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December 20, 2023 9:24am ET

Applying: Georgetown / McDonough, Harvard Business School, Vanderbilt / Owen

Intake Year: 2024

Pre-MBA Career: MedTech / Healthcare

Post-MBA Target Industry: Other

GRE: 318

GPA: 3.5

Years of Work Experience: 5

Location: Boston

Post MBA Location: Northeast

Notes:

University activities:
-Neuroscience / English double major
-Wrote for the school magazine
-Swim team
-Taught swim lessons 15+ hrs/week

Work experience:
-Technical writer for robotics and AI medical devices
-Have led software translation projects
-Completed a year long internal leadership development program (Nominated by my manager and selected by an executive committee. Spent about 25% of my time work time that year in workshops / trainings with coaches and leaders)

Extracurriculars:
-Patient outreach volunteer for people with heart defects
-Board member for a heart non-profit
-Hiking, biking, kayaking, & skiing

Personal:
-Have had 2 major heart surgeries (wrote my essays about this)
-Applying to Georgetown online program, Harvard and Vanderbilt full time.
-I know I haven't selected maybe the best schools for healthcare, but I love Boston and want to stay here. MIT is out because my GRE is not in the middle 80% (155Q, 163V). Vanderbilt made the cut because I have friends and family that I could live with in Nashville.

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ajdecam Likes Earned: 8 Work experience is at the largest med device company in the world (not exaggerating). 90,000+ employees worldwide (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1677 I assume these are apps for Round 2? Might be worth looking at Fuqua? While not in Boston, you should be able to get back to Boston, post MBA? Be good to know a little more about your post MBA goals?

Despite the lower GRE score, other elements of your profile appear strong. Might be worth doing MBA Math?

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grichmond Verified User. Likes Earned: 1237 If you really want to be in Boston, I would still apply to MIT Sloan. I suspect your GRE score won't be any worse for MIT than it's going to be for HBS, so I'm not sure I'd use that as the criteria.

Beyond that, have you considered any other programs that have large alumni networks in Boston? Dartmouth Tuck comes to mind. I guess I am just worried that your current list of targets casts a very wide net (reach, top-25, online), with many gaps in between, which could mean you miss an opportunity to attend the best program you can get into.
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alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1677 More details on this candidacy in this episode of Wire Taps: https://www.clearadmit.com/2024/01/mba-wire-taps-330/ (0)