Handicapping Your Elite MBA Odds

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Handicapping Your Elite MBA Odds

He’s a 28-year-old senior associate at a mid-market private equity firm. She’s a 27-year-old actuarial consultant at a leading human resources consulting firm. They are married, having met at a Top 20 liberal arts college, and both want to go to the same business school for their MBAs.

This 25-year-old young female professional currently works as a legal assistant for a global law firm. A liberal arts major with a creative bent, she would like an MBA degree to transition into a career in international marketing.

With an undergraduate degree in music from Northwestern University, he’s a classicial musician with a union card who now works for a boutique philanthropic consulting firm. This 28-year-old gay white male is hoping the MBA will be his ticket to a more substantial role in philanthropy.

You already know what all these candidates share in common. They want to get through the door of a highly selective MBA program at one of the world’s very best business schools. Do they have a chance?

Sanford “Sandy” Kreisberg, founder of MBA admissions consulting firm HBSGuru.com, is back again to analyze these and a few other profiles of actual MBA applicants who have shared their vital statistics, work backgrounds and career goals with Poets&Quants. Now that the 2015-2016 admissions season is all but over and Sandy has completed dozens of mock interviews with candidates, Sandy will be appearing more regularly.

As usual, Kreisberg handicaps each potential applicant’s odds of getting into a top-ranked business school. If you include your own stats and characteristics in the comments, we’ll pick a few more and have Kreisberg assess your chances in a follow-up feature to be published shortly. (Please add your age and be clear on the sequence of your jobs in relaying work experience. Make sure you let us know your current job.)

Mr. & Mrs. MBA

 
Mr.

730 GMAT 3.75 GPA in accounting and history from a top 20 liberal arts college

Mrs.

730 GMAT (targeting) 3.66 GPA in math and Spanish from a top 20 liberal arts college Work experience for Mr. includes two years at a boutique investment banking firm and three years at a middle market private equity firm, promoted early to a senior associate; for Mrs. includes a year as a math teacher in high school, currently working as an actuarial consultant for a top HR consulting firm Extracurricular involvement includes heavy involvement in college and post-grad, couple serves as co-presidents of their college alumni chapter; Mr. volunteers with an adult literacy program, while Mrs. serves as a sorority adviser and a member of Junior League “Recommendations should be good for both, particularly glowing for Mr. MBA” Goals: Mr. MBA wants to return to PE with a larger firm in a different city, with a long-term objective of owning his own PE firm, while Mrs. MBA wants to go into human resources with a long-term goal of becoming chief human resources officer for a Fortune 100 company “Mr. MBA was going to attend a Top 10 school last year but received an offer to stay and be promoted at PE firm instead” Mr. MBA is a 28-year-old white male Mrs. MBA is a 27-year-old Asian woman

Odds of Success:

Harvard: 20%
Stanford: 10%
Wharton: 30% to 40%
Chicago: 30% to 40%
Northwestern: 40% to 50%
MIT: 30% to 40%
UC-Berkeley: 50%
Virginia: 50%
Yale: 50%
Dartmouth: 50%

Sandy’s Analysis:  (see video above) Let’s first deal with the question: If you apply as a couple what does that really mean? Is that a plus, a minus, or neutral? If you Google “MBA apply as couple,” you won’t get any useful information. Kellogg is the only school that addresses this issue and they say it doesn’t make a difference.

I don’t believe it. Applying as a couple changes the application. If one party is super strong and the other party is okay, there can be real coattails. I don’t care what these schools say. When the days dwindle down to a precious few for the admissions committee, they don’t care who they take. If the second party is on the waiting list and the school really wants the part of the couple they’ve already admitted, you know who is getting off the waiting list.

In this case, neither one of you are superstars, though you both have very good profiles. It makes sense to apply as a couple. It’s something you should think about, strategize over, and how you indicate that following your spouse is very important to you.

Let’s deal with Mr. MBA first. Let’s say he gets the 730 GMAT again. With his background, a lot will depend on what the schools think of the PE firm. You have a totally solid story but you are in an ultra-competitive cohort. You are dealing with people from Ivy to PE and those are among the most credentialed candidates in the world. So the schools will ask why should I take you from this mid-market firm with a 3.75 and a 730 GMAT when I have people from golden PE firms with a 4.0 and a 750 GMAT?

