MIT Sloan Q&A 2008

Behemoth

To nqren2007,

Yes you should use the typical format for the cover letter including address and date while addressing it to Rod Garcia. 

cyyp

Dear Behemoth, 各位Sloan大侠，谢谢你们无私地分享经验。

我正在申请R2，最后一个星期就到submission deadline了。有如下问题：

1. 感觉自己的essay字里行间总是缺乏一种激情澎湃的感觉。因为英语不是母语，自然这方面就欠缺些。

Sloan Adcom prefer那些充满绝对自信的wording吗？作为中国人，我总是不太擅长表达那些激情，是不是过于ambitions，enthusasitic的语气也无伤大雅呢？

2. 另外，虽然我大学前三年都取得一等奖学金，但是最后的毕业论文却是比较失败的，只得了D，使得我的GPA比较低（3.01），我看Garcia先生的一篇Chat上说希望在补充论文中说明GPA比较低的原因。但是又看了很多论坛说最好不要“此地无银三百两”，那么到底哪个策略比较正确呢？

谢谢！

seain

Hi Sloaners,

I'm an applicant for 09's LFM program. I just
wonder whether there're some Chinese students in this program before,
and how many of them?
As it's really a competitive program to join,
and I heard that most LFM students are Americans and only a few are
international students, is that true?

Thanks!

summerfallen

各位大侠，
现在正在严重考虑是不是要申请Sloan。有优势也有劣势。
劣势：本人男生，IT开发背景，而且没有在美国工作的经验。Sloan貌似从来没有招过这种人。
优势：推荐人是Sloan的校友Executive Certificate。
To be or not to be.想听听大家的意见。尤其请教一下各位成功者想了解一下推荐人对于申请Sloan来说是不是至关重要，这个重要程度是不是大到可以消除IT背景的劣势。
谢谢。

[此贴子已经被作者于2009-1-6 14:56:20编辑过]

jack00000

想问下各位大侠，现在学校还接受纸托福吗？那位在校的兄弟姐妹能帮我确认下，谢谢。

jimei12345

Behemoth

Just got WL by Sloan,do you know of any current Chinese alum/admits got pulled out from WL? Am trying to figure out the possiblity of hitting the luck by last chance.

Meanwhile, any suggestion on the next step if I need to take actions to follow this up or at least give it a push?

Behemoth

Dear cyyp,

For your questions.

1. I believe every b school prefer confident and enthusiastic individuals, so you need to express that in your essays as well. I would recommend you to have some native English speakers to proofread your essays to improve on that.

2. I would recommend you to follow Rod's advice. Is your GPA out of 4 or 5? If 4, then 3.01 is ok, and you can focus more on your w/e. If 5, then some explanation might be needed. However, in general, GPA is not as important as your w/e.

Behemoth

To seain,

From what I know, there are indeed very few international students for the LFM program. Most of them are native English speakers since the academic workload is a lot heavier too. In my class there were no Chinese students in the program. However, I will still encourage you to apply if you are really intrested in it. It is a very good program.

One intersting thing to add is that one of the "Apprentice" winner was from this program...

Behemoth

To summerfallen,

I think the key question is that whether you are unique enough in the whole package to differentiate yourself in the applicant pool. You just mentioned one side of it - which is w/e.

Though from IT background, as long as you have stellar stories to tell, the adcom will be impressed by you. I think this is true regardless of where you come from and what you work for.

For the recommendation, it's the same. It's another part of the application, but I won't say one can offset another since in the end, a successful applicant needs to be strong in all areas.

Personally, I will still recommend you to apply if you are interested in Sloan. If you don't apply, you don't even have the chance to prove if you are gonna make it right?

Best of luck!

Behemoth

To jack00000,

I would suggest you to conact the admissions office for the answer since I am not sure about it.