Can This Accountant Become An MBA Consultant When He Applies in 2020? [Fridays With Sandy]

John A. Byrne, Editor-In-Chief of Poets&Quants, here for another edition of Fridays With Sandy. HBS Guru Sandy Kreisberg provides mock MBA interviews and handicaps your odds of getting into Harvard Business School and other top b-schools.

Today's MBA candidate is Michael, a 26-year-old financial analyst with a 720 GMAT and a 3.65 GPA. Since his undergrad, he has worked at a public accounting firm, a small consulting firm in Singapore, and is currently at Thomson Reuters, a classic. Is Kellogg a reach for Matthew? How about Ross, Fuqua, and Cornell? Sandy tells it like it is, and defines the cream in this applicant's background. Can you apply a lot of things from this episode toward your MBA application?

Sandy the HBS Guru has got some great tips on getting your game-face on in your application. Listen to the end and comment below on how this information helped you prepare for your applications and interviews.

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Good luck with those MBA applications!!

Where do you see yourself in 5 years? Tell us in the comments what your favorite tip was.