Hello,
And thank you for taking the time to read this. I have recently taken the gmat (about 3 weeks ago) and I am trying to decide whether I should focus on finishing the other parts of my applications (ie essays) or take the gmat one more time.
I am 27 year old male from the northwest united states. In 2005 graduated from the University of Texas in Austin with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Japanese with an overall GPA of 3.53. I spent about a 1.5 years in Japan while in school studying abroad and now speak fairly fluent Japanese.
I have been working for the last 4 years as a Digital Design Engineer in chip development groups. During that time I was with a company that went private from public, moved to a smaller company that was then a year later bought once more by my previous company. I have performed the same type of R&D activities while working there but have experience working on several different types of products.
I am pursing my mba to make a career change from electrical engineer to finance. My goal at the end of my mba program is to return with my wife to Tokyo and work for a bank in equities research or quantitative analysis.
I do not have any real community activities. Most of my free time is taken up by hobbies.
Extracurricular activities: I play and sometimes captain hockey teams for the local league. I am a hockey referee for the youth hockey league. When not doing either of those I prefer to buy and repair old motorcycles for fun. Any additional free time is devoted to my wife.
In any case, I am trying to get into a top business school, but I am worried my gmat score of 680 (M:42 V:41) is not going to cut it. I have been studying for a retake, but I keep thinking maybe I should be focusing on my essays so I can apply in the first round to some of the schools I would like to attend. I am quite good at math, just the day of the test I allowed myself to get stuck on one problem and waste a ton of time. I am the type that doesn't like to guess....
My number one school of choice is the university of Chicago partly because they have an international MBA program that will let me complete part of my MBA in Japan.
The list of schools I intend to apply to are as follows.
1. University of Chicago Booth
2. Columbia University.
3. NYU
4. Northwestern Kellog
5. University of Texas at Austin
6. University of Michigan Roth.
7. Cornell - Johnson
8. Carnegie Mellon - Tepper
I am I over shooting a little to high with this gmat score?
Thanks,
J
And thank you for taking the time to read this. I have recently taken the gmat (about 3 weeks ago) and I am trying to decide whether I should focus on finishing the other parts of my applications (ie essays) or take the gmat one more time.
I am 27 year old male from the northwest united states. In 2005 graduated from the University of Texas in Austin with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Japanese with an overall GPA of 3.53. I spent about a 1.5 years in Japan while in school studying abroad and now speak fairly fluent Japanese.
I have been working for the last 4 years as a Digital Design Engineer in chip development groups. During that time I was with a company that went private from public, moved to a smaller company that was then a year later bought once more by my previous company. I have performed the same type of R&D activities while working there but have experience working on several different types of products.
I am pursing my mba to make a career change from electrical engineer to finance. My goal at the end of my mba program is to return with my wife to Tokyo and work for a bank in equities research or quantitative analysis.
I do not have any real community activities. Most of my free time is taken up by hobbies.
Extracurricular activities: I play and sometimes captain hockey teams for the local league. I am a hockey referee for the youth hockey league. When not doing either of those I prefer to buy and repair old motorcycles for fun. Any additional free time is devoted to my wife.
In any case, I am trying to get into a top business school, but I am worried my gmat score of 680 (M:42 V:41) is not going to cut it. I have been studying for a retake, but I keep thinking maybe I should be focusing on my essays so I can apply in the first round to some of the schools I would like to attend. I am quite good at math, just the day of the test I allowed myself to get stuck on one problem and waste a ton of time. I am the type that doesn't like to guess....
My number one school of choice is the university of Chicago partly because they have an international MBA program that will let me complete part of my MBA in Japan.
The list of schools I intend to apply to are as follows.
1. University of Chicago Booth
2. Columbia University.
3. NYU
4. Northwestern Kellog
5. University of Texas at Austin
6. University of Michigan Roth.
7. Cornell - Johnson
8. Carnegie Mellon - Tepper
I am I over shooting a little to high with this gmat score?
Thanks,
J
