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Applying: Columbia, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, Emory / Goizueta, Georgia Tech / Scheller, Michigan / Ross, Northwestern / Kellogg, U. Chicago Booth, UVA / Darden

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Pharmaceutical Operations

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Pharmaceutical Companies: Bain , BCG , McKinsey , Johnson & Johnson , Merck

GRE: 321

GPA: 3.7

Years of Work Experience: 15

Location: Mumbai

Post MBA Location: NYC

March 30, 2025 10:53am ET

Applying: Columbia, Duke / Fuqua, ESADE, IESE, INSEAD, London Business School, MIT Sloan, NYU Stern, Other, Penn State / Smeal, U. Chicago Booth, UCLA Anderson, UPenn / Wharton, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2026

Pre-MBA Career: Banking and technology

Post-MBA Target Industry: Technology, Commercial Banking Companies: Other , Other

GMAT: 710

GPA: 3.1

Years of Work Experience: 7

Location: Brazil

Post MBA Location: Brazil

Notes:

I am a 29 yo black brazilian woman. I am civil engineer by the oldest civil engineer school of Brazil with full scholarship. I have been working with data since 2015 and now I am coordinator of a data team I the biggest Latin American Bank. Currently I am studying for toefl and improving my English. My main purposes joining a top tier mba are to improve my leadership skills and to learn with different people from different backgrounds (I am working in the same business since 2017).

March 30, 2025 10:29am ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Columbia, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, INSEAD, Michigan / Ross, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, NYU Stern, U. Chicago Booth, UPenn / Wharton, UVA / Darden, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2026

Pre-MBA Career: Fintech, Morgan Stanley

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Technology Companies: Accenture , Bain , BCG , McKinsey , PWC , Amazon , Apple , Facebook , Google , Microsoft

GRE: 322

GPA: 3.39

Years of Work Experience: 5

March 27, 2025 2:54am ET

Applying: Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, Stanford GSB, U. Chicago Booth, UPenn / Wharton

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: DA/DS; Family Business

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Technology, Family Business, Entrepreneurship

GRE: 330

GPA: 3.5

Years of Work Experience: 4

Location: Malden, MA

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MBA Livewire

April 6, 2025 8:44pm ET

Interview Invite to UVA / Darden

Round: Round 3

Received via email

Standardized Test: Granted Waiver

GPA: 3.86

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: Alexandria, VA

April 6, 2025 8:42pm ET

Accepted to UNC Kenan-Flagler

Round: Round 2

Received via phone

Standardized Test: Granted Waiver

GPA: 3.86

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Target Career: Consulting

Application Location: Alexandria, VA

April 6, 2025 4:30pm ET

Rejected at Duke / Fuqua

Round: Round 2

Received via portal

Standardized Test: GRE

GRE: 335

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Note:

I really think the interview went well but got rejected, not even waitlisted. I got promoted at work and completed a few certificate courses since application. Is that it, or is it possible to send them an update and be reconsidered?

April 6, 2025 12:13pm ET

Interview Invite to UVA / Darden

Round: Round 3

Received via email on April 03, 2025

Standardized Test: GRE

GPA: 3.1

GRE: 321

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Application Location: West Coast

Note:

excited to finally go to Charlottesville after seeing it on the website for several years!

April 6, 2025 11:30am ET

Accepted from Waitlist to MIT Sloan

Round: Round 2

Received via email on April 03, 2025

Standardized Test: GMAT

GMAT: 695

Program Type: Traditional Two-Year

Application Location: Asia

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MBA DecisionWire

McD

April 6, 2025 10:53pm ET

Enrolled: Georgetown / McDonough

Admitted: Georgetown / McDonough $

$120,000

Applied: Georgetown / McDonough

Entering Year: 2025

Post MBA Career: Consulting, Venture Capital Companies: Bain, Booz Allen Hamilton, BCG, Deloitte, McKinsey, Andressen Horowitz

GRE: 312

GPA: 3.7

Location: Charlotte

MIT

April 5, 2025 11:41pm ET

Enrolled: MIT Sloan

Admitted: Michigan / Ross , MIT Sloan , UVA / Darden

Applied: Michigan / Ross, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, NYU Stern, UVA / Darden

Entering Year: 2025

Post MBA Career: Venture Capital

GPA: 3.7

Location: International

Notes:

Stern - waitlisted without an interview.
Super humbled I managed to get into Sloan (and others) with a waiver.
LOVED Ross a lot and made real connections with students and alumni, but stronger recruiting and network in VC, and proximity to Boston (important to me post-grad) made it for me (and also great people!).

HBS

April 5, 2025 6:05am ET

Enrolled: Harvard Business School

Admitted: Harvard Business School

Applied: Harvard Business School

Entering Year: 2025

Post MBA Career: Venture Capital, Private Equity, Asset Management, inc. Hedge Funds, Family Business Companies: Charles River, Other, Blackrock, JP Morgan Asset Management

GMAT: 640

GPA: 3.5

Location: Malaysia

Notes:

My designation CEO

Wha

April 4, 2025 11:33am ET

Enrolled: UPenn / Wharton

Admitted: Duke / Fuqua $

$110000

, London Business School , NYU Stern $

$Full

, UPenn / Wharton $

$50000

, Yale SOM $

$120000

Applied: Duke / Fuqua, London Business School, MIT Sloan, NYU Stern, Stanford GSB, UPenn / Wharton, Yale SOM

Entering Year: 2025

Post MBA Career: Consulting, Non Profit/SI

GRE: 330

GPA: 3.77

Location: NYC

Notes:

Couldn't pass up Wharton, and grateful I received any money from the fellowship team. Be confident going into the process - I feel like I should've balanced the spread of where I applied to more and added some other schools "in-between" Yale and Wharton but thankfully the outcome turned out great. I'll be recruiting for MBB!

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