请大家提提建议

k2

Going to apply for 2004 fall.

Stat:

Gmat:750
Toefl: 643
GPA: Amazingly low( around 2.3,ranking top 25%,Kind of like that). Graduated from a top enginering school in China 8 years ago. The grading policy is so strict that nobody,I guess, in my class could possibly have reached 3.1 or 3.2 on GPA.
Age and: About 30, male.
WE: 8 years in IT industry.Used to be the country manager of a small US IT company(fortune 1000).
Extra: Not very much.

Target schools(not decided): HBS, MIT,Kellogg,Chicago or Dartmouth, Virginia,Yale, Austin, Emory.

Am I too old for HBS? I know they like young guys.

Any advice? Thanks in advance.

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迅捷

要看你的职业计划了，以后想干什么。

不过，哈弗就是仁者见仁，智者见智了。２００刀的申请费，不便宜啊。如果是ＩＴ的话，ＣＭＵ也很不错啊。当然，我是鼓励你申请Ｄａｒｄｅｎ的。不过，ＩＴ不是Ｄａｒｄｅｎ的强项。

迅捷

忘了说一句，我不是牛人。不中听的话，当我没说过吧。

k2

Thank you.

I can feel HBS is too stretch for me. Maybe just try to see if i am lucky.

Are you in darden?

k2

各位对这些学校有何看法?

HBS, MIT,Kellogg,Chicago or Dartmouth, Virginia,Yale, Austin, Emory.

谢谢.

迅捷

嗯。

mbacn02

Yeap, you need to tell us what is your career goal and then we may have some suggestions. You maybe need some good luck to get into HBS, but for other schools, if your essays are quite touching and convincing, you'll make it.

k2

多谢各位.

To mbacn02:

我的career goals是:

A.continue my career in IT industry, seek for management positions. OR
B.Management Consultanting, IT or high-tech

问题就在于,写一篇quite touching and convincing的essay是多么的不容易.: (
另外,你认为GPA并不重要吗?

谢谢.

k2

to 迅捷,

great! I will definitely apply to darden. any tips?

  

mbacn02

I believe you are at a better position in terms of your industry focus because IT industry is the least industrial group in which companies will be biased for foreign students duriing the recrutings. Those top 10 names and west coast schools will help you out.  However, if you want to target Management consultings, you'd better to focus on top 10. Only a handful consulting firms hire people for their China offices. McKinsey, BCG, Bain, ATKearney.and Monitor. Each class, probably 20-25 people will get in given the base that around 100 mainlanders go to top 10 each year. BTW, i didn't say GPA is not important, instead, I say essay is more important. Anyway, you cannot change your GPA, why not just focus more on essays.