Same thing happened to my brother. He took the GMAT, studied for a few more months, took it again and got the same exact score. Talk about demoralizing.

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mapple are you doing ED at columbia? i did ED at columbia and will do EA at tuck if i dont get notice by columbia in time. the turn around on some of the early EDers at columbia is pretty crazy, 3-4 weeks time going by what ive read on gmatclub. get your ED in as soon as you can too btw, i just submitted mine yesterday and im already being reviewed less than 24 hours later

comp -- haha yeah i thought id be able to bring up my 48 38, was a very solid score for a 700 with the 80 80 split, quant was decently high enough for me so lets see!

 

I've debated about the ED at Columbia. I think I'm competitive but they're all a bit of a reach (I'm military so coming from an "underrepresented" area gives me a nice boost). I would prefer either Wharton or Harvard over Columbia so I would kick myself if I got accepted ED and had to put down the deposit and then 2 months later got accepted into HBS or Wharton. But I feel like applying ED might help give me a boost since my undergrad GPA is weak, even for an engineering major.

 

I will likely be applying this year, not 100% certain as there are potential job opportunities that have surfaced. Anyways, I've set the bar a little lower and will likely apply to:

Darden Fuqua Ross

Additionally, I will probably apply to HBS as a reach and to one of the following schools as a "safety":

Kenan-Flagler McCombs Stern Goizueta Owen

I plan to stay in the southeast so UNC or Owen might have a better shot than say McCombs or Stern but I have to do some more research and see what the 'fit' would be like, etc.

Regards

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan
 
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shorttheworld:
mccombs s epicness. go with mccombs.

why no m7 if youre gonna aim for those, how were your gmats?

from the looks of it NO ONE is applying, at least not first round

I actually like McCombs a lot, but I'm from the southeast and will likely end up back in the southeast so I question just how much weight it will hold vs a similarly ranked program like Kenan-Flagler. At any rate, I still have plenty I need to figure out.

I actually haven't taken my GMAT yet...so my posting is a bit premature. If I was able to knock it out of the park then I would likely apply to the higher tier schools but I come from a total non target and would have spent 2 years at a boutique PE fund by the time I matriculated, so my candidacy will rely heavily on the GMAT. I did spend 4 years in the Army, so that is a bonus, but it was prior to undergrad, so I was enlisted...which isn't viewed as positively as being an officer.

Also, since I haven't taken my GMAT, I won't be able to make the 1st round deadline and will have to push everything to the second, which seems to make it more of a crap shoot for someone that would be viewed as a marginal candidate on paper.

Regards

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan
 

Planning to apply R2 at Chicago MIT Duke Possibly UPenn and Northwestern Biggest hang up is GMAT. Taking a month of starting tomorrow to study for it, along with figuring out the whole essay thing.

Background: Engineering Major from State U, non-MBB Operations Consulting with some leadership in undergrad. Just returned from a non-profit consulting gig in Africa. Did some side volunteer consulting in the past.

 

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