Cornell / Johnson - 04-25-2022 | Clear Admit ApplyWire

April 24, 2022 9:26pm ET

Applying: Cornell / Johnson, Dartmouth / Tuck, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, U. Chicago Booth, UPenn / Wharton, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2023

Pre-MBA Career: Consulting

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting Companies: Bain , BCG , Deloitte , McKinsey

GRE: 333

GPA: 3.33

Years of Work Experience: 4

Location: Shanghai

Post MBA Location: East cost

Notes:

Education : Undergrad in Biomedical Engineering with 3.3ish GPA (Top 20 Public school , participated many school projects and competition), One-year-master in the same major with a 3.6 GPA in a rural Ivy school.
Career:
During school started a startup in health-tech and moved out to Beijing for 1.5 year, ,eventually killed during the tide of the pandemic & shutdown.
After that , I worked as a product manager for Medtech software local unicorn startup for 1 year and switched to a rising international healthcare boutique consulting company since 2022.
Goal: Planning on working for MBB level or other healthcare focused boutique consulting firms.
Question:
What should I focus on, based on my resume?
Will the following points hurt my competitiveness?
-lower gpa from an engineering major.
-Foreign entrepreneurial experiences specific in healthcare industry

Thank you

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alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1577 The lower GPA can be mitigated, to some extent, by the starting of your business, your grad GPA and excellent GRE. Your profile experience should be an advantage, it sounds like you’ve had very interesting experiences, key is to show impact, and your growth, etc. Be good to know more about your post MBA goals, are you also sticking with the HC sector, for example? (0)

chiway Likes Earned: 1 Thanks for your response. for the post MBA goals, I'm thinking about working in HC or LifeScience sector of Consulting firms (thinking about MBB). My current thread for my growth is that : In school I was eager to make an impact and participated many entrepreneurship projects and eventually brought one to a startup. Later from my failure of startup, I learned that healthcare innovation is not solely driven by technology, but also driven by collaborations of multiple stakeholders (provider, patients, and payers). And from my Product manager experience (Mainly R&D and regulatory affairs), I learned the importance and difficulties of commercialization of many technological innovations. And I love my current job as a MC to helping startups (Which I'm able to use my past experiences to address that, I love to come back to US and continue help these clients. but I found certain limitations and hope to learn from MBA. 1. My engineering degree did not provide me any education regarding business/marketing. 2. My knowledge about US healthcare system reform and industry is lacking. I hope my quick transition between the career will not be misinterpreted as fickleness or impatience, but these are really how I felt and became serious about business school. (1)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1577 A lot to like here, combined with your international experience in China, which would likely be seen as a positive. (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1577 More details on this candidacy in this episode of Wire Taps: https://www.clearadmit.com/2022/05/wire-taps-231/ (0)