Hello !

So..I have kind of an atypical path.
I'm 21, I'm french and I studied in the US for three years thanks to a scholarship I got in track and field. I graduated in december, with a major in broadcast journalism and a minor in general business. GPA: 3.59. Graduation with honors (cum laude) : I mention it because I guess it's an important information for the question I'm asking.

I came back to France in January, and, as of now, I'm actively preparing for some big journalism schools in France. However, I've always liked business, management, etc... I learned about the SAI opportunity only three weeks ago. I figured it could be very interesting for me, as I'm not sure how I will do for the journalism exams (I only started to prepare them in January, but it is very tedious and hard...).

Anyways, as I said, I learned about those exams three weeks ago... I decided to take the TAGE MAGE with only a 5 days preparation. I did a TAGE MAGE simulation and got 410, so I went in pretty confident. However, it went terribly... I knew when I finished that I did bad (I was right, got the results today : 340.)

So I knew I would have to pass the GMAT and /or GRE. So I registered for both. Once again, I looked into some stuff on internet to know what I should be expecting... I didn't have enough time to study AT ALL, but somehow I pulled a 650 on the GMAT, don't know yet for the GRE, but I'm not confident at all.

I'm not happy with this score, especially with the quantitative part, because I've always been really good at mathematics... But I guess the formulation in English may have thrown me off a little bit.

Anyways, So : 650 GMAT. IR Score is 6, 67th percentile, so not really good.
Quantitative, as I said, is pretty bad: 43, 56th percentile.
Verbal, 36, 80th percentile. Ok about that since English is not my first language.
Oh, and Writing : 4. I don't think that's good, but I really didn't like the suject of the agumentation.

I'm not fooling myself, I know it is not a very good score for the school I was aiming at ! I think it's a shame I didn't get to prepare those because I could have done better (I think!).

I applied for the 5 schools of the SAI: HEC, AUDENCIA, ESCP, EMLYON, SKEMA. But I was originaly only interested in HEC... I guess I'm gonna have to lower my standards though. Could you tell me what are my chances for those schools? I'm principaly interested for HEC, then AUDENCIA (because I live in Nantes), and ESCP...

Let me know If I did not give enough information. Thanks a lot ! Have a good day :).

Solenn.