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Profile Evaluation Please

by canadian52 » Sun Feb 24, 2013 11:26 am
Hello,

I was just wondering if my 2.7GPA really hurts my chances of admission to the schools listed below?

Age: 25 (Male, white, Canadian)
GPA: 2.7 (Have taken 5 quantitative courses since - received A to A+ in each (finance, accounting, statistics))
GMAT: 720

Education: Business (finance/marketing) undergrad from Canadian University. Grades trend upward... wasn't sure what I wanted to do during first few general years/had too much fun. 3.5 and 3.8 in last two years respectively.

Work Experience:
Internships: Financial analyst at one of Canada's largest telecom companies
Full-time: 2.5 years in business development at one of Forbes Top 10 most innovative tech companies (Promoted roughly once per calendar year). Should become a manager in 6 months or so.

Extracurriculars:
VP positions in University Commerce association
Teaching Assistant (3 different economics classes)
Ran 3 large university events
Big Brother Organization
Habitat for Humanity leader - Lead project to build houses in Nicaragua

Plan: Get an MBA in finance and leverage my skills (biz dev, finance) to gain employment at top consulting firm (tech sector)

Target Schools: Tuck, Darden, Johnson, Stern, Haas, Booth, Ross, Kellogg, Yale


Thank you very much!
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by Bryant@VeritasPrep » Tue Feb 26, 2013 8:15 pm
Well, you have done all the right things to overcome a lower GPA, so rest assured that you're doing all you can. Applications are trending back up in volume, so it will indeed be competitive but of all the qualifications to have, GPA is generally the most forgivable attribute. Hopefully that will make you feel better :)
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