How to Evaluate Your MBA Profile and Your Admit Chances : The B-School Application

How to Evaluate Your MBA Profile


Option 1: Get a Fast Automated Answer - Use WAMC Tool

GMAT Club built a tool called What Are My Chances? to provide a fast evaluation based on a number of applicant parameters. You can also change some of them that you can control and see how that impacts your chances of admission. For example, you can't control your GPA or your Undergrad history, but you can potentially control your GMAT score, work experience, accomplishments, and recommenders. There is a short and a long version of the tool. You could technically fill out just the GMAT/Background information. In that case, the tool assumes AVERAGE values for all other answers. To get the most precise answers/estimates, please answer every question.

Option 2: Ask the Admissions Experts

GMAT Club has a large number of active Admissions Consultants who will usually be happy to provide a free evaluation (even over the phone) and give you an idea about your strengths and weaknesses. However, their engagement will depend on how much work you you put in. If you post 10 profile evaluation requests, they will likely NOT respond. My suggestion is that you post your request only to a few consultants. If you ask 5 for an evaluation simultaneously, you will get overwhelmed and get out a lot less from it. You will also use your free chance for amazing expert help, so don't blow it all in one go. Imagine you had a magic genie who could give you 3 wishes, why blow it on 3 of the same things? Visit the Profile Evaluations by Experts Subforum

Option 3: Get a School-Specific Evaluation

GMAT Club has a dedicated sub-forum for every business school with a dedicated profile evaluation topic. In the previous link, click on the school forum you are interested in. Once you are in the school's forum, you will see a topic with the words "Profile Evaluation" in the topic name. You can browse through the topic and see how the existing profiles were evaluated to get an understanding. You can create a new post on that same topic and get a profile evaluation

Option 4: Dig Deeper using the Decision Tracker Filters

You can become an expert too.... GMAT Club's decision tracker contains all of the historic information about admissions, interviews, wait lists, dings, and all other stats over the past 10 years. You can easily aggregate that data across multiple years and drill down to the details by country and program. You can often learn about what are some of the lowest scores that were accepted or what kind of a profile it generally takes to get admitted. You can access our decision tracker here and if you need some help with how it works or you have a question, we have a topic dedicated to the decision tracker filters

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This is a great tool! It will be great if it can also have an option of whether the applicant has a Masters, and that the MBA will be a second Masters since that might eliminate quite a few schools from the US.

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