MBA Handicapping: A Common Interview Misstep — Beginning Your Answer In The Middle

Lexy is going for an MBA to help engineer a career switch to a strategy or business development role at a food and agricultural startup.

In her sights are the business schools at Stanford, Harvard, Wharton, MIT Sloan, and Chicago Booth.

She’s applying with a 337 GRE score, a 3.69 undergraduate GPA from the University of California at San Diego. She currently works as an associate for Sunrise Strategic Partners which provides growth capital and expertise to emerging brands in the healthy, active and sustainable living space. Lexy also had been an analyst at Goldman Sachs.

In this episode of Friday’s With Sandy, HBSGuru.com Founder Sandy Kreisberg brings Lexy through the paces of an admissions interview.

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