Native American/White, Male, Age 26 (27 at matriculation)
Education: Industrial Engineering from University of Oklahoma/Arkansas/Kansas - BS, 2014, 3.1 GPA - MS, 2016, 4.0 GPA
- 740 GMAT
- Full-time work throughout undergrad. Various student positions/scholarship/leadership.
Work Experience: - 2 years @ Northrop Grumman as Electrical Engineer - 2 years @ Raytheon in Engineering LDP (masters degree required) - Rotated and relocated through 3 of 4 business units w/ experience in Ops, Eng, and Quality
EC: - Studied abroad in France (took 3 courses there, all As) - food bank volunteer (~10hrs/month) - black belt in Taekwondo (teach ~ 3hrs/week) - Math Counts volunteer (~8 hrs/month) - Social Sports club president (lol)
Target Schools: HBS (hail mary), Wharton, Sloan, Kellogg, Tuck, Johnson, Yale SOM
Edit: Goal: MBA->Consulting ->Corporate Strategy
Native american is the golden ticket PLUS you have solid stats, MS makes up for bad GPA, solid ECs and great WE. If you position your story well you should be very competitive for everything.
Solid profile. HBS is a bit of a longshot but they may go for the 740+ solid WE + Native American although the low undergrad GPA will hurt there. You should be competitive at Wharton/Sloan/Kellogg/Tuck and should get into all of Johnson/Yale/Georgetown PT. I'd probably add CBS and/or Booth and remove 1-2 of the safeties.
Frank Slaughtery
Thank you for the reply. Edited to include my goal, Consulting->Corp. Strategy.
Does it matter if I worked FT during my masters degree, or should I just let the dates speak for themselves? I worked at Northrop Grumman FT while completing my masters (w/ thesis).
adcom will figure it out from the dates
Can't hurt to point it out though? 4.0 while working full time is impressive.
Thanks. Yeah, I worked my butt off to make up for that undergrad GPA and chose to write a thesis to protect my GPA. I took all of the Industrial Engineering coursework and would have had to take some EE or ME grad level classes. No thanks. So, I wrote a master's thesis and now have a scholarly work I can reference. It wasn't fun, but I always wanted a master's degree in engineering. Now to get that M7 MBA to finally give my resume some prestige and have a chance at consulting/corp. strat roles.
Any advice? I am working on my ECs and thinking about a GMAT retake after the rankings came out yesterday. Man, those averages are soaring!
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