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Great score. You really rocked the GMAT! Smile

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Also, I have not done much school search. My profile is 4+ years of work experience in Manufacturing.Am not sure if I want to return to this field as it is quite tiring a field to be in . I’m really not sure what do I want to do post MBA and which schools should I be targetting.
This is a good time to do some soul searching about what you want to do post MBA.The admission cycle is a couple of months away and you need to ensure that you have some concrete goals to write about in your essays. Have you thought about what fascinates you? Where do you want to work ? What are the industries you read or talk about the most ?And which sectors do you find the most boring ? All these questions will help you figure out the answer better

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Post Tue May 01, 2012 4:33 am
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Empirestateofmind wrote:
Also, I have not done much school search. My profile is 4+ years of work experience in Manufacturing.Am not sure if I want to return to this field as it is quite tiring a field to be in . I’m really not sure what do I want to do post MBA and which schools should I be targetting.
This is a good time to do some soul searching about what you want to do post MBA.The admission cycle is a couple of months away and you need to ensure that you have some concrete goals to write about in your essays. Have you thought about what fascinates you? Where do you want to work ? What are the industries you read or talk about the most ?And which sectors do you find the most boring ? All these questions will help you figure out the answer better
Thanks. Have been doing that. I have been reading about consulting jobs and what exactly do they have to do as consultants post MBA and though the work load seems immense but I think I like the work. I finished reading "The Mckinsey Way" and the book really gives you an insider view of what a job at McKinsey is like. It,however, mentions that a person is unable to survive in Mckinsey for more than 2 years because of the sheer amount of work and moreso because of excessive traveling.

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Post Thu May 10, 2012 3:17 am
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I finished reading "The Mckinsey Way" and the book really gives you an insider view of what a job at McKinsey is like. It,however, mentions that a person is unable to survive in Mckinsey for more than 2 years because of the sheer amount of work and moreso because of excessive traveling.
I'm not sure how true that fact would be . If 2 years is the average time for which people work at Mckinsey, so where do they go to work after that.I mean Mckinsey is supposed to the most prestigious firm to work for. Sometimes people just exaggerate data. Will read this book though.

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Post Mon May 21, 2012 4:49 am
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I'm not sure how true that fact would be . If 2 years is the average time for which people work at Mckinsey, so where do they go to work after that.I mean Mckinsey is supposed to the most prestigious firm to work for. Sometimes people just exaggerate data. Will read this book though.
One reason can be that most of the undergraduates who join these consulting firms end up going for an MBA after 2-3 years so that may explain why 2 years is the average time there. Also with so many interesting start-ups happening in these exciting time, people want to do something more exciting with their lives

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Post Tue Jun 05, 2012 4:38 am
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Thanks. Have been doing that. I have been reading about consulting jobs and what exactly do they have to do as consultants post MBA and though the work load seems immense but I think I like the work. I finished reading "The Mckinsey Way" and the book really gives you an insider view of what a job at McKinsey is like. It,however, mentions that a person is unable to survive in Mckinsey for more than 2 years because of the sheer amount of work and moreso because of excessive traveling.
Interesting discussion going on here. I have read the Mckinsey way and though I came to understand the harsh realities of a consultants job-living life out of a suitcase, making a lot of presentations but tell you what, I think that if someone wants to become an entrepreneur, the job of a consultant can actually be very helpful since you will work on real life problems. Although in the first year you wouldn't be doing much except for data mining but after you work for 2-3 years you would be able to emerge as a diamond- your communication skills would be polished, you would have the former Mckinsey employee tag(which btw is no less big a deal) and above all you would have a great great network,something which you need immensely these days in this startup and VC/PE driven world. So all in all I would join Mckinsey not for the salary(which is obviously a very compelling reason in itself) but for the other experiences, advantages it can provide me

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Post Fri Jun 08, 2012 4:06 am
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Interesting discussion going on here. I have read the Mckinsey way and though I came to understand the harsh realities of a consultants job-living life out of a suitcase, making a lot of presentations but tell you what, I think that if someone wants to become an entrepreneur, the job of a consultant can actually be very helpful since you will work on real life problems. Although in the first year you wouldn't be doing much except for data mining but after you work for 2-3 years you would be able to emerge as a diamond- your communication skills would be polished, you would have the former Mckinsey employee tag(which btw is no less big a deal) and above all you would have a great great network,something which you need immensely these days in this startup and VC/PE driven world. So all in all I would join Mckinsey not for the salary(which is obviously a very compelling reason in itself) but for the other experiences, advantages it can provide me
Loved those insights Rishi. I agree with you that the life of a consultant would help me evolve myself even more after business school.I'll also get to test whatever i study at business school in an consulting firm

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Post Tue Jun 26, 2012 3:40 am
Guys,
can anyone tell me how difficult is to get through a VC/PE firm ? And do these firms go only to H/S/W ?

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Guys,
can anyone tell me how difficult is to get through a VC/PE firm ? And do these firms go only to H/S/W ?
Frankly VC/PE firms are the most difficult to get through in a business school. Everybody wants to get through these firms because the work is not as monotonous as that in an Investment bank. And the kind of network and the scale on which you operate in these industries.

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Post Wed Jul 18, 2012 1:40 pm
No worries! The 740 is all that counts! AWA will go unnoticed with solid essays.

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Post Tue Aug 28, 2012 5:32 am
Jim@StratusPrep wrote:
No worries! The 740 is all that counts! AWA will go unnoticed with solid essays.
Yes, I think I don't have much to worry about but thanks for the reassurance!

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Post Mon Oct 08, 2012 5:01 am
Great post. I hope to take the GMAT in March next year. Plenty of time but thought that I'd better start researching from now itself.

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Post Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:02 am
How difficult is it to get a 6 on AWA ? How many essays should I be practicing and how do I get these essays evaluated ?

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