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29 Sep 2010, 10:08
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Hi,
I would really appreciate an honest profile evaluation. My 2 target schools are Wharton (feels like a stretch) and Kellogg. I graduated from a top 5 public university with a 3.45 GPA in Computer Science and Engineering. My current official gmat score is a 700, but I am retaking in 2 weeks and expect between a 720-730 based on my recent practice tests.
I currently have 5 years of work experience with a big 4 consulting firm in their technology and enterprise risk practice. Recently, I switched over to a mid-sized management consulting firm (ranked top 5 by consulting magazine for last 5 years) and am working for in the healthcare strategy practice. I do have some interesting accomplishment including ones related to business/practice development and also led a very succesfful recruiting initiative while at the Big 4 firm.
My short term goal post mba is to end up working for a leading strategy consulting firm within the healthcare practice. A particular area of interest is developing technology strategies for large healthcare organization and regions with the overall goal of making health care more effective and cost efficient. Longer term, I expect to take on a strategic leadership role for a large healthcare organization or even a public legislative role.
As you can see, I have not listed any extracurriculars in my profile. Unfortunately, I don't have any really worth mentioning since I graduated college. In college, I held a leadership role for a large student organization (2,000 plus members).
What do you think? Is Wharton too much of a stretch? How about Kellogg? Any other schools worth looking at based on my profile?
Thanks!
I would really appreciate an honest profile evaluation. My 2 target schools are Wharton (feels like a stretch) and Kellogg. I graduated from a top 5 public university with a 3.45 GPA in Computer Science and Engineering. My current official gmat score is a 700, but I am retaking in 2 weeks and expect between a 720-730 based on my recent practice tests.
I currently have 5 years of work experience with a big 4 consulting firm in their technology and enterprise risk practice. Recently, I switched over to a mid-sized management consulting firm (ranked top 5 by consulting magazine for last 5 years) and am working for in the healthcare strategy practice. I do have some interesting accomplishment including ones related to business/practice development and also led a very succesfful recruiting initiative while at the Big 4 firm.
My short term goal post mba is to end up working for a leading strategy consulting firm within the healthcare practice. A particular area of interest is developing technology strategies for large healthcare organization and regions with the overall goal of making health care more effective and cost efficient. Longer term, I expect to take on a strategic leadership role for a large healthcare organization or even a public legislative role.
As you can see, I have not listed any extracurriculars in my profile. Unfortunately, I don't have any really worth mentioning since I graduated college. In college, I held a leadership role for a large student organization (2,000 plus members).
What do you think? Is Wharton too much of a stretch? How about Kellogg? Any other schools worth looking at based on my profile?
Thanks!
03 Oct 2010, 23:17
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ucbruin,
Thanks for reaching out. Happy to try to help.
First, I would say that the EC issue is only what you make it. In other words, if you can find places from your life - community, work, personal life - from which to mine meaningful stories of leadership, teamwork, maturity, and the like, you will be fine. Schools don't put a ton of stock in laundry lists of activities for two reasons: super hard to normalize across cultures and even harder to validate. It's far more important that you can point to accomplishments, mistakes, and other key moments and show the key themes on display.
Second, with the strong professional progress and (it sounds like) success stories, coupled with a GPA that is both in line with most programs' averages and from a top program, as well as a sturdy GMAT score, I think you should be competitive at most programs.
However, I do have recommendations regarding schools. Namely, three to add.
The first is Yale SOM. Not known as a consulting school by any means, but very strong in healthcare.
The second is Tuck, where the entire university is shifting to a healthcare focus due to their new president.
The third is Duke; strong in consulting and situated in the research triangle, making healthcare angles easier to take in the job market.
The big thing for you will be extracting the right stories to hit the right themes and then contextualizing all of that with the proper schools.
If you need any additional help on all of this, PM me and we'll get you set up with a free consultation.
Respectfully,
Paul Lanzillotti
Thanks for reaching out. Happy to try to help.
First, I would say that the EC issue is only what you make it. In other words, if you can find places from your life - community, work, personal life - from which to mine meaningful stories of leadership, teamwork, maturity, and the like, you will be fine. Schools don't put a ton of stock in laundry lists of activities for two reasons: super hard to normalize across cultures and even harder to validate. It's far more important that you can point to accomplishments, mistakes, and other key moments and show the key themes on display.
Second, with the strong professional progress and (it sounds like) success stories, coupled with a GPA that is both in line with most programs' averages and from a top program, as well as a sturdy GMAT score, I think you should be competitive at most programs.
However, I do have recommendations regarding schools. Namely, three to add.
The first is Yale SOM. Not known as a consulting school by any means, but very strong in healthcare.
The second is Tuck, where the entire university is shifting to a healthcare focus due to their new president.
The third is Duke; strong in consulting and situated in the research triangle, making healthcare angles easier to take in the job market.
The big thing for you will be extracting the right stories to hit the right themes and then contextualizing all of that with the proper schools.
If you need any additional help on all of this, PM me and we'll get you set up with a free consultation.
Respectfully,
Paul Lanzillotti
