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01 Jun 2010, 06:47
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Young accomplished female applicant with exemplary academic credentials assesses chances for MBA
Hi applebee,
Thanks for your message. As you probably know from our thread, we assess our applicants from a three-sided perspective of academic achievements, professional performance and personal profile.
From the academic perspective, your application is exemplary. Your GMAT score is way above average across all top schools, as is your GPA. The Ivy League school background is another feather in your cap. The academic section is the strongest part of your profile. Great job!
I would like to know more details about your professional experience to offer you more detailed insights and tailored feedback. For instance, what was the focus of your work in the securities firm? What kind of skills and attributes did you develop? As a result of your experience, do you have strong analytical and quantitative abilities, people and project leadership experience, multicultural team exposure, or broad and well-developed communication skills? What were your biggest projects and most significant achievements? As I always tell my clients, especially those who are applying for an MBA at a younger age, the quality of your experience matters more than the other benchmarks of length, company name, etc. As an MBA candidate, your competition will be peers who have worked for a longer time and have had greater professional exposure. To make up for the length, demonstrating the depth and quality of your shorter experience is important both from the initial admissions perspective and the later recruiting angle.
I do like the book experience and think it helps sets you apart. To make it even stronger, I would love to see a link between your past professional achievements at the securities firm and future career plans for the MBA summer internship and post-MBA. Your achievements are impressive by themselves, but to increase their impact, I would recommend putting them in context of how they apply to your MBA ambitions. Also, dwelling on the timing is important - for instance, why securities before, why book now, and how will these together contribute to MBA in the future?
From your email, I am aware that you plan to focus on consulting/entrepreneurship in the future. Business schools like candidates with well-structured career plans since a more prepared candidate is likely to be a more successful one, resulting in higher placement rates to help the school, and a more satisfied alum who promotes the program. In view of this, I would like to see more details around your career goals - what kind of consulting engagements or business ventures do you see yourself participating in, how do these apply in the long- or short-term and as above, how do these relate to your past achievements and present activities.
Working both in the US and Asia as well as fluency in 4 languages shows desirable international exposure, which will help boost your candidacy. As I mentioned above, it will strengthen your application if you can tie these to show how you intend to use them to achieve your MBA ambitions. Your extracurricular activities are good both to show leadership and community involvements, but any that are more recent, i.e. after graduation, would be even better. Recency and length of involvement are two of the most important criteria in judging the quality of your extracurricular activities, preceded by impact of your involvement. Extracurricular involvement is something that can be a concern for many candidates, and we have a proven track record of helping our clients identify appropriate activities and position them to their optimum strength in an application.
In summary, you have fantastic academic credentials, diversified professional experiences and potentially strong extracurricular activities. The challenge will be to tie all of these into a compelling application package that emphasizes your strengths, supplements your post-MBA career goals and mitigates any weaknesses such as fewer extracurricular activities.
As admissions consultants, communication is where we can help. We use our elite business school admissions experience, extensive client exposure, professional backgrounds in, among others, business, creative writing and engineering, to help you develop an application that communicates creative and interesting essays delivered in a logical fashion to best position your unique achievements against the competition.
Let us know if you would like to talk further in our Free Initial Consultation. We offer a number of admission consulting packages tailored to different budgets and application preparation levels and would be happy to help you understand our services. Our unique Candidate Profiling and School Selection report (currently offered at a discount for $75) simulates a mini-application process to develop a detailed profile and offers 100+ schools with your chances of being accepted at each of them.
Get in touch with us at [email protected] for our new prices! In the meantime, check us out at My MBA Admit.
applebee
Hi applebee,
Thanks for your message. As you probably know from our thread, we assess our applicants from a three-sided perspective of academic achievements, professional performance and personal profile.
From the academic perspective, your application is exemplary. Your GMAT score is way above average across all top schools, as is your GPA. The Ivy League school background is another feather in your cap. The academic section is the strongest part of your profile. Great job!
