Candidate:

Ms. Engineering + Extracurriculars

About Me:

I am a chemical engineer working in a field supporting the pharmaceutical industry. Our product’s popularity and demand soared during the pandemic, and I have taken on increasingly complex projects to support yield (revenue) increase and process efficiency optimization.

Schools:

Target School: MIT Sloan

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Application Status: Open

Details:

Undergrad School: Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Undergrad Major: Chemical Engineering

GPA: 3.45

GMAT: 695

Age: 26, Ethnicity: White

Extracurriculars: Junior Board Member for local women's empowerment organization | Mentor to high school competition robotics team | Philanthropy advisor to a collegiate organization

Work History:

Title: Process Engineer II

Industry: Engineering

Company: Fortune 100 Top 10

Length of Employment: 2 yrs, 2 mos

Title: Formulation Engineer I

Industry: Engineering

Company: Fortune 100 Top 10

Length of Employment: 2 yrs, 1 mos

Big Life Wins:

– Discovered a critical issue in an important process, then developed and executed a multi-phase mitigation plan and process overhaul to fix gap and prevent customer loss.
– Created a new process flow to achieve a revenue loss prevention goal requested by the C-suite.
– Established a formal intern program and increased rate of return to organization

Post MBA Goal:

– Would like to work in the (bio)pharmaceutical industry. Interested in strategy from a technical background, such as: looking at incorporating new technologies to optimize pharma upstream/downstream, assessing the market for new problems to solve with emerging diseases (like Covid19), or targeting hard to cure diseases (like neurodegeneration).

Odds:

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Admissions Gateway Odds Assessment: 60%

Your work experience sounds good as long as you can quantify both the P&L and healthcare benefits of the products you work on. Healthcare/ Pharma is a good field to apply too and we work with many people from Abbott, Merck etc. One benefit is that the work experience has social impact and your goals can be more meaningful. Your tenure 4.5 years is also perfect to give you varied stories for your essays and interviews.

I think your GPA and GMAT are more or less inline with where they need to be to apply to top schools including MIT.

The extra-curriculars seem to be strong and that will give you some added stories and help you demonstrate some values in your essays as well.

Overall odds are …

Your work experience sounds good as long as you can quantify both the P&L and healthcare benefits of the products you work on. Healthcare/ Pharma is a good field to apply too and we work with many people from Abbott, Merck etc. One benefit is that the work experience has social impact and your goals can be more meaningful. Your tenure 4.5 years is also perfect to give you varied stories for your essays and interviews.

I think your GPA and GMAT are more or less inline with where they need to be to apply to top schools including MIT.

The extra-curriculars seem to be strong and that will give you some added stories and help you demonstrate some values in your essays as well.

Overall odds are good to get into a great schools. Given MIT’s 14-15% acceptance rate odds of 50% are good :). Schools like Harvard, Wharton, Kellogg, Booth and Columbia could also be considered.

Good luck!

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