Low GPA - Strong Resume...seeking advice/expectations?

[BusinessBound]

Greetings BeatTheGMAT!

I'm currently in the process of trying to determine where to apply to grad school and I'm hoping some of you on here may be able to assist. A brief bio is below, please let me know if you need any additional information.

GPA: 2.8 from a well-known state university with average academics
GMAT: 710 - 46Q / 42V
Demographic: White American male

Overview of experience:

• Career in Information Technology

• In 5 year span I've gone through multiple positions from a jr level technician to sr level engineer and I now work in IT management

• Elected to the Board of Directors for my profession's professional organization

• Hand-picked to be chair of large professional conference in my industry

I realize this is a very limited view of things, but with these pieces of information how likely do you think I would be to gain entry into a top business school (assuming I provide well written essays)?

My top choices at the moment are Darden at the University of Virginia and Tuck at Dartmouth due to their Case Method educational philosophies.


Thanks in advance, I truly appreciate it!

[Jon@Admissionado]

Well, we don;t really know aaaaall that much about you, so it's hard to give any real evaluation. Obviously on hand your GMAT is good, and your GPA is not that great. so that will need to be explained. Hopefully you have some good reasons/excuses. Otherwise, if you give us a lot more info about you, who you REALLY are, what your life story is, what your dreams are, then we can really get talking!!!

Feel free to drop a line: https://admissionado.com/mba/free-consultation/