I would like to know more details about your professional experience to offer you more detailed insights and tailored feedback. For instance, what was the focus of your work in the securities firm? What kind of skills and attributes did you develop? As a result of your experience, do you have strong analytical and quantitative abilities, people and project leadership experience, multicultural team exposure, or broad and well-developed communication skills? What were your biggest projects and most significant achievements? As I always tell my clients, especially those who are applying for an MBA at a younger age, the quality of your experience matters more than the other benchmarks of length, company name, etc. As an MBA candidate, your competition will be peers who have worked for a longer time and have had greater professional exposure. To make up for the length, demonstrating the depth and quality of your shorter experience is important both from the initial admissions perspective and the later recruiting angle.
I do like the book experience and think it helps sets you apart. To make it even stronger, I would love to see a link between your past professional achievements at the securities firm and future career plans for the MBA summer internship and post-MBA. Your achievements are impressive by themselves, but to increase their impact, I would recommend putting them in context of how they apply to your MBA ambitions. Also, dwelling on the timing is important - for instance, why securities before, why book now, and how will these together contribute to MBA in the future?
From your email, I am aware that you plan to focus on consulting/entrepreneurship in the future. Business schools like candidates with well-structured career plans since a more prepared candidate is likely to be a more successful one, resulting in higher placement rates to help the school, and a more satisfied alum who promotes the program. In view of this, I would like to see more details around your career goals - what kind of consulting engagements or business ventures do you see yourself participating in, how do these apply in the long- or short-term and as above, how do these relate to your past achievements and present activities.
Working both in the US and Asia as well as fluency in 4 languages shows desirable international exposure, which will help boost your candidacy. As I mentioned above, it will strengthen your application if you can tie these to show how you intend to use them to achieve your MBA ambitions. Your extracurricular activities are good both to show leadership and community involvements, but any that are more recent, i.e. after graduation, would be even better. Recency and length of involvement are two of the most important criteria in judging the quality of your extracurricular activities, preceded by impact of your involvement. Extracurricular involvement is something that can be a concern for many candidates, and we have a proven track record of helping our clients identify appropriate activities and position them to their optimum strength in an application.
In summary, you have fantastic academic credentials, diversified professional experiences and potentially strong extracurricular activities. The challenge will be to tie all of these into a compelling application package that emphasizes your strengths, supplements your post-MBA career goals and mitigates any weaknesses such as fewer extracurricular activities.
As admissions consultants, communication is where we can help. We use our elite business school admissions experience, extensive client exposure, professional backgrounds in, among others, business, creative writing and engineering, to help you develop an application that communicates creative and interesting essays delivered in a logical fashion to best position your unique achievements against the competition.
Let us know if you would like to talk further in our Free Initial Consultation. We offer a number of admission consulting packages tailored to different budgets and application preparation levels and would be happy to help you understand our services. Our unique Candidate Profiling and School Selection report (currently offered at a discount for $75) simulates a mini-application process to develop a detailed profile and offers 100+ schools with your chances of being accepted at each of them.
Get in touch with us at [email protected] for our new prices! In the meantime, check us out at My MBA Admit.
01 Jun 2010, 19:02
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Good morning all, would you please take a look at my profile?
Background
Age: 25
Sex: Male
Nationality: Thai-Taiwanese
UG: Double Major in two engineering degrees from UC Berkeley (GPA 3.55)
GMAT: 690 (Q 48, V 37)
Work Experience
-3 Years, Process Integration Engineer at Top 10 semiconductor firm in Japan
-Support customers in process related issues during the development of computer chips
-Consult with fab (semiconductor factory) to decide on solutions/proposals and present them to customers
Extracurricular Activities/Leadership Experience
Undergrad
-Activities Officer for Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
-Plan and organize over 50 events for TBP, including fun events, social networking, and professional workshops.
Post Undergrad
- Officer for Habitat for Humanity Japan
- Have been involved with Habitat for a long time (Went to Philippines twice to build houses back in high school, was president of community service club back then.)
