Hi,
Great to see that you are planning ahead. Since you don't have many years of work experience, make sure you seek out opportunities at work to take on more responsibilities and manage or lead projects.
For the extracurricular activities, I would try to focus on one area you're passionate about, and also seek out ways to demonstrate leadership potential.
Excellent GPAs & GRE scores. You must have great analytical skills. You're experience and focus within a specific industry sector should be an advantage when it comes time to transition to strategy consulting. Consulting clients don't want generalists, they prefer consultants with deep indutry sector knowledge.
In terms of school selection, you may want to consider and research Columbia and Cornell as well. For us to help you properly select schools to apply to, we would need to have in-depth discussion with you to better understand your experience and strengths.
We enjoy providing career coaching to people who are planning to apply to a top business school in the future. If you like to discuss specifics of how you can position yourself for leadership opportunities at work and within volunteer organization, please feel free to email me.
Good luck!
Christine Lin
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towski wrote:
Hello!
I'd appreciate any advice that you might have for me based on my profile. I should mention that I'm not applying in 2012-2013, but waiting until next year (2013-2014), so I will have 3 years of work experience at matriculation.
Full-time work experience: United Airlines, Revenue Management Analyst (July 2011-present), Senior Analyst (July 2012-present)
GMAT: 690 (88%) - Q:44 (66%), V:40 (89%), AWA:5 (67%), IR: 8 (92%)
*Plan to retake the GMAT. ~720 is expected
GRE: Q:168 (97%), V:161 (86%), AW:4.5 (73%)
Undergraduate school: DePaul, B.A. Marketing & Industrial/Organizational Psychology, 2009, GPA: 3.87 w/ Honors
Grad school #1: Illinois, M.S. Recreation Sport & Tourism, 2011, GPA: 3.92
Grad school #2: Northwestern, M.S. Predictive Analytics (part-time), 2014 (expected), GPA: 4.0 thus far
Extra-curriculars: Triathlon team member in grad school (2 yrs), Teaching assistant in grad school (1 yr), Research assistant (psych) in undergrad (8 months), math tutor at Children's Memorial Hospital (1 yr), club volleyball player (3 years), charity marathon runner (6 months), youth program leader for Chicago Cares (3 months now), running coach for Chicago Runner's Association (2 months now), week-long volunteer trip to teach English in Peru in December, professional video game player (4 yrs), retail sales associate (5 years)
Target programs: Harvard and Stanford; after that, Wharton, MIT, Berkeley, and Dartmouth; any other suggestions?
Post-MBA goal: Strategy consulting in the service sector (short-term); CEO of service provider - retailer preferred (long-term)
Age: 25 (will be 26 when I apply, 27 at matriculation)
Gender: Male
Race: White
If there's anything that I can do to improve my candidacy, please let me know.
Thank you!
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Christine Lin | Marvel Admissions
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