Calling all Haas MBA Applicants: 2024 Intake Class of 2026

Hi everyone,
Haas Admit for Class of 2025 here, a little bit on my profile:

- GMAT: 730 (Q50 V40)
- Hometown: Vietnam, also current location
- Current location: Switzerland
- Education Background: Studied undergrad in the States in Midwest State School
- Pre-MBA experience: ~5 years (3 years in Corp Finance in cybersecurity in US + 2 years in fintech startup in Vietnam
- Post-MBA goals: Tech PM

Happy to help with any question!

Hi Everyone We will have a Haas chat today in about 15 mins

Hi Everyone, we will be doing a Haas chat with applicants and admits here in the Haas Chatroom. Come with your questions or just introduce yourself.
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Hi everyone, Haas admit here!
- GMAT 710, R2 applicant
- Hometown: Bangkok, Thailand
- Education background: Finance at University in Bangkok
- Pre-MBA: MBB consultant for ~4 years
- Post-MBA: Full sponsorship for MBA, so rejoin the current consulting firm

Let me know any question!

Thankyou Anoncc1234 for joining us! Awesome to have you! Wow... that’s amazing you were able to get a full sponsorship. I envied sponsored people 😛. Congratulations! I saw someone asked this in Kellogg chat and I liked the question - anything you would have done differently about the application process? Something you know now that you did not before?
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Thankyou Anoncc1234 for being here and your time. My question is around how do you approach your company to fund your MBA, even partially? Do you talk with your manager, HR?

Hmmm.... I took very long time to self-reflect
- Do I really need an MBA, or is it just a social status thing?
- If I want to do MBA, why, and what school REALLY fit me and my goal?

Join as many school events as possible and reflect a lot. Don’t apply to 5-10 schools you don’t really want to get in. Instead, apply to no more than 5 schools that you REALLY want to get in and just do your best

Thanks Palak! Actually MBA sponsorship is a perk of being in MBB firm as long as you join since undergrad and have good performance.

I was about to leave my company during COVID back in 2021. Went for job interview but didn’t know what I really want to do so decide to stay. Explored options in the firm, and MBA was one of that... so here we go!

Talked to my mentors and got recommenders. They’re very supportive. After I got offer, I then contact country manager and HR, with offer letter to obtain sponsorship.

Feel free to let me know any question!

Logging off now. Good luck guys on your MBA journey!

Hello, I am planning to apply for weekend MBA at UC Berkely Haas in 2024. If anyone has received a recent admit, please respond and I’d love to connect with you. Thank you so much! - Tanvi

Hi guys, I had a query regarding UCB’s STEM mba and eligibility to get that extended OPT. Would someone who gets placed in say MBB firms get that OPT extended if they did the STEM MBA?

Berkeley Haas Full-time MBA Application for Fall 2024 is open

Round 1 deadline is Sep 14
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Big congratulations on this. Given your work experience and GMAT it’s a coup ✊ I’m really excited for you. Could you share a little bit more about your profile? How are you liking it? What were your goals?


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I agree with most of this, but I feel that for overrepresented folks things are just simply more precarious. You don’t know who else like you is applying, So found that last round it really paid off for my client who had a 710 GMAT (but good EA) score, IIT Indian male, no real leadership record, to apply to a plethora of schools. We tried to repurpose as much as we could, and also do the proper research to customize the essays. He’s at McCombs because tech, we got a lot of offers, but we got a *lot* of WL as well and dings. For the record, I advised him to beef up his leadership profile to get off the waitlist, but he ignored me. So factor in how competitive your profile is or how over represented it is when thinking about the number of business schools you’re applying to. Of course you want to do your best effort, and so don’t jam and cram but look for ways to get more exposure without adding a ton of more work.

Sorry IT not IIT. Went to Bits.
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I help with Haas EWMBA- let me know if you have questions.

I just want to make sure everybody here who plans to apply realize is that even if you went to an English speaking school in India 🇮🇳 you need to submit a TOEFL. This goes for Anderson as well.
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Friendly Reminder: Berkeley Haas Essay Review with Greg Guglielmo (Haas Alum and Founder of Avanti Prep) is starting in 30 minutes.

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Thank you for the introduction, BB. Here to help, guys : 👋

Hi everyone,

I’m taking over as the moderator for Haas, and I wanted to use this opportunity to introduce myself to you

A little about my profile.

- Applying in R1 (we’re in it together )
- GRE: 336 (Q:170, V:166, AW: 4)
- Current location: Lagos
- Education Background: Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from a premier school in Nigeria
- Pre-MBA experience: Non-profit Education Technology for 4.5 years & some concurrent Project Finance job in between for 3.3y. I pastor at a local church and grow African herbs in my spare time.
- Hobbies: Event hosting, Gardening, and Poultry farming
- Post-MBA goals: Investment banking

Happy to learn and answer your questions

Great to have you on board. 😎
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