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1smile

我觉得你不用担心quantitative的方面。GPA的问题你可以在附加的essay说明，也不会成为什么大障碍。只要你的essay写好了，gmat过了700，我觉得申请就能比较顺利了。

祝你好运。

zhqijia

谢谢1smile，你是Darden的学生么？

1smile

對的我是Darden的學生。這個版里面回答問題的不少是Darden在讀生。歡迎大家提問！

zhqijia

谢谢1smile，你的鼓励又燃起了我申请Darden的勇气，希望能成为你的校友

zxsteven

以下是引用zhqijia在2007-8-7 17:11:00的发言：

本科专业EE  

GMAT 740（V40,M50）, GPA<2.5(50% in class, 3.0以上我们班只有15％，惨。。。) Advanced programer cetification

  5+ W/E in automotive industry, title: service engineer/team leader.

项目经验丰富：沈阳华晨，一汽海马，广西玉柴，南昌江铃，上汽大众，二汽东风。

concentration: GM

GPA是个硬伤，也无法补救。请教各位校友Darden有多care low GPA。

我应该怎样convince admissions 我得quantitative skill is enough？ 毕竟机电专业的数学要求和文科不一样啊。。。

谢谢大家指教

Your GPA is really a concern when you present your application package (I am sure you are in the lower 10-20 percent range), but as you said, there is nothing you can do at this stage to work on those numbers; you got a decent GMAT, which shows your intelligence, and your experience looks pretty good (but not sure if you were in a pure engineer role or a cross-functional role, the latter role would be more attractive).

You do not have to worry too much about quan skills, because Americans never challenge your quan skills when you have engineering background. As an engineer, you need to focus more on how you develop leaderships in teams, how much business sense you have, and how you communicate with different people. As an international as well, you need to convince adcom that you are pretty good in the English-speaking environment, and you enjoy presenting your points and listening to others in the same time.

Given your background in the auto industry, I would also suggest you adding the Ross
            School at U of Michigan to your list; they have more connections to that industry in the state of Michigan.

 

cowboystone

请问一个short-term career goal问题：

我的背景是5.5年美国半导体业工程师，EE Master's，有两个短期目标选项：

1。毕业后直接回国做咨询，因为有语言优势，但是需要自己找工作。

2，毕业后在美国做咨询，没有语言优势，但是on-campus recruiting可以帮助。

我想请问，那一个更让adcom信服？

非常感谢，这个问题困扰我有一段时间了。

zxsteven

以下是引用cowboystone在2007-8-10 1:29:00的发言：
请问一个short-term career goal问题：

我的背景是5.5年美国半导体业工程师，EE Master's，有两个短期目标选项：

1。毕业后直接回国做咨询，因为有语言优势，但是需要自己找工作。

2，毕业后在美国做咨询，没有语言优势，但是on-campus recruiting可以帮助。

我想请问，那一个更让adcom信服？

非常感谢，这个问题困扰我有一段时间了。

I assume you are talking about Management Consulting; the recruiting process is a little bit different depending on where you want to work: If you want to get back to China, every one from top B-schools send resumes from website, and those MC firms will select some candidates and send a recruiting team to US (Philly, NYC or Boston) to conduct case interviews, so you are in the pool of Chinese MBAs from top 15 schools; If you want to get a MC job in the USA, you definitely need put more energy on networking with those firms visiting campus, and you also need to perform well in the case interviews. Either way sounds reasonable, and it is your personal call where  you want to go. I do not think adcom will challenge this topic.

cowboystone

Thanks for the prompt reply!

yorkzhong

以下是引用cowboystone在2007-8-10 1:29:00的发言：
请问一个short-term career goal问题：

我的背景是5.5年美国半导体业工程师，EE Master's，有两个短期目标选项：

1。毕业后直接回国做咨询，因为有语言优势，但是需要自己找工作。

2，毕业后在美国做咨询，没有语言优势，但是on-campus recruiting可以帮助。

我想请问，那一个更让adcom信服？

非常感谢，这个问题困扰我有一段时间了。

Dido with what Steven says. One more thing: Career goal is your career goal, you don't have to make up a goal that "sounds" reasonable. Digging out your own passion, and answer the simple questions: why do you want to do this? Why can you do this?

zhqijia

以下是引用zxsteven在2007-8-9 11:49:00的发言：

Your GPA is really a concern when you present your application package (I am sure you are in the lower 10-20 percent range), but as you said, there is nothing you can do at this stage to work on those numbers; you got a decent GMAT, which shows your intelligence, and your experience looks pretty good (but not sure if you were in a pure engineer role or a cross-functional role, the latter role would be more attractive).

You do not have to worry too much about quan skills, because Americans never challenge your quan skills when you have engineering background. As an engineer, you need to focus more on how you develop leaderships in teams, how much business sense you have, and how you communicate with different people. As an international as well, you need to convince adcom that you are pretty good in the English-speaking environment, and you enjoy presenting your points and listening to others in the same time.

Given your background in the auto industry, I would also suggest you adding the Ross
   School at U of Michigan to your list; they have more connections to that industry in the state of Michigan.

 

谢谢你的回复，Ross 我也会申请。我是cross-functional role，也可以称为project manager，只不过我们工作中不这么叫罢了。有海外工作经验，和德国公司打交道最多。

就如同你所说，我的GPA在申请者的pool中处于lower 10％。有人说不要解释，解释的话反而让Adcom注意到你的弱点。不过我认为还是需要解释的，毕竟adcom一定会对这个数字进行关注的。但我一直发愁怎么在optional essay里向adcom解释这个事情，应该怎么说才能比较让人能接受呢？说我们系打分很严－我们这届是很罕见的低分？说我参加课外活动－我是校棒球队的成员？会不会adcom觉得我是在找借口呢？

十分希望zxsteven能给点意见看看怎么表述这个问题比较好。

很少看到有文章关注Low GPA的问题，看来像我这样境况的人很少啊！