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בתגובה ל: שאל את ארינגו: תהליך הקבלה #12075

To: yairk100

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Hi

First of all I would like to thank everyone who participates in this forum for making it such an informative source.

Now for the essential stats. I recent got 730 on my GMAT with Q49 but I have a lousy GPA (71.6 – more on that later) from the field of accounting from TAU. I have several professional certifications: CPA (Israeli), CFE (certified Fraud examiner), CIA (certified internal auditor), CISA (certified information systems auditor) and I am in the process of getting a CEH (certified ethical hacker) and CISSP (certified information security professional).

Currently I have a 4-year experience working for an international consulting firm where I am now in the status of senior consultant. My specialty field is fraud prevention and detection in the field of accounting information systems, ERP and E-banking. I am currently leading small projects and engagements and my job is requires frequent business trips to clients mostly in north America but I also had work experience working with clients and their subsidiaries in south America and south-east Asia.
I am sure that I could get highly enthusiastic recommendation letters from my manager, associates and managing partner.

My military service was as team leader in a highly acclaimed Special Forces unit. I was directly in charge of about 8-10 men.

The reason for the dreadful GPA is my ADD (attention deficit disorder) and Dyslexia. During my bachelor degree I refused to be tested under different conditions and refrained from taking Ritalin. I wanted to prove to myself and to everybody around me that I can get the degree without being “special”. Today I understand that I will have an enormous task of persuading admission offices that I am not some kind of dork. All the certification tests I did later were done under special conditions (extra time => 50% to 100% more time).

My target schools are those who have a strong analytic and IT related curriculum and those who focus on “test case” teaching methodology – so it would be easier for me to study there.
I am mostly interested in these B-schools: Darden, Chicago, CMU – Tepper, MIT – Sloan, HBS and Berkeley – Haas.

I hope I am not “jumping over my head” with hope even though I think that my GPA shortcoming could be mitigated through other strengths that I could display in my work experience, professional certifications, GMAT and through the assays.

How do you consider my chances?
Are there “learning disability friendly” B-schools?
Are there other MBA programs I should look into?
Is my only feasible option is to apply to second tier schools (BusinessWeek rating) like Babson, Carlson (Minnesota) and Madison (Wisconsin), which I hear from US colleagues that they are very good?

Thanks in advance.

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