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08 Sep 2010, 13:29
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Hi all,
Okay I’m a little confused. I’ve been wanting to get an mba for a very long time but now that the time has come to choose the schools I want to apply to I’m a little lost. I’m going to go to the QS mba event this Sunday in San Francisco and I need to narrow down my options. I have a few schools in mind (CMU, Georgetown, BU, …) but I need your help to make sure these schools are within my reach. Here’s is a little description of my profile (sorry I didn’t mean to write a novel but I felt like you needed all this information to be able to give a good piece of advice). By the way I’m 26 years old and come from France.
Education:
- Graduated in June 2007 from a second tier engineering school in France (do adcoms even know what French schools are 1st tier or 2nd tier?) with a master’s degree in mechanical engineering.
- Studied in Munich for six months as an exchange student at a top German university.
- No GPA available (my school does not compute GPAs). I tried to figure an equivalent and I came up with 3.0 but all my classes were graded on a curve.
- Involved in a student association participating in the Shell eco marathon (https://www.shell.com/home/content/ecomarathon/ check it out it’s kinda cool
)
- Worked part time on Saturdays for a couple of years during college.
Languages
- French: 1st language
- English: fluent
- German: rusty fluent (Would come back quickly if I had to speak it. I speak a dialect from east of France similar to German)
Work experience
- Have been working in the US for a small automotive company as a manufacturing engineer since the end of my semester in Germany (including a mandatory six month internship required by my school to graduate).
- Got hired after internship and was later petitioned for H1B visa but did not get it. (I then married my girlfriend and became resident). Got promoted in January 2010.
- My duties include very technical stuff (tooling design, customer applications, …) and project management (new product introduction, tooling procurement, …)
EC
- Started volunteering with Habitat for Humanity in April this year but other than that no real community involvement after college (major weakness).
- Activities: tennis, photography, rock climbing.
Objectives
- Long term goal: getting a general management position in a large international company
- Short term goal (post-mba):
Option 1: going into consulting for a few years to get exposure to a broad range of projects and then go back to the industry.
Option 2: joining a leadership development program within a large company.
- However, I’m very open: If another opportunity comes along I may change my mind and go for finance for example (although I believe it would be more difficult with my background).
GMAT: target score 700
TOEFL: 118/120.
If you read all of this, thanks for your patience! If you did not, no problemo I forgot to say that I’m also interested in schools in Europe, especially UK.
All advices are welcome!
Thanks again for your time.
Okay I’m a little confused. I’ve been wanting to get an mba for a very long time but now that the time has come to choose the schools I want to apply to I’m a little lost. I’m going to go to the QS mba event this Sunday in San Francisco and I need to narrow down my options. I have a few schools in mind (CMU, Georgetown, BU, …) but I need your help to make sure these schools are within my reach. Here’s is a little description of my profile (sorry I didn’t mean to write a novel but I felt like you needed all this information to be able to give a good piece of advice). By the way I’m 26 years old and come from France.
Education:
- Graduated in June 2007 from a second tier engineering school in France (do adcoms even know what French schools are 1st tier or 2nd tier?) with a master’s degree in mechanical engineering.
- Studied in Munich for six months as an exchange student at a top German university.
- No GPA available (my school does not compute GPAs). I tried to figure an equivalent and I came up with 3.0 but all my classes were graded on a curve.
- Involved in a student association participating in the Shell eco marathon (https://www.shell.com/home/content/ecomarathon/ check it out it’s kinda cool
)- Worked part time on Saturdays for a couple of years during college.
Languages
- French: 1st language
- English: fluent
- German: rusty fluent (Would come back quickly if I had to speak it. I speak a dialect from east of France similar to German)
Work experience
- Have been working in the US for a small automotive company as a manufacturing engineer since the end of my semester in Germany (including a mandatory six month internship required by my school to graduate).
- Got hired after internship and was later petitioned for H1B visa but did not get it. (I then married my girlfriend and became resident). Got promoted in January 2010.
- My duties include very technical stuff (tooling design, customer applications, …) and project management (new product introduction, tooling procurement, …)
EC
- Started volunteering with Habitat for Humanity in April this year but other than that no real community involvement after college (major weakness).
- Activities: tennis, photography, rock climbing.
Objectives
- Long term goal: getting a general management position in a large international company
- Short term goal (post-mba):
Option 1: going into consulting for a few years to get exposure to a broad range of projects and then go back to the industry.
Option 2: joining a leadership development program within a large company.
- However, I’m very open: If another opportunity comes along I may change my mind and go for finance for example (although I believe it would be more difficult with my background).
GMAT: target score 700
TOEFL: 118/120.
If you read all of this, thanks for your patience! If you did not, no problemo
I forgot to say that I’m also interested in schools in Europe, especially UK.All advices are welcome!
Thanks again for your time.
08 Sep 2010, 18:57
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Hi- you haven't taken your GMAT so makes it harder to narrow down your school list. If you want GM, Stanford, Harvard are both good but nevertheless long shot for everyone.
Your foreign background and language skills will help a lot. Have a list of 3-tier schools, dream, reachable and backup like everyone else. Let me how it goes. I am planning to go to the Forte Event here in NYC later this month.
Your foreign background and language skills will help a lot. Have a list of 3-tier schools, dream, reachable and backup like everyone else. Let me how it goes. I am planning to go to the Forte Event here in NYC later this month.
08 Sep 2010, 22:47
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Thanks for your reply babyif19! I know that without my GMAT score it's hard to narrow down my school list but for now I'll assume that I can get a 700 (hopefully...). Btw, congrats on your score!
I don't think that my profile would stand out enough to have a chance of getting into Stanford or Harvard. Also, my wife is going to move with me so in order for her to have good job opportunities, we'll have to move to some kind of big city.
The schools I'm interested in are:
Dream: Northwestern, Chicago, Columbia, NYU, Haas
Reachable: Emory, Tepper, Georgetown
Back up: BU
Does this look reasonable to you?
I don't think that my profile would stand out enough to have a chance of getting into Stanford or Harvard. Also, my wife is going to move with me so in order for her to have good job opportunities, we'll have to move to some kind of big city.
The schools I'm interested in are:
Dream: Northwestern, Chicago, Columbia, NYU, Haas
Reachable: Emory, Tepper, Georgetown
Back up: BU
Does this look reasonable to you?
