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thought
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Hi I'm in a similar position to others -- I scored a 710 on the gmat with a (very?) low quant -- Q42 (63%), V45 (98%).
I do have a strong quantitative background -- I'm an African-American male with a BA in Economics from Morehouse College (3.28) and a minor in Mathematics and several courses in Computer Science. (I was also inducted into both the Beta Kappa Chi Honor Society for Math and the Omicron Delta Epsilon for Econ.)
In addition, I took four introductory graduate level economics classes at Duke with a 3.0 average after undergrad. and have been a high school math teacher at a prestigious prep. school and an SAT teacher in Shanghai in the past. I also currently work in a somewhat quantitative industry in web analytics/online market research/digital intelligence. (One blemish worth nothing is that I pursued an M.Ed. at Harvard in the economics of education but didn't complete it due mostly to immaturity and a splash of disinterest -- The four courses I completed were with a 3.0 I believe).
I am pursuing an MBA to break into consulting and I want to target mostly top 15 schools. I took the GRE in late 2004 and scored 770(87%) on the quant. there also.
My first question is this: Will schools consider my GRE scores if I submitted them? Would you think would even be necessary?
Secondly: My short (or long) list of schools so far is Emory, Brandeis, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Tuck, Fuqua, Harvard, Northwestern, NYU, Wharton, Stanford, UCLA, Virginia & Yale. Given my GMAT, desired field and profile, which of these would you say are a fit versus not a fit. (The underlined programs are those I have a strong notion that I will apply to.)
Thanks!
I do have a strong quantitative background -- I'm an African-American male with a BA in Economics from Morehouse College (3.28) and a minor in Mathematics and several courses in Computer Science. (I was also inducted into both the Beta Kappa Chi Honor Society for Math and the Omicron Delta Epsilon for Econ.)
In addition, I took four introductory graduate level economics classes at Duke with a 3.0 average after undergrad. and have been a high school math teacher at a prestigious prep. school and an SAT teacher in Shanghai in the past. I also currently work in a somewhat quantitative industry in web analytics/online market research/digital intelligence. (One blemish worth nothing is that I pursued an M.Ed. at Harvard in the economics of education but didn't complete it due mostly to immaturity and a splash of disinterest -- The four courses I completed were with a 3.0 I believe).
I am pursuing an MBA to break into consulting and I want to target mostly top 15 schools. I took the GRE in late 2004 and scored 770(87%) on the quant. there also.
My first question is this: Will schools consider my GRE scores if I submitted them? Would you think would even be necessary?
Secondly: My short (or long) list of schools so far is Emory, Brandeis, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Tuck, Fuqua, Harvard, Northwestern, NYU, Wharton, Stanford, UCLA, Virginia & Yale. Given my GMAT, desired field and profile, which of these would you say are a fit versus not a fit. (The underlined programs are those I have a strong notion that I will apply to.)
Thanks!
