Thank you for your message.
To answer a few of your questions:
- graduated with a major in Economics from a University in Western Europe (more than a Bachelor, almost comparable to a Master's degree)
- top 5% of my class although such classification is not "official"
- GPA is not comparable but would be assimilated to around a 3.5 with very strong individual results in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Organizations theory,...
- clear idea of my research subjects and discussed these already with some faculty at universities I am applying to as I already on some of the subject in my consulting position
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letter of reference will be 2 professionals who know me very well and 1 academic who knows me very well also ! I believe it is ridiculous to ask a
letter of reference to a professor whose class I have been to only for a semester and who does barely know me.
- I have also applied to other universities outside the top 50 to have some cushions as I have decided to go for a Ph.D. in OB starting next Fall
- Negative point is my GMAT score although universities have been responsively not negative (not all positive either) regarding my score... have communicated it to all professors I am in contact with...
This summarises better my profile !
Thanks again for your advice