Mrs. MBA is testing high and she has a math background. Let’s say she gets a 750. She works for this benefits company and that is very attractive to Wharton and many of the other schools. Her goal to work as a chief human resources officier for a Fortune 500 company is a solid goal for what she has done.

At Harvard, Mr. MBA might not be getting in—but she could. It’s also not going to happen at Stanford for either of you. I like the two of you but these are not Stanford profiles. There just is no X factor here. At Wharton, Mr. MBA is facing the more golden PE candidates and could have some difficulty there. On the other hand, both of you are very attractive at Northwestern, Haas, Darden, and even Yale with odds of 50. Congratulations. You both are going to a a great business school as a couple.

Ms. Global Law

 

690 GMAT (verbal stronger than quant) 3.97 GPA Undergraduate degree in Sociolinguistics with double minors in Spanish and Music from UC-Santa Barbara Work experience includes three years at a global law firm. Started in recruiting & talent management. Unprecedented promotion after two years to legal assistant. Currently work on loan transactions with finance & bankruptcy lawyers. Extracurricular involvement in community theater, choirs, and vocal performance Goal: To transition to a career in international marketing (Might start out with some consulting work to get a good footing and breadth on different industries) Strong recommendations from firm leaders and partners who I work with closely. “Recently took an accounting class at a community college (Grade: A) and am taking stats now (Should get an A) – trying to compensate for the quant-light profile!” Fluent in Italian. Strong proficiency in Spanish 25-year-old white female, with an international background (born and lived in U.K. until 16 from an Italian family)

Odds of Success:

Wharton: 20%
UCLA: 30%+
UC-Berkeley: 20%
NYU: 40%+
Dartmouth: 20% to 35%
Columbia: 20% to 30%
Virginia: 30%+
INSEAD: 40%+
London: 40%

Sandy’s Analysis: Yikes, your move from a recruiting and talent management role at a global law firm to being a “legal assistant,” needs more explaining. I believe you when you say it is an “unprecedented” promotion but many adcoms may not get it. Back in the quill-and-candle era, when I was a lawyer, paralegals (if that is what you mean by “legal assistant”) were recent grads from Ivy/near Ivy colleges who typically did two years with Class-A law firms and then applied to law school, often with great success. Paralegals then were sort of the kids who now who get hired at McKinsey and Goldman Sachs after college as analysts.

Things have thus mucho improved, IMHO. I know how bad being an analyst for McKinsey and Goldman can be as a post-college job (despite their high demand and status), but trust me, being a paralegal at Sullivan & Cromwell or Cravath is way worse. I mean just speaking in feeble generalizations, which in my long experience, are usually true, although sure, there are refinements.
 
OK, moving right along, and seriously now, you might have presented to business schools more clearly had you stayed in recruiting and talent management, since those are pure business functions. Sure, your promotion to paralegal was probably really a super big deal, and you need to have your rec writers note that and also isolate what your many strengths were that allowed that to happen, including team work, diligence, skills with third-parties, and smarts. 

Once we get past that, this is pretty solid and clear. You are a poet with a 690 GMAT, a 3.97 from UC-Santa Barbara and you have gone out of your way to take accounting and stats to beef up your quant profile. Being a successful legal assistant is proof positive of your ability to sit still, consume tons of boring stuff, and sort of organize it–the actual definition of a first-year business student! I’m not joking and that is something schools deeply credit. You seem to do it with ease. That is a great strength.  

You want to work in international marketing (whatever that means), you have an international background, and you can operate in English, Italian, and Spanish. Sounds like a good background for international marketing (WTM). You also worked for an international firm and deal with international cases and you grew up in England and are Italian. Try and spell out just what you mean by International Marketing. Marketing for MNC? These days there seems to Internet Marketing and Non-Internet Marketing and both of those often occur internationally?

You say your reach schools are UCLA, Berkeley, NYU, Tuck, Columbia, Darden, INSEAD, LBS, Wharton. Hmm, good list, I think with clear execution, optimized recommendations, and a tight story, all of which you seem capable of, the reaches are Wharton, Columbia, and Berk. 

