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April 28, 2026 5:53pm ET
Applying: Harvard Business School
Intake Year: 2026
Pre-MBA Career: Engineer
Post MBA Career: Professional Services
GPA: 2.6
Years of Work Experience: 17
Location: 09:51
Post MBA Location: Massachusetts
10
April 27, 2026 11:39am ET
Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Cambridge / Judge, Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Chicago Booth, Duke / Fuqua, Michigan / Ross, MIT Sloan, Penn / Wharton, Stanford GSB, UCLA Anderson
Intake Year: 2027
Pre-MBA Career: Materials Engineer and Product Manager
Post MBA Career: Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, Retail, Technology
GPA: 3.2
Years of Work Experience: 8
Post MBA Location: Socal
Notes:

34M, Chinese (green card)
Bachelor in Engineering (GPA ~3.2)
Master in Materials Science (Top 30 US school, GPA ~3.2)
3 published papers (Nano Energy, Langmuir)
~9 years experience:
~5 years Materials Engineer
~4 years Product Manager (owning product lines, launching products, cross-functional work)

Goal:

Transition into more strategic / business-impact roles
Long-term target: ~$300k total comp in California
Not interested in IB / consulting

2
April 27, 2026 10:07am ET
Applying: Northwestern / Kellogg, Penn / Wharton
Intake Year: 2026
Pre-MBA Career: Deferred enrollment
Post MBA Career: Consulting
GRE: 332
GPA: 3.75
Location: United States
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April 21, 2026 10:21am ET
Applying: Columbia Business School, Cornell / Johnson, Dartmouth / Tuck, NYU Stern, Penn / Wharton, Stanford GSB
Intake Year: 2026
Pre-MBA Career: Corporate Banking -> fintech startup
Post MBA Career: Finance, Investment Banking
GMAT: 705
GPA: 3.3
Years of Work Experience: 4
Location: NYC
Post MBA Location: NYC
14
April 15, 2026 12:57pm ET
Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Chicago Booth, Columbia Business School, Cornell / Johnson, Emory / Goizueta, Georgetown / McDonough, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, Penn / Wharton, Stanford GSB, UCLA Anderson, UVA / Darden
Pre-MBA Career: Big4 Deals Consulting
Post MBA Career: Consulting, Finance, Commercial Banking, Diversified, Corporate, Management Consulting
GMAT: 675
GPA: 3.72
Location: Marietta, GA
Post MBA Location: New York City
Notes:

Applying to deferred programs this year, would love to hear thoughts on my application.

675 GMAT Focus, 3.723 at Non Target Undergraduate, Finance Major. Decent extra curricular on-campus, for internship experience started college with internship at a small ABL shop, interned sophomore summer/junior school year at a large publicly traded mortgage company doing Risk, interned after junior year at a Big4 doing Risk Consulting for FSOs. Returning FT to same B4 in Deals practice.

Would love to hear thoughts. Thanks.

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