Urgent MSF Help Required!!!
Hello WSO users
A friend introduced me to the forum and heard that this is a great place for some solid advice.
I am an international student and I go to a semi/target NYC and target Chicago area undergrad business school. I was overconfident for the recruiting season probably and so I did not manage to get any jobs yet. I had seven final round interviews and no job offers. So as a back up I decided to apply for MSF programs and took the GMAT. Scored miserably! Got a 640. I am little devastated after hundreds of thousands of $$ my parents spent on my education I have not been able to deliver.
So I was hoping if any one can chance me.
All the school are kinda in their 3rd or 4th rounds so I am not sure what chance I have with my stats. But here goes:
1)GPA- 3.3 (Another low point)
2) GMAT- 640
3) Internship experience- FO REIT experience and Mangement Consulting experience both in Chicago.
4) I will have great letters of recs from profs and past employers
Schools:
1) SMU
2) WUSTL
3) Vanderbilt
4) Villanova
5) Purdue ( Although I hate purdue and most of my friends might stop talking to me if I go there)
6) Depaul
Thanks for the help.
What is your gmat score split? As long as you have a decent quant score they aren't going to care to much about it being a 640. This is assuming you can speak english fluently.
Drop Purdue and Depaul my understanding is they are just money grabs. I would add Boston College and UT Austin.
WUSTL and Vanderbilt are going to be a long shot this late in the game with your stats but I would say still apply if you don't mind doing the extra apps.
UT Austin is so late looking at apps I dont think you'll be dinged as much applying late as I feel a lot of UT apps have accepted offers to other schools by now instead of waiting for them.
SMU in my opinion is a solid safety school and there's no app fee so why not? Boston College is a good school in a great location where your stats will be more competitive. I'm really not familiar enough with Nova to offer advise on them.
6 apps is kind of a lot to do quickly but with with WUSTL, Vandy, and UT Austin as a probable "no". Having Nova, BC, and SMU to pick from would still give you some solid options.
Thanks for the reply. The split is 44q 34 v. I am tri-lingual as in I speak English and two other languages fluently. English is the language I prefer usually anyway. My fluency is not of question.
UT Austin the deadline ( for international) has passed but I will talk to the adcom and see if they are taking any more. BCtakes about 87% international students and I don't think I will fit in that environment. I have lived in the States for the last seven years. I consider myself more American than anything else although I don't have PRV yet. I will apply to the program nevertheless.
Haha I'm going to take a wild guess and say you go to IU?
Yeah no shit!
You should work your alumni network hard also if you haven't. All the IU grads I've known have been particularly helpful to younger guys trying to make it on the Street.
Go get blasted at KoK and be ready to work hard tomorrow haha
The best part of KoK is the girls wearing tight "I love KOK" shirts.
Your profile is fine and your GMAT is good enough. Relax. I think you'd most likely get dinged at WUSTL (I've seen a few people with similar profiles not get in this year). You will be competitive at Vanderbilt though. In at Nova. Forget Depaul and Purdue. If you are looking at something in the Chicago area check out UIUC. You'll get in with your profile. Ohio State also (most likely with money).
People freak out too much when it comes to the MSF. I think everyone looks at MBA stats and apply them to MSF's. If you get a 650 or so and have a mid 3.0 GPA and some work experience you are competitive at many/most MSF programs.
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