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January 6, 2022 12:28pm ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Duke / Fuqua, Harvard Business School, Stanford GSB, UCLA Anderson, USC / Marshall

Intake Year: 2022

Pre-MBA Career: Manufacturing

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting Companies: Bain , BCG , McKinsey

GMAT: 710

GPA: 3.62

Years of Work Experience: 3.6

Location: West Virginia

Notes:

Engineer with 3.6 years experience working at a top 10 petrochemical company in the US. Took a gap year to pursue passion in advocacy and apply to grad school.

Background: Syrian American

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cheme131 Likes Earned: 4 Also forgot to add that I am 27F and grew up in the Middle East (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1677 What type of advocacy work are you doing? Be good to know more about your impact at work, and ties to goals, post MBA. Are you looking to be on the west coast, post MBA? Your personal story may be very interesting. (1)

cheme131 Likes Earned: 4 Yes looking to stay on the west coast post MBA. I’m working in political advocacy with a non profit and develop congressional engagement strategies to maximize the orgs exposure within Congress members. I want an MBA to further my soft skills to be better at advocacy and strengthen my knowledge in finance and strategy for working in consulting. My professional experience so far has been running project management and operations in manufacturing and I want to transition to working in the petrochem side of consulting (I took two 6mo internships while in college so I’ve been in petrochem for closer to 4.6 years but I don’t think adcom looks at it that way) (1)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1677 Lots to like. Nice balance between your aspirations, post MBA. You want to be clear re the short term goal (consulting) and your long term goal (does that include some of your advocacy work? Or is that something about which you are passionate, but remains a passion project?) (0)

cheme131 Likes Earned: 4 Advocacy would remain a passion project. Long term I would like an executive level role in sustainability. I would like to start out in consulting to understand some of the business challenges different petrochem companies face in transitioning to the growing circular plastics economy. (1)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1677 Makes good sense. (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1677 More details on this candidacy in this episode of Wire Taps: https://www.clearadmit.com/2022/01/episode-209-wire-taps/ (0)