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August 5, 2020 9:11am ET
Applying: Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, UCLA Anderson, UPenn / Wharton
Intake Year: 2021
Pre-MBA Career: Data analytics at an advertising agency
Post-MBA Target Industry: Consumer Goods Companies: General Mills , Nike , PepsiCo
GRE: 326
GPA: 3.47
Years of Work Experience: 7
Location: Chicago
Post MBA Location: No preference
Notes:

Hi Alex and Graham! I've found the podcast and the webinar series hugely helpful, appreciate all the content you're putting out. I'm a woman based in Chicago, I studied history at a top 10 university and immediately moved into data/marketing. I've worked at smaller companies doing consulting and digital marketing, and have spent the past 2.5 years doing data analytics at a major advertising agency with a big CPG client. I'm looking to move into brand management (likely for something similar to my current CPG client, but I'm not tied to any one industry). Outside of work, I am *very* involved in my local frisbee community. I started playing in college and I'm currently on the Board of Directors for my local organization that has 1200 members. I coached a college women's team for 5 years (they finished 13th in the nation in my last year of coaching) and I'm currently a captain of a women's club team that was 12th in the country in 2019.

A few questions:
1. Does my current list of target schools seem reasonable? They all have the marketing/operations curriculum and clubs I'm looking for but I know my background is vaguely non-traditional so I wanted to make sure it seemed within reason to apply to them.
2. Does it look crazy to have 3 different ECs that are all about frisbee? They all feel different to me because they have such different roles for me/in the community, but will it all look the same to an Adcom?

Thank you!!