Hi, I am considering to apply to Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Northwestern, and Berkeley in Round 1 this year, and I appreciate your feedback on my chances at these school.
Profile:
30 y/o Chinese-Canadian male
- born in Hong Kong, grew up/studied/worked in Canada, and then worked in China for the past few years
Work Exp - around 8 years total
- Canadian Chartered Accountant (audit/tax) - 4 years
- Found a start-up in China that raised USD2MM and had an operational business, and left after 2 years
- Worked as a Sr Financial Analyst (Finance planning and analysis) for a large multi-national company's China office for 1.5 years
- Worked to start another venture, which did not materialize for another 1 year
Extracurriculars
- Community service for >5 years
- Started other side businesses e.g. games rooms
Education
Graduated at a leading Canadian university with a 3.4/4.33 GPA.
700 GMAT (verbal 37/ quant 48 / AWS 5.5 / IR 6)
Harvard and Stanford are my top choices and the other ones follow right behind, but I am not sure these are realistic reaches for me. If this is not entirely unrealistic and I have say a 10%-20% chance at these schools, I am considering if I should retake the GMAT to further boost these chances. I hope I may be able to reach 750 and improve AWA and IR with another month or two of studying as there are still a lot of study materials I haven't used, I only used the OG. However, if these schools are completely unrealistic for me, then I may not spend the extra month or two to study for a GMAT retake, and I will reconsider my selections.
Please advise on my situation and thank you so much for your help!!!
Sayuri
Profile:
30 y/o Chinese-Canadian male
- born in Hong Kong, grew up/studied/worked in Canada, and then worked in China for the past few years
Work Exp - around 8 years total
- Canadian Chartered Accountant (audit/tax) - 4 years
- Found a start-up in China that raised USD2MM and had an operational business, and left after 2 years
- Worked as a Sr Financial Analyst (Finance planning and analysis) for a large multi-national company's China office for 1.5 years
- Worked to start another venture, which did not materialize for another 1 year
Extracurriculars
- Community service for >5 years
- Started other side businesses e.g. games rooms
Education
Graduated at a leading Canadian university with a 3.4/4.33 GPA.
700 GMAT (verbal 37/ quant 48 / AWS 5.5 / IR 6)
Harvard and Stanford are my top choices and the other ones follow right behind, but I am not sure these are realistic reaches for me. If this is not entirely unrealistic and I have say a 10%-20% chance at these schools, I am considering if I should retake the GMAT to further boost these chances. I hope I may be able to reach 750 and improve AWA and IR with another month or two of studying as there are still a lot of study materials I haven't used, I only used the OG. However, if these schools are completely unrealistic for me, then I may not spend the extra month or two to study for a GMAT retake, and I will reconsider my selections.
Please advise on my situation and thank you so much for your help!!!
Sayuri
