Hey Everyone!
Thanks for your time, taking a looks and providing your 2 cents.
I graduated from UMass Amherst with a 2.8 overall and a 3.5 major GPA. I designed my own major Renewable Energy and Sustainable Design and took classes at Amherst, Hampshire, and Smith. Worked at the Renewable Energy Research Laboratory and for my undergrad thesis wrote feasibility study for an offshore wind farm I proposed. Designed custom software for the thesis with a friend, which became my current startup, an offshore wind farm analytics and virtualization company. We are ranked 7th overall out of over 2,225 teams worldwide in the GE Challenge with 2% of the total vote.
My first company was a simple textbook trading website that had 2,500 users (10% of the UMass pop.) and was profitable within 12 months my sophomore year. I couldn't afford a computer at the time so I used my roommates. I used some of the profit to go paragliding in Santa Barbara and Mexico over my winter breaks.
I also had to bartend during school to pay for everything as my parents, a dental hygienist and a carpenter, didn't have much. It took me a little longer to finish school because I a) got muddled down in the thesis, b) took a motorcycle trip to the Panama Canal, and c) got a little sidetracked. I finally received my diploma in 2010, three years late...
For the past two and a half years I have been working my way up the ranks of a rope access company (skalagroup.com, we use big wall rock climbing techniques to work on industrial structures like bridges, dams, buildings and wind turbines) and I am now a team leader and safety supervisor doing blade inspections and repairs 250 feet off the ground. I have been in, on and around all major wind turbine manufactures and many wind farms around the USA from RI to AK.
I have not taken the GMAT yet, only done some initial studying. I am thinking of doing an alternative transcript this semester at NYU, Statistics for Business, Calculus for Business and Introduction to Accounting. All three of which I received either a C or C- in college. I took lots of economics, environmental economics, resource economics, and environmental policy courses at UMass and did ok.
I would like to get into a top 5 MBA program or top 10. Any chances? Alternative transcript? GMAT score? Any and all advice or tips would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
James
Thanks for your time, taking a looks and providing your 2 cents.
I graduated from UMass Amherst with a 2.8 overall and a 3.5 major GPA. I designed my own major Renewable Energy and Sustainable Design and took classes at Amherst, Hampshire, and Smith. Worked at the Renewable Energy Research Laboratory and for my undergrad thesis wrote feasibility study for an offshore wind farm I proposed. Designed custom software for the thesis with a friend, which became my current startup, an offshore wind farm analytics and virtualization company. We are ranked 7th overall out of over 2,225 teams worldwide in the GE Challenge with 2% of the total vote.
My first company was a simple textbook trading website that had 2,500 users (10% of the UMass pop.) and was profitable within 12 months my sophomore year. I couldn't afford a computer at the time so I used my roommates. I used some of the profit to go paragliding in Santa Barbara and Mexico over my winter breaks.
I also had to bartend during school to pay for everything as my parents, a dental hygienist and a carpenter, didn't have much. It took me a little longer to finish school because I a) got muddled down in the thesis, b) took a motorcycle trip to the Panama Canal, and c) got a little sidetracked. I finally received my diploma in 2010, three years late...
For the past two and a half years I have been working my way up the ranks of a rope access company (skalagroup.com, we use big wall rock climbing techniques to work on industrial structures like bridges, dams, buildings and wind turbines) and I am now a team leader and safety supervisor doing blade inspections and repairs 250 feet off the ground. I have been in, on and around all major wind turbine manufactures and many wind farms around the USA from RI to AK.
I have not taken the GMAT yet, only done some initial studying. I am thinking of doing an alternative transcript this semester at NYU, Statistics for Business, Calculus for Business and Introduction to Accounting. All three of which I received either a C or C- in college. I took lots of economics, environmental economics, resource economics, and environmental policy courses at UMass and did ok.
I would like to get into a top 5 MBA program or top 10. Any chances? Alternative transcript? GMAT score? Any and all advice or tips would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
James
