Ccs127 wrote:
Hi Jon,
I'm getting ready to apply R2 to a few schools. I'd greatly appreciate feedback on my profile:
Background:
- 26-year-old white male
Academic:
- 750 GMAT (Q50/V41/AWA6.0/IR8)
- BS in mechanical engineering from top non-Ivy (Duke/Johns Hopkins/Northwestern), 3.6 GPA
- MS in mechanical engineering from same school, 3.7 GPA
Work:
- 4 years working as a mechanical engineer at a midsize ($50-75M revenue, 50-75 employees) electronics company
- My role has exposed me to all aspects of the company: I've worked within the R&D group and production engineering (manufacturing), and hand-in-hand with business development & software teams for demos, marketing, procurement...there are very few areas of the company that I have not worked closely with
- Received promotion after 1.5 years and began heading up mechanical design for the R&D team, working primarily with 3-4 CS people to develop product demos and prototypes
- One of only two or three mechanical engineers in the company, so I'm directly responsible for much of what we produce
Extracurricular:
- Leadership role within engineering honor society during undergrad
- Volunteer at children's hospital (starting shortly...been on waiting list since January)
- Leadership role for city-wide fundraising effort connected to children's hospital (recruiting team for 500+ person event, largest event of its kind in the country)
- Other interests: guitarist in a band, playing local shows a few times a month; weightlift in the gym 5+ hours a week consistently for ~6 years; active Dance Marathon participant
Short-term goal:
- Transition to strategy consulting at MBB to get more experience in the business realm
Long-term goal:
- Transition from strategy consulting to product management at a tech company (Google, Apple, Facebook, etc.)
Why MBA:
- Love working in product development, but want to have ability to lead a product from start to finish...have some experience, but no educational foundation for it
- Want to transition from small-picture (actual engineering of products) to big-picture (product management, logistics, operations, etc.)
Target schools:
- HBS
- Kellogg MMM
- Booth
- Sloan
- Wharton
- Stanford
Thanks for any input you can offer!
Hello there,
Allright good sir!
Looking very good so far. What a fantastic GMAT! And then great GPAs in both your degree. Not an ivy league, yeah, but pretty close from what you have written. You also have solid volunteer work and even some leadership.
With all that you should be set to go. I don't see any major weaknesses, except maybe that I would look for something surprising, unique, odd, in your profile. A little bit of flash-bang if you get what I mean. Especially since you are aiming at H/W/S. I mean, you have great everything, but so does everyone else who applies to H/S/W (But then they might also have the Ivy league in their background, or some crazy good volunteer work, or their own firms), so see what else you can dig up in addition to making the best of what you have in your career.
Good luck to ya!
Best,
Jon