jmh530

Heard from two individuals it does. One went to Columbia and said having CFA can compensate for lower GMAT score (he only passed L1, and was speaking hypothetically). Another guy got into top international MBA in spain ESADE? I beilieve and he had 600 GMAT and had CFA, got in with no problems. My profs. at school also indicated that CFA would help to get into top school.
Will you get in just cuz you have CFA no. Will it help? certaintly. You just might need to present what you got out of it (I’m not talking SML or Pension Liability). However, this all can be biased as having CFA might have correlation with other traits that help to get into top B-School.
Lastly, if there are people from top MBA finding it useful to get CFA, it must be somewhat valuable if you have one going into school.