Good Evening everyone.

I am a 31 years old black guy born and raised in Guadeloupe FWI.

So far, I have taken the GMAT twice and my best score was 650 (70% quantitative, 86% verbal, 80% overall). I scored 109 over 120 for the TOEFL.
I have 2 great letters of recommendation from my former and current bosses. I also have 6 years of professionnal experience in Telecom industry and, particularly, 2 years of experience as a manager.
I ranked 98 over 262 when I was student in Euromed Management School (top 15 business schools in France). I guess my GPA is not that good so.
Unfortunately, I was not really involved in many extracurricular activities apart from representing my university for the recruitment of prospective students, training of the basketball team during 1 year, teaching maths to primary schools students and learning Chinese and Spanish.
I'm a good writer, so I can write good essays. For example, I can explain why my GPA was low since I was fully employed when I was a student in order to pay for my studies. I can explain how I sttrugled to achieve my carreer so far.

Do you think I can be competitive for schools like these one?
- Berkeley (YES/NO)
- Columbia (YES/NO)
- Yale (YES/NO)
- Stern (YES/NO)
- UCLA (YES/NO)
- Emory (YES/NO)
- Marshall (YES/NO)
- HEC (YES/NO)
- INSEAD (YES/NO)

Graduation from a MBA in the US is like a dream for me. I would really appreciate your honest answers.

Best regards.

Just by way of a quick guide, here are the average GMAT scores for successful applicants to the schools you mention. Of course, GMAT's are important, but they aren't everything, so this is just intended to help you narrow the field a little.

Berkeley, from their website: "the average for the fall 2008 entering class was 714, and 80% of the class scored between 670 and 760. We are especially interested in your performance on the quantitative section as an indication of your mathematics proficiency. Please note that the Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA) is required."

The following information is taken from the Economist's latest rankings:

Columbia: Average GMAT sore, 709.

Yale: Ave. GMAT score, 700.

Stern: Ave. GMAT score, 700.

UCLA: Ave. GMAT score, 704.

Emory: Ave. GMAT score, 685.

Marshall: Ave. GMAT score, 689.

HEC: Ave. GMAT score, 664.

INSEAD: Ave. GMAT score, 700.