[求选校] 美本大四,创业者. 选MBA校

kennyz1120

Hello,

Let me list out a few key giveaways here.

1) It is good to know you are part of a profitable business at such a young age, but remember, your MBA application is all about YOU. What have you done? What leadership roles have you taken? What contributions have you made? What challenges have you taken on? This leads to the ultimate question: why you need a MBA, and how that can help you? Your argument should be backed by details and evidence.

2) You may want to justify your career goal. Prior to managing your startup, it seemed you wanted to dive into IB. Not sure which Citi division you interned with, but clearly EY is not IB.

3) Your GPA is much lower than AdCom would typically expect for business majors. It is not a decent score even if you are studying at highly competitive schools. You need to justify this as well, especially you have literally no post-graduate full-time working experience.

4) Final advice: take some time and reflect on the question "why MBA". You do have an interesting background, but I do not see too many of your qualifications here.

Best,

-- by 会员 kennyz1120 (2013/1/22 3:11:19)

关于我的GPA我觉得是唯一的弱点, 只要additional essay写一下, 解释清楚就好了.  我去Stanford 问过了, 他们是说, 他们喜欢看到一个人的成绩在进步,  我的成绩恰好是这样的.   他们建议我写一个additional essay 就好.


谢谢你的建议.

-- by 会员 yunalyx (2013/1/22 6:01:58)

Any time. Stanford admits single digits (<5) college seniors each year, and you might want to take a look at 2+2 class profile to benchmark yourself while crafting your school list.

You need a really solid story to make your application stand out.

Good luck.

prince2246

创过业而且还赚钱了，我看可以试试商学院啊

yunalyx

创过业而且还赚钱了，我看可以试试商学院啊

-- by 会员 prince2246 (2013/1/22 13:40:34)

肯定是商学院啊!!!!!
难道要去申医学院么.... 哭....

mally

还是有些背景，再考虑吧

infinitie

我觉得LZ放心大胆地去申吧 前面很多回复说实话有点酸
不用看别人的profile来benchmark你自己，想好自己想去什么学校，然后try your best去包装自己。进B-school最应该具备的能力就是如何去sell你自己。GPA不高这个是事实也无法再改变，但是每年GPA不高进top的人都不少，关键是你怎么去突出自己的其他成就和给出合理的解释。
希望LZ成功

kennyz1120

我觉得LZ放心大胆地去申吧 前面很多回复说实话有点酸
不用看别人的profile来benchmark你自己，想好自己想去什么学校，然后try your best去包装自己。进B-school最应该具备的能力就是如何去sell你自己。GPA不高这个是事实也无法再改变，但是每年GPA不高进top的人都不少，关键是你怎么去突出自己的其他成就和给出合理的解释。
希望LZ成功

-- by 会员 infinitie (2013/1/23 14:39:57)

Easy my friend. You are not getting the point.
If OP received nothing but compliments here, how can he possibly improve?
And I am not saying my words are gold.
Every year there are a few young entrepreneur candidates at his age in the pool,  with better backgrounds.
He needs to dig deep and figure out his own game plan.

balabalabo

我一直有个疑问，目标创业的，在2年MBA中间的那段SUMMER INTERN时间里，究竟应该去干嘛呢？？

Karmalot

这样还读什么MBA啊，洗刷本科不是名校的耻辱？

-- by 会员 fatmoe (2013/1/21 2:40:23)

其实是这样的，名校人脉资源是我需要的。

-- by 会员 yunalyx (2013/1/21 10:10:23)

一句话，Why now?

JonFrank

Soo First of all with such a great GMAT and such a successful business, you are one of the few candidates that would have a REAL shot in R3. Your school list is great and totally makes sense. I might add MIT to the list and maybe Kellogg if they appeal to you. Apply to as MANY schools as you can in R3, because even if you are a strong candidate, it still is R3 and nothing is guaranteed!

So go for it! And let us know how you do!

Jon Frank
HBS 2005

viennawong

楼主条件太好了，想申就申吧， 这里都是打工屌丝，不能给你像样的意见。