haas_mba07 wrote:
Great discussion guys... one more to the applicant pool for Haas.
Just decided to look at the app today and have exactly 49 days to get it done... hopefully will.
Couple of questions:
a. Not a managerial role? Does that necessarily go against you? By the tone of my question, you might note that I am not in a management role?
Now, dont mistake managerial role for leadership. Thats a common misconception. Leadership is not about being a manager. Think about that for a while and you'll see im right. If you dont get it, feel free to PM me.
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b. Multi-dimensional app: What about other activities? What can you highlight and what should you avoid highlighting?
Anything really. Something that makes you different. Idealyl, some kind of activity in which you take a leadership role. These should be things in which you DO something, not just "a member", ideally. For example, you might be a member of the ACLU, but unelss you do something for them, you are just one of hundreds of thousands of supporters. Another perfect example of poor activities: donating money to charity. IT's not an activity but people list stuff like this anyway.
Don't highlight (but feel free to list):
Areas in which you are not a leader
Areas in which you are not an active member
Areas in which your participation is tactical not strategic.
Highlight:
Any kind of activity outside of work in which you take a signficant responsibility.
Now, that can be ANYTHING. Baseball team. Music Club. A choir. In fact, in some ways, the further away it is from your day job, the more interesting itll be.
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c. Where should I start my app process? Just start grinding at one aspect? Or start with the essays & recos.[/quote]
That depends.
What have you done already? Anything?
I'd suggest the following:
1. Redo your resume. This will force you to think about your leadership experiences.
2. Write up some points for yoru recommenders to help remind them of things you did so they can be as specific as possible. Give them to them ASAP.
3. Look at the application and find out what, besides, the essays, they ask for. You'd be surprised how much stuff you sometimes have to go find out - i.e. contact numbers for X or Y, exact dates of employment, your parent's graduate institutions, fax numbers for previous employers, etc etc... Its all this other work that takes much much longer than you think.
4. The essays.