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September 15, 2024 7:21am ET

Applying: Columbia, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, NYU Stern, UPenn / Wharton, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Engineer

Post-MBA Target Industry: Non Profit/SI

GMAT: 740

GPA: 3.6

Years of Work Experience: 7

Location: Calgary

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alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1646 Very good numbers. Showing impact and growth at work is very important, backed up by strong recommendations. Are you also involved in activities outside of work? Any additional hobbies and interests? (0)

grichmond Verified User. Likes Earned: 1186 Thanks for posting here. I'm pretty sure I saw your initial post (a couple times) over on LiveWire, where you indicated a lower ugrad GPA (3.0), and that this '3.6' listed above is your grad GPA? In any case, my hope is that your numbers are strong enough, despite a lower-than-average ugrad GPA. The GMAT and grad school performance should counter the 3.0 a bit.

You indicate that you are in Canada. I presume this means you are a Canadian citizen? I ask because I am trying to discern whether or not you are over-represented; for instance there are a lot of South Asian engineers (of Indian or Pakistani origin) applying to top b-schools, and a subset of them have worked in Canada, etc. No matter what your background is, one of the key things to be aware of as an engineer is the potential to be labeled as 'technical/good with numbers, not with people'. As such, your recommendations, and milestones at work should ideally demonstrate your leadership and management potential.

Finally, beyond your academics and career to date, I'll echo Alex's questions here about your outside activities. These will be important in terms of giving your candidacy some character and showing the admissions teams that you will play an active role on campus.

All of your targets are arguably top-10 programs with a high bar for admission. You may want to think about adjusting this list based on outcomes (if you applied to some in the first round), in case you aren't getting the results you seek. Best of luck and thanks for your post!

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