GMAT score: 610 (Q38 V36)
Undergrad GPA: 3.6 (UC Berkeley)
Work Experience: I am self-employed. I have run Surfing Camps by my home the last 4 years and occasionally contract my services out to other surfing camps around the world for weeks at a time. Will business schools frown on my lack of corporate experience. I would consider my self more of an entrepreneur. My reasons for going to business school do not revolve around getting a 6 figure job at Goldman Sachs. I studied economics as an undergrad because I am interested in economic development and global poverty reduction. I want to attend business school because I think an MBA will provide me with better tools to address these problems. I imagine an MBA would be useful in running a non-profit or helping communities through micro-finance and local development of businesses. Am I right to be looking at B-school?
Fresh out of college I did work for 2 years as a property manager for real estate developer/investment trust. I left this job in order to take multi-variable calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Calculus at a community college.
Finally, my transcripts show good A-B grades on higher level math course from differential calculus through linear algebra. Will schools weigh my poor GMAT performance more than years of good math grades?
What schools do you think I should apply to?
I do plan to take the test again and hope to score in the range of my practice test scores (650-740). Will a high 600's score even matter with my lack of corporate experience?
Undergrad GPA: 3.6 (UC Berkeley)
Work Experience: I am self-employed. I have run Surfing Camps by my home the last 4 years and occasionally contract my services out to other surfing camps around the world for weeks at a time. Will business schools frown on my lack of corporate experience. I would consider my self more of an entrepreneur. My reasons for going to business school do not revolve around getting a 6 figure job at Goldman Sachs. I studied economics as an undergrad because I am interested in economic development and global poverty reduction. I want to attend business school because I think an MBA will provide me with better tools to address these problems. I imagine an MBA would be useful in running a non-profit or helping communities through micro-finance and local development of businesses. Am I right to be looking at B-school?
Fresh out of college I did work for 2 years as a property manager for real estate developer/investment trust. I left this job in order to take multi-variable calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Calculus at a community college.
Finally, my transcripts show good A-B grades on higher level math course from differential calculus through linear algebra. Will schools weigh my poor GMAT performance more than years of good math grades?
What schools do you think I should apply to?
I do plan to take the test again and hope to score in the range of my practice test scores (650-740). Will a high 600's score even matter with my lack of corporate experience?
