la123456789la wrote:
Hey Everyone!
I just first want to say thanks for taking the time to read my questions. Now here's my question:
I was reading up on some application advice and it mentioned that showing the admissions committee who you are is important to getting admitted to Grad School. It sounds like advice where you put your best self forward and hope for the best. The book MBAmissions mentioned that they have had people who were IBankers or Management Consultants worrying that they weren't diverse/unique enough to get admitted. The book also mentioned that there were people on the other end of the spectrum where they were just teachers or something not as "prestigious" in the business sense worry about not having the "right" background or brand name companies on their resume so show off their qualifications.
I guess first question is, do you guys know of anyone who had very unique story that got in? And what was the story?
My second question is that I haven't been doing well in my career. I've decided to pursue working at a startup. If it does really well, I'm sticking with it. But if it goes to the ground or if I exit the startup at some point, I'd want to go to Grad school. Do any of you know cases where people who worked at startups end up going to Grad school and how many of them out of the total class were there?
If it helps you, I have a 720 GMAT score and a 3.7 GPA so I have my eyes and heart set on going to the top 10 universities like Harvard, Booth, Kellogg, Wharton, Stanford etc.
Hey dude,
Good to hear from you! So first of all, TONS of people with unique stories get into top programs. Of course most of them have the grades and GMAT too! (just like you).
Since they are unique stories.... they are well.... unique...
And a startup CAN be a good example of a unique story. Now the truth of the matter is of course, like i all things, the more successful you are in the startup, the stronger your application will be. But that should be pretty obvious. What is less obvious is that the same applies for failure. I've worked with plenty of people who applied with the story "I started this company and it didn't work out, and I NEED to get an MBA to learn how to do it right!" Great!!! But there is failure and failure. And even in a failure story there are different levels of success.
What do I mean? I mean that startup is a very vague term. You can have a "startup" where you are sitting at home eating cheese sandwiches and fiddling around to make a new ios app by yourself that you hope will make billions, or you could be running a 30-person company with 100,000K$ seed money, where you registered three patents....
The difference is obvious right?
So I don't know what your case is (and feel free to elaborate), but that should be a good start for you,
Best,
JF
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15 Jan 2016, 11:18
