
Candidate:
Mr. Family Biz
About Me:
Ex-McKinsey consultant for 3.5 years (1-year Product Design Specialist and 2.5-year Business Analyst). Coming from a non-target school with a mediocre GPA. International application without U.S citizenship.
Details:
Undergrad School: National Cheng Kung University
Undergrad Major: Aerospace Engineering
GPA: 3.46
GRE: 329
Age: 29, Ethnicity: Asian or Indian
Other Degree/Certification: Business Bridge Program
School Name: Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Extracurriculars: Aestheticell; Advisor to Founder, Nobully580; Special Assistant to Founder, AIESEC; VP of Taiwan National Office
Work History:
Title: Business Analyst
Industry: Consulting
Company: Top Firm
Length of Employment: 2 yrs, 6 mos
Title: Director, Business Operations and Strategy
Industry: Manufacturing
Company: Family Business (Listed Company, $300M Revenue)
Length of Employment: 1 yr
Big Life Wins:
In a difficult McKinsey team situation, I stepped up and took the leadership role to lead a 4-consultant team on a banking risk transformation project, even though I had no experience in the financial industry. Under my 2-month leadership, our team successfully wrote off $200M bad debt and won a follow-up 6-month contract.
Post MBA Goal:
My short-term goal is to become a Product Manager at a tech company such as Nest or Sony. In this role, I want to learn how leading firms manage cross- functional teams for launching new products or services that provide excellent customer experience.
Schools:
Target School: Tepper
Considering: Harvard, Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Berkeley Haas, Stanford GSB, Cornell Johnson
Invited to Interview: MIT Sloan
Rejected: Harvard, Stanford GSB
Accepted: Kellogg, Berkeley Haas, Cornell Johnson
It would be interesting to know why you left McKinsey to join the family business. I’m assuming that your family really needed you, though you want to pursue an MBA not to run the company but to land a job as a product manager in a tech company. In any case, you are an excellent candidate for Carnegie Mellon and an MBA from Tepper would easily allow you to fulfill your post-MBA goal. Your 3.46 GPA is not mediocre. It’s actually above the latest class average of 3.4 for Tepper, and your 329 GRE score is also well above the class average of 320. What really seals the deal is your McKinsey experience. As everyone knows, McKinsey’s hiring process is among the most selective in …