TheEngineerMBA: HBS Invitation!
TheEngineerMBA is back, after a few months of scrambling between B-school applications, frequent travel at work, and working on personal development projects. In this blog post, I’d like to update everyone on where I am in the process now that nearly every application has been submitted.
Here we go!
I was one of the lucky few to receive an invitation to interview at Harvard Business School in the first week of R1 notifications (last week). To be honest, I was very prepared for a ding and this outcome definitely surprised me.
If you take a look at the comments on the poetsandquants HBS ding report (P&Q Ding Report), you will see that many VERY well qualified individuals were dinged. It must honestly be a crapshoot to get into these top schools, and though I certainly feel that I am a strong and unique applicant I am not disillusioned enough to think there wasn’t a bit of luck at play here.
I will be headed up to Cambridge in early November, and if I play my cards right I hope to be able to squeeze in an MIT interview on the same trip. I will update on my first impressions on HBS and MIT after they occur!
12 Responses to “TheEngineerMBA: HBS Invitation!”
Wow!! Congratulations! Knock ’em dead.
Thank you very much!
P&Q and even GMATClub have been shown incredibly selective results. Any chance that we can learn your stats? We know from your last post that you work for a fortune 100 company in technology, but what about GMAT/GPA/Grad School or Undergrad school?
I will be putting up a profile post soon! Hopefully this week.
Congrats!!! Hopefully you manage to arrange the MIT interview to kill two birds with one stone!
That is nuts! All the best to you.
Congratulations fellow Engineer!! 😀
What advice do you have for engineers applying in R2?
Oh man, the biggest thing I grappled with is getting the story right. Unlike the traditional business-y backgrounds, cobbling together a vision for where you want to take your career can be difficult for people in STEM. The reality is, you busted your butt to become a science specialist all these years. You need to figure out what it was that fueled you to engineering and why you want to take it a step further with an MBA.
Oh, and start now: https://grantmeadmission.com/2014/10/20/theengineermba-how-my-essay-got-me-an-hbs-interview/
Hi, did you work with any admissions consultants for writing your essays ?
Congratulations on your invite and best of luck to you!
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