Rejected By Harvard Business School? You’ve Got To Be Kidding!

Ms. Consultant

  • 770 GMAT
  • 3.8 GPA
  • Undergraduate degree from Harvard College as a STEM major
  • Work experience includes almost two years at top-tier consulting firm, just outside of the Big Three, with a fast promotion record
  • Very good recommendations from project partner and former advisor for a business-related thesis
  • High extracurricular leadership in college, involvement in young professional board and firm activities now
  • Essay about wanting to impact businesses and ultimately home state (rural America) by impacting the organizational behavior enterprises
  • 24-year-old female

Sandyā€™s Analysis: If I had to guess, consulting is tough cohort and not being from McKinsey, Bain is hard if you are not an under represented minority. Your involvement in a young professional board and firm activities now do not really bang with HBS. They are too business like versus helping others who are victims or disadvantaged.

Your goal to ā€œimpact businesses and ultimately home state (rural America) by impacting the organizational behavior enterprisesā€ is confusing. WTF does that mean? Sorry, maybe the real deal was more clear.

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