Darden - Wahoowah!

cnvictory

有几个问题想请教一下：

1、Darden的MBA课程是否有major/concerntration?

2、Darden的consulting方向有什么特色课程或活动？如conference或forum.

3、consulting club是否有case competition?如有，是哪些公司赞助的？

4、如果大学的gpa不到3.0,工作时间超过7年，是否需要解释一下？如是，在第四篇essay中解释可以吗？

5、What are you passionate about and why? (100 words or less)*网上的题，请教考察点是什么？工作中还是生活中的？

万分感谢！

[此贴子已经被作者于2006-12-31 22:47:43编辑过]

yorkzhong

以下是引用cnvictory在2006-12-31 21:28:00的发言：

有几个问题想请教一下：

1、Darden的MBA课程是否有major/concerntration?

In first year, most courses are core course that everyone need to take, through you can choose three electives in the 4th quarter. In the second year, all courses are electives, basically you can choose any course you are interested in, and thus to have a "major".

Darden did list sevreal "concerntration" including management consulting, general management, marketing etc. My take on this is, just select whatever courses you need or are interested in.

2、Darden的consulting方向有什么特色课程或活动？如conference或forum.

We have a OCI(Opportunity Consulting Inc.) can provide chances for first year student to form teams as consultant, to help local small entreprise.

For courses, since Darden emphasie couses from general management perspect, so I think it can help when you do consulting interview.

3、consulting club是否有case competition?如有，是哪些公司赞助的？

We do have one case competition sponspered by Deliotte. There're several other case competitions, but those are not consulting related.

4、如果大学的gpa不到3.0,工作时间超过7年，是否需要解释一下？如是，在第四篇essay中解释可以吗？

If not too far away from 3.0 I don't think you need to explain. At the most use one to two sentence to explain a little bit. Anyway it's 7 years ago, which really doesn't matter too much. Also if you have a good GMAT score it can help.

5、What are you passionate about and why? (100 words or less)*网上的题，请教考察点是什么？工作中还是生活中的？

万分感谢！

I think you can talk both about professional or personal life. Generally I think you can think of the whole essay as a package about different aspects of yourself. So, if you have some aspects which is not mentioned in the major essays, you can talk about in here.

Probably if you have talked all abour professional experience in other essays, you can use this essay to talk about personal and/or social activities.

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-1-1 12:40:18编辑过]

luckyapple

谢谢TANZI,我觉得DARDEN的校友真的很NICE,HOLIDAY时还这么耐心的回答我们的问题,真希望以后能见到你们啊

cnvictory

谢谢york!

再请教一下：essay#1:

Why is an MBA a critical next step toward your short- and long-term career goals? (500 word limit)

why school和career progression都应该提到吧？500字如何分配这几部分内容更合理呢？

再次感谢！祝新年快乐！

Why is an MBA a critical next step toward your short- and long-term career goals? (500 word limit)

why school和career progression都应该提到吧？500字如何分配这几部分内容更合理呢？

再次感谢！祝新年快乐！

yorkzhong

以下是引用cnvictory在2007-1-1 19:03:00的发言：

谢谢york!

再请教一下：essay#1:

Why is an MBA a critical next step toward your short- and long-term career goals? (500 word limit)

why school和career progression都应该提到吧？500字如何分配这几部分内容更合理呢？

再次感谢！祝新年快乐！

Why is an MBA a critical next step toward your short- and long-term career goals? (500 word limit)

why school和career progression都应该提到吧？500字如何分配这几部分内容更合理呢？

再次感谢！祝新年快乐！

Why is an MBA a critical next step toward your short- and long-term career goals? (500 word limit)

why school和career progression都应该提到吧？500字如何分配这几部分内容更合理呢？

再次感谢！祝新年快乐！

是的需要结合你的career  goal和career progression，建议多看范文，勤写，多找高手指点。

宝宝和贝贝

以下是引用cnvictory在2007-1-1 19:03:00的发言：

谢谢york!

再请教一下：essay#1:

Why is an MBA a critical next step toward your short- and long-term career goals? (500 word limit)

why school和career progression都应该提到吧？500字如何分配这几部分内容更合理呢？

再次感谢！祝新年快乐！

Why is an MBA a critical next step toward your short- and long-term career goals? (500 word limit)

why school和career progression都应该提到吧？500字如何分配这几部分内容更合理呢？

再次感谢！祝新年快乐！

Why is an MBA a critical next step toward your short- and long-term career goals? (500 word limit)

why school和career progression都应该提到吧？500字如何分配这几部分内容更合理呢？

再次感谢！祝新年快乐！

1.  Why is an MBA a critical next step toward your short- and long-term career goals? (500 word limit) (Required)

This is the goals essay for Darden. Where are you at? Where do you want to go? And how will an MBA (specifically a general management MBA from a case method school) help you to achieve both your short-term and long-term goals. Slant the essay to show fit with Darden's general management, case-method program structured around study groups and teams.

that's one admission consultant's interpratation of Darden essay one's approach. From my personal experience, I focus on three things: summarize my career progress but not spend long paragraphs on it, focus on my career goal's fit with Darden's general management and my personal fit with Darden's case method.  you make the judgment on how many words of each part. But definitely you should mention progression since it's where you career goal comes from and do a lot of research to show your fit with Darden's GM and case method. Happy new year and Good Luck.

BTW,头像里的狗狗好可爱，是你家的吗？

cnvictory

谢谢YORK！谢谢宝宝和贝贝！

希望今年在Darden见到二位！

LOGO是俺家的宝贝，有机会给大伙SHOW一下。呵呵。

maureenxu

我从早晨到现在一直在上darden的网站，就是上不去，其他学校都没问题，请问是darden的问题吗？其他同仁目前上网状态如何？谢谢！

yorkzhong

I tried and did get in. And I found below interesting staff...

http://www.darden.edu/podcasts/series.asp

The first interviewee is my classmate! A world-cup shot put champion.

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-1-3 22:31:17编辑过]

boscong

以下是引用cnvictory在2006-12-31 21:28:00的发言：

2、Darden的consulting方向有什么特色课程或活动？如conference或forum.

Along the line of York's answer, we do have 2 consulting forums.  Right in the 2nd week of your first year, there is a Consulting Career Discovery Forum where people from different consulting firms will come and talk to students interested or don't know what consulting is.  And about 1 month before resume drop for consulting jobs, there would be a consulting forum for students to interact with recruiters through cocktail, dinner & seminars.  These 2 are official darden forums on consulting and there are numerous opportunities offered by individual firms.  I believe you will get the required exposure and knowledge you need for consulting jobs in Darden.