Hi
tennisdude927!
Thanks for sharing your profile with us. You're at a great point in your career to apply. Regarding the co-op, it doesn't typically officially count towards your work experience in terms of the number of months/years (since most schools calculate that by post-college, full-time work) but it definitely still matters in terms of early experience you gained, and thus I would still include it on your resume.
In terms of your stats, your GPA is right in range for those schools (a little below average for Darden, but above for Cornell/Tepper I believe) and your GRE is in range too. If you have more time / can give it another try, I could see a higher GRE score helping you. Those are high enough scores but higher scores could increase your chances.
Otherwise, if you don't have any community or leadership activities, then that could be an area to improve, but you may have just forgotten to list those
Overall seems like good target programs for you.
Hope that helps!
Kate
tennisdude927 wrote:Work experience:
Will have six years of W/E upon matriculation
6 years at S&P Ratings - lateral once, promoted once- worked on a ratings team covering financial institutions
1 year Co-Op at Johnson & Johnson during college (managed another intern as well), does it count as a year of work experience, it was full time.
-internship at Morgan Stanley (received full time offer)
Undergrad school/major: BS in Finance from big state School (think Penn state/Rutgers/UMass)
Race/nationality/sex: Asian/Male/26, born in the US
GRE Score (include breakdown!): 318 GRE (159Q, 159V)
Undergrad GPA: 3.42/4.00
Goal of MBA: break into investment banking
Target schools: Cornell Johnson/Darden/Tepper
Please rate my chances at these schools and anything you think I can do to improve my chances.
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