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A bit confused about your GMAT, have you already been studying 4 months, or are you just beginning to? If you haven’t started yet, are you saying you will be studying for ~10 hrs every day for 4 months? That’s 1200 hrs of your life which seems extremely excessive. Most sources online would recommend just 120-200 hrs.
Why not take one of the OG mocks, see how you fair and go from there?
Also, which Cambridge programme are you applying to? Their MFin is awful and definitely NOT worth applying to (happy to explain deeper as to why).
Other than that, profile looking good.
Firstly, thank you for taking your time of, I appreciate it.
Secondly, I have started gmat journey about a month ago studying about 8h and 10min average daily (I keep a journal so I literally know how much I did lol), and I plan to do so for another 2-3 months. I don’t have that strong quant background and I’m not a native speaker, that’s why I’m doing that much.
About Cambridge, I’m eager to hear any new information. Someone says it’s a bad business school, someone says that still Cambridge and worth the reputation, dunno. Thank you in advance!
Cambridge MFin:
Wrote a comment on the programme some time ago. Just copied from there with minimal editing:
The Cambridge MFin is really weird, and has a bad reputation. Here are some reasons:
Caveat - there are a couple of profiles of people working at some top companies in smaller markets (Middle East, etc).
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/admission_statistics_mfin_202020
To paste from there:
> 239 applications received
> 123 offers made
> 73 withdrawals after offer made / offers declined
What kind of top programme would have a 50%+ admissions rate?? Wtf? (Look at LSE, Oxford and other masters, they are less than 10-20%)
Again, I spent probably a total of 10 hours looking into this programme, and won’t be applying there this fall because of the reasons above.
However, I welcome any facts that would disprove the above and change my opinion.
Those are some very worrying signs I will investigate further more. Thank you for some clues.
What would you recommend based on your research to apply for in London?
Also, do you have any bull park numbers for gmat score that would be fit for my profile?
Kind regards.
FYI, I’m pretty sure that the Cambridge MFin also requires 2 years of work experience
Apply for the MSc in Financial Economics at Oxford. It's much better than the Cambridge programme. However the GMAT requirement is quite high (760+)
For LBS, LSE, imperial, etc a 710+ will likely be enough. 730+ if you want it to stand out.
For Oxford MFE 740+ if you want your GMAT to be on par with the avg GMAT of this years class(note: the class before had a 750 avg) 760+ if you want it to stand out.
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