Published: April 13, 2017
MBA Applicant Spotlight: A Creative Approach Yields Acceptances at HBS and MIT Sloan
Welcome to another edition of MBA Applicant Spotlight, in which we catch up with individuals on their admissions experiences. In contrast to the 10 applications of our last profiled candidate, this week’s applicant, Shelby Colby, shares her story about just two applications—one to Harvard Business School and the other to MIT / Sloan.
Colby is currently the strategy analyst and special assistant to the CEO at the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC). She started her career as an associate consultant at Bain & Company in its Washington, D.C., office. While at Bain, she served several private equity and retail clients on strategic due diligence projects, and during her final assignment at Bain, she worked for a university. There, her passion for working on strategic issues in the higher education sector developed, leading to her current role at GMAC. She graduated with degrees in economics and religious studies from the University of Virginia, where she was a Jefferson Scholar.
Read on for her creative approaches to her MBA applications.
Where did you apply? What were the results?
I applied to the full-time MBA programs at Harvard Business School and MIT / Sloan during Round 1, and I was admitted to both schools.
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