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Female, 26 years old

4 years full time work experience in CPG - I worked in marketing for a year, supply chain for a year (managed a team of 4), and will have two years of experience managing a >$100m e-commerce business at my current company. I was given a promotion within one month of being hired at my current company. All three organizations have been leading CPGs in their respective categories.

I am the chief volunteer for a local animal rescue, am a photographer in my free time, and have been a competitive athlete for many years (club team in college).

3.8 GPA from Stanford University

GMAT score 760, 45 verbal, 49 quant (took exam once)

From the United States

Intended industry: consulting with long-term goal of working in strategy at top CPG

Applying round 1

Would love to know what my chances might look like.

Thank you in advance!

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I think I just responded to you in the Stanford thread, and my answer isn't going to be terribly different. Yes, you have a competitive profile for HBS and should apply to HBS, but don't apply only to HBS or even just to HBS and Stanford. Consider other top programs that support your goals, as i mentioned there: Kellogg, Haas, Duke, Booth, Wharton, Yale .

Best,
Linda

I have a question before i reply. How could you be the youngest senior engineer, "owned many key systems" and have "no leadership experience" there. Leadership isn't just title. It's having the ability to inspire and empower. If you did that, you led, even if you didn't have a manager title or team lead title.

Please clarify.

Hi all, was hoping to get some feedback into what you think my chances are.
I am a bit older, however I believe my somewhat unique career path necessitated this.

33M (will be 34 when beginning an MBA next year). 1st generation Australian.
Medical doctor, with medical degree from one of Australia's top med schools, unfortunately they don't give GPAs though.

Currently 9th year work experience. Mainly worked in surgery. Leadership- leader of surgical team. performed over 1000 operations, peoples lives in your hands (literally) daily. Authored and published research papers, which have won awards and have been presented and both national and international conferences.
relief, cover and assistance with the frontline covid pandemic response in areas of need.
References will be stellar from 2 surgeons.

I am disappointed at my GMAT which is only 720 (Q47V42). I scored 780,730 and 770 in my final CATs so I'm considering retaking it.

Reason for MBA- I've always had aspirations in medicine and finance and despite initially following the medical pathway I've always yearned to combine the two. I have accomplished all I have set out to do in medicine / surgery and wanted to transition into healthcare investing. However, with what's been happening in the world this year I've also developed an interest into joining the pharmaceutical industry, trying to have a larger impact on global health than one can do as a single dr.

My plan was to apply to LBS, however HBS has always been a dream of mine. Was wondering if I had a chance (at either?)

Background and nationality: 31M Black American LGBT
Undergrad Information: Top 10 Engineering School (Purdue, Illinois, Michigan, etc) Electrical Engineering 3.19 GPA
GMAT: 720 (Q48/V41/IR7)
Work experience and leadership: 5 years as a Lieutenant in the US Navy. Nuclear Warfare Surface Warfare. Multiple operational deployments including Black Sea and Middle East. Overseas assignment in Europe. I have deployed every year since 2015. Currently in charge of electrical machinery and equipment in support of nuclear plant operations. Division officer for 45 sailors. Lead supervisor for a team of 25 in a nuclear power plant on an aircraft carrier
Community and others: Battalion Executive Officer (2nd in command) at NROTC while in college. EC since then have been scarce due to a tour overseas and generally not being home for any significant amount of time.
Post MBA goals: Combine my undergraduate major and military experience to transition to a business development manager for a clean tech company. Specifically I am looking to work in solar cell production, electrical vehicles, micro grids, energy storage, or renewable energy finance and optimization. I want to put myself in a position to fight climate change.
Anything else? Applying R1 to HBS, GSB, Booth, Wharton, MIT

Thanks for the reply.

Ahh interesting. I guess my idea of leadership was much more narrow in the sense of having clear lines of authority and decision power. Perhaps titles as you mentioned.

Interesting to see that the attributes I would characterize as being a strong individual contributor / maybe good team-working skills to be also the leadership qualities that these schools are looking for.

Hi all, was hoping to get some feedback into what you think my chances are.
I am a bit older, however I believe my somewhat unique career path necessitated this.

33M (will be 34 when beginning an MBA next year). 1st generation Australian.
Medical doctor, with medical degree from one of Australia's top med schools, unfortunately they don't give GPAs though.

Currently 9th year work experience. Mainly worked in surgery. Leadership- leader of surgical team. performed over 1000 operations, peoples lives in your hands (literally) daily. Authored and published research papers, which have won awards and have been presented and both national and international conferences.
relief, cover and assistance with the frontline covid pandemic response in areas of need.
References will be stellar from 2 surgeons.

I am disappointed at my GMAT which is only 720 (Q47V42). I scored 780,730 and 770 in my final CATs so I'm considering retaking it.

Reason for MBA- I've always had aspirations in medicine and finance and despite initially following the medical pathway I've always yearned to combine the two. I have accomplished all I have set out to do in medicine / surgery and wanted to transition into healthcare investing. However, with what's been happening in the world this year I've also developed an interest into joining the pharmaceutical industry, trying to have a larger impact on global health than one can do as a single dr.

My plan was to apply to LBS, however HBS has always been a dream of mine. Was wondering if I had a chance (at either?)

