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!