Profile Evaluation and School Recommendation

[jhuntington14]

Hello,

I previously posted to have my profile evaluated. Here is my original post: profile-evaluation-t16643.html. I ended up applying to Harvard, Stanford, Haas, Tuck, Kellogg, and Johnson. I have been dinged by both Harvard and Stanford without an interview. I have interviewed with Kellogg and Tuck. The Tuck interview was self-initiated. I will hear back from both of those programs within the next few days. I am still waiting on a interview invite from both Johnson and Haas.

I am disappointed that I haven't received more interview invites, but I guess that's life. I am preparing for my second round applications and wanted to get some advice on programs I would have a good shot at. I am currently looking at Darden, Tepper, Anderson, and BYU. Any advice you could give me would be greatly appreciated.

My short term goal is shift into an operations consulting role, and long term is to move into management consulting focused on social innovation.

Thanks,
James

[mili]

Hi James,

Sorry to hear that. As you know HBS and GSB are always long shots, no matter how strong your profile. The challenge with Haas and Tuck is that their class size is so small that acceptance rates are pretty low.

I still think you should look at Michigan and Duke as options. But the rest of your list looks reasonable. There are some other programs like Pittsburgh Katz, Tulane, Northeastern that are strong operations program but that are not as well ranked overall. You might want to consider these programs depending on your priorities.

The other piece of advice that I have is to reconsider your career narrative. You have a finance and nonprofit background, want to move into operations, then social innovation consulting? That is a very non-logical and somewhat unrealistic career narrative. Your short term and long term goals need to logically build off one another and off your past background. I'm not seeing that right now.

Hope this helps!
Mili

Mili Mittal
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