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I am a dentist with 3 years of clinical experience. After my first year of practice, I began doing freelance expert consulting and helping large consulting firms with market sizing and providing general knowledge of the dental industry. Through this, I’ve learned I enjoy the business side of dentistry much more than the clinical.
Target School: Tuck
Considering: Chicago Booth
Accepted: Chicago Booth
See More Profiles For: Tuck
Application Status: Accepted
Undergrad School: University of Texas at Austin
Undergrad Major: Biology
GPA: 3.55
GRE: 327
Age: 28, Ethnicity: White
Other Degree/Certification: Doctor of Dental Surgery
School Name: Texas A&M University
Extracurriculars: Dental care at women's shelter | Leadership role in dental fraternity during dental school | Freelance expert consulting in the dental industry.
Title: Dentist
Industry: Healthcare
Company: Start-Up
Length of Employment: 1 yr, 1 mos
Company: Boutique Firm
Length of Employment: 2 yrs, 3 mos
– Graduating dental school – Helping previous dental assistants get promoted into leadership roles
My goal in getting an MBA is to help me change my career from clinical dentistry to healthcare/life sciences consulting. My long-term goal is to transition into product marketing management at a dental start-up or dental software company.
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What a fascinating discovery you’ve made about yourself and your career goals. I think your decision to pursue an MBA is a good one, and I think you’ll find many schools highly receptive to your profile. Based on your undergraduate background and your choice of schools, it looks like you live in Texas and might well prefer to stay there. I think UT-Austin is a terrific school with a solid MBA program and I cannot imagine McCombs not accepting you with open arms. But I also notice that you also considering Tuck in New Hampshire and Tepper in Pittsburgh. That makes me think you might be open to moving out of Texas for your MBA. If that’s the case, I also would suggest that you …
What a fascinating discovery you’ve made about yourself and your career goals. I think your decision to pursue an MBA is a good one, and I think you’ll find many schools highly receptive to your profile. Based on your undergraduate background and your choice of schools, it looks like you live in Texas and might well prefer to stay there. I think UT-Austin is a terrific school with a solid MBA program and I cannot imagine McCombs not accepting you with open arms. But I also notice that you also considering Tuck in New Hampshire and Tepper in Pittsburgh. That makes me think you might be open to moving out of Texas for your MBA. If that’s the case, I also would suggest that you apply to a stretch school or two: Harvard, Wharton, and Kellogg. While the odds of an admission at those schools will be lower, I think you have a real shot and could very well end up with some scholarship money to boot. Your stats are in line with all of these schools and you have an interesting background and story that would make an admissions team at an M7 school want you in their classrooms. I think your chances at Harvard, Wharton and Kellogg are well above their acceptance rates. At HBS, I would rate your odds at 30%, nearly three times the admit rate. My odds here are for UT-Austin. Good luck to you!
You are a unique candidate with a compelling story to tell and a differentiated background. Your chances are solid – assuming your GRE verbal/quant is relatively balanced, you exceed the UT average (159/159). You could aim for a more highly-ranked school, and M7 would not be outlandish. Applying from Texas will set you apart in addition to your atypical professional background. What I find most potentially problematic about your candidacy isn’t your credentials (which are decidedly solid and differentiated even if your GPA is a smidge below average). What’s potentially troubling is your proposed strategic positioning – namely management consulting. Second tier consulting (Accenture, EY, KPMG) or healthcare-focused consulting (e.g., LEK, GE Healthcare Partners, ZS) wouldn’t be out-of-reach, but generally speaking MBB is going to …
You are a unique candidate with a compelling story to tell and a differentiated background. Your chances are solid – assuming your GRE verbal/quant is relatively balanced, you exceed the UT average (159/159). You could aim for a more highly-ranked school, and M7 would not be outlandish. Applying from Texas will set you apart in addition to your atypical professional background. What I find most potentially problematic about your candidacy isn’t your credentials (which are decidedly solid and differentiated even if your GPA is a smidge below average). What’s potentially troubling is your proposed strategic positioning – namely management consulting. Second tier consulting (Accenture, EY, KPMG) or healthcare-focused consulting (e.g., LEK, GE Healthcare Partners, ZS) wouldn’t be out-of-reach, but generally speaking MBB is going to be looking for higher stats than you have. They are typically recruiting from the top of the MBA class GRE/GMAT wise, especially at UT/Rice, and unless you are an underrepresented minority, you are likely going to need a 730+ GMAT or GRE equivalent in order to get an MBB interview. AdComs know this, and they want to admit people whose goals are backed up by employability data – they don’t want to accept somebody who won’t “match” because that could hurt employment statistics (which factor greatly into US News & World Report and similar rankings, which is the #1 thing AdComs care about). Applying with an espoused healthcare consulting immediate post-MBA is believable and strategically sound (since you know you want to be in the business of healthcare long-term and you have obviously demonstrated interest in this area). Applying with a second-tier consulting strategy makes sense from a feasibility standpoint but sort of lacks luster – it basically admits that you know you aren’t MBB-qualified, which isn’t what you want to lead with in your application. And as stated, applying with an MBB immediate post-MBA goal isn’t prudent because it isn’t imminently feasible given your stats. The most prudent thing to do is to either apply with a healthcare-focused consulting firm focus OR come up with a different immediate post-MBA goal (a general management leadership development program with good recruiting ties with the schools you are targeting – e.g., pfizer, amgen, genetech, etc. – all of these will be less competitive than MBB and you are immensely qualified for these roles) to talk about in your essays. Keep in mind that you can still apply for (generalist) MBB positions in business school and there’s a great chance you could get one. Nobody will hold you to the goals you state in your essays. They are just strategic positioning to maximize your chances of getting in and signaling to the AdCom that you understand the game. Rice and UT have some of the highest endowments per capita for MBA programs. SMU & Texas A&M, too. It sounds like you want to stay in Texas. Apply to some M7 programs prudently and with some guidance from top-tier MBA alums. Given your dentistry background, it may be possible that you don’t have MBA alums in your personal network now to guide you and coach you through this process. The interviews will not be like dental school and the process isn’t as meritocratic. You need to demonstrate charm and charisma and extroversion and leadership in a way that isn’t (as) important in more meritocratic healthcare degree programs. The application process for Wharton or MIT won’t be different from Rice and UT, but your chances of getting scholarship money (which they have plenty of to give) from Rice and UT will exponentially increase if you can tangle a higher-tier acceptance in front of them. If you can pull off a Wharton or MIT admit (I think you can), show that to UT and Rice and ask if they can help make your decision easier. It’s not uncommon for either of these schools to offer 100% scholarships in these circumstances. Best of luck to you!
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Hey! I am a dentist from the UK, doing the very same. Good luck! Which firms are you looking to work with on your exit, out of interest?
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