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zxsteven

以下是引用zhqijia在2007-8-13 14:53:00的发言：

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！

If I were in your shoes, I would not say anything regarding this low GPA issue unless I could provide some real stories; for example, I was running an on-line business when I was in college, and the business was so successful that it took too much of my study time. I was so ambitious at that time to expand my business, as a result my GPA turned out to be very low. At the end, my business was not in good shape due to my lack of business education and capital; but I gained a lot more than my classmates in terms of entrepreneur spirit and communication skills. Though my GPA was very low, I still made it to one of the top auto companies in China by my excellent communication skills and problem solving capabilities. Those chief engineers saw my potential through my experience, not just by those numbers shown on my GPA.

Above story is just for your reference, please do not use it if you do not have similar experience.

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-8-14 8:23:27编辑过]

selina_huang

曾经在一些文章上看到Darden侧重于招一些有consulting 或banking 背景的学生。我是general management背景，MBA毕业后仍然想在GM或HR方面发展。请问，我是不是不适合申请Darden？

zxsteven

以下是引用selina_huang在2007-8-22 16:37:00的发言：

曾经在一些文章上看到Darden侧重于招一些有consulting 或banking 背景的学生。我是general management背景，MBA毕业后仍然想在GM或HR方面发展。请问，我是不是不适合申请Darden？

Darden is a General Management school, so your background is perfect.

abcd1234ef

怎么选校— Sciece and engineering 背景

Engineering 
and science 背景, 半导体物理， 国内一流大学本科，美国二流大学博士，美国一个国家实验室guest researcher,
现在是第三年，学术上还可以，文章发得也还不错，有几个IEEE的awards，
也可以回国找到个不错大学的教职，但是始终感觉一辈子只做这么一件事有点觉得可惜，自己感觉性格上开朗，自信，communication and
organizing skills 不错。觉得在回国之前应该尝试一个MBA, 得到一些general management的训练，将来除了在
academia 的环境中还能有除了学术上的成就，或者在大的半导体公司担当R&D management类似的职位。上个月考了GMAT,
770。 托福99年考的653。在美国生活了8年，希望大部分的学校能够waive掉toefl. phd的老板和现在的老板同意写推荐信。
现在准备申请资料。

关于选校希望nn们能有些建议，或者有类似背景的人能够互相交流一下。谢谢。

这是我发的一个general post, 想特别问一下Darden的同学，我这个背景似乎不适合Darden的侧重点, after reading the entire 52 pages post？想问问在那里的同学有什么insight.

因为现在工作的地方就在离Darden ~2 小时的车程，所以Darden是one of my preferences.......所以想问一下我适合申请Darden么？

yorkzhong

以下是引用abcd1234ef在2007-8-25 1:03:00的发言：

怎么选校— Sciece and engineering 背景

Engineering 
and science 背景, 半导体物理， 国内一流大学本科，美国二流大学博士，美国一个国家实验室guest researcher,
现在是第三年，学术上还可以，文章发得也还不错，有几个IEEE的awards，
也可以回国找到个不错大学的教职，但是始终感觉一辈子只做这么一件事有点觉得可惜，自己感觉性格上开朗，自信，communication and
organizing skills 不错。觉得在回国之前应该尝试一个MBA, 得到一些general management的训练，将来除了在
academia 的环境中还能有除了学术上的成就，或者在大的半导体公司担当R&D management类似的职位。上个月考了GMAT,
770。 托福99年考的653。在美国生活了8年，希望大部分的学校能够waive掉toefl. phd的老板和现在的老板同意写推荐信。
现在准备申请资料。

关于选校希望nn们能有些建议，或者有类似背景的人能够互相交流一下。谢谢。

这是我发的一个general post, 想特别问一下Darden的同学，我这个背景似乎不适合Darden的侧重点, after reading the entire 52 pages post？想问问在那里的同学有什么insight.

因为现在工作的地方就在离Darden ~2 小时的车程，所以Darden是one of my preferences.......所以想问一下我适合申请Darden么？

It might be not easy if you don't have any business world experience. But it always doesn't hurt to try. Since you live so close, you can just make appointment with adminsion officer and talk to them face to face.

zxsteven

以下是引用abcd1234ef在2007-8-25 1:03:00的发言：

怎么选校— Sciece and engineering 背景

Engineering 
and science 背景, 半导体物理， 国内一流大学本科，美国二流大学博士，美国一个国家实验室guest researcher,
现在是第三年，学术上还可以，文章发得也还不错，有几个IEEE的awards，
也可以回国找到个不错大学的教职，但是始终感觉一辈子只做这么一件事有点觉得可惜，自己感觉性格上开朗，自信，communication and
organizing skills 不错。觉得在回国之前应该尝试一个MBA, 得到一些general management的训练，将来除了在
academia 的环境中还能有除了学术上的成就，或者在大的半导体公司担当R&D management类似的职位。上个月考了GMAT,
770。 托福99年考的653。在美国生活了8年，希望大部分的学校能够waive掉toefl. phd的老板和现在的老板同意写推荐信。
现在准备申请资料。

关于选校希望nn们能有些建议，或者有类似背景的人能够互相交流一下。谢谢。

这是我发的一个general post, 想特别问一下Darden的同学，我这个背景似乎不适合Darden的侧重点, after reading the entire 52 pages post？想问问在那里的同学有什么insight.

因为现在工作的地方就在离Darden ~2 小时的车程，所以Darden是one of my preferences.......所以想问一下我适合申请Darden么？

With a PhD in EE, you are very unique: if you come to  Darden, you are propably the only one PhD in the 300+ class. There was a Chinese student at Darde with PhD degree several years ago, and he is very successful. R&D experience in high-tech field definitely places you in a spot that most others can not compare to; in recruiters'eyes, you got to be very smart to make through your prior career. Anyway, just do more research and find out what you want to do postMBA, I believe with your profile, you can make it to any top school as long as you prepare your application package well.

You do not need to retake the TOEFL, among top 15 schools, only Duke and Kellogg require a TOEFL for everyone (but you still can apply for a waiver given your experience in the USA). Good luck.

小小米

Darden 毕业后去buy side, portforlio management 的多么？

 

abcd1234ef

Thanks Steven and York for answering my questions. I feel very encouraged.

Darden will be the first school I go out and see in next week's word mba tour in DC. Then I will probably schedule a class visit after that. Hope I can meet you guys in the campus.....

jackiexieqia

Does darden offer full scholarship? Any Chinese student from Mainland received?

yorkzhong

以下是引用jackiexieqia在2007-9-4 22:47:00的发言：
Does darden offer full scholarship? Any Chinese student from Mainland received?

Yes, there's a entrepreneurship scholarship covered all tuition. Last year (08) no one from China received it, I am not sure about this year.

Besides that, there're some other scholarship Darden is offering, although some of them are not full scholarship. One of them is "Darden China Scholarship" which is for Chinese student ONLY, as far as I know, this might be the first scholarship in top school that targeting CHinese student.