[求意見] 以我的BG 應該TARGET什麼學校?

yvette726 · 发表于 2014-4-7 19:25:26

大家好我是CD新手

Age: 28
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Chinese American (immigrated to the US 15 years ago)
Undergrad Major - Double majored in Economics & communication
Undergrad GPA - 3.41 overall from Rutgers (My econ GPA was rather low, though, around 2.9x, high honor in Communication)
GMAT: 700 (Q48/V38) (一戰590, 二戰才700)
Work experience: Almost 5 years
Industry - Manufacturing
Extra-Curricular Activities - Practically none, other than recreational sports that I have been playing for two years, in which I am very passionate about. I am now looking for some volunteering opportunities, but would it be too late? Worst of all, would the adcom see that I am just trying to fill my resume and hence, leave a negative impression?

Here is another problem:

From the first day I started at this company, I have always been wearing different hats. Initially, I was hired as a department assistant for my company’s relatively new division. I was doing lots of admin work. After about half a year, I started picking up a bit more in the sourcing area and took trips to Asia to attend trade shows and to participate in the negotiation process with our vendors. My duties in this area remained minimal. Then, in efforts to take on additional duties, I volunteered to share the workload of a different department and self-taught myself AutoCAD, in order to assist them. I also saw room for improvement in that team’s daily operation, so I again, volunteered to develop a new project management platform using SharePoint. This new protocol was very helpful and acted as a perfect solution at the time, and was able to save the team’s time and workload. I did all this while still maintaining my regular duties. Eventually, after another 1.5 years, I stepped down and reduced my workload within this department to focus more back on the division I actually belong to. I have since then been involved more on the supply chain management and operation side of the business.

My biggest dilemma is that, my job title has remained the same (department assistant) and I feel that it doesn’t reflect what I really do. Would this affect my chances of getting into schools like Stern, Columbia, Wharton?

I would like to pursue an MBA to gain more business knowledge and to eventually go into the field of business strategy consulting, particularly in international business/operations area.

我覺得我的工作經驗好爛, 怕沒有好學校會收我..

希望大家可以給我一點的意見 XIE XIE

discursive · 发表于 2014-4-7 19:45:21

觉得楼主挺有意思的。一边怕没有学校收，一边又希望target stern/ cbs/ wharton。呵呵

sorry，美国pool不了解，也就不发表什么意见了

yvette726 · 发表于 2014-4-7 20:04:07

discursive 发表于 2014-4-7 19:45
觉得楼主挺有意思的。一边怕没有学校收，一边又希望target stern/ cbs/ wharton。呵呵

sorry，美国pool不 ...

就是因為自覺條件沒有很好才會怕沒好學校收, 但是STERN/CBS/W還是我夢寐以求的學校

yzlhyht · 发表于 2014-4-7 21:19:03

我觉得你没有希望对于你的目标学校。
你可以查查前10学校的美国pool的学生背景，我自己感觉是大多数人的背景远好于中国申请人。中国申请人还是得益于中国良好的发展形势。

DerMore · 发表于 2014-4-7 21:19:18

I think probably you should slightly adjust your expectation or try harder to dig out something more appealing to adcom...Frankly I could not see either a very interesting point in your resume, or a clear plan for the future.

General reputation matters, but MBA is about finding a good place SUITABLE for ourselves. I appreciate your high aims but there might still be a lot more for you to work on.

yvette726 · 发表于 2014-4-7 21:33:25

DerMore 发表于 2014-4-7 21:19
I think probably you should slightly adjust your expectation or try harder to dig out something more ...

Thanks, I appreciate your honest opinion. I do know that I may have set the bar too high, for what I really have to offer anyway. I guess I am just too caught up with the ranking and reputation, and I can’t seem get it out of my head . If I cannot get into any of the top 16 schools, I will likely apply to a much lower ranked school (#6X), hopefully that’d be a little more realistic.

kirbypink · 发表于 2014-4-7 22:35:33

My personal experience is that do not box yourself in terms of the test scores, GPAs, or even job titles. They surely are very important components in your application package, but remember it's you who you selling. If you don't feel you have a very strong background as in how most people would see, then market yourself, prove to people and the admission committee that you aren't just what your job title and test scores say about you, and that you deserve to go to schools like Wharton or CBS.

Good luck.

yvette726 · 发表于 2014-4-7 23:28:45

kirbypink 发表于 2014-4-7 22:35
My personal experience is that do not box yourself in terms of the test scores, GPAs, or even job ti ...

Thanks Kirbypink. You're absolutely correct, being able to sell yourself is very important regardless of the background.

nautibei · 发表于 2014-4-8 15:17:39

Dear LZ, I grew up in the u.s too, just like yourself but I came here when I was 9 yrs old and currently 32. If you search for my post I have similar background in supply chain but with more experience.

I think your advantage is you don't have to worry about H1B and visa issues. That is about it, this is the sad truth. We immigrant do have English advantage competing with foreigners, but we are no better competing with true Americans. Remeber most ppl are fighting for the same jobs you want after grad school, how can you separate yourself from the crowd,
Remeber, you are your own brand, you are your own product, how you market yourself and what you want other to see you as can go a long way in building confidence, that's where MBA can help.
First of all, you have to have self awareness, which you already identify, instead of focusing of what you're good at, try to identify your weakness because ADcom will ask you the samething given ur background with no upward trend in your five yrs with the company. Ask yourself how can the mba really help you, you already said strategy consulting, you're 28, by the time you graduate you will be 30. Consulting industry, you already will be at disadvantage, can you convince Bain &co, McKinsey or even Accenture to hire you when they can hire top notch young professionals with established tracked records. You have to come back to earth and set your bar not too high. Another thing is how you write your essay. You're applying Wharton, stern. These are all finance heavy brands. But can you seriously handle the course work. Can you handle the rigorous case interview? I'm not trying be negative. You can focus on your current background and convince top 20 school to take you because you think mba will help sharpen your business acuments or you simply can't answer some of the startegic questions at meetings presented by sr. Mgt. Lacking of this skills is one reason you want to go back at this time. I think you will have a better chance convincing them to give you a chance to offer you a seat for them to polish your leadership skills rather than go blind and a fizzy future career goal.once you're in the mba program, what you like'd to concentrate this is your choice, no ADcom can interfere. I hope this would give u a starting point, if you need any advice,you can msg me. My background is in strategic sourcing, global supply chain manager. See hmm background in other post.

danzzz · 发表于 2014-4-8 16:25:24

Hmm...if you could bump up your GMAT by 40 points, you might have a shot for Top10 (small chance for M7, but possible for Tuck or Stern). However, I think your current background is competitive for Top 20 schools (but still, it's better to have a 10 or 20 points increase on GMAT)

Bottom line, it still depends on how you will write your essays and how to connect your past experiences to your future career goals. Job title is not something you need to be too worried about, but you do need to show progressive growth from the past work experiences.

If I were you, I would put one or two Top10 schools as your "reach", 2-3 Top15 as your "competitive", and 1-2 Top20 schools for "safety".

(My background: Domestic applicant; 710GMAT; Econ/Acct from UCLA with 3.2GPA; 5 yrs at Big4 acct in LA/half yr private industry in China; Dinged w/o interview - CBS, Stern, Anderson; In - Ross, Fuqua, Johnson, Tepper)

[求意見] 以我的BG 應該TARGET什麼學校?

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