Young Applicant: Is a Highly Ranked MBA In My Future?

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Hi everyone. I've been creeping on this website for a while but would like to get everyone's opinion on my profile.

Ethnicity: Arab-American
Age: 24
Undergrad Major: Business Management (including 4.0 in classes like accounting 1 & 2, stats 1 & 2, finance)
Undergrad GPA: 3.85 from Wayne State University (Detroit)
Extracurriculars: Beta Gamma Sigma, Wayne State Football Team (Defensive Captain), Boys and Girls Club of Pontiac Activities Coordinator
GMAT: Test date Oct. 1 I predict anywhere from 600-650 based on practice tests
Work Experience: Postgraduate - 2 years for a global logistics company. 1 year as a Marketing Associate in Amman, Jordan. 1 year as a Operations Manager in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I have also worked as the Assistant Manager of our family owned and operated travel agency that has offices in Detroit, Chicago, LA, and Saudi Arabia (50< employees). Due to the nature of my work my travel experience has been extensive throughout the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
Recommendations: Great references from the CTO of the logistics company, my immediate boss and a colleague
Post MBA Goals: Consulting and entrepreneurship

Schools I'm applying to: U of M, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown UNC, UT: Austin, Babson, Thunderbird, Notre Dame, Ohio State

What are my chances?

Thanks in advance to all who respond!
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by mahmoud.mattan » Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:10 pm
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by Jon@Admissionado » Wed Sep 07, 2011 9:49 pm
You hold on just a minute. The love is on its way!
Got some Precision Essay lovin' for you.
So, undergrad grades - great!
Logistics experience - has great potential! Have any leadership here?
Goals - Here you have an interesting possibility to use "leading the family business" as your goal. Family business candidates tend to do quite well, cause these are often the big businesses of the future, and if you succeed with the school's diploma, everybody gets happy!

As for your chances, that I can;t tell you until you do the GMAT. 600-650 is a very wide range! But I will say that even with a 650 Cornell, Duke, Austin will be long shots for you. To get a good idea of where you might stand have a look at the schools mean GMATs. And looking at Cornell we see for example that the median is 700!!! 50 points more. But, you ARE within the 80% range, so you definitely should apply to all the schools that you mentioned

Best of luck on your GMAT!
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