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Hi,

A brief background about me:

I'm 30, female and live and work in Delhi. I currently work as a Senior Associate in a Real Estate Private Equity fund (4 years).

Prior to this I was into Real Estate Consulting with an International Property Consultant (2.6 years). I started my career with a KPO and was into financial analysis involving CMBS (2 years).

I have about 9 years of work ex.

Qualifications: BA Economics (Hons) Delhi University and a CFA charter.

I'm seriously considering an MBA since I'm looking to transition out of the Analyst/Associate roles I'm currently getting and into senior/managerial positions. I want to know what kind of schools in the US/Singapore I should apply to, given my profile. I also have a low score in my 3rd year graduation and I guess I'm older than the average MBA candidate, which I would need to make up for with a good GMAT score and a compelling essay.

I'm fairly new to this, so I would really appreciate any feedback/advice on how to take this forward.

Thanks.

Thanks so much for your reply. I know I have to focus on the GMAT score for now. In India, ISB admits 24 year olds also these days, so I was wondering what the perception is abroad.

Also, I intend to apply to colleges where I can get some financial aid so I don't know if that kind of narrows down my choices a bit.

Hi,

It would be great if you could help me evaluate my profile:

My target schools: Kellogg, Stern, UCLA Anderson, Tepper

Experience:
3 years of work experience (on matriculation)
Decision Scientist at a Data Analytics and a Decision Science firm in India
- Worked on business problems across multiple industries such at Retail, Online Advertising, Agro chemical
- Was appointed as team lead within 9 months - Mentoring and leading a 4 person team
- Most recently was given with the opportunity to work in a client services role : Currently working out of the clients office in Mumbai and managing a 6 person team at the head office, Responsibilities: Maintaining a strong pipeline of project, Building client relationship and strengthening client engagement, translating business requirements to the team, collaborating with multiple stakeholders - clients from different functions, vendors to gain 360 degree view of the business

While at Mumbai I started taking interest in dad's business - (Multi-brand retail outlet - Men's Apparels)
- Run some analysis on stock
- Improved stock taking
- Put a system in place to collect customer data


Scores:
GMAT: 740 (49 quant, 40 verbal)
TOEFL : 112

College:
BE in Electronics Engineering , University of Mumbai (63% - Average across all semesters)

Extra Curricular:
- Won Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award - created a prototype of a memory aid for the disabled
- Was a part of the organizing committee for the annual cultural festival at my undergrad college
- Currently volunteering with Mentor Me India (Mentor)
- Have been a part of Leo Club in the past (Member, Treasurer)

Post MBA Goal:
Short-term goal: Return back to India, scale the family business (More Brick and Motar stores and online store)
Long-Term: Introduce a private label clothing brand


I plan to apply to Stern, Anderson and Tepper in Round 1, and Kellogg in Round 2.
It would be great if you could also help me identify other schools I should consider.

Thanks,
Nirali.