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Hi,

Thanks for your post, and by the way really nice job organizing your post, and summarizing at the end... the skills of organizing how you present yourself will serve you well on your application (and in the business world too of course).

The strengths you've got going for you include:

-international experience (i.e. from India to the US)
-great project management and analytical skills evidenced
-finance & quant exposure and skills
-concrete results and accomplishments you can cite
-the website/start-up you describe is very interesting and could help differentiate you if described well
-as you said, good extracurricular involvement
-blogging experience can be a plus in terms of demonstrating communication skills, very important for engineers
-good start to explaining your past, and how it brought you to this point, and why you want the MBA/what you plan to do it (all of this is very important on the applications)

Potential weaknesses include:

-your GMAT, with the average at Haas part-time being 700
-just the fact that Indian engineers are often large applicant groups, so there's always the challenge of continuing to differentiate from that applicant group
-could evidence more leadership and more people management skills or experiences if possible

Unknowns:
-essays, letters of rec and interview of course

Overall I would say it will still be a challenge at Haas, but if you do a really great job presenting yourself (in the essays!!) you could have a shot. A stronger GMAT would also greatly strengthen your profile here as that is one of your lower points. Good luck on everything, let us know if you have additional questions, and if you'd like to speak in more depth with a consultant at any point, you can do so with our free 30 min consult at https://www.mbamission.com/consult.php.

You're welcome, good luck!