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15 May 2017, 14:20
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Profile Evaluation:
Age 37 male
Born in Taiwan, US Citizen
I’m a first generation immigrant and I will be the first person in my family to get a graduate degree.
I plan to apply to business schools this fall in R1 and R2.
GMAT 660 Q47 V35 IR4
I have surpassed the GMAT lifetime limit, so unfortunately I can not take the test again. My highest verbal score is 36 and my highest quant score is 49, but I was not able to get those scores on the same test. My most recent test is 640 Q49 V28 IR5, which I canceled it. Should I reinstate that score so that the Adcom could see that I have scored Q49 twice?
GPA
Community college 4.0
UCLA science major 3.0 (I got straight A in the last 3 classes to improve my overall GPA above 3.0)
Work Experince
After graduating from college in 2003, I worked in a Fortune 500 Biotech company as a manufacture associate for about two years. I was training new employees within the first four months. Unfortunately, I had to quit because of an injury unrelated to work.
Ever since then, I have been working in my parent’s restaurant. It’s a small restaurant with only 6 employees. Basically, I’m responsible for managing the overall daily operation. I’m also responsible for recruiting and training new employees. The restaurant is not a multi-million dollar business, but it has been in operation for over 30 years.
When I first started working in the business, I built a website to expand our customer base and increase our brand recognition. The second major project that I initiated was remodeling the restaurant’s dining area by using a $15,000 budget. I lead a group of 6 contractors finishing the entire renovation within 8 days to minimize the lost from shutdown.
Letter of Recommendation:
Since my supervisors are my parents, they could not write the letter of recommendation. Could I ask a customer, who has known me and come to our restaurant since we opened, to write a letter of recommendation? For the other recommender, is it appropriate to ask my supervisor from the biotech company that I worked more than 10 years ago? The other possibilities: the current professor or members from Toastmaster.
Career goals:
I have been working in the restaurant since I was a kid. There are so much other things to learn and challenge myself beside serving food. So I want to use MBA as a platform to propel to a different career. There are two paths that I’m considering. The first field that I’m interested developing my career is the health care industry. As an undergraduate, I decided to study in the field of science because I wanted to improve people’s quality of life. After graduating from college, I had a great experience working in the biotech company. So it makes the most sense to go into the health care industry.
The second field that I think I would enjoy doing is consulting. I love solving challenging problems and, since I have lots of experience working in the customer service, I have great people skills. The more I learn about consulting as a career, the more passion I have. However, since I have a low GMAT score and I’m older than most other candidates, if I write business school essays explaining my career goal to go into consulting, it may be a more difficult task than if I were to write an essay explaining my goals about health care industry.
I want to do the full time MBA program because I believe the summer interim will be crucial to help me transition into a different career.
Extracurricular activities:
Since the restaurant open six and half days a week and I have to work there during that time, I don’t have a lot of free time to do any extracurricular activities. So this is an area that will hurt my application. I plan to join Toastmasters over the summer.
Alternative transcript:
I will be taking two classes from UCLA extension to help overcoming my low GMAT score:
Mathematics for Management
Business Applications of Calculus
First choice target schools:
UCLA
Cornell
Duke
Other target schools:
Michigan (Ross)
USC
Indiana
Texas (McComb)
Notre Dame
Thanks for reading. I would appreciate any advice you could offer.
Age 37 male
Born in Taiwan, US Citizen
I’m a first generation immigrant and I will be the first person in my family to get a graduate degree.
I plan to apply to business schools this fall in R1 and R2.
GMAT 660 Q47 V35 IR4
I have surpassed the GMAT lifetime limit, so unfortunately I can not take the test again. My highest verbal score is 36 and my highest quant score is 49, but I was not able to get those scores on the same test. My most recent test is 640 Q49 V28 IR5, which I canceled it. Should I reinstate that score so that the Adcom could see that I have scored Q49 twice?
GPA
Community college 4.0
UCLA science major 3.0 (I got straight A in the last 3 classes to improve my overall GPA above 3.0)
Work Experince
After graduating from college in 2003, I worked in a Fortune 500 Biotech company as a manufacture associate for about two years. I was training new employees within the first four months. Unfortunately, I had to quit because of an injury unrelated to work.
Ever since then, I have been working in my parent’s restaurant. It’s a small restaurant with only 6 employees. Basically, I’m responsible for managing the overall daily operation. I’m also responsible for recruiting and training new employees. The restaurant is not a multi-million dollar business, but it has been in operation for over 30 years.
When I first started working in the business, I built a website to expand our customer base and increase our brand recognition. The second major project that I initiated was remodeling the restaurant’s dining area by using a $15,000 budget. I lead a group of 6 contractors finishing the entire renovation within 8 days to minimize the lost from shutdown.
Letter of Recommendation:
Since my supervisors are my parents, they could not write the letter of recommendation. Could I ask a customer, who has known me and come to our restaurant since we opened, to write a letter of recommendation? For the other recommender, is it appropriate to ask my supervisor from the biotech company that I worked more than 10 years ago? The other possibilities: the current professor or members from Toastmaster.
Career goals:
I have been working in the restaurant since I was a kid. There are so much other things to learn and challenge myself beside serving food. So I want to use MBA as a platform to propel to a different career. There are two paths that I’m considering. The first field that I’m interested developing my career is the health care industry. As an undergraduate, I decided to study in the field of science because I wanted to improve people’s quality of life. After graduating from college, I had a great experience working in the biotech company. So it makes the most sense to go into the health care industry.
The second field that I think I would enjoy doing is consulting. I love solving challenging problems and, since I have lots of experience working in the customer service, I have great people skills. The more I learn about consulting as a career, the more passion I have. However, since I have a low GMAT score and I’m older than most other candidates, if I write business school essays explaining my career goal to go into consulting, it may be a more difficult task than if I were to write an essay explaining my goals about health care industry.
I want to do the full time MBA program because I believe the summer interim will be crucial to help me transition into a different career.
Extracurricular activities:
Since the restaurant open six and half days a week and I have to work there during that time, I don’t have a lot of free time to do any extracurricular activities. So this is an area that will hurt my application. I plan to join Toastmasters over the summer.
Alternative transcript:
I will be taking two classes from UCLA extension to help overcoming my low GMAT score:
Mathematics for Management
Business Applications of Calculus
First choice target schools:
UCLA
Cornell
Duke
Other target schools:
Michigan (Ross)
USC
Indiana
Texas (McComb)
Notre Dame
Thanks for reading. I would appreciate any advice you could offer.
19 May 2017, 13:00
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