Berkeley / Haas - 12-15-2023 | Clear Admit ApplyWire

December 15, 2023 12:06am ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Columbia, Cornell / Johnson, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, NYU Stern, Stanford GSB, U. Chicago Booth, UPenn / Wharton, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2024

Pre-MBA Career: Accounting, Medicine

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Asset Management, inc. HF, Pharmaceutical, Non Profit/SI

GMAT: 740

GPA: 3.74

Years of Work Experience: 3.5

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32M
Non-underrepresented
T20 university GPA 3.74
3.5 year Public accounting
Science Postbacc at state school GPA 3.98
3 year midwest medical school drop out (health reasons due to poor fit in the hospital/clinical environment - too much stimulation and emotional burnout)
GMAT 740
Extracurriculars = nothing fancy; 3x small merit/community involvement scholarships, leadership at student orgs
Immediate goals = ER biotech/healthcare, strategy, Biotech/healthcare Consulting, pharma LDP
Long term goals = ER buyside, climb up the ladder in each respective category

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sctutor912 Likes Earned: 0 Should I even apply to HSW? I don't think my application is that strong. And I would like to receive scholarships if possible as I already have medical school debt. (0)

sctutor912 Likes Earned: 0 I am looking for Equity research - biotech/healthcare, consulting, Pharma LDP, strategy roles currently. Not sure if I should apply to T10-20 instead. (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1586 HSW would be very tough, you’d need to explain the drop-out from medical school, and show strong fit, as an older candidate.

Short term goals with a focus in the pharma/ biotech area should help. Numbers are very good. Showing impact and growth at work will be important. Kellogg might be a good reach, Ross might also be one to consider, not on your list?

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sctutor912 Likes Earned: 0 Thank you for your comments alexbr4. As for your comment, would an explanation that I found myself extremely worried about making mistakes in the clinical environment because what I do had a direct impact on peoples' health so while I felt privileged, I also felt a tremendous weight in always needing to study, always only providing the correct medical information, that led to developing medical conditions, falling performance, and suicidal ideations be enough? What level of information would you say they would be comfortable knowing? I will include ross. If Kellogg is my reach, would you say Booth, Sloan, Columbia are reaches as well, or is Kellogg generally considered more difficult than the others in M7 besides HSW? (0)

sctutor912 Likes Earned: 0 I would also like to add that the hospital environment that is always hyper alert was not an environment that I could not see myself working in comfortably long term. (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1586 I don’t think I’d take that approach. I’d probably discuss the realisation that direct medical care (or what ever is the appropriate term) was not your interest, but the business and innovation of pharma/healthcare/biotech was where your interests developed?

Yes, other M7s would be reaches, too. My point was more that Kellogg sounded like a good fit?

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alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1586 More details on this candidacy in this episode of WireTaps: https://www.clearadmit.com/2023/12/mba-wire-taps-329/ (0)