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08 Jan 2008, 11:19
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Hi Paul,
First off, thanks for taking the time to answer questions. I apologize in advance for the length of this post, but I would like to get the best assessment possible, so here it goes:
Demographics: 30 year old white male, will be 30 at the time of application
Undergrad: Graduated with BA in Communications and a cum GPA of 2.5 from Ohio State University. This is obviously my big weakness. My explanation is 2 months into my freshman year I experienced some personal issues, which I began self medicating with alcohol. My freshman year I almost flunked out, and from my sophomore year on I managed B and C's. I also worked close to 40 hours a week my last 3 years to finance my alcohol abuse and education. I am actually proud of my degree given my experiences, but it looks terrible on paper. I offer up no excuse; I just handled things terribly.
Post Graduation: I did very well in my first job out of college, which was a management training program for a large company. I received one promotion, exemplified leadership ability with constant sales awards, a marketing award, and holding sales training after work on many occasions for new employees. Unfortunately, the corporate culture was no help to my alcohol abuse. After a couple years I left the company and began a job as a sales engineer at a technology company, properly addressed my problems, and quit drinking cold turkey. I have not had a drop of alcohol in over 3 years, and never will again.
After a year and four months at the sales engineer position I got a job in sales of consumer products, which ties in well with my ultimate goal, to be a product or brand manager of a large consumer product line. I have showed progression in my current position during my tenure here, constantly being given more responsibility.
As for my poor GPA, I have taken night classes at a community college to provide an alternate transcript. I have taken Financial Accounting, along with a spreadsheet lab, Marketing (since that is what I truly want to get into), Selling for Business (to help in my current position), College Algebra, Microeconomics, and Statistics. I have earned A's in all of these.
I have not taken the GMAT yet, but I plan on scoring a 700.
As for leadership, I co-formed and lead a network group when I was in outside sales. I spent countless nights after work helping train people in sales at my first job after college. For the last 5 months I have been a tutor at an adult literacy program (I love to read and like to help people who help themselves), and I have been working on a website to help people who have gone through the same personal issues as I have, which I hope to launch in May. My wife and I are also the organizers for a local meetup.com group.
The last four months have been truly crazy but I have managed to juggle everything at once. I was taking Stats and Econ at night, tutoring two nights a week, and in the midst of my busiest months at work. The net result was 2 A's, helping someone better himself, and a promotion.
My target schools are Harvard (my dream school), Chicago GSB, Northwestern, and Michigan.
How competitive will I be at these top schools?
My secondary schools are Ohio State, Michigan State, and Indiana.
Please let me know your thoughts.
First off, thanks for taking the time to answer questions. I apologize in advance for the length of this post, but I would like to get the best assessment possible, so here it goes:
Demographics: 30 year old white male, will be 30 at the time of application
Undergrad: Graduated with BA in Communications and a cum GPA of 2.5 from Ohio State University. This is obviously my big weakness. My explanation is 2 months into my freshman year I experienced some personal issues, which I began self medicating with alcohol. My freshman year I almost flunked out, and from my sophomore year on I managed B and C's. I also worked close to 40 hours a week my last 3 years to finance my alcohol abuse and education. I am actually proud of my degree given my experiences, but it looks terrible on paper. I offer up no excuse; I just handled things terribly.
Post Graduation: I did very well in my first job out of college, which was a management training program for a large company. I received one promotion, exemplified leadership ability with constant sales awards, a marketing award, and holding sales training after work on many occasions for new employees. Unfortunately, the corporate culture was no help to my alcohol abuse. After a couple years I left the company and began a job as a sales engineer at a technology company, properly addressed my problems, and quit drinking cold turkey. I have not had a drop of alcohol in over 3 years, and never will again.
After a year and four months at the sales engineer position I got a job in sales of consumer products, which ties in well with my ultimate goal, to be a product or brand manager of a large consumer product line. I have showed progression in my current position during my tenure here, constantly being given more responsibility.
As for my poor GPA, I have taken night classes at a community college to provide an alternate transcript. I have taken Financial Accounting, along with a spreadsheet lab, Marketing (since that is what I truly want to get into), Selling for Business (to help in my current position), College Algebra, Microeconomics, and Statistics. I have earned A's in all of these.
I have not taken the GMAT yet, but I plan on scoring a 700.
As for leadership, I co-formed and lead a network group when I was in outside sales. I spent countless nights after work helping train people in sales at my first job after college. For the last 5 months I have been a tutor at an adult literacy program (I love to read and like to help people who help themselves), and I have been working on a website to help people who have gone through the same personal issues as I have, which I hope to launch in May. My wife and I are also the organizers for a local meetup.com group.
The last four months have been truly crazy but I have managed to juggle everything at once. I was taking Stats and Econ at night, tutoring two nights a week, and in the midst of my busiest months at work. The net result was 2 A's, helping someone better himself, and a promotion.
My target schools are Harvard (my dream school), Chicago GSB, Northwestern, and Michigan.
How competitive will I be at these top schools?
My secondary schools are Ohio State, Michigan State, and Indiana.
Please let me know your thoughts.
12 Jan 2008, 13:17
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Pennywise,
Based on what you gave me you are definitely overreaching at Harvard, but I think also at Chicago and Northwestern. The GPA is a major weakness. Your alternate transcript and scoring 700 or hopefully higher on the GMAT would go a long way toward mitigating that weakness, but you also have other negatives: your age, an extracurricular/volunteer profile that looks a bit slight for the top B-schools, no formal leadership (I'm inferring) in your current position, and a sales background, which schools probably don't favor highly. Michigan would also be a longshot though perhaps a more doable one. However, you should be competitive at Ohio State, Michigan State, and Indiana. In fact, I think you could add some schools "between" these three schools and the HBS/Chicago/Kellogg, such as UNC.
Hope this helps.
Based on what you gave me you are definitely overreaching at Harvard, but I think also at Chicago and Northwestern. The GPA is a major weakness. Your alternate transcript and scoring 700 or hopefully higher on the GMAT would go a long way toward mitigating that weakness, but you also have other negatives: your age, an extracurricular/volunteer profile that looks a bit slight for the top B-schools, no formal leadership (I'm inferring) in your current position, and a sales background, which schools probably don't favor highly. Michigan would also be a longshot though perhaps a more doable one. However, you should be competitive at Ohio State, Michigan State, and Indiana. In fact, I think you could add some schools "between" these three schools and the HBS/Chicago/Kellogg, such as UNC.
Hope this helps.