Tuck is always a special case, once you get to Point A with them, it becomes a “fit” issue based on visits and interviews. You may be too overtly ambitious and too proletarian in schooling and jobs for them.  They like laid-back but ambitious kids who are getting a ticket punched (not that anyone would ever put it that way), sort of your preppy/slacker/tightly-wound/secret hard-worker—that ain’t you. You are an overt hard worker. They also like genuine “lower income” types who are striving up. That could be you if someone squints. “Marketing” is also a semi-slimy word up there.   In your case they may forgive it based on thinking you come from lower income background where marketing is a proxy for business in general.

Darden, INSEAD, LBS, NYU, UCLA–those are not reaches for you. Those can be done. 

As is always the case, a 720 GMAT versus your current 690 would help immensely. Even if your Q score stays the same. No one doubts your ability to do B-school math. The only issue is optics. Adcoms doubt their own ability to explain sagging GMAT averages to B-school deans. The deans care about GMAT averages and rankings and that is pretty much all they care about — outside of fund raising and not inadvertently stepping on some PC land mine. I mean just speaking in feeble generalizations, which in my long experience, are usually true, although sure, there are refinements.

The recommendations you got from your law partners will be important, you really need to oversee that. Law partners don’t write many B school recs and law partners are not in the habit of wondering if golly, just because I’ve never done this, should I get help? That is not the way they became law partners.

Prediction: once you get outside the hermetic and basically hateful environment of (even) a global law firm, you are going to really take off. 

Ms. Bulge Bracket Tech

 

740 GMAT (47/V, 45/Q) 3.6 GPA Undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from a top Ivy Work experience in a rotational leadership program in technology and operations at a bulge-bracket bank, mostly strategy work similar to consulting. Title promotion after 2nd year (typical timeline is three to four years) College internships in environmental research and in R&D at a well-known Fortune 500 health/pharma company (think J&J) Extracurricular involvement in women’s empowerment, specifically STEM fields, with heavy involvement in volunteering for low income students and somewhat active in alumni association Goal: To transition to a Fortune 500 corporate strategy or business development role, tech management or management consulting HBX CORe graduate “My GMAT quant is low, but I think my technical education makes up for it. Confirm/Deny?” Toying with idea of applying a year early, but that would only be 2 years full time, age 23, and barely any “real time” with title promotion. What do you think? Would I be compared to 2+2ers or the broader pool, and what would the implications be, oh wise one?” 24-year-old female at matriculation

Odds of Success:

Harvard: 30% to 40%
Stanford: 20%
MIT Sloan: 40%
UC-Berkeley: 40% to 50%
UCLA: 50%+
Northwestern: 50%+

Sandy’sAnalysis: Lots to like and don’t worry about the “low” quant score in  GMAT: 740 (47 V, 45 Q), especially with your 3.6 GPA in chemical engineering from a top Ivy. Schools are not going to worry about your ability to do business school math (which is mostly 1.can you borrow enough money to attend and 2. statistics). Someone please tweak me if I am wrong about how much math you actually need in B-school.

In a nutshell, your issue is whether you should apply with two years full-time work experience vs. three, given the following: 

1. 740 GMAT, 
2. 3.6 Ivy, good extras, and 
3. Current gig, “Rotational leadership program in technology and operations at bulge-bracket bank, mostly strategy work similar to consulting. Title promotion after 2nd year (typical timeline is 3-4 years) . . . .”

Let’s deal with the timing issue first. Two versus three years of full time work experience, what is the difference in this case, if any. To me, the bottom line is that another year of FT work experience is probably not going to make a difference in your case. As you note, 2+2 is a good bumper sticker, e.g. it sets a baseline for business schools who say at least “in slogan terms” that two years is enough. 

Even though many, and maybe more than half, of Harvard’s 2+2 admits actually work 3+ years before enrolling, working two years is acceptable in that cohort. 

Beyond 2+2, I believe the average number of years of work experience for the admitted HBS class in general is four. (50 months according to an annoying but official class profile by HBS). I think (well, I guess) that percent of HBS class with two years or less of FT work experience is 10% to 15%. 

