我觉得我是很适合Duke的，不知道Duke看我那里不顺眼。 XDJM 看看我的问题在哪？
年龄：34
GMAT: 760
GPA: 85/100
BS: Chemical Engineering
MS: Chemistry and Statistics
Work: 1.5 year in China IT, 7.5 year in US Biotech + IT
Essay: so so. Actually I found several grammer errors after submission
大家当成一个不成功的案例吧。对后来的也能起点帮助。
我觉得年龄稍微有点大。Essay写得很一般。On campus interview的表现还可以。
面试的时候有追问对学校的contribution,我没准备好，瞎答了一起。
Very possible. Your background is more suitable for EMBA rather than full-time MBA, and the admission comittee doesn't think it is a wise investment for you to quit your decent job to pursue a career change. You may call the office and check what is the reason behind.
我的背景怎么会很强？被录取的才是强人。
Since I have been in the Biotech IT area for many years, I applied for Duke's Health Care concentration. My short-term goal is to work for business development at major pharma and my long-term goal is to found a biotech/pharma directed software company.
Maybe too much stretch here.
Very possible. Your background is more suitable for EMBA rather than full-time MBA, and the admission comittee doesn't think it is a wise investment for you to quit your decent job to pursue a career change. You may call the office and check what is the reason behind.
The Duke admission office offers review sessions in June-July next year. I will try to sign up for that.
I agree I am more suitable for the EMBA. I am seriously considering that approach next year. Thanks Madben.
If you're not happy with your essays and interview performance, chances are, they weren't incredibly impressed either and thought that you were not taking their application seriously, hence lack of commitment to the program.
Very good point, zyesandiego.
Duke MBA will help my short-term, not long-term goal. There are some gaps between my goals now looking back at this.
I am holding off R2 application to Wharton. One year should be enough to prepare for Wharton 2007.
If you're not happy with your essays and interview performance, chances are, they weren't incredibly impressed either and thought that you were not taking their application seriously, hence lack of commitment to the program.
感谢yaoyao99的指点。我当时是被GMAT冲昏了头脑。没把essay太当回事。
咱们知错就改，明年又是一条好汉。
Hee hee, just making a wild guess based on the information you provided here.
You've got a great profile and an even better attitude. I'm sure with a set of thoughtful essays, schools would be begging for you to consider their offers next year, =)
Hee hee, just making a wild guess based on the information you provided here.
You've got a great profile and an even better attitude. I'm sure with a set of thoughtful essays, schools would be begging for you to consider their offers next year, =)
yaoyao: you are so kind.
I realized I am ill-prepared now and need a long time to prepare. You should apply when you are really ready. A rush application will spoil the fun. 
MBA Application is a rewarding process for me. It teaches me to be self-aware and appreciate life.
Oh, this might be useful to fellow applicants:
The health care concentration at Duke MBA requires a second interview. I missed that one and didn't follow up with the health care concentration director (sent one email back and totally forgot about that). However since some people received offer without an interview, this step is not critical. Still this may be useful for people applying in the next round or so.
The Duke healthcare application process is the same as that of normal MBA program. On the application website, there is a checkbox to mark your intention for the healthcare concentration. You need to be admitted to normal MBA first to be considered for health care concentration. There is an extra interview for the healthcare concentration as I mentioned above.
In addition, you need to gear your essays towards why you want to enroll in the healthcare concentration. There is no seperate essay on that topic though.
别再等一年了, 赶紧申请WHARTON, 明年就更大了.
Hi Leopon,
It seems to me that if you want to switch to HSM, your background is not that strong. I'm not sure about Duke's HSM, but for Wharton HSM, all applicants have very strong background in this area. Most of them are directors and senior managers in small to medium health care related companies.
Although you've been working in biotech company for 7+ years, however, your major role is biostatistics or clinical DBA (my guess 
). You really need to polish your essay to show your good understanding of business operation. And I don't think your age is your major problem.
Try to find out the answer from Duke, I believe you'll be fine next year.
被DUKEding得我好痛！
昨天晚上沐浴焚香...结果看到那份黑糊糊的信当场就崩溃了...原本以为会失眠的，结果一碰到枕头就又睡得口水乱流了...输给我自己！
其实我对整个Duke的package还是蛮满意的，包括面世。不过人家不要我也是可以接受的！看到LZ如此强人...不由心中本能的阿Q一下了...呵呵
咬咬牙，继续坚持...生活还要继续，不是嘛！
在此祝贺各位成功的CDer,也与其他和我一样的失意人共勉之：这部车太挤了我们等一下班吧！
被DUKEding得我好痛！
昨天晚上沐浴焚香...结果看到那份黑糊糊的信当场就崩溃了...原本以为会失眠的，结果一碰到枕头就又睡得口水乱流了...输给我自己！
其实我对整个Duke的package还是蛮满意的，包括面世。不过人家不要我也是可以接受的！看到LZ如此强人...不由心中本能的阿Q一下了...呵呵
咬咬牙，继续坚持...生活还要继续，不是嘛！
在此祝贺各位成功的CDer,也与其他和我一样的失意人共勉之：这部车太挤了我们等一下班吧！
楼上的真幽默,顶一下!
