Sloan 2004 Applicants

siebel

以下是引用tsljz在2003-9-6 6:01:00的发言：
:-) sieble brother, there are difinetely a lot of good schools out there. The reasons why people want to reapply is that:
1)some schools are reapp friendly, like wharton. (others not though, like harvard and stanford)
2)reapplication shows your dedication to the specific school and schools like that. So if you get improvement since last year, you may get better chance to be admitted. Again, this applies to the reapp friendly or at least not reapp-against schools.

tsljz

大家对於sloan的第二篇文章"new idea"有什么见解？重点是什么？什么样的new idea比较合适呢？technical方面的可以吗，不过比较难以衡量benefit，因为可能是大系统里面的一块。

mango

Yeah,
Still trying out figure out why I was dinged by all the schools I applied last year.Now I am running out of choices now, have to reapp to some of them.
750+, 5 yr financial service, post MBA position, & sleek essays, what the hell went wrong?

tsljz

mango, from your background, it is hard to tell what went wrong. Maybe you are just competing with too many financial guys.

tsljz

plus if you got dinged by all schools, there must be something wrong with your essays.

mango

I have a couple of friends who are HBS graduates(americans), they helped me review my essays last year. One thing that impressed me most is how they helped me changed the tone of my essays, it is all about "ME, ME, ME". Maybe that sounds too aggressive. It might work well for HBS, but not for others. I really don't know. I applied for second round last year, but this time I will try first round and see if it will make a difference.

tsljz

以下是引用mango在2003-9-6 21:06:00的发言：
I have a couple of friends who are HBS graduates(americans), they helped me review my essays last year. One thing that impressed me most is how they helped me changed the tone of my essays, it is all about "ME, ME, ME". Maybe that sounds too aggressive. It might work well for HBS, but not for others. I really don't know. I applied for second round last year, but this time I will try first round and see if it will make a difference.

yeah, that may be a problem. The tone is really important. And the perspective of a problem is also important.

In fact, I believe we need to adapt our essays to each school, both style and tone.

monet

Are there other top-20 MBA schools (in addition to Sloan) that favor the tech background?

Which schools are more interested in candidates with higher degrees such as PhD in Engineering and Science assuming the candidates have the same number of years working experiences as those with only undergraduate degrees?

mango

CMU, UT austin, if one got his Ph.D in the U.S, wharton, Chicago(every year they take a couple of people with Ph.D+several year's industry exp). H/S/Columbia might be a long short since they favor younger applicants.

tsljz

please notice that CMU does not provide loans for international students without co-signer.