That stat sounds like an outlier, and therefor scary, but the real question is what is percent of the admitted class has three years work experience or less, since those are choices for you. Either two years or three. According to HBS, that number is 30. So, to be cute and approximate about it, 15 percent of the class enters with 0-2 years of work experience, and another 15 percent enter with just 3 years experience. But that does not mean your odds double by waiting a year. It just means more kids apply with that profile. 

OK, my wise guy, what are just the odds of admission with people applying with two years FT work experience versus three years? Good question! Not sure, and not sure that number by itself would tell you much, since those applying with two years, like this person, are often more qualified. For one thing, they have the balls to do it. 

Moving right along, we got another issue. The poster says her job is:”Rotational leadership program in technology and operations at bulge-bracket bank, mostly strategy work similar to consulting. Title promotion after 2nd year (typical timeline is 3-4 years) . . . .”  

Is that a feeder gig to HBS, Stanford, Sloan, etc.? She says “mostly strategy work similar to consulting.” Hmmm, I am not sure if that is the case, and it don’t sound that way, quite frankly. More importantly, I am not sure adcoms judge the gig that way, although you should certainly spin what you do in that direction, which you may already be doing. If so, good work. 

Coming from a prestige “investment banking analyst” gig at a blue-chip IB or consulting firm is as good a major feeder platform as possible (even if those jobs also semi-suck in reality, hey, there is always something). Other jobs at IB’s are thought to be less selective, viz. private wealth, operations, marketing, HR.

The gig we got here sounds like a silver not a golden job, although silver polished to a very high degree. I am not sure what “rotational leadership” means in this context but that sounds like what happens when you join blue-chip tech firms like Google, Facebook, Dell, Oracle, etc. as a just-graduated techie.  Rotational leadership jobs at “real” tech firm are a good track to business school, especially if you start migrating into leadership roles or tech leadership roles, or “strategy work similar to consulting.” Ahem very well put. Supply some solid examples on your application of jobs you have done at IB which is strategic (you got some poetic license here with the actual facts, but not 100 percent) and you may do fine. 

The very early promotion you got is a big deal in this setting.  It makes it seem like you were born a consultant but somehow got adopted by a family of techies and it took you some time to discover your true calling. 

Business schools enjoy partaking in “career reassignment surgery” just so long as you did well in your first career. Note that “career reassignment surgery,” as in this case (from tech consulting to strategy consulting), is very different from career switching, which is usually tech nerds wanting to “jump” into private equity. 
OK back to this patient. 

Goals: F500 corporate strategy/biz dev, tech management, management consulting.

CHECK 

Targets: HBS, Stanford GSB, MIT Sloan, Haas, UCLA, Kellogg?

Stanford equals a long reach. Just does not feel like it unless your firm is an FOD (Friend of Derrick).  

I am aware of your volunteer work, viz., “Heavily involved in women’s empowerment, specifically STEM fields. Heavy involvement in volunteering for low income students.” Yes, that does sound Stanford-y. But you would need some stand-out founder or leadership position to have any impact at Stanford, or deep current involvement.

HBS: A tough call, because a lot could depend on execution (that is not always the case but your resume and goals do not fully square, so explaining that in your case could matter a bit. Believe me, if HBS likes you based on DNA and just “girl-in-STEM” they will look past anything but you never know. 

MIT: They go for this story and “operations” is not a soiled word over there.  

Other places: You just need to convince them you are serious about attending their schools. 

Mr. Large Cap PE

 

720 GMAT (48Q/41V) 3.95 GPA (top 1% of class) Undergraduate degree in finance from a Top 20 business program Work experience includes two years at a Big Four transaction services (valuation) group and roughly two years at a large cap private equity firm in the valuation and strategy group
CFA (passed all 3 exams on first attempt)

Strong recommendations Long-term goal: To be chief financial officer of a private equity firm “Planning on applying R1. If I wasn’t able to get into any of the aforementioned programs, I would strongly consider EMBA programs such as Columbia or Yale and continue working” 25-year-old, white male

Odds of Success:

Harvard: 25%
MIT Sloan: 40%
Dartmouth: 30% to 40%
Duke: 50%+

Sandy’s Analysis: You may be a little young for EMBA programs but at the right time that could be good call. 

