Candidate:

Mr. Healthcare PM

About Me:

Undergraduate in Neuroscience with years of academic research. Employee #1 at a health tech company overseeing product. The company went on to acquisition. Worked at the acquiring company for 1.5 years being promoted twice to become product manager overseeing an entire vertical. Went on to be a product manager at a leading pharma company.

Schools:

Target School: Chicago Booth

Considering: Stanford GSB, Kellogg SOM, MIT Sloan, Yale

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Application Status: Open

Details:

Undergrad School: Top 30 Undergrad

Undergrad Major: Neuroscience

GPA: 2.8

GMAT: 730

Age: 28, Ethnicity: White

Extracurriculars: Pro-bono mission based consulting, Health-tech advisor

Work History:

Title: Head of Product

Industry: Healthcare

Company: Start-Up

Length of Employment: 3 yrs, 6 mos

Title: Product Manager

Industry: Healthcare

Company: Fortune 500

Length of Employment: 1 yr, 5 mos

Big Life Wins:

Leading product for a digital health startup, pivoting company focus into an emerging area (telehealth) which eventually brought us to acquisition by a major public med device company.

Post MBA Goal:

Would love to attend Booth for their MBA/MS in Computer Science to become a top-quality product manager and go on to work for a major technology company that is currently creating a presence in healthcare (think Google, Apple, Amazon).

Odds:

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John A. Byrne, P&Q Founder & Editor-In-Chief | Odds Assessment: 20%

You have an impressive background with a really stellar record in healthcare, a field that many think will be the next big frontier for elite MBA graduates, given healthcare’s importance and its influence in our economy and future economic growth. And your background should really make it easy for a business school to get you that dream job at Google, Apple or Amazon. The red flag in this application is obviously your low undergraduate GPA of 2.8. For a white male applying to these schools that is very low. Sure, it’s in neuroscience but you have to remember that you are competing against candidates who have gone to Ivy League schools, have 3.8 GPAs and higher and may have even more impressive work backgrounds …

You have an impressive background with a really stellar record in healthcare, a field that many think will be the next big frontier for elite MBA graduates, given healthcare’s importance and its influence in our economy and future economic growth. And your background should really make it easy for a business school to get you that dream job at Google, Apple or Amazon. The red flag in this application is obviously your low undergraduate GPA of 2.8. For a white male applying to these schools that is very low. Sure, it’s in neuroscience but you have to remember that you are competing against candidates who have gone to Ivy League schools, have 3.8 GPAs and higher and may have even more impressive work backgrounds than you. Your 730 should allay some concern over the GPA but you are going to have some explaining to do. At your first choice, Booth, the 3.6 class average is well above your 2.8. I hate to discourage anyone from sending a Hail Mary pass to a school. But I would not waste my time applying to Stanford or MIT Sloan with this profile. I would rather see you apply to a few other schools that we know will get you the job you want post-MBA. They include Duke (Apple CEO Tim Cook is a Fuqua alum), UVA Darden, UCLA and Carnegie Mellon. Good luck to you.

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