Hope I'm not duplicating my post....
Profile:
Nationality: Canadian, Chinese ethnicity
GMAT: Female
Age: 27 upon entry
Education: B. Eng Honours; P.Eng pending this year
GPA: 3.54 - school: second tier engineering school in Ontario
GMAT: 690, 4.0
Designation: Engineering/Process Manager (background industrial engineering)
Work Ex:
-Internship + 3 years experience as engineer, two of which as engineering manager for the region of Canada directing IS personnel in 6 locations
-10% productivity improvement in region overall; some branches 40% improvement
-trained/mentors programming personnel; grew CA analytics group from 2 programmers to 10 without adding head count
-provided management training on process improvement
-implemented 40+ projects personally; directed 200+ projects
Entrepreneurship:
-developed e-business platform (in the middle of beta-ing; currently don't want to provide much detail until launch date)
-developed business plan, "hired" resources (mostly convinced programmers to work for me for free for equity), market research, successfully marketed to 100+ test users
Extra Curricular Undergrad:
Co-founder of Engineers without borders at university
Course union president - engaged student body; delivered 15 events including cross discipline sports tournament
Engineering Newspaper rep
Women in Engineering speaker to under privileged youths
Research assistant
Current Extra Curricular:
Marathon Running - Running instructor for 5k group
Triathlons
Various Young Patrons Circles membership
Various boards of smaller galleries
Touring of all art galleries in Ontario
Habitat for Humanity
Business
Awards: Averaged 1.5 awards/scholarships for leadership and academic excellence per year; women in engineering leadership award; entrance scholarships
References:
1. Chair of my engineering school
2. Business partner
3. ???
Target Schools: 2012 entry
Harvard
So my dilemma is that I really really want to go to HBS. I see my weaknesses are my undergrad educations, my GMAT score and my lack of volunteering after my undergrad ( I focused on personal development). I've done well at my current job, but my current employer also do not provide references and I don't know how HBS will receive that. Even if they were to make an exception for me, I'm not sure I want them to know how I will be timing my MBA.
Any thoughts on my overall competitiveness for HBS or how to overcome my weaknesses will be most welcomed.
Profile:
Nationality: Canadian, Chinese ethnicity
GMAT: Female
Age: 27 upon entry
Education: B. Eng Honours; P.Eng pending this year
GPA: 3.54 - school: second tier engineering school in Ontario
GMAT: 690, 4.0
Designation: Engineering/Process Manager (background industrial engineering)
Work Ex:
-Internship + 3 years experience as engineer, two of which as engineering manager for the region of Canada directing IS personnel in 6 locations
-10% productivity improvement in region overall; some branches 40% improvement
-trained/mentors programming personnel; grew CA analytics group from 2 programmers to 10 without adding head count
-provided management training on process improvement
-implemented 40+ projects personally; directed 200+ projects
Entrepreneurship:
-developed e-business platform (in the middle of beta-ing; currently don't want to provide much detail until launch date)
-developed business plan, "hired" resources (mostly convinced programmers to work for me for free for equity), market research, successfully marketed to 100+ test users
Extra Curricular Undergrad:
Co-founder of Engineers without borders at university
Course union president - engaged student body; delivered 15 events including cross discipline sports tournament
Engineering Newspaper rep
Women in Engineering speaker to under privileged youths
Research assistant
Current Extra Curricular:
Marathon Running - Running instructor for 5k group
Triathlons
Various Young Patrons Circles membership
Various boards of smaller galleries
Touring of all art galleries in Ontario
Habitat for Humanity
Business
Awards: Averaged 1.5 awards/scholarships for leadership and academic excellence per year; women in engineering leadership award; entrance scholarships
References:
1. Chair of my engineering school
2. Business partner
3. ???
Target Schools: 2012 entry
Harvard
So my dilemma is that I really really want to go to HBS. I see my weaknesses are my undergrad educations, my GMAT score and my lack of volunteering after my undergrad ( I focused on personal development). I've done well at my current job, but my current employer also do not provide references and I don't know how HBS will receive that. Even if they were to make an exception for me, I'm not sure I want them to know how I will be timing my MBA.
Any thoughts on my overall competitiveness for HBS or how to overcome my weaknesses will be most welcomed.
