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mjjking wrote:Hi there,
I'm 26 years old, and these are my credentials:

- Bachelor's Degree in History, top15 university in Italy, GPA 4/4
- Master's Degree in Anthropology, top 5 university in Italy, GPA 3.5/4
- GMAT: 680 (Q 43, V40)
- TOEFL iBT: 109
- At time of supposed enrollment around 3 years of work experience in a cleaning service and facility management service company as Quality Management assistant manager (being promoted once);
- Started my own business (online) selling media, run for 2 years;
- Funder of the first regional Alumni group of my province (and now president);
- Trying to improve other extracurricuars.

I will apply for business school next year (for 2010 intake). I will try to improve my GMAT score, especially the math part, but assuming I won't be able to do that, which schools should I target? My goals are working in Finance or consulting with an international focus, I totally exclude working in marketing or operations or accounting. I was thinking about Vanderbilt, Washington University in St. Louis (Olin), Texas A&M, Brigham Young and Texas-Austin. Do you think those school are appropriate and feasible for me?

Thanks a lot for your help!

mjjking wrote:Well, thanks for your reply!
Too conservative you say? That's good to know! I've decided to aim higher, and so I'm considering Texas A&M, Vanderbilt, Olin, Indiana, UNC-Chapel Hill as feasible and USC and Duke as stretch.
What do you think?

thanks!

mjjking wrote:Why Rochester and Georgetown if I may ask?

I'm seriously planning to get at least a 710 on the gmat, in that case I'd reconsider my list, being Texas-Austin a must a Venderbilt too.

mjjking wrote:Hi,
taking into consideration a 700 or more on gmat, I've shortlisted the following universities:

1. Duke
2. UCLA
3. Texas-Austin
4. Emory University
5. Vanderbilt
6. SMU

What do you think? I choose them because they have a high percentage of hiring in consulting.