One of my favourite elements of life as an MBA student has been the shared experiences with my cohort. As is true of most of the schools represented in this blog space, Tsinghua in Beijing tends to draw something of a multidimensional class every year, which has been extremely worthwhile for me.
When it came to the admissions process itself, my profile would have made me a non-traditional candidate on pretty much any MBA programme. In business school terms, I started off on the straight-and-narrow path by majoring in finance in college. So far, so good. After that, though, I sort of fell off the traditional MBA roadmap. On paper, my post-undergrad journey essentially read as: two rounds of non-business graduate school; multi-year careers in law and education; and a pretty wide-roaming variety of extracurricular and freelance endeavors. I was somewhat on the older side of the MBA demographic, and although I had spent time in China, I had very little ability in its language – even as I applied to the MBA programme in Beijing.
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