Harvard Business School - 08-08-2023

August 8, 2023 2:22pm ET

Applying: Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Stanford GSB, U. Chicago Booth, UPenn / Wharton

Intake Year: 2024

Pre-MBA Career: Boutique Consulting firm for ~3 years (2 promotions), recruited to Latam Insurtech to lead their operational expansion into the US (1 recent promotion)

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

GMAT: 770

GPA: 4.0

Years of Work Experience: 5

Location: Peru

Notes:

I have a strong interest in AI and I'm certain it will change the business world in the upcoming years. Plan to gain practical experience with it in MBB in the US to ultimately return to Peru to start my AI-centered entrepreneurship.

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alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1587 Lots to like here, I think. Super numbers, from Latam. Showing impact and growth at work, will be important. Promotions and switch to U.S. market help indicate that. Are you involved in activities outside of work, too? Are you applying to all these programs in Round 1? (1)

ann12 Likes Earned: 4 Not so strong ECs unfortunately. I had a probono consulting internship while al school, occassionally provide counselling/assistance to both my father and brother's entrepreneurships and have participated in some community work (not in a leadership position though). Would this be something to be worried about? Planning to apply to all except GSB y round 1, then apply to GSB + maybe other M7 depending on my R1 results. Forgot to mention my undergrad degree is in engineering. (1)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1587 Participating in community work can help. Application strategy makes good sense. (0)

ann12 Likes Earned: 4 Would the stats + strong letters of recommendation (from non-MBA supervisors and ex supervisors) compensate for the below-par ECs? (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1587 It’s possible, yes. That’s a super GMAT, especially from LATAM where the test taking culture is less strong than NA, etc. (0)

ann12 Likes Earned: 4 Thank you very much Alex! This site + the podcasts have been incredibly helpful during these stressful times. (1)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1587 More details on this candidacy in this episode of Wire Taps: https://www.clearadmit.com/2023/08/mba-wire-taps-306/ (0)