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【真心求定位】2014北美MBA

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发表于 2013-7-9 16:28:57 | 只看该作者
Wow! What a fantastic GMAT! That will help you a lot dude. Also, working for a very big and honored name like IBM is a very good start. Now, It's a bit hard for me to tell you exactly where you can get into because I am missing information from you: like exactly what your position is, how your performance is, whether you have any leadership experience, how many promotions you have had… and ALL of these things are very important in evaluating your chances.

But I can in general make some suggestions, as your profile DOES seem to be good. You also haven't written me about your goals, but I will assume that you want to continue in your industry but in a  more managerial position. I think that with your grades, GMAT and position at IBM, Tier one schools are possible for you (the schools your list for example)… If you are planning on remaining in Tech, I'd suggest thinking about Tepper, MIT, maybe NYU. Also good top general management programs like Kellogg, Tuck, and Duke can be great programs for you.

I understand your problem about your job, and my suggestion to you would be to include this reality in your strategy. What I mean is that you HAVE TO make sure you get in!!! And how do you do that? Two ways (besides writing amazing applications): 1. Make sure you have some good safe schools in your strategy. I think for example UCLA should be pretty safe for you, and make another good tech school like McCombs. 2. Apply to LOTS of programs. If you apply to 10 programs you have  a lot better chances of getting in that if you apply to five! So, since you have to get in, apply to more rather than less.

That's my vision, in a nutshell, my friend…
If you have any follow up questions, don't hesitate to write us,

Jon Frank
HBS 2005
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 楼主| 发表于 2013-7-10 00:44:51 | 只看该作者
JonFrank 发表于 2013-7-9 16:28
Wow! What a fantastic GMAT! That will help you a lot dude. Also, working for a very big and honored  ...

Hi Jon,

Thanks a lot for this warm and inspiring reply! This is very truly unexpected and I'm very grateful.

I'm providing more background about myself here. I hope you could see this and give me more valuable suggestions.

Education
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore ( Ranked 47 according to QS World University Rankings in 2012)
Dean’s List 2010 (top 1%); GPA: 4.42/5.0 (top 10%, Hons Degree)

Professional Experience
Project lead, IBM Singapore         July2010 – Present
·        Led  a team of 6 containing a mix of developers, test engineers andinformation developers to design, develop and support an enterprise software - XXX which has over 8million end users
·        Assigned as lab advocate from 20+ engineers for IBM business partnersand conducted regular workshops for them to promote the IBM spirit of dedicating toevery customer’s success
·       Continuously provided consultancyfor IBM business partner XXX since 2011, who built a whole anti-virussolution with over 2million users now on top of XXX platform
·       Contributed on XXX sales and support: i)  performed “proof of concept” pre-salesactivities encompass the whole Asia and Australia markets ii) conducted twoglobal tech–sellers enablement sessions for applications developed by my team

I'm also providing constant mental and tuition aid for an 8.0 degree earthquake affected girl from myhometown who lost her dad in the disaster since 2008. I have motivated and guided her to get to her dream university– Xia Men University (Top 10 in China).


Thanks again for your time. I'm looking forward to your next awesome reply ^_^.

- Sharon



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发表于 2013-7-10 15:51:54 | 只看该作者
星星点灯2010 发表于 2013-7-5 14:57
申请MBA,跟找工作,面试或相亲是一样的,很难从一些基本情况就可以判断出概率。你的背景还好,如果能有 ...

楼主的最后一句话”人生的命运其实冥冥中已经注定,你要放下包袱,调整心态,一切自然水到渠成。“很令人鼓舞,谢谢!
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发表于 2013-7-10 16:55:18 | 只看该作者
我想问一下,IT研发工程师的背景好申MBA吗?
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 楼主| 发表于 2013-7-11 00:07:05 | 只看该作者
hahacamel 发表于 2013-7-10 16:55
我想问一下,IT研发工程师的背景好申MBA吗?

首先,我觉得好不好申和你的背景无关。相比而言你的思想你的追求你的梦想对能否申请到MBA起了决定性作用。认真想一想MBA是否适合自己,就像前面有人说的,这跟相亲一样。我相信如果你真的是喜欢MBA喜欢到无法自拔,你一定会像追心爱的女生一样为它做自己能做的一切。而这样就算你最后没有得到MBA,你也一定不会后悔自己这段经历所带来的成长。
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发表于 2013-7-11 09:36:40 | 只看该作者
sher55 发表于 2013-7-11 00:07
首先,我觉得好不好申和你的背景无关。相比而言你的思想你的追求你的梦想对能否申请到MBA起了决定性作用 ...

我不是质疑IT研发工程师申请MBA是否合适,我也是在请教。因为我也是在IT领域,并且处在职位选择的岔路口。我本身对技术并不是特别热衷,但仍然希望从事IT背景下的工作,工作一段时间后通过MBA,走GM方向。所以既然前辈是过来人,就给点建议吧。
不过我仍然觉得MBA是助推器不是必修课,在需要读的时候读,而不能是为了读MBA而读MBA
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 楼主| 发表于 2013-7-11 14:15:44 | 只看该作者
hahacamel 发表于 2013-7-11 09:36
我不是质疑IT研发工程师申请MBA是否合适,我也是在请教。因为我也是在IT领域,并且处在职位选择的岔路口 ...

我肯定不是前辈了,我也是刚毕业在IT工作了3年的程序员而已。我跟你的处境还挺像的,不过我个人是很确定我一定不走技术道路,我想做Product Manager,同时我也确实太喜欢加州了,所以我在申请MBA。所以我觉得还是要想清楚自己想做什么,如果你确定自己很想走GM方向,而不是被这个title或光环所吸引,我当然觉得读MBA是很好的啦。而且去外面见识见识总是有帮助的,只是这个花费不好,自己要衡量是否值得了。
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发表于 2013-7-11 16:07:19 | 只看该作者
sher55 发表于 2013-7-11 14:15
我肯定不是前辈了,我也是刚毕业在IT工作了3年的程序员而已。我跟你的处境还挺像的,不过我个人是很确定 ...

既然你这么喜欢加州,那就申西部的学校吧,上周cd经验交流会上stanford的MBA说东部学校去西部工作非常难。
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发表于 2013-7-11 17:29:49 | 只看该作者
sher55 发表于 2013-7-10 00:44
Hi Jon,

Thanks a lot for this warm and inspiring reply! This is very truly unexpected and I'm very ...

Sharon, great to hear from you!
Now that I have a little more detail I can understand you better, and your situation. I think that my note to you from last time pretty much stands. You have a great company and very good work experience (what would be even better would be if you could get promoted to team lead or something like that, but I guess that's not in your hands ).

So things look pretty good for the schools you mentioned, and now it's just a question of finalizing that school list. For me Haas, Tepper, UCLA, Ross are obvious wins, and then I'd suggest you add 2-3 more (or more if you like) which appeal to you in terms of fit/geography/opportunities.

Jon Frank
HBS 2005
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 楼主| 发表于 2013-7-11 22:33:15 | 只看该作者
hahacamel 发表于 2013-7-11 16:07
既然你这么喜欢加州,那就申西部的学校吧,上周cd经验交流会上stanford的MBA说东部学校去西部工作非常难 ...

恩,加州肯定是我的首选 一起加油吧~
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