Hi Stacy and crew, really have enjoyed the forum so far!
I was wanting your opinion on my situation... My partner and I just finished selling a large part of our companies assets in February and everything went quicker than expected, I had been planning on applying to business school for september 2009 but since we finished early I decided to go for round 3 for september 2008. However this didn't leave me much time to study for the gmat since it takes 20 days for the scores to get to schools. I just finished studying for about 6 days and took it today, I got a 620, 41V - 93% and 34Q - 42%. I'm 26 and haven't taken math since my freshman year of college so a bit rusty and didn't come back as quickly as I hoped it would. In the practice tests I had been getting a 38Q or so, which would have been a lot better. I was aiming to get at least a 680.
So the big question is do you think I should go ahead and apply to round 3 of the schools I was interested in or wait take a few months to catch up on math and retake it and apply for 2009 admission? The schools I am most interested in are Chicago GSB, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, and maybe NanYang.
I think I've got a pretty strong profile but I'm not sure its strong enough to counter a 620 for a top 20 school, maybe you could give your opinion on that as well? I'm 26 and have a long history of starting my own businesses. I started a web publishing company when I was a senior in high school in 1999, later sold that, started a web hosting company in 2001 and sold that in 2004 after it had grown quite a bit. During 2004/2005 I was vice president of a large service technology firm for 2 years. And then in 2005 I started the last company which my partner and I just finished sold, it was the largest so far and was an internet marketing company doing more than a million in sales a year. I graduated from undergrad with degrees in history, international relations, and political science at around a 3.3 gpa. I've got pretty good recommendations from clients and the owner of the only company where I had a boss. Plus good international expierience as I lived and worked in Ireland for 8 months, and I'm currently in the middle of living in Egypt for a year, plus a lot of traveling.
So what should I do in your opinion? Apply with a 620 for the round 3 or just wait for 2008 and spend some time studying to help my gmat score?
I was wanting your opinion on my situation... My partner and I just finished selling a large part of our companies assets in February and everything went quicker than expected, I had been planning on applying to business school for september 2009 but since we finished early I decided to go for round 3 for september 2008. However this didn't leave me much time to study for the gmat since it takes 20 days for the scores to get to schools. I just finished studying for about 6 days and took it today, I got a 620, 41V - 93% and 34Q - 42%. I'm 26 and haven't taken math since my freshman year of college so a bit rusty and didn't come back as quickly as I hoped it would. In the practice tests I had been getting a 38Q or so, which would have been a lot better. I was aiming to get at least a 680.
So the big question is do you think I should go ahead and apply to round 3 of the schools I was interested in or wait take a few months to catch up on math and retake it and apply for 2009 admission? The schools I am most interested in are Chicago GSB, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, and maybe NanYang.
I think I've got a pretty strong profile but I'm not sure its strong enough to counter a 620 for a top 20 school, maybe you could give your opinion on that as well? I'm 26 and have a long history of starting my own businesses. I started a web publishing company when I was a senior in high school in 1999, later sold that, started a web hosting company in 2001 and sold that in 2004 after it had grown quite a bit. During 2004/2005 I was vice president of a large service technology firm for 2 years. And then in 2005 I started the last company which my partner and I just finished sold, it was the largest so far and was an internet marketing company doing more than a million in sales a year. I graduated from undergrad with degrees in history, international relations, and political science at around a 3.3 gpa. I've got pretty good recommendations from clients and the owner of the only company where I had a boss. Plus good international expierience as I lived and worked in Ireland for 8 months, and I'm currently in the middle of living in Egypt for a year, plus a lot of traveling.
So what should I do in your opinion? Apply with a 620 for the round 3 or just wait for 2008 and spend some time studying to help my gmat score?
