Berkeley / Haas - 10-14-2022 | Clear Admit ApplyWire

October 14, 2022 2:55pm ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Columbia, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, Harvard Business School, HEC Paris, HKUST, IE Business School, IESE, Indian School of Business, INSEAD, London Business School, Michigan / Ross, MIT Sloan, Nanyang, Northwestern / Kellogg, NYU Stern, Stanford GSB, Toronto / Rotman, U. Chicago Booth, U. Illinois Urbana, UCLA Anderson, USC / Marshall

Intake Year: 2023

Pre-MBA Career: Assistant Professor of Economics

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Technology, Investment Banking, Media Companies: AT Kearney , Bain , BCG , McKinsey , Barclays , Credit Suisse , Goldman Sachs , JP Morgan , Morgan Stanley , JP Morgan Chase , Amazon , Apple , Facebook , Google , Microsoft , 21st Century Fox , Viacom , Walt Disney

GRE: 325

GPA: 60%

Years of Work Experience: 6.5

Location: India

Post MBA Location: USA

Notes:

I had my post-graduate education in economics before I started my teaching career at a premier university in India. My academic job is tilted more toward teaching than research, and I taught a variety of papers over these 6.5 years. Over these many years, I became more open and enthusiastic about business school curriculum, pedagogy, and how it prepares future managers. The manager role became more appealing to the potential researcher inside me, and I have decided to shift to B-schools for an MBA.

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alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1582 What are your post MBA goals? You list several options, but it’s best to have one focused pathway. Have you applied to any of these programs, or are you planning to apply in Round 2? Unfortunately things will be a little harder in Round 2, if you’re an over-represented candidate, by heritage. Being an economics professor is non-traditional, so you’ll really need to focus on fit, how everything makes sense to get the MBA, etc. You’ll also need to narrow your target list of programs, considerably? (0)

nk22 Likes Earned: 0 Planning to apply in round 2 or 3, Post-MBA goal is consulting. I'm considering selected programs that are supposedly better at preparing candidates for consulting roles. Could you please suggest something regarding the fit, given my background is non-traditional? Also, should I attempt the GMAT aiming for a score in the higher range (725-35)? I want to know if having a higher GMAT score would make things favorable for me or if my work experience and profile would sail me through with a GRE score of 325. (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1582 A higher score will always help, so if you think there’s room for improvement, and you have the time, then do it. Round 3 is going to be very difficult for admissions, Round 2 will already be challenging for someone applying from India. What are your post MBA goals, longer term, beyond consulting? Your GPA, what is your class rank? (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1582 More details on this candidacy in this episode of Wire Taps: https://www.clearadmit.com/2022/10/wire-taps-258/ (0)