Profile evaluation for McDonough, UNC Kenan-Flagler, McCombs, Ross (Michigan), Emory Goizueta, Duke Fuqua, Jones, Owen, Simon, GRE 312, Consumer Packaged Goods background, from Peru

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1 year ago

Hey! Congrats on your Simon admit! 👍🙌🏆

I think staying in the same industry and having a strong story helped in the process but that's only a theory.

Perufm92

Thank you! I am very happy about that. Yes, I have an advisor working with me for the applications and we highlighted my work experience. I wanted to know your opinion regarding the programs for round 3.

Sure! Happy to try in.
Round 3 is harder and more limited. At this point you are competing with a bunch of people from the waitlist, so I would not keep your hopes up too high but if you are going to business school this fall one way or another, you may want to apply anyway just so you don’t have any regrets and you get the maximum choices. again it’s usually hard to improve your chances and offers from R2 in R3.

So at this point, we are sort of gambling 😂 and you have to expect as much back as you do from gambling and if you get nothing, it’s OK but maybe there is a chance you hit the jackpot.

I would say on the negative side, they’re not many besides effort, some application fees potentially but most damaging tends to be the waiting in the back of your head and hoping that you will get in somewhere better which will keep you from engaging with your future classmates and will keep you from working on housing and committing to a choice of a business school.

If I was in your shoes and I was definitely going to Business school this fall, I would absolutely apply just so I would not have regrets and what if in the back of my mind but that’s the only reason 💪

Like betting on red and black? Hahaha, because if it's 50-50 for each program, I'll take it. Thanks for the comments and well, I hope that something about my profile is interesting enough for the programs. I assume the same is true for the scholarships? Do you have any insight on the number of applications from Latin American this year?

There are different chances in different rounds because of where we are in the admissions process... by the time you are in round three, schools are looking to fill probably 10% of the class, maybe 15. They have a waitlist as well, so schools are sort of gambling too. They’re not expecting to bring in a large group to the class but they don’t want to say no to the most interesting and strong candidates who may be decided to apply last minute, so similarly to you they figure they’ll keep their hopes down but maybe they’ll gamble something great ... so both of you are gambling 😂

PS. Traditionally, Latin America has been under represented. I’ve heard from one of the missions directors that Latin American applicants make the best alumni. They will talk and talk and talk about the program. You can play that app in your application perhaps 🤷‍♂️

Since all of these MBA programms are great, I hope I can get one or two admits in the gambling process hahaha. I assume its the same with scholarships? Thank you for the explanaition.

Scholarships are tighter in this stage but people bail at times and scholarship money comes back available. Yes, also gambling 😂

renzosm93

Fellow Peruvian here. Also waiting for Duke interview invite (R3). Let me know if you get one!

Sure, maybe give me your number and we can stay in touch. Are you applying to any more programms?

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