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14 Sep 2010, 12:37
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Hi Alex,
My name is Gaurav. I am a prospective MBA student. I am looking foward to start in fall 2011.
Well I would like to get your insight in my MBA candidacy:
Here we go:
Age: 29 (30 when I start)
I am a (medical) doctor by profession. I was born in India and moved later to Germany. I am a German citizen.
GMAT1: 620
GMAT2: 680 (Q: 44 and V: 43)
Education:
GPA: 3.2 (Studied medicine at a Germany top-tier university, ranked as Germany's best university 2009-10), Qualification: MD; fully licensed with the German Medical Council
I would receive my PhD in cardiac surgery by end of this year (from another top-tier German university with magna cum laude)
Work Experience (all in Germany)
1) As an Intern in a university hospital - 1 year
2) Medical advisor in a multinational European pharmaceutical company (one of the biggest 50 Pharma companies of the world) - 2 years (1 Promotion)
Started my own company in Bangalore, India, to market golf yardage books (Sales: around 3000 Dollars per year) (for 2 years)
Extracurricular:
1) Volunteered to vaccinate children in various slums in Northern India (for 3 years)
2) Played in Dutch cricket league (League IV) (for almost one year)
3) Volunteered for buddy program at my university (for almost 3 years)
Pre MBA (what I do now): I am the project manager for 2 major clinical trials with budgets of 5 million Euros each. Besides I am working in a team as the only Medical Expert to develop an innovative medication for a skin disease in Europe.
Post MBA:
Short term: Strategic management consulting (with major focus on pharma/biotech/healthcare) or going back to the pharma/biotech sector.
Long term: Get into senior management of Big Pharma/biotech
My unique points?
1) Tons of international experience
2) I can speak 5 languages fluently
3) I have a MD and a PhD (soon)
4) Only person in my company to lead 2 major clinical trials at the same time
Schools: (I have arranged the schools in order of MY preference)
1. Kellogg
2. Chicago
3. Columbia
4. NYU
5. UCLA
6. Ross
7. Texas (McCombs)
8. Safe: UCSD (Rady) or George Washington
9. Stretccccch!: Stanford , Wharton
Questions:
Do you think I have shot at any of these schools? Could you please arrange this list in the order that would be doable with my profile?
Do I need to add any more schools or take some schools off from the list? I would prefer to go to schools which have a urban or semi-urban campus.
Could you please also suggest some more appropriate safe schools for my profile?
I am looking forward to your reply.
Many thanks in advance
with kind regard
Gaurav
My name is Gaurav. I am a prospective MBA student. I am looking foward to start in fall 2011.
Well I would like to get your insight in my MBA candidacy:
Here we go:
Age: 29 (30 when I start)
I am a (medical) doctor by profession. I was born in India and moved later to Germany. I am a German citizen.
GMAT1: 620
GMAT2: 680 (Q: 44 and V: 43)
Education:
GPA: 3.2 (Studied medicine at a Germany top-tier university, ranked as Germany's best university 2009-10), Qualification: MD; fully licensed with the German Medical Council
I would receive my PhD in cardiac surgery by end of this year (from another top-tier German university with magna cum laude)
Work Experience (all in Germany)
1) As an Intern in a university hospital - 1 year
2) Medical advisor in a multinational European pharmaceutical company (one of the biggest 50 Pharma companies of the world) - 2 years (1 Promotion)
Started my own company in Bangalore, India, to market golf yardage books (Sales: around 3000 Dollars per year) (for 2 years)
Extracurricular:
1) Volunteered to vaccinate children in various slums in Northern India (for 3 years)
2) Played in Dutch cricket league (League IV) (for almost one year)
3) Volunteered for buddy program at my university (for almost 3 years)
Pre MBA (what I do now): I am the project manager for 2 major clinical trials with budgets of 5 million Euros each. Besides I am working in a team as the only Medical Expert to develop an innovative medication for a skin disease in Europe.
Post MBA:
Short term: Strategic management consulting (with major focus on pharma/biotech/healthcare) or going back to the pharma/biotech sector.
Long term: Get into senior management of Big Pharma/biotech
My unique points?
1) Tons of international experience
2) I can speak 5 languages fluently
3) I have a MD and a PhD (soon)
4) Only person in my company to lead 2 major clinical trials at the same time
Schools: (I have arranged the schools in order of MY preference)
1. Kellogg
2. Chicago
3. Columbia
4. NYU
5. UCLA
6. Ross
7. Texas (McCombs)
8. Safe: UCSD (Rady) or George Washington
9. Stretccccch!: Stanford , Wharton
Questions:
Do you think I have shot at any of these schools? Could you please arrange this list in the order that would be doable with my profile?
Do I need to add any more schools or take some schools off from the list? I would prefer to go to schools which have a urban or semi-urban campus.
Could you please also suggest some more appropriate safe schools for my profile?
I am looking forward to your reply.
Many thanks in advance
with kind regard
Gaurav
16 Sep 2010, 12:03
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Being a doctor is a bit of a wild card - adcoms won't really know what to do with you. Yes, they get a trickle of MDs like yourself applying each and every year, but they're also wary of taking on "burnt out" professionals who are jaded/cynical about their profession (i.e. lawyers, doctors). If they get that sense from you in your essays and interview - that you're simply looking for an escape hatch from your current predicament, you'll likely get dinged everywhere.
Sure, you may be competitive for the schools you listed, but it's a tricky thing. You've spent a whole lifetime building up a career in life sciences - getting all the training, degrees, etc. -- only to basically throw it away to go into business (even if it's related - biz side of pharma). The fact that you spent so much of your young adult years investing in a life sciences career only to completely abandon it suggests that you are either very burnt out/jaded, or you've been following someone else's dream (i.e. your parents, peer pressure, etc.) and only now wanting to follow your own -- either way, it's a tough spot to explain. Not saying that you're like that, but the b-school adcoms are going to presume that.
So your narrative is key.
Sure, you may be competitive for the schools you listed, but it's a tricky thing. You've spent a whole lifetime building up a career in life sciences - getting all the training, degrees, etc. -- only to basically throw it away to go into business (even if it's related - biz side of pharma). The fact that you spent so much of your young adult years investing in a life sciences career only to completely abandon it suggests that you are either very burnt out/jaded, or you've been following someone else's dream (i.e. your parents, peer pressure, etc.) and only now wanting to follow your own -- either way, it's a tough spot to explain. Not saying that you're like that, but the b-school adcoms are going to presume that.
So your narrative is key.
16 Sep 2010, 13:00
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Hi Alex,
Many thanks for sharing your views on my profile. It's nice to know how adcoms probably would look at my application. I would try to explain my situation and my motives in my essays. Let's see!
Kind regards
Gaurav
Many thanks for sharing your views on my profile. It's nice to know how adcoms probably would look at my application. I would try to explain my situation and my motives in my essays. Let's see!
Kind regards
Gaurav
