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inittowinit
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- Joined: Fri Jun 24, 2011 8:01 am
Hello GMAT community,
First and foremost, I'd like to truly thank the forum and moderators for providing a wealth of knowledge - I'm really grateful for stumbling on this site.
A little about my profile, I'm currently 28 years old and self employed. I left the IB field a little over a year ago to take over my family business due to an illness with my parents. Out of college, I worked for a Boutique IB shop as one of the first employees and helped build out the firm and also worked on several landmark IPO transactions from some of largest PE firms, it is now the most dominant company in its field. A few years later, they asked me to relocate to help set up another arm of the business and I accepted the challenge and helped grow that side of the business. My family owns a restaurant and I've always been passionate about food growing up, but never to the point that I would want to work in the industry for a living. However, my family is important to me, and being the oldest son, I felt it was my duty - so I left my job and took over, viewing the move as "temporary." While running the restaurant, I've overseen two expansions and increased profitabilty and revenue, we are now looking for a second location. I honestly believe it was the hardest work I've ever done, and I learned alot about myself and people. All is good with my family now and I believe I can move forward with my own goals.
I've been dying to get back into the corporate world. My dream job would be working at a large consulting firm such as Mckinsey or Bain, or possibly a PE/VC company. I believe now would be a good time to go to business school and I've been studying for my GMAT exam and ranging 680-720 on practice exams. One caveat though - my Undergrad GPA is horrendous, 2.6. (crickets chirping). I'm not stupid, I worked nearly full time through school and even though I could have done better than B's and C's, I decided my social life was more important, so maybe immature would be a better word. Live and learn.
After lurking, it seems that a low gpa can be overcome with a high GMAT. I'll be taking the exam early July. Here's my problem, for personal reasons, I view the Top MBA programs to be the only ones worth attending. Can someone with my profile get into a top program this cycle, granted a 700+ GMAT score? Or should I wait another year, hone my essays and application, and build an alternate transcript from a local school? Will I be far too removed from the corporate world waiting another year?
Also, how do I take these classes? Do business/quant classes from a local community college suffice? Or do I have to take the classes from a big school like UC berkeley or Penn? Online? In Class? Credit/Non-Credit? PLEASE HELP ME, I'm so stressed!!
First and foremost, I'd like to truly thank the forum and moderators for providing a wealth of knowledge - I'm really grateful for stumbling on this site.
A little about my profile, I'm currently 28 years old and self employed. I left the IB field a little over a year ago to take over my family business due to an illness with my parents. Out of college, I worked for a Boutique IB shop as one of the first employees and helped build out the firm and also worked on several landmark IPO transactions from some of largest PE firms, it is now the most dominant company in its field. A few years later, they asked me to relocate to help set up another arm of the business and I accepted the challenge and helped grow that side of the business. My family owns a restaurant and I've always been passionate about food growing up, but never to the point that I would want to work in the industry for a living. However, my family is important to me, and being the oldest son, I felt it was my duty - so I left my job and took over, viewing the move as "temporary." While running the restaurant, I've overseen two expansions and increased profitabilty and revenue, we are now looking for a second location. I honestly believe it was the hardest work I've ever done, and I learned alot about myself and people. All is good with my family now and I believe I can move forward with my own goals.
I've been dying to get back into the corporate world. My dream job would be working at a large consulting firm such as Mckinsey or Bain, or possibly a PE/VC company. I believe now would be a good time to go to business school and I've been studying for my GMAT exam and ranging 680-720 on practice exams. One caveat though - my Undergrad GPA is horrendous, 2.6. (crickets chirping). I'm not stupid, I worked nearly full time through school and even though I could have done better than B's and C's, I decided my social life was more important, so maybe immature would be a better word. Live and learn.
After lurking, it seems that a low gpa can be overcome with a high GMAT. I'll be taking the exam early July. Here's my problem, for personal reasons, I view the Top MBA programs to be the only ones worth attending. Can someone with my profile get into a top program this cycle, granted a 700+ GMAT score? Or should I wait another year, hone my essays and application, and build an alternate transcript from a local school? Will I be far too removed from the corporate world waiting another year?
Also, how do I take these classes? Do business/quant classes from a local community college suffice? Or do I have to take the classes from a big school like UC berkeley or Penn? Online? In Class? Credit/Non-Credit? PLEASE HELP ME, I'm so stressed!!
