Profile Evaluation- any help appreciated

[sophiepaps]

I am a 23-year-old female looking to enter B-School in Fall 2014 when I will be 25. I'm white and I identify as queer.

Undergrad: Seven Sisters women's college, Econ major, many quant courses in econ, math, stats, and physics

GPA/Transcript: 3.4, cum laude, my major problem is that my school required 4 semesters of language study, I got by my first year with minimum grades, failed my 3rd semester, retook the 3rd semester and moved on to 4th semester

GRE/GMAT: 163 V/ 164 Q on GRE, score converter says this is a 720 GMAT

College Activities:
-Student Government President
-Very involved in get out the vote/campaign finance reform, organized a group on campus, interned for a local organization during school year and with a national non-profit in DC during summer, Young People For fellow
-Violin in the college orchestra
-Volunteered with the Girl Scouts
-Senior Gift Committee

Work Experience:
- Current Teach for America corps member teaching high school math
- Part-time TFA staff leading monthly professional development for other corps members
- TFA 2nd Year Giving Campaign committee member
- Incoming corps member transition team member
- Currently applying to work on TFA staff as a manager next year, if that doesn't work out I will be looking into charter school opportunities

Post-Undergrad Volunteer Experience: Alumna class gift chair

Short-Term Goal: Consulting
Long-Term Goal: Work for a Charter school network in development, fundraising or finance
Why B-School: Liberal arts undergrad gave me no business/finance/accounting courses, would love to have the networks of people in the business world, currently almost everyone I know is in the public or non-profit sector.

Target Schools: My dream school is Yale SOM, also thinking Booth, Berkeley, Michigan, Columbia (?). Would probably put a reach application into Stanford.

[PrepMBA.AlexLeventhal]

Hi Sophie,

I think you are on the right track and have done your homework in terms of what matters. Your overall GPA is strong, particularly on the quant side so I would not worry too much about your foreign language stumble.

A couple of years at TFA are solid experience, and I would indeed look to expand your educational footprint into the managerial side--either at TFA or in a charter school, school district or non profit. That will be more attractive to admissions committees. But that may also mean waiting to apply to b school a year past you have planned to get enough experience and accomplishments to share. Don't rush it. Sounds like you will get into a top 12 b school if you keep working hard, securing strong letters of reference and get more "business" experience.