Dear all, I need some help with choose schools to apply.
I consider US schools only. I'm Russian, 24 y.o., graduated from leading law school in Moscow in 2011. I'm currently employed as a legal counsel in the biggest Russian IT company (6000 employees) and achieved 2 promotions during 3 years there. I have 4,5 years of professional experience (3 years of postgraduate). My GMAT is 690, but I have a pretty low GPA - 3.1.
I want to apply in Round 2 to 4-5 schools. Could someone suggest, what set of schools would be better to choose for me?
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Would love to! But here's a question for you - what do you want to DO with your MBA? Do you have any constraints? Preferences? Are you looking to be aggressive? Conservative? Balanced?
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Bhavik, thank you for quick response,
I look for balanced pool of schools.
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Dmitry
I'd like to get a strong and wide business education, which I could use to start career in the US. Since I have experience in IT, mostly I look for hight tech and related spheres to be in after mba. But again, the main goal is to establish basis for new career path in business instead of legal.what do you want to DO with your MBA?
I look for balanced pool of schools.
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Hey Dmitry,
Your legal experience is great and there aren't a ton of Russian lawyers applying so that helps! I'd say pick a couple of schools in the 5 - 10 range (if you don't try, you'll never know!), and then diversify through the 10 - 25 range or so. Schools like McCombs, for example, would be right up your alley. Aligned on stats and in Austin - one of the best high tech cities in the world! Other schools you should look into are Duke, Ross, and Tepper.
Here are two links you might find pretty useful:
How to Choose MBA Programs
Free, detailed school profiles
Sorry for the delayed response but I hope this helps - let me know if you have any questions after looking the material over!
Bhavik
Your legal experience is great and there aren't a ton of Russian lawyers applying so that helps! I'd say pick a couple of schools in the 5 - 10 range (if you don't try, you'll never know!), and then diversify through the 10 - 25 range or so. Schools like McCombs, for example, would be right up your alley. Aligned on stats and in Austin - one of the best high tech cities in the world! Other schools you should look into are Duke, Ross, and Tepper.
Here are two links you might find pretty useful:
How to Choose MBA Programs
Free, detailed school profiles
Sorry for the delayed response but I hope this helps - let me know if you have any questions after looking the material over!
Bhavik
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Here is an MBA Rankings List.
Given your technology industry focus, I would recommend your adding Haas, UCLA Anderson and the Cornell Tech MBA to the list at the more competitive end and a school like Eller at the safer end.
Best of luck,
Given your technology industry focus, I would recommend your adding Haas, UCLA Anderson and the Cornell Tech MBA to the list at the more competitive end and a school like Eller at the safer end.
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Thank you for your replies, this info is very helpful!
As you may know, in Russia we have other system of scores, so it does not reflect accurately on US GPA. I've just recalculated my graduation records, and it happens, that my GPA is only 2.98..
Do you think that it completely closes me the way to be admitted to top 10-15 schools? Or perhaps there are chances, that schools may give a credit on this because of foreign diploma?
As you may know, in Russia we have other system of scores, so it does not reflect accurately on US GPA. I've just recalculated my graduation records, and it happens, that my GPA is only 2.98..
Do you think that it completely closes me the way to be admitted to top 10-15 schools? Or perhaps there are chances, that schools may give a credit on this because of foreign diploma?
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Hey there,
So conversion is always tricky. Schools know that. So they're more concerned about relative performance. That's why things like graduation honors are so important! So let's ignore the conversion 2.98 for a second. What was your RELATIVE performance? What % of the class did you graduate in? Did you receive any honors? Any merit based awards?
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So conversion is always tricky. Schools know that. So they're more concerned about relative performance. That's why things like graduation honors are so important! So let's ignore the conversion 2.98 for a second. What was your RELATIVE performance? What % of the class did you graduate in? Did you receive any honors? Any merit based awards?
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Bhavik makes excellent points. Class rank and honors along with degree class, undergraduate university quality, degree/major difficulty and other elements are all factored into academic performance. Furthermore, the GMAT is used as a normalizing factor. So, if a person had a 760 GMAT score the admissions committee would view that person's potential as higher than if a person had say a 640 GMAT.
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