For the MBA, the issue is going to be where do you stand in the large-ish cohort of high-performing IB/PE types. A good deal of that depends on what top schools think of the two firms which have employed you. 

You say: “Work experience includes two years at Big Four transaction services (valuation) group and roughly two years at large cap private equity firm in valuation and strategy group.” 

As often noted, the Big 4 is not a super selective place for white finance boys to start out, as a rule. Here is where going to non-Ivy college (“top 20 business program”) could be an advantage, especially if you are first generation college, working class, and can spin this as a “white ethnic” makes good story. How? By noting that “bulge bracket firms don’t recruit at my college, so I did aces with the cards I was dealt,” and that explains how come I went to Big 4 and now work at a mystery-meat chip PE shop doing valuation and strategy.

That story, credibly built out, and some other attractive items in extras or hobbies or personal narrative, could overcome the Big Four issue. 

After that, a good deal of your outcome depends on what your target B schools think of your current firm. “Roughly two years at large cap private equity firm in valuation and strategy group . . . .” That could be a feeder firm to Stanford or a firm schools never heard of . . .it makes a difference!

Your low-ish GMAT, just compared to averages for schools you are targeting, and especially your low V and high-ish Q breakout, comports with this picture of the nice, smart, non-slick, not glib dude we have been painting. As does your goal of  becoming the CFO of a PE firm.  

I think HBS is long shot. There are just too many dents (even if they are honest dents) in this profile, and there is no compelling reason to take you versus the balloon drop of “dentless” golden boys they have stored in the netting for R1 next year. 

Sloan has lots of golden boys as well, and more and more every day, but they go for upstanding types like you—most of the time. You are actually the classic, smart, nerdy guy Sloan always took — remember “financial engineering” is still not an obscene term at Sloan—but then they stopped believing that Sloan was an Island, and started admitting more HBS and Stanford types, and that means they sometimes ding classic squares like you for cooler kids, as defined by the World Bank.

Tuck and Fuqua should be solid. Well, you need to pass the sniff test at Tuck and you need to convince Fuqua you want to come.

Mr. Philanthropic Consulting

 

322 GRE (164V / 158Q) (I was originally thinking of MA’s or MS’s but really have come to the conclusion that an MBA would be where I would learn the most and best serve me.) 3.7 GPA 3.7 GPA Undergraduate degree in music from Northwestern University Work experience includes two years in dvelopment for a large and respected social services agency in the Chicago area; now work for a boutique philanthropic consulting firm as a team member for our two largest foundation clients project managing their total operations and grant cycles (would be there two years at the time of matriculation) “After figuring out that the performance track was better suited to a passion than a career, I had about a year and a half of intern/full time contract work in the development departments of a top, highly respected regional Chicago theater and nationally respected music festival” Extracurricular involvement includes member of LGBT Employee Alliance while working at the social services agency. “Immediately after leaving the agency I took a leadership role as co-chair of the auxiliary board. I also serve on a philanthropic board of a project of a large community foundation in Chicago that provides seed grants to small, local nonprofits. Additionally, I still gig frequently in the area and am a professional, unionized classical musician” Goal: To build analytical, leadership and business skills to better understand our UHNW and corporate clients and how to innovate the use of philanthropic and corporate resources to make the most social impact. “Post MBA I would like to return to philanthropic consulting, or possibly a program/strategy job within a large private or corporate foundation if I could swing it. Long term goals of running a large private or corporate foundation or a philanthropic consulting firm” 28-year-old, gay white male

Odds of Success:

Stanford: 5%
NYU: 30%
Northwestern: 30%
Columbia: 20%
Yale: 20%
UC-Berkeley: 20%
Michigan: 30% to 40%
Wisconsin-Madison: 50%

Sandy’s Analysis: This is a consistent, do-gooder, non-profit profile which covers all the bells and whistles, including a line of solid gigs in this space, including, as you note 18 months “in the development departments of a top, highly respected regional Chicago theater and a nationally respected music festival, two years in development for a large and respected social services agency . . . [then two years at matriculation for a] boutique philanthropic consulting firm as a team member for our two largest foundation clients  . . . .”

You got a respectable 3.7 at Northwestern, a solid school, in music, a major adcoms want to like and often actually do, if you make it easy for them. 

