Mr. Aviator

Hi – it’s Nisha from mbaMission!. You’ve got such an intriguing profile, with your professional experience in the live entertainment industry and your passion for aviation (which reminded me of a client I had a couple of years ago who owned a flight school). It sounds like the biggest thing ahead of you is to do some reflection on your career goals – which path would leave you most fulfilled professionally and personally? I should note that I generally always advise applicants to consider entrepreneurship as a long-term goal – business schools are aware of the difficulty of starting a business immediately upon graduation. So, you may consider a management role at your company’s U.S. headquarters are your post-MBA goal, while you lay the groundwork for your eventual venture. If you do charter an ambitious yet logical career path in your applications and make a strong case for how each school will help you achieve it based on its resources within and outside of the classroom, I think that you’ll experience success in the process. If you’d like to discuss your profile and goals further, do reach out for a free consultation. Thanks and best of luck!

Hi Mr. Aviator, This is Donna Bauman with Stratus Admissions and I want to congratulate you on having such an interesting background. Becoming a pilot at age 18 is certainly impressive and your initiative to disrupt and improve professional pilot training sounds most interesting indeed. You have several viable paths you could follow—one thing that our introspection process does is to help you think through more of the pros and cons of each option and then build a school list that makes the most sense for your desired option. It seems that aviation is your true passion so if I were working with you I would ask you a lot more questions about what you love about aviation and what other plans you have to disrupt pilot education. You have a profile that I think could catch the attention of many programs—Johnson as well as the other schools you are considering. I would encourage you to also look at the environment around aviation in the communities near your target MBA programs so you can continue this passion even during your MBA studies. Please reach out for a free consult if you would like to discuss your situation further.