for another year or so, which would bring my total work experience to about 4 years</p>
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<p>Benefits from working during time you would spend on MSF > Benefits from MSF (in MBA admissions) </p>
<p>Getting paid > Paying a college</p>
<p>If your goal is to attend an MBA program, the MSF will be much less helpful than just working during that time. </p>
<p>The flip side of that is: working for 2-4 more years vs working for 2-4 more years AFTER an MSF: in this situation, the MSF is helpful in MBA admissions because we’re assuming you’re going to be getting a better job after the MSF than you wouldve without it, meaning you’ll have more credible work experience. However, the benefits from the MSF have little (at this point, I’d say nothing) to do with anything correlated to your GPA.</p>
<p>I was planning on working while getting my MSF, but the main benefit that I was looking to get from the MSF was a potential IB or more financial oriented job. So here is basically what im trying to figure out, given my stats listed above which would be better : </p>
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<li>MSF part time while continuing as a consultant with IBM, following the MSF getting into some form of financial services if not banking/IB and working there for a year for a grand total work experience of 4 years </li>
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<p>or </p>
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<li>Continuing my job as a consultant at IBM for a grand total work experience of 4 years</li>
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<p>If you aren’t going to advance at IBM, then I would advise that you pursue option 1.</p>
<p>Sorry, I was under the impression you were only pursuing the MSF to compensate for your lack of a better GPA in undergrad. If the MSF is so that you can obtain a better job, I would go for that. </p>
<p>However, I would advise (and others can chip in here), that you spend more than 1 year between completion of the MSF and the MBA. I feel like that would not look too great to many MBA programs (kids gets MSF, works at new job for one year, then applies for MBA). Just my two cents.</p>
<p>Sorry, I was under the impression you were only pursuing the MSF to compensate for your lack of a better GPA in undergrad.</p>
<p>it was a bit of both, I feel like I need to compensate for my low GPA by proving myself academically through a graduate program. But also I would like to pursue a more finance oriented career which may open up once I complete my MSF with a decent GPA</p>