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Application Process -- (September 30, 2005)
3. whether there is any Chinese(mainland) applicant who succeeds in getting into/completing the Insurance & Risk Management(IRM) concentration programme. What's his/her background (TOEFL, GMAT, W/E etc.)?
4. As a BA degree holder, I am particularly concerned about my Math/Quantitive skills. Could someone please explain how much this part weights for IRM major? By the way, I am not going to apply for Acturial, but Insurance and Risk Management.
5. As I have a very long working experience, whether I should place some of my accomplishments or achievements on Essay1- the career path to dates.
6. As I have no formal higher education, My GPA is only 78 because I studied all by myself. Whether this score is possible for me to be admitted.
7. Is it mandatory to require ETS send the official GMAT and TOEFL score to wharton before application deadline or I can send them after admission?
Answer--
3.
Actually, you don’t need to decide your major until second year. If your career goal is about Insurance & Risk Management, you just focus on why you choose Insurance and Risk Management as your career pursuit and how Wharton could help you. You can go to Wharton Website, Wharton Journal and Wharton Knowledge, E-Talk to do some research. I know Wharton have a lot of elective courses about IRM, for example,“ Risk Management” and “Pure Risk”. All of course are very good. If you want to focus on IRM, all of these IRM courses are very helpful. We know there are some student who focus on IRM at Wharton.
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According to the background you gave us, your strong quantitive skills will help you a lot to take IRM courses and focus IRM major. We also know some students who are not Math/Engineer background also focus on IRM.
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If you have a very long experience, you might have a lot of accomplishments that you are proud of, but due to the word limits, you’ll have to make a choice on which ones will best highlight your strengths that schools look for (leadership, teamwork, initiative, creativity, persistence in striving for success, etc.) in your essays. That does not necessarily mean mentioning the deals that made more money or that were connected with high-powered names in industry. It is more important that the narration of the accomplishments show how you have grown as a leader/team player/person and what you have learned from it. It is even better if you can show that you used the skills learned from a previous experience to accomplish something.
Essay 1 is basically a way for the admissions committee to get a quick snapshot of where you’ve been, how your career has been progressing, and how your short-term/long-term goals fit in with your history (note that a lot of people in business schools are career-changers, so their goals don’t necessarily fit perfectly with their history). Don’t stress too much whether this is REALLY what your goals are. Many, many people change their minds once they are in business school. The admissions committee basically want to know you have some plan in mind for your career/life (it kind of helps once you actually get in to have some plan to start with). Have goals that are concrete, realistic (but don’t aim too low) and kind of meshes well with your history. More importantly, the essay needs to show how Wharton fits into your short-term/long-term goals, how it can help you get from where you are to where you want to go. It should also show how you would fit into the Wharton culture. From what I gathered last year as I was researching, Wharton is very team-focused, and they would like people who are more collaborative than cut-throat competitive. The key is that they want us to be able to learn to work productively in a team (this is going into Essay 3a).
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Anything could happy if you can show how hard you study by yourself and how great achievement you get by your great efforts .Here, we suppose even 78 is a higher score for you or for people in your shoes b/c you may face some big challenge or you may have some difficult thing happened at that time. Just our suggestion, write something to explain why you have to study by yourself, what is your big challenge you faced and how you overcome all of these difficulties.
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Here is what an ex- admissions committee member, FanaticalFan from Wharton’s Student2Student message boards, had to say on the subject of sending official GMAT scores and official transcripts (dated 09/20/2005):
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“Yes, neither of these are necessary. You get up to 5 free notifications when you take the GMAT, so if you intend to apply to Wharton, you might as well include Wharton then. If you have already taken the GMAT and didn't nominate Wharton as one of those 5, then I'd save the $15 notification fee, and wait until verification.” |
The application explicitly specifies that you have to send the GMAT/TOEFL scores and official transcripts, but it is not necessary. Just make sure you submit the self-reported scores and transcripts. When you are admitted, then you will need to send official scores and transcripts. That is what I did last year.
Good Luck, All First Round Wharton Applicants!
You see the bright green, you see the hope. You see we are here, you know you are not alone.
-- Wharton MBA 2007
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