I applied to a bunch of schools in R1, and managed to get into Booth with a very hefty scholarship - yeah me! That said, there were a few schools that I didn't apply to (largely Harvard and Stanford), and I was curious to get some feedback on whether or not it's worth applying to these schools in round 3, given my profile (i.e. is it worth tossing out the few hundred bucks, or is the chance of admission nearly zero?).
My profile is a bit different, so soak it all in. My largest concerns are my age as well as applying to the most competitive schools in R3 (although I've heard that the app distribution this year is funny, and may actually provide a marginal benefit to R3 - has any one heard about this?).
That said, my profile:
Age: 29 (think of this in context of H/S - trending younger)
GMAT: 720
WE:
4.5 years at at biotech start-up - first employee and helped them through VC financing (21 million); now the company is ~25.
Recently started a new company and am pitching to VCs...have already received marginal angel investment and recruited a world class founding team.
Am doing some BD work as a consultant - and will likely found a protein development group at a very large synthetic gene manufacturer.
U-GPA: ~3.75 - in top 3 chemical engineering program
Grad-GPA: ~3.35 at UC Berkeley in Chemical Engineering
Awards: NSF Fellowship at Harvard
NIH Fellowship at Berkeley
MOT Fellowship at Haas
Extra curriculars:
Founded entrepreneurial group - now 24 members
Founded wine group - 6 members
Active participant in weekly inline skating group
Avid outdoors fan
Active participant and contributor to Cure Cancer type organizations
Goals: Learn the business skills to supplement my technical prowess to help bring novel cancer cures to market...my new company is of the cure cancer variety. My general impression is that entrepreneurs in this space frequently have either the business sense or technical sense, but rarely both - I seek to harmonize these disciplines and take on leading roles within these organizations and/or join a healthcare VC.
My profile is a bit different, so soak it all in. My largest concerns are my age as well as applying to the most competitive schools in R3 (although I've heard that the app distribution this year is funny, and may actually provide a marginal benefit to R3 - has any one heard about this?).
That said, my profile:
Age: 29 (think of this in context of H/S - trending younger)
GMAT: 720
WE:
4.5 years at at biotech start-up - first employee and helped them through VC financing (21 million); now the company is ~25.
Recently started a new company and am pitching to VCs...have already received marginal angel investment and recruited a world class founding team.
Am doing some BD work as a consultant - and will likely found a protein development group at a very large synthetic gene manufacturer.
U-GPA: ~3.75 - in top 3 chemical engineering program
Grad-GPA: ~3.35 at UC Berkeley in Chemical Engineering
Awards: NSF Fellowship at Harvard
NIH Fellowship at Berkeley
MOT Fellowship at Haas
Extra curriculars:
Founded entrepreneurial group - now 24 members
Founded wine group - 6 members
Active participant in weekly inline skating group
Avid outdoors fan
Active participant and contributor to Cure Cancer type organizations
Goals: Learn the business skills to supplement my technical prowess to help bring novel cancer cures to market...my new company is of the cure cancer variety. My general impression is that entrepreneurs in this space frequently have either the business sense or technical sense, but rarely both - I seek to harmonize these disciplines and take on leading roles within these organizations and/or join a healthcare VC.
