MIT LGO MBA Program Add Your Name to the List Chicago Booth Applicant Summary (Real Time) Quick Glance: GMAT Club vs. Latest Intake (Class of 2013) Detailed Applicant List: Add Yourself to This List (add MIT LGO to your profile) GMAT Club's Real-time Admissions Statistics Add Your Profile to This List Questions about this Roll Call ? My name is Bob and I'm a first year student in the MIT Leaders for Global Operations program. If you're new to the program, LGO is a two-year, dual-degree MBA/MS Engineering program founded at MIT between the Sloan School of Management and the School of Engineering. LGO is focused on educating technically-polished future business leaders to solve tomorrow's operations challenges. I am starting this thread with a few classmates to help answer some questions, to familiarize you with the program, and to let you know what being a student at MIT/Sloan is really like. A little bit of my background: Graduated in 2006 from Carnegie Mellon University with a dual-degree BS Mechanical Engineering & Biomedical Engineering Entered into General Electric's OMLP rotational development program after college and worked for 2 more years in supply chain positions at GE Worked for 1.5 years in Nuclear Power Plants engineering at Westinghouse Electric Company And now for some good resources on LGO... The best initial sources for information are the program website: https://lgo.mit.edu https://lgo.mit.edu/docs/lgo_brochure_2010.pdf Additionally, I would check out the main program blog, student blogs and alumni blogs: https://lgo-blog.mit.edu/ To formally introduce yourself to LGO and receive event invites and other information: https://inq.applyyourself.com/?id=mit-lgo&pid=1397 Follow us on Twitter and facebook: https://twitter.com/#!/MITlgo https://www.facebook.com/pages/MIT-Lead ... 9001770621 Let us know what questions you have or just use this as a no-stress place to chat with other applicants!

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Hey rnin,
Though, I am not from the adcom, but I don't think you need to worry about it. The application center clearly states that 'Engineering Systems' doesn't require a specific engineering degree. Your application should be considered.
However, a word of caution, since ESD has the highest intake, and EECS one of the lowest; you need to frame your story pretty solid. I can see, you've more experience in supply-chain than CS, you need to communicate the same firmly and it would make a lot of good if one of your managers can vouch about your supply-chain knowledge

Program Details-> Engg Programs->ESD-> 'The Leaders for Global Operations Connection: Engineering systems is an appropriate field for LGO students who already have a master's degree in an engineering field or an undergraduate degree in a field such as industrial engineering.' (Since I'm a new member to this forum, I can't post the link.)

I know this statement doesn't really exclude students who've done their undergrad in other fields, but I thought I could use some clarification about this before I decide to invest time in preparing a LGO app with a ESD focus.

Hi, I would suggest to visit the MIT Sloan online application center. Under the section LGO Appliants only, you can find a note about the Engineering Tracks. I think that should be able to clear your doubts. Else, you may want to check with Adcom
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08 Dec 2011, 13:23

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Whos ready to hit submit!!!!????

Not me... still gotta chase down my references.

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09 Dec 2011, 15:21

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First post. This message board looks to be pretty valuable, the posts from this and previous years are pretty informative, thanks for setting this up. Look forward to messaging with you guys over the next few months. I am applying to LGO for June 2012.

-Jose

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13 Dec 2011, 07:54

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I'm in for applying. Getting my finishing touches put on and prompting my recommenders.

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14 Dec 2011, 21:06

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Submitted today. When are we expecting them to send out invitations for interviewfest? Jan 7th? First Friday of the year like last year?

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14 Dec 2011, 21:27

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Submitted today. When are we expecting them to send out invitations for interviewfest? Jan 7th? First Friday of the year like last year?

I will submit my application by tomorrow morning. Have a question regarding the cover letter. My word limit has gone up to 560 because of the addresses that I put in for cover letter format. Any thoughts if thats ok?

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14 Dec 2011, 22:21

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Submitted today. When are we expecting them to send out invitations for interviewfest? Jan 7th? First Friday of the year like last year?

I applied through the school of engineering, so I dont have any thoughts regarding the cover letter.

