I am writing with a general question. There have been tons of posts of how to overcome a low gmat or gpa but limited discussion about overcoming weak extracurriculars. My question is if you have a time horizon of about 10 months before you apply how can you best overcome having basically no extracurricular activities in college and limited activities post college.
You responded to my profile post with my stats (710 GMAT, 3.4 GPA, Solid 3+yrs work experience with managerial responsibilities in Real Estate private equity) while this is all great...the more I read the more I see the reoccurring theme of extracurricular activities being important. I have tried to compensate by joining a volunteer organization and I have been certified as a team leader through this organization. If I remain active in this organization and lead a few projects over the next 10 months how much can that mitigate my weak Extracurriculars? I am also a member of 2 professional organizations but there is limited involvement in those except going to lectures etc. I'm not shooting for Harvard-but definitely for a top 20 school and I would like to know how you recommend positioning oneself. Are there schools that notoriously care less about extracurricular activities and place more emphasis on the #'s/WE ?
I will also say that I transferred from Tulane post Katrina so my college years were basically broken up at 2 schools, with a semester abroad thrown in-so it was relatively hard to become involved. I am however assuming that schools would prefer to see action over making excuses... I did work each summer at 3 different real estate type internships which is directly connected to what I do now.
Any input would be helpful.
Thanks.
You responded to my profile post with my stats (710 GMAT, 3.4 GPA, Solid 3+yrs work experience with managerial responsibilities in Real Estate private equity) while this is all great...the more I read the more I see the reoccurring theme of extracurricular activities being important. I have tried to compensate by joining a volunteer organization and I have been certified as a team leader through this organization. If I remain active in this organization and lead a few projects over the next 10 months how much can that mitigate my weak Extracurriculars? I am also a member of 2 professional organizations but there is limited involvement in those except going to lectures etc. I'm not shooting for Harvard-but definitely for a top 20 school and I would like to know how you recommend positioning oneself. Are there schools that notoriously care less about extracurricular activities and place more emphasis on the #'s/WE ?
I will also say that I transferred from Tulane post Katrina so my college years were basically broken up at 2 schools, with a semester abroad thrown in-so it was relatively hard to become involved. I am however assuming that schools would prefer to see action over making excuses... I did work each summer at 3 different real estate type internships which is directly connected to what I do now.
Any input would be helpful.
Thanks.