You have made it semi-easy by doing work in artsy/non-profit consulting in a progression that makes it appear –and this may actually be true–that you are moving from the fringe of artsy stuff (development for regional theater) to the core (philanthropic consulting).  At any rate, that should be your story. 

The only bummer in this story is the GRE –322 (164V / 158Q)–which translates into a 640 GMAT. Here is my frequently given tough love: Keep taking that test, if possible, until you get it to near 700. That is the single best thing by far you can do between now and applying.  

Your extracurrics– LGBT Employee Alliance, leadership role as co-chair of the auxiliary board, serving on a philanthropic board, and even doing frequent gigs in the area and being a professional, unionized classical musician –are impressive, confirmatory, and interesting. Actually, being a union member has got to be a plus. You might be one of the very few in your class. 

Your wish-list of schools –Stanford, NYU, Northwestern, Columbia, Yale
Berkeley, Michigan, Wisconsin-Madison—are nearly all the usual suspects for non-profit management MBAs. 

For the record, the U.S. News’ list of top non-profit MBA programs is: Yale, HBS, Stanford, Haas, Kellogg, Fuqua, Columbia, Ross, Fordham (Gabelli), Anderson and Notre Dame (Mendoza).

Yale was once the place everyone knew about for non-profit MBAs, and it is still ranked #1 by U.S. News in that sub-category, but Yale, ahem,  “pivoted” a few years ago into general management, high GMAT scores, and full U.S. News whoredom (in tight and elbow-jabbing company with many, many other schools). My guess is they still have a soft spot for non-profit management types but a strong GMAT/GRE there is really a super plus. Get a higher score, execute perfectly on the app, and you could get lucky.  

You are not getting into Stanford. There’s just not enough blue-chip full-time gigs here (at say Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation or McKinsey non-profit division, if they have one, but you get the idea) and your current GRE score is a stumbling block. That GRE would only get winked at if you were an exotic international or the offspring of plutocrats. 

Kellogg is your best bet among the M-7. They genuinely would be open to your basic story and goals. Berkeley, with a higher GRE score, could be a near reach, especially since you seem employable and not doing this as a charade with a secret plan to go Wall Street. 

Wisconsin-Madison is a solid regional school, and it appears to be your region. 
I think you could get in. I would do some diligence about how their placement office works and who hires, or how hard it is to hustle a job in Chicago.

NYU is a good call on your part since New York City is the hive of thousands of places you could get an internship, make contacts and network. I think you got a near reach chance of getting in, and yes, chances would be dramatically better with a higher GRE. 

Columbia is NYU, only harder to get into, and in your case, possibly not as central to NYC cultural life. 

Your goals, as stated below, are what they should be but this statement needs to be thinned out and humanized. Also try to give local examples of places you could work when applying to regional schools, and that includes those in New York and California. 

“I want an MBA to build my analytical, leadership and business skills to better understand our UHNW and corporate clients and how to innovate the use of philanthropic and corporate resources to make the most social impact. Immediately post MBA I would like to return to philanthropic consulting, or possibly a program/strategy job within a large private or corporate foundation if I could swing it. Long-term goals of running a large private or corporate foundation or a philanthropic consulting firm.”

Phew: UHNW means “Ultra High Net Worth.” I try to learn something new every day, and it looks like today I learned that in the nick of time (things were getting dicey, it’s now 6 p.m. and often learning slows down as I keep re-reading the fancy label on the bottle in front of me). All that said, never use that term in a business school app. Even if working for UHNW’s is what you want to do. 

