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30 Jul 2011, 17:02
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Age - 31 at the time of application and at the time of registration/matriculation
I will be 32 around 2 months after I join the full-time program. I plan on graduating in 1.5 years vs 2 years.
GMAT - 740
GPA - Low. A 2.8 downward trend from a top 15 engineering program.
Exp - 8 years in engineering
Post MBA-plans - Management consulting
Target schools - Kelley, Emory, Kenan-Flager, Oxford, INSEAD
Do I come under the "older applicant" category. Are there other European schools that are good for management consulting at my age?
Thanks for the help.
I will be 32 around 2 months after I join the full-time program. I plan on graduating in 1.5 years vs 2 years.
GMAT - 740
GPA - Low. A 2.8 downward trend from a top 15 engineering program.
Exp - 8 years in engineering
Post MBA-plans - Management consulting
Target schools - Kelley, Emory, Kenan-Flager, Oxford, INSEAD
Do I come under the "older applicant" category. Are there other European schools that are good for management consulting at my age?
Thanks for the help.
30 Jul 2011, 18:40
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Why don't you check the Class-Profile of your target schools ?
Most of them have it listed in their website.
Try to see how does your experience and other factors fit into the class of your target school.
Your experience combined with the GMAT should more than compensate if you get this all this data.
Start attending some online webinars, classes,etc of your target schools to get an idea. You can also try to contact any alumni from these schools to get a better picture.
Most of them have it listed in their website.
Try to see how does your experience and other factors fit into the class of your target school.
Your experience combined with the GMAT should more than compensate if you get this all this data.
Start attending some online webinars, classes,etc of your target schools to get an idea. You can also try to contact any alumni from these schools to get a better picture.
03 Aug 2011, 13:01
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While I know that this is an admission consultant forum(Paul Lazillotti), since I feel I went through a similar situation(applicant on the wrong side of 30, there's no right side of 30 in the MBA world
), I wanted to chime in and possibly encourage you.I think in short, from strictly numbers point of view(given that the level of your essays is around other admitted students), I want to say you have a reasonably good shot at all the schools, except INSEAD and maybe Kenan-Flager. European business schools are typically one year long so your age impact will be even less.
Broadly, I feel like schools look for four attributes in an MBA candidate. How employable after an MBA? How much academic muscle do you have? How successful would you be without an MBA degree from the school? How are you going to fit with the school culture?
I think older candidates tend to face an uphill battle because of the employability as well as the hypothetical success without an MBA degree.
MBA holders typically do not start with a senior management position. After the completion of your MBA, you may work for a person who might be younger but with more professional experience in the field that you would like to break(management consulting). A hiring manager is going to wonder whether you are going to be okay with working for somebody younger.
Furthermore, business schools want to admit individuals who will be successful in the future and hopefully donate a lot of money to the program. If you were going to be successful without an MBA, with an MBA, you may achieve the success at a similar level or a higher level and you will hopefully feel indebted enough to give money back to the business school. As people get older, while not always true, we tend to display more of our potential. You are 31 right now going on 32, the admissions committee will be somewhat aware of your professional potential from your professional progress. Given that your professional success is half-way known, admissions committee can be more strict with your professional progress whereas more lenient with younger applicants with less stellar professional success than you --- my guess is that even HBS won't be too much of a problem if you are a CEO of Zappos.
Demonstrating the culture fit with the program should be something that you control with your essays --- hopefully you apply to the programs that you are going to be happy to attend and the essays will reflect your affinity and plausibility of your career goal with the program.
The biggest strength your GMAT score(your professional experience may be quite stellar but you didn't mention any). Through your GMAT, you have demonstrated your academic prowess. Furthermore, GMAT score is a big component of US News ranking. What that means is that for a school like Indiana, it can afford to select an interesting candidate with 600 GMAT yet not hurt the overall GMAT average score with your GMAT score. Whether schools like to admit it or not, I think they all play the rankings game. Perhaps schools near the top won't have to play the GMAT game as much, I would guess that lower ranked schools tend to put more emphasis to climb up in rankings.
It ended up being quite a bit longer than I anticipated but I went through a similar experience and wanted to chime in with what I learned from the experience. I'm 30 right now and will be 32 when I graduate from Anderson. Make sure to really ask yourself whether you really want to get an MBA or not. It will be a stressful journey that will teach a lot about yourself.
I wish you the best of luck in your endeavor.
