The University of Chicago MBA 2007 taking questions

stevencummings

machinegun,

Thanks for your reply.

"your achievements should be in direct proportion with you age. Otherwise, it is hard for the school to find your potentials. I guess that you will face the same challenge no matter which school you apply."

- In my opinion, to apply for a MBA program, what you've achieved so far is not that important, what do you think about MBA and rational/motivation of why you want to apply is far more important...

From school's admission perspective, to determine an applicant's potential, I would say they rather than looking at your achievements, they pay more attention to your academic skills by looking at your GMAT and other test scores and use these ones as an indicator to judge your potentials.What they really concerned is to make sure the applicant has the potential to complete the program successfully, and they also look at your leadership,(you don't have to be a big boss in order to get admitted into the program). We've seen many applicants with only 3 or 4 years experience or even less got admitted to MBA programs. I wouldn't think a typical admission staff try to find some achivements in an applicant's 1 or 2 pages long resume/essay, and I believe they're not using dual standard to evaluate the applicants' applications. Besides, many applicants with completely different background rather than business or management are hoping/planning to change their career path by completing a MBA program which implies that the experience/achivements they have may or may not helpful to his new plan. As I know, some people came from a pure technical background to study MBA, and got a job in Wall Street doing banking after graduation...

As an applicant who needs to have good enough reasons and strong enough academic skills to let them(admission office) believe you're the right candidate, as you said, age should not be a negative factor.

People come to MBA program is not because they already have amazing achievements, it is because they want to achieve something big in their (near) future - this is what the admission people really interested in.

"My advice is that: show your commitment to Chicago GSB, your uniqueness of your career path, and your ambition and diligency."

- I totally agree.

cheers.

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david_he

machinegun,

thanks your answer so quickly.

LunarLin

我的专业是EE, 大学里每年都拿一等奖学金的,但学校考试难度都极大,所以GPA 才3.25.TOEFL 成绩还未到达,大约在600分左右, GMAT还没考. 象我这个程度有望进Chicago 吗?

mxf288

tuxiaoyang,

1. Basing on the number of mainland admits provided by machinegun, I estimate about 8 admits (I don't know the 1RD and 3RD admits) in the second round here in the US: 4 from mainland, 3 from HK, 1 from Taiwan.

2. Believe me, Chicago GSB admits a lot of applicants with engineering background. I met quite a few such people, mostly from China and India. Some of current student speakers at the admit weekend come from mainly IT industry. I would say engineer is not an underrepresented group at GSB and I think it is also true in other good schools. So in my opinion, you might find it harder to get into GSB not because it doesn't like engineers but because there are a lot of such applicants.

3. I find (only my own feeling) that GSB are trying very hard to diversify its student profile to attract more people who will study concentrations other than finance. As machinegun says, because finance is so prestigious at GSB, it overshadows other majors although they are all very good and competitive. Therefore, I personally think it might be an advantage for an applicant who wants study general management rather than finance.

xsports

以下是引用soundtrack在2005-6-25 9:19:00的发言：

hi machinegun,

I saw your posts earlier, where you put a bracket for investment before banking. "The majority of the students in Chicago GSB are from business background, including but not limited t (investment) banking, consulting, marketing... "

Are you saying that all these banking people are from investment banking? Or you actually wanted to combine people from non-investment banking, say commercial banking, and investment banking together?  It has always been my concern: whether applicants from commercial banking and investment banking are put into the same applicant pool...Do you have any idea as to how many people are from commercial banking in your class? i mean mainland chinese students. and how about these commercial bankers' profile?

Really appreciate your time

Soundtrack! I'm also a new admits of chicago2007. I'm working in commercial bank (CB), but my job is more related to IB.

Although IB and CB are different in nature, b-schools tend to categorize people of the two bkgrounds as one "banking" group.

My personal feeling is that b-school cares about student diversity and would like to admit people with different bkgrounds. So it's needless to evaluate your fitness to the schools simply by ur bkground.

My advice for application wud be to concentrate on app. essays where you can demonstrate ur competency as that's the only chance by which school can know you.

Good Luck!

david_he

mxf288,

Can you help introduce "Some of current student speakers at the admit weekend come from mainly IT industry" to me, I am such a guy with IT backgrounds in Mainland China,I want to know their application strategy to this great school.If possible,contact me with short message.

David

hiandy

各位已经被Chicago录取的老大可否再多介绍一些Chicago GSB与众不同的地方?

zhouziyu800

although now i don't have much time to answer questions here, i'd like to post sth to propagate the excellence of my school

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zhouziyu800

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tuxiaoyang

Thank you, mxf288!