Welcome Precision Essay!

[beatthegmat]

I'm pleased to announce that the Precision Essay team will be joining our Beat The GMAT community. Please take a moment to learn a little bit about Precision Essay, and feel free to ask your MBA admissions questions in this forum.

Jon Frank, the founder of Precision Essay and an HBS MBA will be responding to your questions.

Thanks Precision Essay for joining Beat The GMAT!

Eric

[Jon@Admissionado]

Thanks Eric, for the kind welcome!
We are very happy to be here.
So let's start posting and getting though killer questions out here!

[dubinsky]

Please describe your short-term professional goals and how do you plan to achieve them (pre-MBA) (200-word limit)



How does one approach such a question... What are the key points to be covered?


Thanks

[Jon@Admissionado]

Key Points:
1. It should be a natural step on your way to your long-term goals
2. Ideally it should have some connection with your past experience
3. Your path should be logical, realistic, and end with something impressive, yet attainable.

[Aaprna]

Dear Jon,

I was really happy to read your article on how a high GMAT score can help in the admissions process. I am however having difficulty deciding which colleges to apply to. I would be grateful if you could give me some idea about the same. This is my profile:

25 yrs old, Indian female, post-graduate in pharmacy with a 9.8/10 CGPA from a premier institute in India (8.8/10 in graduation from another top-ranked institue in India), however current work experience is 17 months in the field of patents. Participated in a lot of sports through out college and at work, have 3 patent applications in India and in the US to my name and am a registered patent agent in India. GMAT score 750 (98 percentile), verbal: 42, Quant: 49, AWA: 4.5.

Thanks!