Hi Everyone,
I am planning to apply to a full-time program for Fall 2012, and I was hoping that I could gain some insight into my chances of admission into one of the top 15 schools. I am particularly interested in NYU, Northwestern, Columbia, U Chicago, UCLA, Wharton, Berkeley, and Duke.
I am a female with 5 years of work experience, and I currently work in the licensing and product development department for a non-profit educational organization. I have a 3.69 undergraduate GPA, and I graduated magna cum laude from a top 15 university with a double major in Film & Media Studies and English Literature. I only took one math course in college - Statistics - in which I received an A. I should probably also mention that I have never taken Calculus.
I am scheduled to take the GMAT in 2 weeks. The scores on my recent practice exams have ranged from 640 - 710. My verbal score has always been higher than my quant score; my quant scores have ranged in the mid 50th to low 70th percentiles, and my verbal scores are typically between the 93rd - 99th percentiles.
As a non-traditional applicant with limited undergraduate quantitative coursework, I am concerned that I will not be able to get into one of the schools mentioned above unless I break 700 on the GMAT and have a high score on the quant section. Is it possible that my background can work to my advantage if this happens? Will my interesting work experience, high GPA, solid essays, and the fact that I can bring a different perspective to the class make up for a score that may be below 700 and that skews toward verbal?
Any insight is much appreciated Smile
I am planning to apply to a full-time program for Fall 2012, and I was hoping that I could gain some insight into my chances of admission into one of the top 15 schools. I am particularly interested in NYU, Northwestern, Columbia, U Chicago, UCLA, Wharton, Berkeley, and Duke.
I am a female with 5 years of work experience, and I currently work in the licensing and product development department for a non-profit educational organization. I have a 3.69 undergraduate GPA, and I graduated magna cum laude from a top 15 university with a double major in Film & Media Studies and English Literature. I only took one math course in college - Statistics - in which I received an A. I should probably also mention that I have never taken Calculus.
I am scheduled to take the GMAT in 2 weeks. The scores on my recent practice exams have ranged from 640 - 710. My verbal score has always been higher than my quant score; my quant scores have ranged in the mid 50th to low 70th percentiles, and my verbal scores are typically between the 93rd - 99th percentiles.
As a non-traditional applicant with limited undergraduate quantitative coursework, I am concerned that I will not be able to get into one of the schools mentioned above unless I break 700 on the GMAT and have a high score on the quant section. Is it possible that my background can work to my advantage if this happens? Will my interesting work experience, high GPA, solid essays, and the fact that I can bring a different perspective to the class make up for a score that may be below 700 and that skews toward verbal?
Any insight is much appreciated Smile
