GSB/HBS Deferred 2+2 Chances? (Low GPA, 760 GMAT, Top IBD, Startup Founder with $MM Exit)
Background:
- Asian male, US citizen
- Current senior at T15 undergraduate Business School
- GMAT: 760
- GPA: 3.62/4.0 (GPA excluding freshman year: 3.95/4.0)
Work Experience:
- Summer internship in investment banking, GS TMT/Evercore Tech M&A - returning full-time
- Summer internship in investment banking, lower MM firm - received return offer but declined
- Founder of Startup that raised six-figure pre-seed round at multiple million dollar valuation and had $10-15k MRR
- Founder of Startup that grew to almost $1M in ARR and was acquired my freshman year. (Also why GPA is low this year)
EC’s
- Founder and Chairman of an Entrepreneurship committee that centralized all of the entrepreneurship organizations on campus under one centralized platform
- President of Entrepreneurship Club
- Vice President of a different Entrepreneurship club
- Co-Founder and President of a Chapter of a non-profit focusing on curating the next leaders of finance at different Universities across the US
- President of Club that provides mentorship and lessons in financial literacy and personal finance to underprivileged high school kids
- Previously founded Non-profit Foundation (501c3) helping over 500+ homeless people
Why I want a Deferred MBA
- I want to pursue entrepreneurship specifically within Tech and having a deferred admission would allow me to take more risk and after my analyst stint in IB I could potentially join a either early stage (Series A) or later stage startup in a operation/strategy role to further my understanding for operations and have industry expertise to hopefully start something during my MBA with the resources they can provide and the network.
Do I have a chance at GSB/HBS even with the low GPA? Any advice as I prepare my applications?
Did you talk to your academic advisor?
You're probably a lock bro
Is this supposed to be some type of dumb humble brag post?
Yyour GPA isn't the best (probably slightly lower than the median at GSB/HBS) but your profile aside from that is top 1%
Not a humble-brag type post.
From my understanding, deferred programs like to focus on STEM students and not business majors especially going into Finance/Consulting. Thus, I wanted to see if I had a competitive profile among the high GPA IB/Consulting pool coming from HYP etc.
Wrong forum
Threw an MS because I saw this on reddit too.
Hey man -- you've to work on keeping anonymity with these "chance me" posts (we've talked about this before lol). Also, most of the people who respond to these sorts of posts (both here and on Reddit) don't know that much about deferred admissions in particular (for completely fair reasons, since it's such a niche process). You've posted multiple times about this and it's frankly not necessary, unless affirmation is what you're looking for.
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