Hi folks,
Just wanted to pop in and say hi. I've recently decided that business school is the right thing to do at this point in my career. I'm getting a late start compared to most, I suppose, after working for 17 years as an engineer in Silicon Valley. But, better late than never. I'm targeting the evening & weekend program at Haas, and think I have the credentials (good promotion history, a couple US Patents to my name, executive VPs who would write letters of recommendation, etc), so now need to concentrate on acing the GMAT.
I plan to self-study rather than attending a formal course. And at this point I haven't even started, but have taken the Manhattan math diagnostic test and scored 20/20 in under 25 minutes. It seemed extremely simplistic, but realize it was 500-level or below questions. Next I will take a random practice test to get a baseline - probably the free Princeton review test - and then decide where I need to spend the most effort in my studies. I'm not in a rush (perhaps I should be) and am considering reading Brandon Wu's book to get a general overview and to sort of "prepare to prepare" for studying. Ultimately, though, I don't plan to study for more than 6-8 weeks before taking the test.
So that's about it for now. Any suggestions, advice, criticisms, etc are plenty welcome. I'm sure I'll be posting to the forums more as I really start to buckle down and get in to full prep mode.
Thanks!
Just wanted to pop in and say hi. I've recently decided that business school is the right thing to do at this point in my career. I'm getting a late start compared to most, I suppose, after working for 17 years as an engineer in Silicon Valley. But, better late than never. I'm targeting the evening & weekend program at Haas, and think I have the credentials (good promotion history, a couple US Patents to my name, executive VPs who would write letters of recommendation, etc), so now need to concentrate on acing the GMAT.
I plan to self-study rather than attending a formal course. And at this point I haven't even started, but have taken the Manhattan math diagnostic test and scored 20/20 in under 25 minutes. It seemed extremely simplistic, but realize it was 500-level or below questions. Next I will take a random practice test to get a baseline - probably the free Princeton review test - and then decide where I need to spend the most effort in my studies. I'm not in a rush (perhaps I should be) and am considering reading Brandon Wu's book to get a general overview and to sort of "prepare to prepare" for studying. Ultimately, though, I don't plan to study for more than 6-8 weeks before taking the test.
So that's about it for now. Any suggestions, advice, criticisms, etc are plenty welcome. I'm sure I'll be posting to the forums more as I really start to buckle down and get in to full prep mode.
Thanks!
