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oiiscotland
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First of all, I apologize if my English really confusing you. I really hope that someone can give me an honest advice of my situation.
I would like to start with a little bit about my background,
I was born and raised in Asia (English is my second language) 35 years ago, founded a company when I was 15 yrs old in architecture, engineering fabrication and construction. I sold the company after 10 years in business to continue my education in the UK. I graduated with architecture and fashion degree in one of the prestigious art school in the UK (while working at the same time to support my education). After finishing my school I migrated to the US. In the past 6 years, I have been practicing in one of the top architecture firm the US and led on many pinnacle projects around the world. I recently started a small business in floral and architectural services with my husband as a part-time business. I have plenty of community services (as we are both actively involve since 4 years ago) and led the community outreach program, extra curricular activities from college, involved in a film, arts and theater club while in the UK, as well as a director of student associations in the UK and US.
Anyway, my spouse and I were ready to apply to R2 together this week, but I had a bad day on my GMAT, which I took few days before the deadlines. It was extremely bad. I hate to confess, I have a test anxiety and I'm not prepare as much as I should on the test. So, I decided to hold on to my application for R2 and apply to R3 in March/April and hope to improve the GMAT score in a couple of months. Other components of my application are ready, including most of the essays, and all recommendation letters are already submitted by the recommenders. My husband (Caucasian, with 740 GMAT and 3.6 GPA) on the other hand went ahead applying to 3 out of 6 top business schools that we were committed to apply. He is going to wait to apply for other 3 schools in R3 with me to make the final decision less complicated. At the end we have to make sure we are both admitted to the same school. We also went to school visits, events and have done enough research on all the school choices. Long story short, everything else was prepared except my bad GMAT score.
And know my questions are:
1. Please help me on what is the best way for me to improve my GMAT in the time constrains?
2. As an older applicant, with a background mentioned above, am I stand a chance for R3 or should I wait for next year? The schools we are applying are; Stanford, Booth, Kellogg, Wharton, Haas and Tuck.
3. If he is admitted in R2, do you know if there is a way for him to hold on his decision until R3 decision comes out?
I really appreciate your time. I know this is a complicated situation otherwise I won't be seeking for advice. Please help!
Thank you.
I would like to start with a little bit about my background,
I was born and raised in Asia (English is my second language) 35 years ago, founded a company when I was 15 yrs old in architecture, engineering fabrication and construction. I sold the company after 10 years in business to continue my education in the UK. I graduated with architecture and fashion degree in one of the prestigious art school in the UK (while working at the same time to support my education). After finishing my school I migrated to the US. In the past 6 years, I have been practicing in one of the top architecture firm the US and led on many pinnacle projects around the world. I recently started a small business in floral and architectural services with my husband as a part-time business. I have plenty of community services (as we are both actively involve since 4 years ago) and led the community outreach program, extra curricular activities from college, involved in a film, arts and theater club while in the UK, as well as a director of student associations in the UK and US.
Anyway, my spouse and I were ready to apply to R2 together this week, but I had a bad day on my GMAT, which I took few days before the deadlines. It was extremely bad. I hate to confess, I have a test anxiety and I'm not prepare as much as I should on the test. So, I decided to hold on to my application for R2 and apply to R3 in March/April and hope to improve the GMAT score in a couple of months. Other components of my application are ready, including most of the essays, and all recommendation letters are already submitted by the recommenders. My husband (Caucasian, with 740 GMAT and 3.6 GPA) on the other hand went ahead applying to 3 out of 6 top business schools that we were committed to apply. He is going to wait to apply for other 3 schools in R3 with me to make the final decision less complicated. At the end we have to make sure we are both admitted to the same school. We also went to school visits, events and have done enough research on all the school choices. Long story short, everything else was prepared except my bad GMAT score.
And know my questions are:
1. Please help me on what is the best way for me to improve my GMAT in the time constrains?
2. As an older applicant, with a background mentioned above, am I stand a chance for R3 or should I wait for next year? The schools we are applying are; Stanford, Booth, Kellogg, Wharton, Haas and Tuck.
3. If he is admitted in R2, do you know if there is a way for him to hold on his decision until R3 decision comes out?
I really appreciate your time. I know this is a complicated situation otherwise I won't be seeking for advice. Please help!
Thank you.
