MBA Handicapping: Three Oddball Jobs Need Explaining, Including Dog DNA
Josh has the elements of a highly successful application to all of his target schools, from Harvard Business School to Stanford Graduate School of Business. He’s an Ivy League grad, with a degree from...
View ArticleMBA Handicapping: How To Move From Pure Tech To Strategy Consulting
The good news? Gokul has a 760 GMAT score, with a 94% on the verbal and an 86% quant. The bad news? Gokul has a 2.5 grade point average in computer science from Osmania University. He’s working as a...
View ArticleMBA Handicapping: Minority Candidate, 550 GMAT, Wait List At MIT — Advice On...
Jaime is a fascinating MBA candidate. At the age of 28, he’s worked his way ito a senior associate role in PwC’s consulting arm over the past two and one-half years. He got that gig after a year in...
View ArticleMBA Handicapping: 3.2 GPA — How Damaging For This Mexican Star (740 GMAT!)?
Javier has worked as a lead process engineer for his family’s $18 million (sales) firm in Mexico. But now he would like to land a job in consulting with McKinsey, Bain or BCG (MBB) and want to get an...
View ArticleMBA Handicapping: Indispensable Advice For International MBA Applicants
For a 27-year-old young professional who wants to get an MBA from a top U.S. business school, Linh has a lot going for her. A first-generation college graduate from a family of farmers in Vietnam, she...
View ArticleMBA Handicapping: Indian Applicants NOT From IIT
Handicapping your MBA odds is always tricky business because there are a lot of unknowns about every candidate. Yet the chances of an elite MBA admission for Raunak, a 25-year-old analyst in New Delhi...
View ArticleMBA Handicapping: Applying From Pakistan — And Other Less Represented Countries
Only 612 GMAT exams were taken in Pakistan in testing year 2021 and just 70 of them had scores of 700 or above. Hammad was one of them. He scored a 730 on the test and with that score, he is applying...
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Indian MBA Applicants: Advice For Getting In
740 GMAT? Check. IIT alum who graduated among the top 10% of their class? Check. Four years in a blue-chip firm with international management experience? Check. Chances of getting into a top MBA...
View ArticleMBA Handicapping: Applicants From Well Known ‘Brand’ Companies — What...
With a round two interview with an elite business school on the horizon, Lei wanted to be grilled in an MBA mock interview by HBSGuru.com Founder Sandy Kreisberg. He got his wish and here’s your...
View ArticleMBA Handicapping: Break Out Of The Pack: Applying From Fidelity & Other Money...
A 25-year-old Nigerian-born U.S. citizen, Odunayo works for Fidelity Investments as an investment consultant. With a 720 GMAT score and a 3.66 in physics from Howard University, he is aiming to get an...
View ArticleMBA Handicapping: Former Pro Golfer Pars & Bogies Some HBS Interview Questions
Alan is hardly your typical MBA applicant. A senior at the University of Hong Kong, he is applying to the deferred admit programs at Harvard Business School, Wharton, and Chicago Booth. He brings a...
View ArticleMBA Handicapping: 2+2 Is Hard — Will Low GRE Stop This Spanish Superstar?
Harvard Business School’s 2+2 deferred admit program for MBA candidates has unusually high hurdles for applicants. After being admitted, students are expected to spend a minimum of two years, with no...
View ArticleMBA Handicapping: Fashion Designer To The Metaverse With A 750 GMAT
She’s a 24-year-old fashion designer for Meta who graduated first in her class and boasts a 750 GMAT. For sure, those few facts are intriguing enough to get the MBA admissions offices at Harvard,...
View ArticleMBA Handicapping: 780 GMAT–How Come She’s Not Applying To Harvard Business...
On her very first and only time taking the GMAT, Rebecca scored a whopping 780 on the test. That puts her comfortably among the top 1% of test takers worldwide. Her work as a data manager for a...
View ArticleMBA Handicapping: Who Should Retake A 730 GMAT?
For an MBA applicant to Harvard Business School or Wharton, this young professional is quite unusual. First off, he’s already 33 years of age, well outside the more typical 27 to 29 window for most of...
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