Ms. Try Something New

Hi Ms. Try Something New, this is Julie-Anne Heafey with mbaMission. As mentioned before, your stats look good, but stats alone are just the price of entry for the first level of consideration at a school like Stanford. My biggest question for you is: why the rush? You’ve only just begun to work, why are you leaving already? I sense you feel you are behind your peers still, but really a year is not much in the grand scheme of things. Are you bored? Your title is “Ms. Try Something New,” you’re looking to pivot only a year and a half into your current gig, and you’re dreaming of rollercoasters, so all these things make me think: you aren’t really ready yet. My advice is to change jobs to a more consumer-driven role somewhere, and get more work experience to confirm what your path and passions truly are, and then apply once you know for sure. Best of luck!!

Hi Ms. Try Something New, Melisa here from Stratus Admissions. So good news is your hard work at school and on the GMAT has put you in a strong place from a stats perspective – you get to check that off your list. I like that you’ve helped to found a non-profit – shows your leadership potential and impact. And to know that you have maybe moved through the ranks at work quicker than others since you feel in line with those that graduated a year before you. For Stanford, specifically, I am not seeing in your profile that burning desire to change the world, organizations or lives. And for my clients who have been successful at Stanford, they had a special passion that was clear based on their past and future plans. I doesn’t always have to be professionally, you can bridge a personal passion through a Stanford MBA to make into your post-MBA goal. Based on the little info here, I am not seeing where your passion for CPG/consumer insights comes from. I’d want to dig in more here to understand what is driving this passion – did you have an internship while at Ross that maybe introduced you? Now – I wish I could send you somewhere to design roller coasters, because that sounds really cool! I like your idea of leveraging your boutique healthcare experience into lifestyle, maybe wellness, boutique consulting? Maybe the nature hikes side of you is the inspiration here? On top of this, I think you could really benefit from a year or two of experience – especially for Stanford. Put together a plan so that you will be a stand out applicant 2 years down the road. Keep in mind with my rating that Stanford’s average acceptance rate is 5% – so I think you are on target for an average acceptance rate. Because of your lower years of experience, I think you’d be about 5% points lower than the average acceptance for your other schools. Reach out if I can answer any questions!