Background and nationality: 31M Black American LGBT
Undergrad Information: Top 10 Engineering School (Purdue, Illinois, Michigan, etc) Electrical Engineering 3.19 GPA
GMAT: 720 (Q48/V41/IR7)
Work experience and leadership: 5 years as a Lieutenant in the US Navy. Nuclear Warfare Surface Warfare. Multiple operational deployments including Black Sea and Middle East. Overseas assignment in Europe. I have deployed every year since 2015. Currently in charge of electrical machinery and equipment in support of nuclear plant operations. Division officer for 45 sailors. Lead supervisor for a team of 25 in a nuclear power plant on an aircraft carrier
Community and others: Battalion Executive Officer (2nd in command) at NROTC while in college. EC since then have been scarce due to a tour overseas and generally not being home for any significant amount of time.
Post MBA goals: Combine my undergraduate major and military experience to transition to a business development manager for a clean tech company. Specifically I am looking to work in solar cell production, electrical vehicles, micro grids, energy storage, or renewable energy finance and optimization. I want to put myself in a position to fight climate change.
Anything else? Applying R1 to HBS, GSB, Booth, Wharton, MIT

Hi experts! I would really appreciate a profile evaluation! Thanks for your help!
I will apply for the 2+2 Harvard MBA program.

Studies:
I am an Albanian/French (20 years old, Male, from Albanian (Father) and Algerian (Mother) immigrants) student from a top 10 French Grande Ecole (Bachelor in Management ranked 4th in France, second bachelor's degree with the most applications in 2020 in France) and I have been the Best Students (Special Letter Recognition from our Director of School, sort of Dean's List) in my first two years with a 4.0/4.0 GPA (Best marks in Finance and Economics courses). I have done my exchange semester in a well known American Uni (Top 5 in Management and Economics in the World) and I had the best marks of my classes (GPA 4.0/4.0) + (Letter from my Microeconomics professor stating that I am in the top 1% among 1,000 student in this course).
Won 3 Merit scholarships from my French BS each of 1,500€ and 3 Government Merit scholarships each of 4,600€ (I had Government Merit scholarships during my high school of around 800€/year). Those Government scholarships show that my family is considered as "poor" by the French Government.
For my third year I have been chosen to pursue a Dual Degree in Germany and write a Thesis. So I will have 2 Bachelor's degrees. This German Bachelor is ranked among the Third Best Bachelor in International Business Administration in Germany. My second Bachelor specialisation is Finance so my courses will be: Finance & Investments, International Management, Advanced studies in Macroeconomics, International Monetary Economics, Multinational Enterprises Theory and Empirics, Topics in Applied Economics (Maximum level), Business Intelligence and Data Management, Seminar in Finance (Huge project in finance), Mathematics.

Start-up:
I have created a start-up in 2018 in France with 500+ customers (subscription) and 5,000+ followers on Facebook + partnerships with well known companies and another start-up this year during my exchange semester. Thanks to my first start-up I have integrated the best incubator of the South of France for 6 months. Unfortunately, I left the first start-up because of troubles with my associate and closed the second one because we had to stop our activity due to COVID-19.

Work Experience:
Internship: Sales Person in a French High-Tech Store (2 months).
International Experience:
Under limited-term contract: Redbull Albania 2 months: Marketing and Management.
Under limited-term contract: A Big 4 company in Albania: Management Consulting 2 months
Internship: CEO's Assistant of a national known French wine retailer company in Albania. (around 20 employees in the headquarters): Finance, Management. 3 months.
Internship: I will work in the Ministry of Finance of Albania close the Vice Minister of Finance for 3 months.
And I will maybe do an internship 1 month into the Bank Of Albania (Banking investments, asset management and so on (more observation and learning than practice).

Volunteering:
I have done 1 year of volunteering as a French-Albanian translator in France to help Albanian immigrants.
I also have a 1 year volunteering in my B-School. I was an ambassador of the school and had to represent it in forums and high schools. Thanks to my work during this volunteering, I had an exclusive "recommendation" from the Head of Contests and Promotion of the school.
I was also the Vice-President of the School student office and I had to manage 50 people and organise events for more than 500 persons (had to leave my position because I will pursue my third year in Germany)
I will surely join somme clubs and associations for my second Bachelor in Germany.


English (C1) and German bachelor taught in English. I speak French (native), Albanian (C1) and Spanish (B2).
Letters of recommendation: I have one letter from the Director of the Big 4 company, one from my Finance professor who is also the CEO of a French local Consulting Company and one from the start-up counsellor of my Business School who works as a CEO of a well known French company.

Others:
I have been the Captain of a local soccer team between 2014 and 2018 and we won 2 leagues. In 2013 our BasketBall team won the Regional Championship and so played as a national level and I was the captain of the team.
I won my B-School Business Game.
Online Certificate Courses: Financial Markets (Yale), Introduction to Corporate Finance (Wharton), Business and Financial Modeling Specialisation (Wharton), Private Equity and Venture Capital (Bocconi), Portfolio and Risk Management (Uni Geneva).

GMAT Official Prep Tests: 310 in June, 620 20th August, 710 (Q49 without taking timing into account) 2nd September.
I have until April so I aim 730 at least.


What are my chances? Thank you for your help and advice!!

Hi All - One of my recomendor will not be able to submit his views on time. Do you think they will still consider my application? Everything else has been submitted on time

Hi All - One of my recomendor will not be able to submit his views on time. Do you think they will still consider i or will it be considered in round 2?