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15 Dec 2011, 06:16

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Submitted today. When are we expecting them to send out invitations for interviewfest? Jan 7th? First Friday of the year like last year?

I was told that the address did not count toward the word total. I submitted last night, now the waiting game.

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15 Dec 2011, 08:54

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I submitted last night, good luck to those who already did and those who are doing it today.
At 2500 words, is LGO application the longest?

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15 Dec 2011, 12:32

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It was my only app, so would say yes it is the longest. Are you not counting the optional essay in that total? Did anyone not complete the optional essay?

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15 Dec 2011, 12:34

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Submitted today. When are we expecting them to send out invitations for interviewfest? Jan 7th? First Friday of the year like last year?

I was told that the address did not count toward the word total. I submitted last night, now the waiting game.

Thanks

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It was my only app, so would say yes it is the longest. Are you not counting the optional essay in that total? Did anyone not complete the optional essay?

I did write the optional essay!! any ideas on when the interview invites go out?

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15 Dec 2011, 18:25

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I am in!
again... wont give up on applying until I am called by Don Rosenfield on a sunny day of march of any given year...

Expected timeline is:
Jan 04 - Jan 07 - First and largest wave of invites to interviewfest will occur on any of these days
Jan 08 - Jan 24 - Random invites to interviewfest occur.
Last weekend of January (Friday through Monday) - Interviewfest and events for invites
Last week of February - International applicants will get calls. (very few internationals invited to Interviewfest, as in 1 or 2)
March 9 - Don Rosenfield gives a call to some lucky SOBs.
March 10 - Suicide-fest with coolaid for those who do not get a call.
April 10 - Those who did not suicide are invited to join Occupy LGO/ESD movement.

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15 Dec 2011, 20:25

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Thanks fsaq for such detailed info... am an international applicant and know its going to be a tough ride for me, submitted my app yesterday

Hope I satisfy them with the app. LGO is a long app but its worth every penny of it

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Hey all, if you guys have the time, can you update your profile, schools >applicattion submmited to LGO and dates to get a more accurate headcount on the sample size of the gmatclub thread? The bigger our group the better to keep in touch during this process and not miss a detail or a spec of news from the LGO office.

Thanks!

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16 Dec 2011, 06:31

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Do the interview fest Iinvites go out in a big batch or do they trickle through over a few days?

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Did you apply through engineering again or through Sloan?

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This time I applied through Sloan. The application is far more self explanatory and streamlined than the engineering one and although it hurt to pay 250 USD rather than the 75 USD you pay through engineering, I think the ease of use overall was worth it. Also, I did not have to mail in official sealed transcripts as Sloan lets you self-report them with the condition that should you get an interview, you will have to provide the original sealed ones. But for the purpose of getting the application ready on the last minute (ahem ahem procrastinators like myself also deserve a chance to get in), Sloan is the way to go.

Also the engineering application cuts off your words to the maximum allowed on each essay (at least this was last year). Sloan is a simple PDF conversion that cuts you some slack if you go over 5 or 10 words.

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16 Dec 2011, 09:41

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Hello,
I just submitted my application yesterday for LGO!
I'm looking forward to hear how the interview process goes for everybody.
This is my first post on this site, and I've never actually taken the GMAT (just the new GRE) but I like the community here and the information everyone contributes.

That was quite the application, but I felt pretty proud of it by the time I clicked submit last night.

Good luck everyone!

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It's great that you have joined us here. I didn't take the GMAT either but this is the only place I found that everyone is in the same boat, waiting to hear from the program. It is nice to have that small bit of support.

I did notice that you are quite young for a B-School applicant. I have an outlying stat myself, my UG GPA was 2.9, and wonder how you addressed this in your application. Did you acknowledge you age (job experience) or did you just leave it alone? For my GPA I did not try to justify it, but instead acknowledged it and discussed how I have shown my ability for an academically rigorous program with other accomplishments (such as my high graduate school GPA).

I’d say the ability to give a more holistic view of myself was the reason I applied through the MBA program. The Engineering school would have taken a look at that GPA and pushed me into the trash can. That could still happen with the MBA school, but I figured I had a better shot this way.