u/Duvidoski

Hello! I’m just ended my first year as a bachelor’s in italy, coming from a non-target university unfortunately. I’m about to start my second year, and I’m planning ahead for the next two years. My goal is to apply for the MBF (or MACFin as a fallback) which I’ve been told it’s much harder to apply for than it seems for international students. I’ve also read repeated times in this subreddit that the only things that truly matter for admission are a high GPA and a high GMAT score, and that some people have been admitted with close to no work experience or internships. I was thinking of taking a gap year to get some work experience in to boost my resume.

I’d like to know how hard it is to be admitted as an international student are, what would be considered an actually competitive GPA (swiss GPA is fine I’ll do the conversion to Italian myself) and what would be a competitive GMAT score.

I’ve been reading all sorts of stuff and I’d like to have an idea of how far I will have to go to be admitted. Thanks in advance!

Hi! I’m about to start my second year of my bachelors degree in Italy, and I’m planning to take the GMAT next year (probably in May or August counting as 1st and 2nd tries) to build a competitive CV for my application to HSG in Switzerland. I’m aiming for a score ranging from 655 to 755, which unfortunately is a non negotiable to be competitive. I’m going to be starting self-study in September along with my university courses. Unfortunately where I live there are barely any, if none at all, GMAT prep courses, so I was thinking to go for something like TTP should I not make any progress. Any advice is good really, I’ve made a studying plan for my self but feedback from other people who have tried or have achieved this score is always appreciated. Thank you in advance!