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August 13, 2019 7:18pm ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Columbia, Dartmouth / Tuck, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, Stanford GSB, UPenn / Wharton, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2021

Pre-MBA Career: Product Management

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

GMAT: 780

GPA: 3.13

Years of Work Experience: 3

Location: San Francisco

Post MBA Location: San Francisco

Notes:

Graduated undergrad from a top public school in Computer Science in 2018. Joined a well-known software company as a rotational product manager (very very selective program).

Got promoted in 1 year and was the first in the history of the program to do so. Typical time is 2 years.

I'm engaging the M&A and Strategy/BizOps teams here and realize that I know next to nothing about actually building businesses. My engineering background has equipped me for being a tech PM, but I want to go to the next level with a business/strategic acumen.

The plan is to do consulting at MBB after MBA and then exit back to Product or Tech Strategy, with a more holistic set of skills.

In undergrad, I was very involved with running entrepreneurship events for the university. I'm also a venture partner on the side with a small seed vc fund ($XXM AUM). Trying to figure out what else to do with my time to round out my extracurriculars.

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alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1675 Wow, some interesting stuff here. You have done well, and clearly on a good path. Do you have any interests/passions outside of tech/entrepreneurship/VC/consulting you could pursue. Be better if they showed a different side of your character, etc, Curious about your GPA; it's lower than average. Is there any additional context there? Obviously you're smart, just want to make sure you show that you are also someone committed to the classroom (while being super busy doing extra curriculars & recruiting). (0)

anon32892 Likes Earned: 0 Sadly I don’t have an excuse for the GPA. I was in a major I didn’t enjoy and was immature with respect to the workload. Do you recommend I do extra classes now? I do teach golf every weekend for about 3 hours and was a nationally ranked debater in high school. I taught high school kids speech and debate as a coach during college but just go to judge tournaments infrequently now. *Btw, I would love to be on Wire Tap!!* (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1675 If you took a couple of classes, got As, you could make a stronger argument for your commitment to the education component. Be good to beef up your current EC involvement, if you can, although your vc fund commitments are also very interesting. Will get you on Wire Taps, but it might be a little while. (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1675 More detailed feedback on this profile in this episode of Wire Taps: https://www.clearadmit.com/2019/08/episode-49-wire-taps-brand-marketing-low-gpa-enlisted-military-candidate-and-more/ (0)