我的背景， 恳请大家提提意见

作沙发。首先，我不是什么过来人，也是今年打算和楼主一起申请的W的。

老实说，我觉得LZ的经历完全可以申请MBA。工作经验确实不多，但是可以写成story的东西其实还是不少的。而且读了
LZ的自诉，我也感觉到了楼主想读MBA的热情以及为什么想放弃这个Ph.D。楼主的career goal其实也是比较明确的，如果能在essay中表达的更detail一点，再加上你对wharton那个joint-program的兴趣以及理解，我觉得希望还是挺大了。

至于申请普通的MBA还是joint program，我觉得其实那个joint program更适合楼主，也更能和你的经历挂钩。不过joint-program可能难度会高一些吧，这里我就不多出主意了，呵呵。

作为一起奋战W的申友，一起加油吧^_^

谢谢你啊

我没有提到申请joint program啊, healthcare是Wharton MBA的一个major. 都是属于普通的program. 我参加的只是他们的一个学生组织.

我是在为申请那些学校的普通MBA头疼.

如果有牛人能给我一些写essay的思路我就不胜感激了.

GPA under 3.3/graduate 3.5

I plan to take the GMAT at the end of Aug. Aim to get >750

窃以为还是读博士的好， 博士毕业了， 大家都得叫您

Dr.xxx

你要读个MBA，可不能叫MBA xxx

可见博士的名誉比MBA好啊。

A few thoughts.

1. You'll have to work hard to prove your academic ability.  Your undergraduate GPA is not high and you are not finishing your graduate degree. 

2. You'll have to work hard to find a focus.  You can frame your past experience as an exploration process and tie the variety of experiences together with a direction.  I don't know what it is, that's for you to define.  You'll need a higher aspiration and mere interest in consulting/banking is probably not good enough.

3. The activities you participated in during your professional career (you can mention the ones in school but not focus on them) are smaller scoped.  Talking about what you learned (take-aways) and your cross-functional and cross-unit influence (even if each unit/function is small) may help.

4. I won't recommend deciding on schools until you have your GMAT scores.  End of August is a little late.  It puts you in a difficult position of "all or nothing" because you need to budget time for TOEFL as well.

5. Have a good explanation for not completing your graduate degree.

6. Where would your recommendations come from?

Hope that helps!

Thanks a lot!

I can get a MS degree from my department at the end of this year or at very beginning of next year.

Do you think it will help?

I am considering my rec. I can ask my consulting project client to write the rec, and the New Oriental Boss, or pharm intern boss... If the experience in the orchestra can help me to show my leadership, I can also try to get the rec from the president of my college in China. I am also thinking just use my pharm intern in China as my previous working experience(just don't mention it is an intern), then my working experience will be be more emphasized on the HealthCare industry.

What GMAT school do you think is high enough for me? I plan to take TOEFL also around the end of August. I have taken it before, and after living in US for 2 years, I think it will not be very tough for me to prepare.

Thanks again for your time! It is really helpful and inpiring to me.

Thanks lucentlv.

at the very beginning I also think the "Dr. " title is very attractive. But the biomedical research is still very basic, and most of my schoolmates who got their Ph.D. will go on to do the postdoc for 2-3 years. It is also very tough to get into the industry. A lot of the Ph.D. students in Life Science is trying to do the career transition now.

There are lots of Chinese students at Wharton. Why not contact them and talk with them? They may give you some good advice.

I recommend Cicilla, Vicki....but they are in summer holiday now. As I know, Cicilla is now working in healthcare industry. You may try to send them a message here.