Wharton WG2011 take questions

flyauto2009

When will admission activity be held in China?

bigbenzhang

怎么光看到问问题，没有回答啊？是不是都单独回答的？

G：720，5.5， T：112 （28、28、27、29）都是一战

我看到CD上的人的分数都好高，想问下想申HBS和wharton这样的学校，我是不是该把G考高点？时间比较紧张，个人是不想考的，就是不知道有没有必要。请斑竹enlighten me...

Many thanks...

jameszhengyu

问一下lz,本人是国内大学的硕士毕业,如果申请美国的mba,是提供本科的学历学位和成绩单还是硕士的?谢谢

cannedpineapple

mydejavu> the recommendations are due on the same day as the application. However, we give the applicant more leeway for these because we know they are often not entirely in the applicant's control. To tell you exactly when they will be due would be tantamount to giving you a new deadline. And there is no new deadline, so we will not do this. The deadline remains the same as for the application, but we reserve the right to give you more leeway for this. You're taking a risk.

FotiniLin> List all scores the way you received them. List all courses, including non-majors. They show a variety of things, as you have mentioned- broad interests, etc. Read this to see how Americans view transcripts:


http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/transcript/

flyauto2009> There had been a few events in the summer, but there will be more over the end of December and start of January.

bigbenzhang> The main things we look for are leadership potential, intellectual ability, maturity, self-awareness, and other 'intangible skills'. The GMAT, TOEFL, recommendations, essays are all not 'criteria', but merely factors by which we try to measure where you place on the true criteria. So if you think you're fine, don't worry about what others have. This is particularly true for test scores. The difference between a 600 and 700 is far greater than that between 700 and 800. With 600, we worry you may truly not be able to reason critically well enough. For 700 and 800, we think that with a little harder work you probably could have gotten a perfect score. No big deal. More important is the breakdown between verbal and math, again so we can be sure you have the broad-based analytical ability in both sections that will help you succeed. Generally, >80% on both is a good sign you can focus your energies elsewhere.

jameszhengyu> Both.

louis_huang

official toefl 成绩单在deadline 之后寄到没有关系吧？
只要在deadline 之前有self-report toefl成绩就可以了？

cannedpineapple

louis_huang> yes.

cll0503

Hi, I have a question about the course: I know Wharton is famous for its world-class and systemic finance training, does it have any courses or programs about non-profit organizations? I haven't found any more information except for WIVP from the website.

cannedpineapple

Check out the social enterprise fellowship, and the non-profit board leadership programme.

http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/mba/leadership-in-action/leadership-programs.cfm#enterprise

http://www.whartonnpblp.org/

You can also take courses outside of Wharton. At Penn, there is an entire masters programme on leadership for social change:

http://www.npl.upenn.edu/grid.html

yangdw0215

我是一个新CDer，对MBA一直心向往之，有几个弱弱的问题想问一下，请前辈NN们帮忙解惑，谢谢了。
我是国内一般重点院校毕业，本科，大学成绩可以用很差来形容。在国内一家石油企业的下属公司工作已经4年，财务工作。想问一下Wharton要求GPA在多少？如果很差可以弥补吗？还是直接拒了？另外想了解下学费怎样？读完MBA的全部费用要多少？贷款是否容易，如何偿还？

yougushizi

Thank you forproviding the highly informative instructions!

Could you please give me some advice about my application to Wharton?

Here I would like to introduce myself. I graduated from Tsinghua University in 2008, with a GPA 87 out of 100. Since I was majored in accounting, I chose to begin my career as a public accountant in a famous accounting firm, a firm among the "BIG FOUR". To improve my professional competence, I dedicated to obtain both CICPA and CPA Australia certifications within two years. In the past two years, owning to my hard work and outstanding audit conducts, I was named "Excellent Staff" of my company.

I took the TOEFL exam last December and got a result of 109, composed by reading 28, listening 30, writing 29 and speaking 22. I am confidence to say I can handle study in English since I had once studied in University of Sydney in Australia for half a year in 2007 as an international exchange student. I also got five HDs (which mean"Highly Distinction", about top 8% of all candidates for a specific subject) out of six CPA Australia subjects including one highest mark among allChina mainland and HK area candidates. However, since my working load is so high that I got too limited time to prepare the Gmat exam carefully, I only get a 680 with Q51(98%) and V29(52%). I saw Wharton prefer the ones who have both Q and V above 80%, so I am worried about my Verbal is not sufficient for my application. I had just appointed a second test on 8th September, and I hope I can achieve a higher mark (I am not sure that I can achieve 700 next time, butI will try my best).

In 2009, I together with a few friends started a small business providing printing service and DIY T-shirts in our campus. I took the role of a financial consultant while my partners focus on daily operations. Though our capital is limited, the cash flow is good and we have a good profitability.

I apply for a MBA program to enhance my general management skills,and I believe by learning from the best I can prepare myself to be a futurebusiness leader.