Hi,
I was hoping for an opinion regarding my profile and your input on a question I had. So here's my situation:
24 year old American male
took GMAT for 2nd time and scored 640 (42Q, 36V, 6.0 AWA) which is better than the pitiful 600 I got the first time
~3.3 GPA from UC Berkeley
Have been working since I graduated full time at a biotech/software company - so 2 years
can speak 4 languages
I'm not trying to get into Harvard or some place like that because I want to get into a school in Europe (and frankly, I'd probably never get into a top school with my current subpar GMAT score). So I have on my list places like HEC Paris, ESSEC, etc which have an avg GMAT of 640-680 or so.
But I feel like I'm at a disadvantage when there are so many candidates (esp from India) with astronomical GMAT scores applying for the same spots. So, I feel like I have to write an epic literary masterpiece for my essay(s) to have any shot of getting accepted. Which brings me to my question.
What do they look for as far as the essays? I consider myself something of a writer, so I've always tried to approach essays from a more literary perspective and work on the style of the prose, the vocabulary, et al more so than going for a more pragmatic approach.
But when I see some of the essays my friends have written and gotten accepted with (for med schools for example), I find these very poorly written. So I was wondering if they do consider style or is it only content that is being counted?
Thank you in advance
I was hoping for an opinion regarding my profile and your input on a question I had. So here's my situation:
24 year old American male
took GMAT for 2nd time and scored 640 (42Q, 36V, 6.0 AWA) which is better than the pitiful 600 I got the first time
~3.3 GPA from UC Berkeley
Have been working since I graduated full time at a biotech/software company - so 2 years
can speak 4 languages
I'm not trying to get into Harvard or some place like that because I want to get into a school in Europe (and frankly, I'd probably never get into a top school with my current subpar GMAT score). So I have on my list places like HEC Paris, ESSEC, etc which have an avg GMAT of 640-680 or so.
But I feel like I'm at a disadvantage when there are so many candidates (esp from India) with astronomical GMAT scores applying for the same spots. So, I feel like I have to write an epic literary masterpiece for my essay(s) to have any shot of getting accepted. Which brings me to my question.
What do they look for as far as the essays? I consider myself something of a writer, so I've always tried to approach essays from a more literary perspective and work on the style of the prose, the vocabulary, et al more so than going for a more pragmatic approach.
But when I see some of the essays my friends have written and gotten accepted with (for med schools for example), I find these very poorly written. So I was wondering if they do consider style or is it only content that is being counted?
Thank you in advance
