工作经验的重要性有多少？Rejected by UC Irvine

Bobbysoft

Background Info:

现就读于管理系，大四，未毕业

GMAT 760, TOEFL : 640

Work experience: 于新东方教授GMAT,GRE and TOEFL  2005.9 to 2006.3, some other internships

Admitted with scholarship from ESSEC

Waiting for news about University of Michigan's, NYU's and Purdue's PhD program (Field of Interest: Operations Management)

Infor on the application for UC Irvine:

Applied for UC Irvine ( I received an email signed by the dean of the school in which I was notified that that based on my exceptional GMAT score, the awards committee had prescreened me for consideration for a  Merage Fellowship, pending my successful application to the full-time MBA program by February 1, 2006) in Jan 2006 and received an invitation for interview in the early Feb. Interviewed in March 1st and rejected today.

The interview was very good, at least in my eyes.

The email received today:

Thank you for your interest in the The Paul Merage School of Business
at the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine).  Your application
for admission has been given serious consideration by the Admissions
Committee.  While your application contained many favorable elements,
regretfully, we are not able to offer you admission to UC Irvine at this
time.

In view of the large number of well-qualified applicants and the
limited number of spaces available, it is not possible to accept all students
who apply or might succeed in the program.  The selection process is
one of identifying those best qualified for a specific graduate program,
based on thorough review of each applicant's file.  The Admissions
Committee carefully considered your academic preparation, work experience,
letters of recommendation, self-evaluation essays, and other supporting
materials.

Although we are unable to act favorably on your application at this
time, we encourage you to reapply for admission in the future after you
have more work experience.

If you would like feedback on your application, please send your
request by post mail to the following address:  Admissions Committee, The
Paul Merage School of Business, GSM 220, Irvine, CA 92697-3125.  lease
note that the admissions office will not respond to feedback requests
received by e-mail or by telephone.

Thank you for your time and interest in pursuing graduate study at UC
Irvine.  Best wishes in your future educational endeavors.


Sincerely,


Gary Lindblad
Assistant Dean and Director, MBA Program
The Paul Merage School of Business

GL/ts

Advice

因此我个人认为是work experience不足的缘故，发此文希望能够对那些和我类似的缺乏工作经验的申请者有所帮助。

[此贴子已经被作者于2006-3-18 13:29:34编辑过]

gonghao

VERY CLEAR REJECT EMAIL WITH STRONG ENOUGH REASON WHICH YOU HAVE KNOWN FORTUNATELY.

jetrong

其实学校也说的很清楚，就是工作经历的问题!

ruppina

you don't really have any background in operations management, why you apply for it?

Bobbysoft

I have some special traits or abilities along with special background, which, honestly speaking, I don't want to reveal you here and that's why I applied for operations management.

gonghao

以下是引用Bobbysoft在2006-3-18 13:29:00的发言：
I have some special traits or abilities along with special background, which, honestly speaking, I don't want to reveal you here and that's why I applied for operations management.

some special traits or abilities along with special background?

Had you shown that special traits or abilities to your interview officer throughly during the interview?

If you don't maybe that's why you missed the UC or what you think is your advantage did not impress him or her a lot.

Working experience is kind of material which can be described as a base from which you can improve your ability with MBA .It is necessary for all kinds of MBA application in most situations.But in some very famous cases from H/B/W which known by all over the world,  the chance of admission by B-school without working experience does not look like mission impossible.It's another side of the coin.So nothing is indispensable in some extent.

So you still have the chance don't give up.

But from personal opinion,it is suggested that more working experence is necessary in your case,half year working experience is not enough at all.

[此贴子已经被作者于2006-3-21 8:37:27编辑过]