ss13ny
Hello, I’ve a 3-year degree from India specifically a Bachelor’s in Business Adminstration. I have good acads throughout my college and school. I have been working in the content marketing space for 4 years with start ups. I’m primarily targeting US schools in which there have been higher no. of graduates who have taken up marketing roles like Duke, Anderson, Kellogg. I’m in the process of giving the GMAT and looking to target a 700+. My post MBA goals are to switch to product marketing. My question is - how important will it be to highlight volunteer/community experience and extra circulars? To be honest, I have plenty of hobbies but nothing where I’ve an achievement of sorts. Similarly, I haven’t been involved with NGOs since college. So i’m wondering that will hurt my chances.
EC’s don’t have to be volunteer/NGO - they can be anything that demonstrates your passion, teamwork, leadership... We use these activities to help draw a parallel to how you will fit in with the school, your cohort and get involved in the clubs and orgs. These schools are good choices - but make sure you are sharing school fit - Duke is really picky about this as it is a tight knit family in a college town.
Varun316
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Yes - MBA programs are looking to see what experience you have working with international/global teams, or working across cultures - this will help them see you will be able to easily be dropped into group projects with people form all over the globe and work together to achieve your goals... and if an issue were to arise, they want to feel confident that you’ll know how to navigate through it