HBS CLASS 2011 TAKING QUESTIONS!

chenhudaxue

那是说2013年毕业。。。2011年入学。。。。

simisaga

感谢各位大牛~有几个问题在之前还没有被问到：
1） 职业目标想法不是很清晰（或者比较普遍），比如咨询转投行之类的，远期做NGO（具体没想好…），是否要美化一下？如何能使之看起来和其他申请者不同？
2）各位对school visit的看法？以及和这个问题相关的，面试地点的选择？（我是在大陆的申请人，看起来上海肯定是一个候选了，但是听说过去campus也会有很好的Exposure,不知各位怎么认为呢？）
谢谢！

sweetcandy_g

请问一下哈佛要求托福一定要109以上吗，有变通余地吗，例如107

yoshimihoku

有人说HBS没有托福考分要求，你去查他们的requirement就知道了

infu

Dear HBSClass2011,

I am a recent graduate and I am fortunate enough to have received offer from mckinsey/bain/bcg. But I also have offers from some small nordic investment banks. My question is, how important is the brand name of your company when applying to elite schools as Harvard? I know that mckinsey/bain/bcg is solid for hbs, but I am a sales & trading person and the banking offer would fit me better. However its only a local investment bank, not bulge brackets. I am worried about the bank itself is unknown in US and hence impair my chance of an admission. As an insider, are the people at HBS2011 with banking background purely from US top bulge brackets and/or MM (such as lazard, greenhill etc)?

chengya

Dear HBS Class 2011,

I have an important strategic question and would like to ask for your advice. The questions is whether I can give a serious shot for Harvard MBA?

My academic background is:  I have a MD (GPA: 4.0) degree. And I got MS (GPA: 3.9) and Ph.D (GPA: 3.9) degrees from Virginia Tech. My MS and PhD major are molecular biology and biomedical sciences.  I published many papers in good academic journals in my area. I attended lots of biggest national and international conference in my research area and gave many talks there and also won some awards too.  Most of the research I did  are from NIH and NSF grants. Above is my academic background.  

My working experiences are following: I worked as a cardiologist for 2 years in China after I finished my MD. I attended some extra-curricular activities during that time, which involved in some management and leadership roles. I worked in American Universities for about two years ( as a team leader in a big lab). And worked in a startup biotech company in Virginia about one year ( as a senior scientist). During the first 3 months when I worked in that industry, I helped the company submitted a NIH small business innovation grant and got it successfully approved.

My long term career goal:  I want to do high level management in big biotech/pharmaceutical industry in USA.  I think my MD, PhD background plus my medical and biomedical working experience will be helpful in this area.

HBS MBA is my DREAMED school(when I was a little girl, I dreamed to go there one day), and actually is the only school I want to apply for.  You can see how much I LOVE it!

My current issue: My GMAT score is not very high ( Q:50, V: 29; total 660).  But I know GMAT is one of the factors to measure a candidate's academic potential. Some friends told me that because I have relatively strong GPA and other  academic background (such as MD/PhD degrees, publication, presentations, etc.), I should be able to balance the GMAT score by those stuff.  Also, I know that every year there are some students were accepted by HBS MBA with a GMAT score beyond around 600.  I am a girl and originally from China with a non-traditional major (hopefully HBS should like these kinds of diversity).

I really want to apply for the 2nd round of HBS MBA (the deadline is Jan. 2011), but really worry about my GMAT score. But if I do have a chance, I will give it a shot. But if I don't have any chance because of the GMAT score,  I have to think about re-take it. That means I may miss this year's application and this is the situation I really don't want it happen.  

Could you please give me some advice or opinion on whether I can give a SERIOUS shot of Harvard MBA this year if I have the essays and other materials prepared very well?.  I need to make a decision asap and then make my plan for the next step.  

.....If I plan to re-take GMAT at the beginning of Dec, do you think it's a better choice. In other words, do you recommend me to re-take the test? If I re-take the test on Dec. 9, I will have about one month left to prepare for all the other stuff in the application package, since the deadline for the 2nd round HBS application is Jan.11.  If I work on them full time and work really hard, do you think I am able to finish all the other stuff in the application package in time?

magickame

I need to ask about 2＋2 MBA program.
Currently I am the college senior student and I still have one more year to graduate.
Am I qualify for the 2+2 program? I called the admission office, however, they said they had no idea about it.

I'm kind of confused.

irisyemao

I would like to ask for advice for almost the same situation.

Dear HBS Class 2011,

I have an important strategic question and would like to ask for your advice. The questions is whether I can give a serious shot for Harvard MBA?

My academic background is:  I have a MD (GPA: 4.0) degree. And I got MS (GPA: 3.9) and Ph.D (GPA: 3.9) degrees from Virginia Tech. My MS and PhD major are molecular biology and biomedical sciences.  I published many papers in good academic journals in my area. I attended lots of biggest national and international conference in my research area and gave many talks there and also won some awards too.  Most of the research I did  are from NIH and NSF grants. Above is my academic background.  

My working experiences are following: I worked as a cardiologist for 2 years in China after I finished my MD. I attended some extra-curricular activities during that time, which involved in some management and leadership roles. I worked in American Universities for about two years ( as a team leader in a big lab). And worked in a startup biotech company in Virginia about one year ( as a senior scientist). During the first 3 months when I worked in that industry, I helped the company submitted a NIH small business innovation grant and got it successfully approved.

My long term career goal:  I want to do high level management in big biotech/pharmaceutical industry in USA.  I think my MD, PhD background plus my medical and biomedical working experience will be helpful in this area.

HBS MBA is my DREAMED school(when I was a little girl, I dreamed to go there one day), and actually is the only school I want to apply for.  You can see how much I LOVE it!

My current issue: My GMAT score is not very high ( Q:50, V: 29; total 660).  But I know GMAT is one of the factors to measure a candidate's academic potential. Some friends told me that because I have relatively strong GPA and other  academic background (such as MD/PhD degrees, publication, presentations, etc.), I should be able to balance the GMAT score by those stuff.  Also, I know that every year there are some students were accepted by HBS MBA with a GMAT score beyond around 600.  I am a girl and originally from China with a non-traditional major (hopefully HBS should like these kinds of diversity).

I really want to apply for the 2nd round of HBS MBA (the deadline is Jan. 2011), but really worry about my GMAT score. But if I do have a chance, I will give it a shot. But if I don't have any chance because of the GMAT score,  I have to think about re-take it. That means I may miss this year's application and this is the situation I really don't want it happen.  

Could you please give me some advice or opinion on whether I can give a SERIOUS shot of Harvard MBA this year if I have the essays and other materials prepared very well?.  I need to make a decision asap and then make my plan for the next step.  

.....If I plan to re-take GMAT at the beginning of Dec, do you think it's a better choice. In other words, do you recommend me to re-take the test? If I re-take the test on Dec. 9, I will have about one month left to prepare for all the other stuff in the application package, since the deadline for the 2nd round HBS application is Jan.11.  If I work on them full time and work really hard, do you think I am able to finish all the other stuff in the application package in time?

-- by 会员 chengya (2010/11/11 1:49:01)

xiaoluoluo

请问GMAT730够嘛？因为听说中国学生不到750基本没戏......

大鱼丸

请问国内政府经济部门公务员背景对申请MBA有帮助么