Ask Stacy Blackman

My official GMAT is 640 (34V/45Q). My GPA is 3.1 (came back from a roughly 2.3 GPA in freshmen year, also graduated early) from UC Berkeley. My major was Economics with focus on microeconomics.

I have about 4 years of experience, 1.5 years in the Aerospace industry with a large public firm doing logistics and supply chain and 2-3 years in a military contractor niche small firm that I did mainly military project finance, general accounting, purchasing, IT, sales proposals, and various project management tasks. I was a finance analyst, but I got to work on many tasks outside of my focus because of the size of the company and their confidence in my work.

I was and am doing activities including being the captian of a recreational tennis team, did some community service work (tutor, fundraise, etc), and taught an undergraduate-level entrepreneurship course at UC Berkeley.

I am also Chinese by blood, but born and spent 10 years in Venezuela so I come from a diverse cultural background.

Let me know what are my chances and what should I work on in getting into the following business schools:

HEC
UCLA
Rochester - Simon
UCI
McCombs
HKUST


Thanks in advance,
Peter