HELP

chipmunk

以下是引用chenholan在2003-12-14 1:19:00的发言：
wiht 2 years work experience at Merrill Lynch Hong Kong, will that help?
please give me advice, i really want to get in Harvard.  That's my goal.

It's hard to say based on what you listed. It's not just about job position or brand name, it's more about what you're actually doing, your career aspiration/vision, etc.

funnytiger

ML HK two years? well, you seem to fit the bill for any top 10 B schools in US

I think your chances are better than 1% at least

write up a nice essay, concerntrate on the knowledge you have on Great China Market. With your IB background, you will make impression

just in case, get NYU as a safety school

tsljz

for HBS, try your best to deliver essays to show your leadership and your leadership trajectory.

feifeifeifei

No hurt to try. Why not? It's your dream! The worst thing will be that you are dinged and you lose 200 bucks.

Daring mighty thing! I support you! But you really need some very impressive stories and work very hard.

Good luck and don't forget to share your good news if your dream come true.

Shuzhen

以下是引用chenholan在2003-12-14 1:22:00的发言：
what excatly they want from my family background?  money?
it seems too vague..

If your father is a billionaire, that is not a bad thing to Harvard, they will hug you into HBS.

If your parents are from different culutures, say, one Japanese, one Frenchman, that'll also be very impressive.  because you are brought up in cultural diversity.

if you have an upgoing family business, and you are going to take over your father's position soon to develop your family business, even planning to offer IPO, that's equally impressive.

If your parents are diplomats and your family has been travelling in the past 20 years, your experience will catch the eyeballs of HBS admission officers, too.

there're so many ways to be impressive.

funnytiger

shuzhen, are you serious, or just kidding?

no way is HBS this hard to get in, and if it does, people are going to sue the pants off them.

remember you can sue anybody with conspiracy in US....

Shuzhen

maybe u are already at HBS or know a lot of HBS alumni.  

u may think that i'm kidding.  but i'm just giving examples how family background could be impressive in different ways. 故事各有不同，只要独特就行。

but actually besides the billionaire possibility, many applicants may have more impressive background than the 3 other possibilities:这三个例子不难作到啊。

(1)parents from different culutures-brought up in cultural diversity. 世界上至少有几千万这样的家庭吧

(2)upgoing family business-to develop your family business 有家族企业的更多

(3)parents are diplomats-travels a lot 上海就有一两千外交官了，世界上至少也有几千万这样的家庭吧

当然还有无数别的可能。

last year HBS admitted 2 americans from shanghai. one is U.S.-educated german who speaks perfect Chinese. the other has extremely interesting experience plus a Chinese wife.

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Emilydong

chenholan加油，我知道能够在ML挣扎两年不是容易的事情，你想你都能够在那种恶劣的环境中生存下来，应该可以有很多很好的故事的，你是analyst/ banker/ sales?　加油，没问题，如果ｈｂｓ是你的梦想，你就应该做下去。　

wxh7314

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