Need help with choosing a school - UNC or Gtown?

I am down to UNC and Gtown as my 2 final choices to go to and need some help in choosing one over the other - below are some stats i grabbed from usnews rankings for reference: UNC: Full time employed at grad/3months: 60.3%/78.6% Full time grad 270 Consulting 26 - avg. 105k finance 67 - avg 90k Nota...

Need help with applying to a school out of few...

Lisa, I have 1 reach I am trying to fill and I came down to: Stern, Booth, Kellog, wharton I have UG gpa 2.92 and grad gpa 3.27 with gmat 720 49/39 with Engineering/Tech background.... I know scores is not the only part of application but which of the 4 gives a good chance of getting admitted? I und...

Question about "dream schools"

I am applying to quite a few schools and I guess getting into any one of them would be great for me. I have reasons in the essays for why school XYZ and it meshes with my goals etc. I guess I have 2 schools i really want to get into and I guess they would be considered my 'dream schools'. Would i ha...

Question about asian applicants

It seems there are a lot of asian (chinese +indian) candidates and being an chinese myself i have a few questions... 1. Is there a different consideration among the location of the asian group? I am us citizen but chinese so is there a difference between me and someone from india/china? 2. i have a ...

Lisa, i know some people say going over 5-6 is gonna lose out on quality. From my point of view - i can only control the quality of the online application, essay and interviews. LOR mainly depends on the sources whether they want me to edit/preview or not. Is 3-4 weeks per applications the right pac...

Need help with application strategy

Hi Lisa, I would really like to get into a Business school next year but dont want to sell myself short - i have about 10 schools in mind (i know it is a lot) and i know they are a good mix. My current strategy is to go ED on as many on my list as i can - CBS,fuqua,guizetta, kenan and then apply the...

I would really like to get into B-school next year so would it be a bad strategy to go for ED on 3-4 schools and figure out what happens later? I mean I might get penalized monetarily but that is the only "negative" compared to the "early knowledge" ? Plus the odds of me getting ...

Thanks Lisa, would the following goal be OK to adcom and a good goal? It is something I know I would love to do in the future but not sure if it is a good goal in their eyes. I always had a passion for gaming and had a goal working for a gaming company. This led to me and a couple of friends in deve...