Candidate:

Ms. Rock-Climbing Construction Manager

About Me:

I’m a woman of color in construction management (4 years). I’m big on building communities and working in teams towards a common goal. My low GPA in undergrad was because I got involved with a competition project team, spending 40 hrs/wk on it because I loved it and my team depended on me as the fabrication lead and later team lead.

Schools:

Target School: Kellogg SOM

Considering: Harvard, MIT Sloan, Ross, Darden, Chicago Booth, Tepper

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Application Status: Open

Details:

Undergrad School: Cornell University

Undergrad Major: Mechanical Engineering

GPA: 3.067/4.0

GMAT: 770

Age: 25,  Ethnicity: Asian or Indian

Extracurriculars: Rock-Climbing 10+ hours per week, Cornell Recruiting Team Lead at my company (2.5 years), and apart of the Sustainability Steering Committee at my company (1 year).

Work History:

Title: Project Engineer

Industry: Construction Management

Company: Top Firm

Length of Employment: 2 yrs

Title: Strategy, Research, & Development Engineer

Industry: Construction Management

Company: Top Firm

Length of Employment: 1 yr, 1 mos

Big Life Wins:

– Developed the company-wide standard for tracking construction materials by creating a user-friendly material-tracking dashboard in Tableau, used for 60+ projects since the implementation.
– Led a 30 person team in my senior year to design & fabricate a steel bridge for a competition. We placed 4th and it was the 1st time in 3 years that our bridge didn’t fail at the competition.

Post MBA Goal:

In the short term, I want to get into manufacturing operations consulting, leveraging my MBA knowledge as well as the time spent in construction in the Strategy, Research, and Development Department and as a construction manager for a high-profile project where I personally managed $40 million construction work. In the long term, I want to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the industry sector by combining business savvy with empathy and environmental responsibility – either by getting into sustainability consulting or by joining a manufacturing industry giant and leading their sustainability efforts.

Odds:

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The Experts Rate The Odds At: 82%

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  • John A. Byrne, P&Q Founder & Editor-In-Chief | Odds Assessment: 75%

    I expect you are going to climb your way into Kellogg and here’s why. You have a solid reason for your low GPA in a STEM subject at an Ivy with actual results (leading 30 people in designing and building a steel bride and placing fourth in a competition) . And let’s not forget, you have a 770 GMAT with puts you–a woman of color in the unusual field of construction management–among the top 3% of test takers in the world. You also have distinguished yourself at work, leveraging Tableau to create a company-wide standard for tracking construction materials. Truth be told, you are going to have a hard time turning down Harvard to go anywhere else. Good luck to you and congratulations on …

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  • Admissionado | Odds Assessment: 90%

    Yours is indeed a compelling and differentiating candidacy. Very few construction professionals apply (though, of those that do, many come from Cornell, so you will have some intra-school competition considerations), so you be automatically underrepresented professionally. Furthermore, your gender and ethnic demo will be further differentiating given your chosen professional field. We both wish your GPA were higher, but that is surmountable given 1) your stellar GMAT (dang, you killed it!!), and 2) the perceived rigor of a STEM degree at an Ivy League school gives you some grace re GPA. I’d be CAREFUL about the way you talk about your GPA, though. The purpose of school is school. That’s the way people in academia are going to look at things. If you had trouble …

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The Community Currently Rates The Odds At: 90%

  • 90% | 2 years ago

    Yours is indeed a compelling and differentiating candidacy. Very few construction professionals apply (though, of those that do, many come from Cornell, so you will have some intra-school competition considerations), so you be automatically underrepresented professionally. Furthermore, your gender and ethnic demo will be further differentiating given your chosen professional field. We both wish your GPA were higher, but that is surmountable given 1) your stellar GMAT (dang, you killed it!!), and 2) the perceived rigor of a STEM degree at an Ivy League school gives you some grace re GPA. I’d be CAREFUL about the way you talk about your GPA, though. The purpose of school is school. That’s the way people in academia are going to look at things. If you had trouble ...
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  • 90% | 2 years ago

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