- Continue participating in Habitat after arriving in Japan. I am in charge of running and planning the monthly meeting where we try to get more people involved in Habitat. I am also the official translator for Habitat in Japan. After my participation, the retention rate and participation rate in builds increased significantly.
Some Other Facts
-Lived in 4 different countries throughout career (Taiwan 12 years, Thailand 6 years, US 4 years, Japan 3 years)
-Able to speak quite a few languages. Mandarin (Native), English (Fluent), Japanese (Fluent), Thai (Basic), Taiwanese (Basic)
Weakness in Application
- Do not have a direct leadership role in work experience. I can talk about holding meetings and being influential to co-workers but do not have someone directly reporting to me.
- A slightly below average GMAT score for top schools
Post MBA
-Management position in semiconductor/consumer electronics industry (more specifically strategy) or management consulting
-Have a strong interest in working in Greater China region due to family and my language ability.
Target Schools
Columbia (Reach) ED/R1
Tuck (Reach) EA/R1
Duke (Competitive) ED/R1
Ross (Competitive) R2
HKUST (Competitive) R2
CUHK/CEBIS (Safety) R2
Other Schools in consideration: UCLA, NYU, Cornell
Questions
1.Can you please comment on my school selections? I am thinking about ED for either Duke or Columbia depending on whether I have a strong enough shot at Columbia ED. Perhaps a few safety/competitive schools to look at as well.
2.Is there anything that stands out from my application that you would suggest me to focus on? If leadership experience question comes along, should I focus on my Habitat role (where I made much greater impact) than my current job role?
3.I just realized that I can still apply to INSEAD Jan 11 Round 3. Do you think I have a shot at it or is it better to wait until next year round 1?
4.Asian schools reputation/info is quite hard to find. So far it seems HKUST is widely recognized in the Greater China Region. Do you have any insights on CUHK or CEIBS?
Thank you so much for your time. I really appreciate any comments/insights.
Background
Age: 25
Sex: Male
Nationality: Thai-Taiwanese
UG: Double Major in two engineering degrees from UC Berkeley (GPA 3.55)
GMAT: 690 (Q 48, V 37)
Work Experience
-3 Years, Process Integration Engineer at Top 10 semiconductor firm in Japan
-Support customers in process related issues during the development of computer chips
-Consult with fab (semiconductor factory) to decide on solutions/proposals and present them to customers
Extracurricular Activities/Leadership Experience
Undergrad
-Activities Officer for Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
-Plan and organize over 50 events for TBP, including fun events, social networking, and professional workshops.
Post Undergrad
- Officer for Habitat for Humanity Japan
- Have been involved with Habitat for a long time (Went to Philippines twice to build houses back in high school, was president of community service club back then.)
- Continue participating in Habitat after arriving in Japan. I am in charge of running and planning the monthly meeting where we try to get more people involved in Habitat. I am also the official translator for Habitat in Japan. After my participation, the retention rate and participation rate in builds increased significantly.
Some Other Facts
-Lived in 4 different countries throughout career (Taiwan 12 years, Thailand 6 years, US 4 years, Japan 3 years)
-Able to speak quite a few languages. Mandarin (Native), English (Fluent), Japanese (Fluent), Thai (Basic), Taiwanese (Basic)
Weakness in Application
- Do not have a direct leadership role in work experience. I can talk about holding meetings and being influential to co-workers but do not have someone directly reporting to me.
- A slightly below average GMAT score for top schools
Post MBA
-Management position in semiconductor/consumer electronics industry (more specifically strategy) or management consulting
-Have a strong interest in working in Greater China region due to family and my language ability.
Target Schools
Columbia (Reach) ED/R1
Tuck (Reach) EA/R1
Duke (Competitive) ED/R1
Ross (Competitive) R2
HKUST (Competitive) R2
CUHK/CEBIS (Safety) R2
Other Schools in consideration: UCLA, NYU, Cornell
Questions
1.Can you please comment on my school selections? I am thinking about ED for either Duke or Columbia depending on whether I have a strong enough shot at Columbia ED. Perhaps a few safety/competitive schools to look at as well.
