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bauble · 02-20-2007, 05:00 PM

I'm not in finance, so I'm making an educated guess here.

I don't think your stats would exclude you from the top places. Not sure what they are in finance, but I would guess Stanford and Wharton, and of course Chicago, which you did not list. At those places, I think that you'd need a differentiator to make your case strong -- strong recs, which you have, and perhaps more importantly, a distinguished statement of purpose.

The one just below the top (Duke, Kellogg?) are probably safeties for you if you have the recs and SOP in great shape.

This may be a little outside what you want to know, but I got traction in top 10 programs by having a strong SOP. I laid out some interests that the school knew were genuine since they were interests that various profs had that were too new to be reflected on their web pages.

02-20-2007, 05:00 PM	#8 (permalink)
bauble Within my grasp! Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 106	I'm not in finance, so I'm making an educated guess here. I don't think your stats would exclude you from the top places. Not sure what they are in finance, but I would guess Stanford and Wharton, and of course Chicago, which you did not list. At those places, I think that you'd need a differentiator to make your case strong -- strong recs, which you have, and perhaps more importantly, a distinguished statement of purpose. The one just below the top (Duke, Kellogg?) are probably safeties for you if you have the recs and SOP in great shape. This may be a little outside what you want to know, but I got traction in top 10 programs by having a strong SOP. I laid out some interests that the school knew were genuine since they were interests that various profs had that were too new to be reflected on their web pages.