Hi Greatone2687,

Thanks for your post.

It sounds like you have had amazing experiences over the last four years! Your international experience (particularly in a management role) will be an asset to your candidacy. In addition, with your strong GMAT score and unique interests (writing), you should have an excellent shot at top schools.

I recommend continuing to refine your career goals. International trade is not a common post-MBA route, so it will be particularly important to demonstrate that you thoroughly understand your career path and can be successful. I suggest aiming to include in your essays company names and job titles for the positions you would like to recruit for as an MBA student.

A couple important items you did not mention are your GPA and extracurricular involvement (college and post-college). Presuming both are in line with top schools (~3.5 GPA, a couple leadership roles in extracurricular activities), then I suggest thinking of HBS and Stanford as "reach schools (~1 in 4 chance of acceptance), Wharton, Sloan, Booth, Kellogg, Haas, and Columbia as "target" schools (~1 in 3 chance of acceptance), and Fuqua, Ross, and Anderson as "safety" schools (~1 in 2 chance of acceptance). A suggested recommendation strategy is targeting 2 reach schools, 2 (of 3) target schools, and 1 (or 0) safety schools.

Please feel free to reach out to [email protected] for a free detailed profile evaluation. Good luck!

Best,
Heidi