Veritas Prep Admissions Consultant
Joined: 25 Jul 2010
Affiliations: Veritas Prep
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Re: Profile Evaluation
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20 Dec 2011, 08:07
Doesn't appear to me that you would have the WE or professional achievement for HBS. I would delay another year or two and get some solid, progressively responsible work experience towards your target area. I realize you said the firms were not biting, but this is the same reasons the b-schools won't bite. I am afraid your story at this point would sound too much like you would be counting on b-school to be your savior and provide the access you are looking for into your dream job. B-schools generally don't like to be used as a vending machine and will vet out applicants who have not done the heavy lifting required to be appealing to recruiters on the backend. Now that I read this, it sounds harsh-it's not intended to be. you have done some incredible things and I think there are many parts of your profile which will be very attractve to b-schools, but in the end, the adcoms like a story that makes sense, so if your past experience and language skills seem to line up in a direction that you don't want to go, then you need to forge a new path first, then work b-school into the mix. You simply had the unfortunate experience of choosing a path that ended up not appealing to you, and now are stuck with righting the ship course.