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12 Oct 2009, 17:40
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Hello,
Here are my basic statistics
Age: 27
Undergrad: 3.76 Electrical Engineering, Michigan
Grad: MS, Electrical Engineering, Michigan
GMAT: 700 (49Q 36V)
Work Experience: about 4 years: 2 years at a big telecom company as an engineer, 1 year at a startup that eventually failed where I was one of the first hires and became leader of a small team, and now about 1 year doing technology consulting projects for the US military.
EC: I don't have anything stunning here to add on my application, I am pretty involved with the Michigan alumni association in terms of high school recruiting and mentoring and am in a road racing club.
My MBA interests are actually quite different from the typical fields of finance and management consulting in that I am looking to stay in the high-tech industry in fields like strategy, product management and marketing. For that reason I picked out schools in the top 15 that have coursework specific to the high tech industry. I came up with the following:
Sloan, Kellogg
Note that I am ruling out Ross since I already have 2 Michigan degrees.
I am wondering 2 things - Do I have any chance of getting into Sloan or Kellogg? And are there any schools I missed that I should consider, taking into account my interests?
Thanks in advance.
Here are my basic statistics
Age: 27
Undergrad: 3.76 Electrical Engineering, Michigan
Grad: MS, Electrical Engineering, Michigan
GMAT: 700 (49Q 36V)
Work Experience: about 4 years: 2 years at a big telecom company as an engineer, 1 year at a startup that eventually failed where I was one of the first hires and became leader of a small team, and now about 1 year doing technology consulting projects for the US military.
EC: I don't have anything stunning here to add on my application, I am pretty involved with the Michigan alumni association in terms of high school recruiting and mentoring and am in a road racing club.
My MBA interests are actually quite different from the typical fields of finance and management consulting in that I am looking to stay in the high-tech industry in fields like strategy, product management and marketing. For that reason I picked out schools in the top 15 that have coursework specific to the high tech industry. I came up with the following:
Sloan, Kellogg
Note that I am ruling out Ross since I already have 2 Michigan degrees.
I am wondering 2 things - Do I have any chance of getting into Sloan or Kellogg? And are there any schools I missed that I should consider, taking into account my interests?
Thanks in advance.
12 Oct 2009, 18:50
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First, I wouldn't pick schools based on the specific coursework alone. In fact, even when you do get to b-school, you should pick elective courses based on the quality of the professor, because you'll learn far more from a great prof (not necessarily "great" in terms of "renowned" in terms of research, but "great" in terms of teaching ability) than you ever would from a mediocre prof who is teaching what on paper could be an interesting syllabus.
The reason is that regardless of whether it's called "telecom industry strategy" or "hi tech management" or simply "strategy" -- there is a lot of overlap in terms of the underlying wisdom and knowledge that the profs are trying to convey.
The most valuable thing you can get from b-school isn't industry specific "knowledge" but a framework or way of approaching business problems in *any* industry.
With that in mind, if you're looking for a post-MBA career in technology, you'd be wise to target schools that are near tech hubs - because MBAs tend to settle down around the schools they graduated from (i.e. the majority of alums from an east coast school will be clustered in the east coast). However, if you're more industry focused than geographically focused, then the schools you really should focus on are Sloan and Berkeley. Beyond that, you should focus on schools that have more students interested in general management and marketing careers, so that would also include Kellogg, Duke and Darden.
If you execute well on the applications, you should be able competitive for these schools - there are no safeties in this group, but if you're confident in your ability to put in strong applications, you may not need safety schools in that list.
The reason is that regardless of whether it's called "telecom industry strategy" or "hi tech management" or simply "strategy" -- there is a lot of overlap in terms of the underlying wisdom and knowledge that the profs are trying to convey.
The most valuable thing you can get from b-school isn't industry specific "knowledge" but a framework or way of approaching business problems in *any* industry.
With that in mind, if you're looking for a post-MBA career in technology, you'd be wise to target schools that are near tech hubs - because MBAs tend to settle down around the schools they graduated from (i.e. the majority of alums from an east coast school will be clustered in the east coast). However, if you're more industry focused than geographically focused, then the schools you really should focus on are Sloan and Berkeley. Beyond that, you should focus on schools that have more students interested in general management and marketing careers, so that would also include Kellogg, Duke and Darden.
If you execute well on the applications, you should be able competitive for these schools - there are no safeties in this group, but if you're confident in your ability to put in strong applications, you may not need safety schools in that list.
