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02 Jun 2008, 15:50
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This post may be better suited for one the admission consultant forums but I am hoping a few of you might be in a similar position or be able to help me with the best way to approach the application process.
A brief summary of me:
I went to work for a quick service restaurant franchisee out of undergrad to learn the business and become a franchisee myself. I now own a franchise, I am doing very well, but I am bored. I am considering business school because my experience is so limited. My only experience to date is restaurants and that is simply not holding my interest. I want to explore and be exposed to different opportunities/businesses/careers and bschool seems like the best way to do that. I get the feeling that I need to have a stated interest in an industry to make my application compelling and that an interest in ent. and exploring new industries is not a valid plan.
My question is this...How should I approach the application process in regards to goals/plans? Can I state that I am interested in ent. and will be using bschool to not only prepare me but lead me to my next venture? Or do I need to say that I want to go into Consulting or Real Estate and that I plan to venture off on my own after a few years?
A brief summary of me:
I went to work for a quick service restaurant franchisee out of undergrad to learn the business and become a franchisee myself. I now own a franchise, I am doing very well, but I am bored. I am considering business school because my experience is so limited. My only experience to date is restaurants and that is simply not holding my interest. I want to explore and be exposed to different opportunities/businesses/careers and bschool seems like the best way to do that. I get the feeling that I need to have a stated interest in an industry to make my application compelling and that an interest in ent. and exploring new industries is not a valid plan.
My question is this...How should I approach the application process in regards to goals/plans? Can I state that I am interested in ent. and will be using bschool to not only prepare me but lead me to my next venture? Or do I need to say that I want to go into Consulting or Real Estate and that I plan to venture off on my own after a few years?
02 Jun 2008, 21:44
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Given that you've already broken into your own business, I see absolutely no reason you shouldn't make your post MBA goal entrepreneurial in nature. I would suggest you have a bit of a vision in mind though -- simply saying you want to be an entrepreneur is a bit vague...maybe talk about how the franchise taught you the basics of business, operations, etc and you might be interested in building your own franchise brand in X or Y, but to do that you have to master more complex issues such as corporate finance, legal issues in management, marketing, etc, broad cross-disciplinary skills that go deeper into subjects that your experience would otherwise allow you to obtain? Or you could spin it as maybe wanting to become more involved in with a Venture Capital firm? Whatever you pick, I think being entrepreneurial is totally fine - a lot of people write about those kinds of goals, and certainly given your experience, yours will ring true.
