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Community is important to me. I spent a summer teaching math and English to Tanzanian primary school students. I sat on the board of a non-profit that raised money for a water tower at an orphanage in Arusha. I started a 501(C) for a friend that lost their only child to SIDS. In my free time, you can find me doing extreme mountaineering.
Target School: StanfordĀ GSB
Considering: Chicago Booth, Harvard, Wharton, Kellogg SOM
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Application Status: Open
Undergrad School: Clarkson University
Undergrad Major: Global Supply Chain Management
GPA: 2.96
GRE: 327
Age: 28, Ethnicity: White
Extracurriculars: Mountaineering
Title: Senior Operations Supervisor
Industry: Manufacturing
Company: Fortune 500
Length of Employment: 5 yrs, 6 mos
Title: Logistics Officer
Industry: Supply Chain / Logistics
Company: Army
Length of Employment: 3 yrs, 2 mos
I implemented a major lean initiative at a food manufacturing facility that netted 1.7MM in efficiency improvements. Awarded passionate leader of the year. I hired a homeless man I met outside of a 7-11, and in three years coached him through 2 promotions. A few years later, and he bought his first house. I know how business can create mobility.
I want to spend some time in a top consultancy firm before pivoting to corporate supply chain strategy. After a few decades, I want to cap off my career earning my Phd in Economics, and spend my retirement in economic policy, hopefully being able to take all of my lessons learned to help developing economies.
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Clearly, you are a serious mountain climber because you’ve chosen to ascent the Annapurna of the business school world: Stanford GSB which routinely rejects 94% of the people who apply there. I will give you this: Mr. Mountaineer, you have one of the best X factor stories I have ever heard: Your decision to hire a homeless man you met outside of a 7-11, and in three years coached him through two promotions and the purchase of his own home. Wow. I would admit you to Stanford on that story along with your achievements at work and your solid 327 GRE score, three points shy of the class average at the GSB. But alas, this will be a highly challenging climb because there are two …
Clearly, you are a serious mountain climber because you’ve chosen to ascent the Annapurna of the business school world: Stanford GSB which routinely rejects 94% of the people who apply there. I will give you this: Mr. Mountaineer, you have one of the best X factor stories I have ever heard: Your decision to hire a homeless man you met outside of a 7-11, and in three years coached him through two promotions and the purchase of his own home. Wow. I would admit you to Stanford on that story along with your achievements at work and your solid 327 GRE score, three points shy of the class average at the GSB. But alas, this will be a highly challenging climb because there are two aspects to your application that will work against you: 1) Your very low GPA of 2.96, and 2) The fact that you got your low grades from Clarkson, a school that is not only a non-feeder to the GSB but more importantly does not have a reputation of a highly selective undergraduate institution. Clarkson admits 71% of its applicants. So I fear that you will be breathless on arrival and will not be able to make it to the top based on those two issues. Your only hope is that you have justifiable reasons for going to Clarkson (perhaps you are first gen and wanted to stay near family) and for your low GPA. If not, this is a climb you are not going to complete, sad to say. You are going to run into similar problems at the other schools on your list. So I would also urge you to look at a different range of schools and show them you really want to go and can make the case that your sub-3.0 GPA is not an indication of your academic ability. You can still get to a consulting firm from many other schools that don’t require as steep a climb.
Very low chance at GSB (1%), 10% at HBS, 15% at Wharton
30% others
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