Current Student
Joined: 27 Jun 2008
Posts: 101
Schools:R1: Kellogg WL, Haas WL, Fuqua, Darden R2: Wharton
WE 1: Biotech Strategy
WE 2: Health Economics
Which (if any) Second Round Schools to Add
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11 Nov 2009, 15:51
Profile
Age: 27 (28 at matriculation)
White male
GMAT: 740 (Q48, V44) AWA: 5.5
GPA: 3.09 top 30 school (Psych major, Entrepreneurial Leadership minor)
Work Experience: 4 years at two different health economic consulting firms. Promotions at both. I’ve published in business and scientific journals. Just designed and taught a workshop in Paris to about 350 people
Post MBA: Pharma company
Extracurricular:
College:
4 years varsity cross country, indoor track and outdoor track
Volunteered for the school depression/self help/suicide hotline
Post School:
4 years with the Big Brothers program. The first two years I spent as an active big brother but my "little" has since moved away. I am now on the Big Brothers young professionals’ board and chair the new membership committee.
Have a relationship with a local high school where students email me projects and I send them out to friends who review the work. I also am a grant judge at the school
Round 1 School:
Kellogg: I think I put together a pretty good application. Made a good connection with a professor. Interview was so so at best.
Berkeley: Prob my best essays but a little short on the personal connections
Duke: Going to submit tomorrow. Essays feel good. Interview went well. Really loved the school.
Darden: Felt the essays were a bit constricting but came out well. Made a very strong connection with a professor (planning research together regardless if I go or not)
So, I want to put one or two more applications in. Kellogg feels like a long shot at this point. Berkeley a bit less. Feel that Duke could go either way and feel good about Darden
Round 2:
Sorta lost here. I don't think I need a lower safety net but please correct me if I'm wrong. I'd like to take another shot at a top 10 school but I don't know where my limit is. I am thinking of applying to two of:
Wharton (healthcare)
Columbia (healthcare)
Ross (unlike the top two, may actually get in)
Stern (no reason, prob a good sign not to)
UNC (don't want to but anyone think I need it?)
UCLA (may get in but I'd go to Duke over UCLA)
Literally any feedback would be great. I'm very thick skinned so feel free to tell me I need to add 8 more safeties.