Handicapping Your MBA Odds–The Entire Series
Part I: Handicapping Your Shot At a Top Business School Part II: Your Chances of Getting In Part III: Your Chances of Getting In Part IV: Handicapping Your Odds of Getting In Part V: Can You Get Into HBS, Stanford or Wharton? Part VI: Handicapping Your Dream School Odds Part VII: Handicapping Your MBA Odds Part VIII: Getting Through The Elite B-School Screen Part IX: Handicapping Your B-School Chances Part X: What Are Your Odds of Getting In? Part XI: Breaking Through the Elite B-School Screen Part XII: Handicapping Your B-School Odds Part XIII: Predicting Your Odds of Getting In Part XIV: Handicapping Your MBA Odds Part XV: Assessing Your Odds of Getting In Part XVI: Handicapping Your Odds of Getting In Part XVII: What Are Your Odds of Getting In Part XVIII: Assessing Your Odds of Getting In Part XIX: Handicapping Your MBA Odds Part XX: What Are Your Odds Of Getting In Part XXI: Handicapping Your Odds of Acceptance Part XXII: Handicapping Your Shot At A Top MBA Part XXIII: Predicting Your Odds of Getting In Part XXIV: Do You Have The Right Stuff To Get In Part XXV: Your Odds of Getting Into A Top MBA Program Part XXVI: Calculating Your Odds of Getting In Part XXVII: Breaking Through The Elite MBA Screen Part XXVIII: Handicapping Your Shot At A Top School Part XXIX: Can You Get Into A Great B-School Part XXX: Handicapping Your Odds of Getting In Part XXXI: Calculating Your Odds of Admission Part XXXII: Handicapping Your Elite MBA Chances Part XXXIII: Getting Into Your Dream School Part XXXIV: Handicapping Your Shot At A Top School Part XXXV: Calculating Your Odds of Getting In Part XXXVI: What Are Your Chances Of Getting In Part XXXVII: Handicapping Your Business School Odds Part XXXVIII: Assessing Your B-School Odds Of Making It Part XXXIX: Handicapping MBA Applicant Odds Part XL: What Are Your Odds of Getting In Part XLI: Handicapping Your Odds of MBA Success Part XLII: What Are Your Chances Of Getting In Part XLIII: Handicapping Your MBA Odds Part XLIV: Can You Get Into A Top MBA Program Part XLV: Assessing Your Odds of Getting In Part XLVI: Handicapping Your Dream School Odds Part XLVII: Handicapping Your MBA Odds Part XLVIII: Assessing Your Odds of B-School Success Part XLIV: Handicapping Your B-School Odds Part XLV: Your Odds of Getting Into A Great School Part XLVI: Handicapping Your Shot At A Top MBA Part XLVII: Your Chances Of Getting Into An Elite School Part XLVIII: Handicapping Your Personal MBA Odds Part XLIV: Handicapping Your Elite School Chances Part XLV: Handicapping Those Tough MBA Odds Part XLVI: Your Chances Of Getting In PartXVII: Handicapping Your Elite MBA Odds PartXVIII: Handicapping Your Shot At An Elite School Part LXIX: What Are Your Odds Of Getting In? Part L: Handicapping Your Odds Of Getting In Part LI: Assessing Your Odds Of Getting In Part LII: Handicapping Your Business School Chances Part LIII: Your Chances Of Getting A Top MBA Part LIV: Handicapping Your Shot At A Top MBA Part LV: Calculating Your Odds of MBA Admission Part LVI: Handicapping Your Shot At A Top School Part LVII: Can You Get Into An Elite MBA Program? Part LVIII: Handicapping Your Elite B-School Odds Part LIX: Predicting Your Chances Of Admission Part LX: Handicapping Your Elite MBA Odds Part LXI: What Are Your Chances Of Getting In  Part LXII: Calculating Your Odds Of Getting A Top MBA  Part LXIII: Handicapping Your MBA Odds Part LXIV: Handicapping Your Shot At An Elite MBA Part LXV: Handicapping Your Elite MBA Odds Part LXVI: Handicapping Your Odds of Getting Into A Top MBA Program Part LXVII: Assessing Your Odds of Getting In Part LXVIII: Handicapping Your Odds Of Getting Into A Great Business School Part LXIX: Handicapping Your Shot At An Elite MBA Part LXX: Handicapping Your MBA Odds Part LXXI: Handicapping Your Elite MBA Odds Part LXXII: Handicapping Your Elite MBA Odds Part LXXIII: Handicapping Your Elite MBA Odds Part LXXIV: Handicapping Your Elite MBA Odds Part LXXV: Handicapping Your Elite MBA Odds Part LXXVI: Handicapping Your Elite MBA Odds Part LXXVII: Handicapping Your Elite MBA Odds Part LXXIII: Handicapping Your Elite MBA Odds Part LXXIIII: Handicapping Your Elite MBA Odds

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