2.Is there anything that stands out from my application that you would suggest me to focus on? If leadership experience question comes along, should I focus on my Habitat role (where I made much greater impact) than my current job role?
3.I just realized that I can still apply to INSEAD Jan 11 Round 3. Do you think I have a shot at it or is it better to wait until next year round 1?
4.Asian schools reputation/info is quite hard to find. So far it seems HKUST is widely recognized in the Greater China Region. Do you have any insights on CUHK or CEIBS?
Thank you so much for your time. I really appreciate any comments/insights.
08 Jun 2010, 19:26
Kudos
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Could use opinions on whether I have a shot at a top-5 business school? Thanks in advance!
Me: 22,Male,Asian
Undergraduate: Math and Business Double Degree Program
Math Degree is from University of Waterloo (Top five school in Canada, but I am afraid nobody knows it in the states), Major (Statistic and Actuarial science Double Major)
Business Degree (BBA): Wilfrid Laurier Univerisity. Majar in Finance
GPA:3.7
Quantitative classes:Calc,Stats,Algebra, Accounting, Finance
Work experience from co-op education:
Currently doing insider trading research for Toronto Stock Exchange and some professors
4 months Investment banking experience from Scotia Capital ( Top 3 Investment bank in Canada)( For my coming co-op term, Sep 2010- Dec 2010)
4 months Investment portfolio management experience from Sun Life Financial
4 months Actuarial Valuation Analyst experience from Travelers
4 months Financial Analyst experience from American Express
4 months Actuarial Analyst experience from ING
4 months International working experience at Hong Kong Hannover Life Re as accounting researcher
GMAT (March 2009): 740, 40V, 57Q, 4.0AWA
Language: Japanese(10/10), Chinese(10/10), English(8/10)
Etc: Co-leader for a student charity program in the university: create a on-line quiz bank system that is currently used by over 1400 students. Restructure the mentorship program for the double degree program( 60 mentors and 200+ mentees) Stock Analyst for the univeristy student investment fund (500K cash value)
Additional question:
Should I talk about my school and my program since it has no name in the states?
Should I ask reference letter from the marketing prof, finance prof, or the stats prof?
Thanks again,
Ray
Me: 22,Male,Asian
Undergraduate: Math and Business Double Degree Program
Math Degree is from University of Waterloo (Top five school in Canada, but I am afraid nobody knows it in the states), Major (Statistic and Actuarial science Double Major)
Business Degree (BBA): Wilfrid Laurier Univerisity. Majar in Finance
GPA:3.7
Quantitative classes:Calc,Stats,Algebra, Accounting, Finance
Work experience from co-op education:
Currently doing insider trading research for Toronto Stock Exchange and some professors
4 months Investment banking experience from Scotia Capital ( Top 3 Investment bank in Canada)( For my coming co-op term, Sep 2010- Dec 2010)
4 months Investment portfolio management experience from Sun Life Financial
4 months Actuarial Valuation Analyst experience from Travelers
4 months Financial Analyst experience from American Express
4 months Actuarial Analyst experience from ING
4 months International working experience at Hong Kong Hannover Life Re as accounting researcher
GMAT (March 2009): 740, 40V, 57Q, 4.0AWA
Language: Japanese(10/10), Chinese(10/10), English(8/10)
Etc: Co-leader for a student charity program in the university: create a on-line quiz bank system that is currently used by over 1400 students. Restructure the mentorship program for the double degree program( 60 mentors and 200+ mentees) Stock Analyst for the univeristy student investment fund (500K cash value)
Additional question:
Should I talk about my school and my program since it has no name in the states?
Should I ask reference letter from the marketing prof, finance prof, or the stats prof?
Thanks again,
Ray
