What are my chances at M7?

White male, 3.6 GPA at top public school (like UVA), 700 GMAT, 3.5 years work experience (2y in big 4 MC, 1.5y in corp dev), letter of rec from HBS grad CFO of my company.

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Hard to tell without addt’l details about your background and goals; however, I’d retake the GMAT and try getting another 30 pts to be more competitive. Otherwise, solid profile for Darden, Fuqua, McCombs, maybe UCLA as well

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Get that GMAT to 720-740 and you’re looking at potential $ at T15 and getting in at T10. 700 is iffy with the GMAT inflation that’s occurred over the past 5 years

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How can there be GMAT inflation? The GMAT score is literally a percentile of where you rank against peers who took it. You mean the competition is better and now you have to try harder to get an equivalent score?

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Thanks SM1. Goal is to meet a future business partner at M7, and then start a venture upon graduation

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Spot on by PwC1. I’ve seen amazing profiles get rejected from T15 programs because of a 700 score (fairly similar background to you, actually) but you have a decent gpa (hopefully it was in something business/Econ related). Just retake it and try crushing it as much as possible. If you can’t, focus a lot of your time on crafting an awesome story and get going on prepping your recommended

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Thanks for the help P1 and SM1. Not looking forward to retaking the gmat 😖

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Had a remarkably similar profile with 1 extra year of work experience and got waitlisted at Fuqua, Ross, and Kellogg. GMAT for us needs to be in the 720-740 range... better luck this year.

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