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January 15, 2020 12:12pm ET
Applying: Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Duke / Fuqua, UCLA Anderson, UVA / Darden, Vanderbilt / Owen
Intake Year: 2021
Pre-MBA Career: software developer/consultant
Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Technology
GMAT: 670
GPA: 3.78
Years of Work Experience: 2.5
Location: Tennessee
Notes:

Would love to get some opinions on my GMAT score and if it would be worthwhile to re-take. It was my first time taking it and I scored a Q44 V38 which is extremely frustrating because I was scoring at a Q48+ in all of my mocks leading up to it. I feel like it's at a really weird cutoff score that's just good enough to get into some of these places but not good enough to get decent scholarship money. I wanted to apply to Kellogg as well but I don't think that I can swing that with this score. I would have 4 years of experience by the time I apply, 5 at matriculation, and I'am a white male currently working as a hybrid software developer/consultant for a public sector consulting IT firm. I've done a lot of cool things with them like developing a demo product for a potential client in Australia and updating a critical infrastructure interface used by federal agencies that I feel like I could write about in essays pretty effectively. My degree is in computer science at a top 50 school. Hoping to pivot away from software development and more into management/strategy at another consulting firm or tech company. Have a few ECs doing tutoring online for college students via Chegg and I run marathons and climb mountains out in the west every year. Let me know if there are any other data points that ya'll need to know!