Very good point, zyesandiego.
Duke MBA will help my short-term, not long-term goal. There are some gaps between my goals now looking back at this.
I am holding off R2 application to Wharton. One year should be enough to prepare for Wharton 2007.
Don't need to wait that long. Columbia has 18-month program deadline Aug 07.
Hi Leopon,
It seems to me that if you want to switch to HSM, your background is not that strong. I'm not sure about Duke's HSM, but for Wharton HSM, all applicants have very strong background in this area. Most of them are directors and senior managers in small to medium health care related companies.
Although you've been working in biotech company for 7+ years, however, your major role is biostatistics or clinical DBA (my guess ). You really need to polish your essay to show your good understanding of business operation. And I don't think your age is your major problem.
Try to find out the answer from Duke, I believe you'll be fine next year.
呵呵，偶觉得这个比较有道理，除了“有质量的工作经验”之外。我觉得所谓“优势”和“主流申请人”是相对的，就在近几年，W招过高尔夫球背景的，K招过一个护士。我觉得楼主的背景在DUKE的TYPICAL BACKGROUND里真不一定算强的，但如果在MICHIGAN，CHICAGO，也许他们正想招几个DIVERSE 背景的人，可能更有竞争优势，如果来年再战，不妨考虑一下申请策略——在加强ESSAY之外
好运！
MBA是一个工具。要挖 career goal 这个大坑用工具快一点。可能是 Duke 看我都挖了半天了，挖得手上的茧子都出来了，觉得就不用给我一把铁锨了。
被DUKEding得我好痛！
昨天晚上沐浴焚香...结果看到那份黑糊糊的信当场就崩溃了...原本以为会失眠的，结果一碰到枕头就又睡得口水乱流了...输给我自己！
其实我对整个Duke的package还是蛮满意的，包括面世。不过人家不要我也是可以接受的！看到LZ如此强人...不由心中本能的阿Q一下了...呵呵
咬咬牙，继续坚持...生活还要继续，不是嘛！
在此祝贺各位成功的CDer,也与其他和我一样的失意人共勉之：这部车太挤了我们等一下班吧！
听到有申请Wharton五次才得门而入的。革命尚未成功，同志仍需努力。
照当时情况回答就好了。
我添的时候有Darden, 当时准备要申请的。不过后来也没有递上去。计划赶不上变化。
看来不少申请health care的，让我想起了独木桥。。。
Hi Leopon,
It seems to me that if you want to switch to HSM, your background is not that strong. I'm not sure about Duke's HSM, but for Wharton HSM, all applicants have very strong background in this area. Most of them are directors and senior managers in small to medium health care related companies.
Although you've been working in biotech company for 7+ years, however, your major role is biostatistics or clinical DBA (my guess ). You really need to polish your essay to show your good understanding of business operation. And I don't think your age is your major problem.
Try to find out the answer from Duke, I believe you'll be fine next year.
I was a happy camper in the IT filed until this June. After I decided to go for biz school this summer, Initially I thought a good GMAT will carry me through. That may be true for 2nd tier MBA schools, but for top 10 schools, they never lack applicants with high GMAT scores. I believe biz school is looking for people on the management track with potential. If a candidate doesn't possess such quality, he/she should show solid attempts in amending such deficiencies. Those attempts includes but not limited to leadership in community efforts, taking business-related courses, acquiring business-related certificates (CFA, CPA, etc). I realized this too late and therefore don't have strong material in my essays.
I did learn plenty from this experience. Now I begin to really like the business aspects (for my long-term goal) and I am looking forward to fill myself up on accounting, marketing and finance knowledges. For people with similar interests, we can have a business book-club to collaborate and educate ourselves. MIT open course is a good place to get started. The Sloan courses are listed there and we can get textbook information and course syllabuses.
加油，我觉得这个industry很好的。
Thanks buddy.
Good luck to your application.
I work at the IT department of a biotech company. My responsibility is project management
and development for internal software requirement.
You don't need healthcare background to enroll in Duke HSM program.
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