Tough Love For A Qualified, Well-Rounded Engineer - Can He Get Into Stanford GSB?

HBS Guru Sandy Kreisberg and Poets&Quants Editor-in-Chief John A. Byrne discuss the acceptance chances of Simon, an MBA candidate with dynamite credentials.
- Verbal: 98%
- Quant: 96%
- Dancer
- Hacker
- Valedictorian
Is he a shoo-in for Harvard, Stanford, Wharton? Sandy brings us into some harsh reality, handicapping his odds of getting in. Sandy reveals what Stanford is looking for, and reveals a few secrets to getting in (and how to mess it up) - watch through and write this down!
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[@siddhantgandhi2308]

I think he really really helped him when he critiqued his long term goals. Also how many interviews he got ? I am a developer myself.

[@curleypubes3672]

Lol.. This interview was fun

[@ladderhero6266]

Simon is at Booth now

[@searchrankoptimize]

Who are you man? And how do you know?

[@apierre6]

@@searchrankoptimize It's pretty easy to find these people on LinkedIn, you know their names, you know where they went to school and you know where they work.

[@searchrankoptimize]

@@apierre6 Yeah but how does Ladder Hero know? and find time to put such comment here? his inclination?

[@apierre6]

@@searchrankoptimize what are you talking about? Log into linkedin.com and look up this guy's name. His profile lists him as a student at Booth. It's not brain surgery, it's a simple search on a website

[@accountsequity5587]

@@searchrankoptimize lmaooo, dude just download LinkedIn, search his name and boom there u go.