Wharton 申请者的长期目标怎么都差不多那！

刚才wharton的论坛的帖子， 好像我也让这位兄台有点生气。呵呵。

Repeat after me:

Wharton really does NOT have an ideal application.

Wharton really does NOT have an ideal application.

Wharton really does NOT have an ideal application.

You may not believe this, and go ahead and write BS in your essay that you don't believe yourself, but the lack of passion often shows through to adcom (even if they don't explicitly work out that you have absolutely no intention of starting your own business).

Seriously, adcom are NOT evaluating you on what your goals are. Rather they are looking for the clarity with which you articulate those goals (whatever they are), and what you think are the steps to achieve those goals (and how you think an Wharton MBA fits into this). The discussions amongst adcom really do NOT center around 'I'd recommend we admit this guy, if it weren't for the fact that he says he wants to be a career I-banker'.

Incidentally, I vaguely recall a statistic that amongst HBS graduates 20 years out from graduation, about 60% are running their own business. (I can't remember a source for this, but if someone out there can point me to it, I'd be grateful). I've never seen statistics of this nature with respect to Wharton, but I don't imagine it would be hugely different. I think it is more a factor of talented and motivated people often wanting to run things their way and not answering to someone else, than any preference of adcom. (Incidentally, Wharton adcom does not keep any aggregate statistics on the 'what' of people's goals).

Certainly, I didn't write anything about starting my own business in my application essay, and they still admitted me.

Stick to your own story, rather than trying to template someone else's. In the end, it will sound more passionate and convincing, and ultimately that is what matters.

FF

在此谢谢各位的解释，终于搞明白了一个疑惑。

多谢！

明摆着cicilla告诉我们她进wharton,没有说要创业的

以下是引用shouyang12在2006-8-20 18:28:00的发言：

明摆着cicilla告诉我们她进wharton,没有说要创业的

本来就是如此

从来没听说过什么LONG TERM GOAL一定要是创业才能进BSCHOOL的荒谬论调

我觉得在CD上是要多礼让的。

很希望塑造一个和睦相处的环境！

谢谢！

if you guys have questions not answer there, you can go to Wharton's student 2 student discussion forum. at least give your some answers out of Chinese people's logic. no hurt to try.

Good luck to everybody who is applying to Wharton, who is in Wharton and who graduated from Wharton.

It is not necessary to say you want to build up a business. You can say you want to become a CEO of a company.

一般N人都脾气大点，不过人家N么。