Lisa,
I am new to the forums and am currently in the process of applying to Northwestern and Wharton. Will you please evaluate my profile and let me know if I have an outside shot of admittance into either program?
Thanks!
GMAT - 650 (46V, 35Q), Skipped AWA (reasons below)
Demographic -
Caucasian Male, 32 years old, U.S. Citizen, currently live in Jacksonville, FL
Undergraduate -
Graduate 12/08 from University of Florida (Go Gators!) - Warrington College of Business, 3.7 GPA, Cum Laude
Work Experience -
10.5 years at current employer, Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL, 3.5 years at other businesses (mostly I.T. related)
-Currently work in I.T. as a systems administrator
-Project management experience ranging from small month long implementations to multi-year multi-million dollar nationwide implementations
-Budgeting experience for planning and forecasting short and long term expenditures
-Management experience handling contract and vendor staff
Extracurricular -
Married, father of 2 children so not much free time after a full time job and going to school!
Tennis - play in local Men's A League
Krav Maga - Level 2 student at local Martial Arts academy
Goal -
My ultimate goal is to achieve my MBA (hopefully from a top tier business school, but I am currently pre-accepted to the University of Florida MBA program if my profile does not fit with one of the top schools) and then begin a fast track management program in a retail business (have been very impressed by presentations given to UF undergrads by executive's of Dick's Sporting Goods, Home Depot and Lowe's).
Target Schools-
I have completed the initial application to Northwestern and have begun the process of applying to Wharton. I am most interested in the former choice as the program is 12 months long and would limit my time of unemployment (my current salary is the $80's and I would prefer to minimize the lost income but fully expect to be out of work while pursuing my MBA).
GMAT Question-
My initial goal was to only apply to the UF MBA program and having met with a counselor I was told that the AWA portion was not even a consideration for acceptance to UF, so I skipped it. I don't know how much weight is placed on the AWA from other schools so I believe I will need to retake the GMAT in the near future. I am confident I can bring my Quantitative score up (I didn't study as much as I could have and still managed a 650 total) but I am afraid I will gain some there and lose some in Verbal.
Thanks in advance and please let me know if I missed any vital piece of information.
-Dave
I am new to the forums and am currently in the process of applying to Northwestern and Wharton. Will you please evaluate my profile and let me know if I have an outside shot of admittance into either program?
Thanks!
GMAT - 650 (46V, 35Q), Skipped AWA (reasons below)
Demographic -
Caucasian Male, 32 years old, U.S. Citizen, currently live in Jacksonville, FL
Undergraduate -
Graduate 12/08 from University of Florida (Go Gators!) - Warrington College of Business, 3.7 GPA, Cum Laude
Work Experience -
10.5 years at current employer, Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL, 3.5 years at other businesses (mostly I.T. related)
-Currently work in I.T. as a systems administrator
-Project management experience ranging from small month long implementations to multi-year multi-million dollar nationwide implementations
-Budgeting experience for planning and forecasting short and long term expenditures
-Management experience handling contract and vendor staff
Extracurricular -
Married, father of 2 children so not much free time after a full time job and going to school!
Tennis - play in local Men's A League
Krav Maga - Level 2 student at local Martial Arts academy
Goal -
My ultimate goal is to achieve my MBA (hopefully from a top tier business school, but I am currently pre-accepted to the University of Florida MBA program if my profile does not fit with one of the top schools) and then begin a fast track management program in a retail business (have been very impressed by presentations given to UF undergrads by executive's of Dick's Sporting Goods, Home Depot and Lowe's).
Target Schools-
I have completed the initial application to Northwestern and have begun the process of applying to Wharton. I am most interested in the former choice as the program is 12 months long and would limit my time of unemployment (my current salary is the $80's and I would prefer to minimize the lost income but fully expect to be out of work while pursuing my MBA).
GMAT Question-
My initial goal was to only apply to the UF MBA program and having met with a counselor I was told that the AWA portion was not even a consideration for acceptance to UF, so I skipped it. I don't know how much weight is placed on the AWA from other schools so I believe I will need to retake the GMAT in the near future. I am confident I can bring my Quantitative score up (I didn't study as much as I could have and still managed a 650 total) but I am afraid I will gain some there and lose some in Verbal.
Thanks in advance and please let me know if I missed any vital piece of information.
-Dave
