Planning ahead - maybe too far ahead

Catria
Wed, 19 Feb 2014 04:23:43 +0000

I know that I do not have the work experience to be competitive yet, but I do not expect admissions standards to change that much by the time I will actually get that experience. Here is my file as it stands today:

Undergraduate GPA: 3.67 (physics-mathematics dual major)
Graduate GPA: 3.85 (physics MSc)
GRE general: V162, Q167, AW4.0
ECs: Student newspaper (3 years, head editor for 1)
Departmental assembly membership (2 years)
Research assistantship (1 year; will hold until I earn my MSc)
Tutoring (1 year, planning on continuing)

The only thing I’m really confident about is my academics. At this point I am not asking for chances, but what else to put on my roadmap to business school other than getting full-time work experience (and, when closer to actual B-school attendance, essays and recs)?

On the longer run I’d look at Cornell, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge (and, WE permitting, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard or Wharton) so I may as well be asking about business strengths of each, because I might cut some schools off my list if they don’t fit at that time. And, of course, McGill Desautels or HEC Montreal at home, the latter being my financial safety.