In @ Kellogg JD-MBA (+ application experience)

asap

thank you for sharing these experiences,Zonia~

And I'm just wondering why you chose to apply these four schools instead of other B-Schools, such as Harvard,Stanford or Yale？

：）

cvc

非常怀疑LZ offer的真实性. Top law school mid-80% GPA range: 3.7-3.9, complete GPA range: 3.5-4.0, 3.1拿JD完全是天方夜谭．
cvc,
1) law school admits primarily fresh graduates with top scores. Business schools take professionals. JD-MBA programmes take the latter, and so worry less about grades.
2) this just goes to show you that scores (GMAT, GPA, etc) are not really that important. Instead of just 怀疑 LZ, there might be something to learn here.
Congrats LZ. Obviously UChic is a way better sch than NW, but whatever makes you happy <- UChic AB'08 speaking

zonia

非常怀疑LZ offer的真实性. Top law school mid-80% GPA range: 3.7-3.9, complete GPA range: 3.5-4.0, 3.1拿JD完全是天方夜谭．

-- by 会员 cvc (2010/3/28 14:48:09)

I'm quite disappointed while i see such post. Frankly, I simply wants to share my experience, so to reveal my stat (3.1/700 is nothing to be proud of) and make things easier to understand.

I don't want to respond any further to such naive comments. Anyone wanna ask question or share my experience might send me a private message and i'll give you my contacts there.

I welcome any questions from choosing schools / profile evaluation and others... Just to serve as a return from all the support from CD i received in previous year.

piaopiao633

cvc太过分了吧...大家都是来交流学习的...好好一个帖子...

ElegantMan

谢谢Zonia的信息! 丰富的背景+清晰的职业目标，祝Zonia早日实现自己的short term 以及long term goal!

huhuorbobo

Hey Zonia,

First of all,big cong on your getting into your dream school!!

Second,hope this won't bother you much,I actually hv similar background as you.2+years with big4 and also running family business part-time.Hv been studied and lived abroad as well. I'm applying this year,so hope that I can learn more from you.So hope you don't mind if we can talk online?

Here is my msn/email:huhuorbobo(A) hotmail.com

I totally understand that you must be very busy,just let me know when you are free..

Thanks a lot in advance and big cong again!!!

My Background

I presented my stats in earlier post, and my work background is Big 4 + entrepreneurship (totally 4 years).

Big 4: My experience ranged from IT auditing, internal auditing to financial auditing... also seconded to a few other function like M&A consulting and Chinese Liaison...
(I do encourage big 4er to try to expand your horizon, in different industries and functions, it is hard to differentiate yourself if you are simply "an auditor")

Entrepreneurship: Several entrepreneurial projects and family business... (Part-time / Ad-hoc, unpaid basis)

My reflection:
Planning in advance for MBA application is really a good way, think before you move... what do you learn? what do you want to do? When you know these and move with reasons, your stories would simply speak for you...

I do agree that work experience is very important and I believe the "rationale" why you choose the job, and "experience" what you learnt from the job are the key of it... I'm quite sure you'll come across many questions from essays / interviews on these areas.

-- by 会员 zonia (2010/3/27 17:14:53)

blur1997

OP, just a quick question, what undergraduate institution did you attend? In addition, did you take the LSAT? Congratulations!

zonia

Thanks ElegantMan / huhuorbobo / blur1997

Blur1997... I attended an US public university. I didnt take LSAT (and lucky that NU Kellogg JD-MBA doesnt require so)

blur1997

Zonia, did you do a secondment in Transaction Services when you referred to M&A?

zonia

Yep... Trx service team