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Acads : India - Mechanical Engineering - Topper

GMAT : 710 - Q45; V47; AWA 6

Extra Curricular - Minimum

Professional Experience : 6.5 years by next session

Sector : IT

Industry : Financial Services

International Experience : Graduated from India, however spent most of the professional time in London working with Barclays through Indian IT company Tata Consultancy Services.

Career Growth :
Started as Software Engineer.
Gained rapid recognistion and was given responsibility as a Module Leader managing 4-5 member team
Delivered biggest Bank Mergers projects in UK. Promoted to Analyst and Project Leader.
Engaged on to the biggest projects in the UK financial services history. Last project managed budgeted at $3Million with a benefit delivered around £10 Billion to the client.
Managed team sizes ~ 20 members

Took Project Management Certification : Prince2, highly acclaimed in UK

Various awards / accolades from the Client (they offered me job as well) and Parent Company

Currently working Senior Analyst (IT) for Wealth Management division of world's largest Asset Management Companies.

Ventures :
Traning Institute : Employed 10 people. Training more than ~100 students quarterly. Good revenue. Disengaged slowly due to less margins.
Export of niche products to UK : a total failure
Manufacturing Consumer Products : Currently employing 10 people ; Capital Investment : 1 mil ; Revenue: 100k per annum; Profits : 15%;
Struggling with marketing; But sued by 'Google' of the Market indicating that they perceive me as a threat. Litigation settled.

Social Activities : Founded and managing a primary school for kids in a village. 30-40 kids out there.

Target Colleges : LBS, Cambridge Judge, Oxford Said ; Harvard;

Critical review please. No concessions.

For US based schools, you are in one of the most competitive applicant pools (Indian nationality, IT background) however you have strong experience and a competitive GMAT score.

Your challenge for Harvard will be to differentiate yourself from the rest of the applicant pool. Be sure that you can clearly articulate why you want an MBA at this point in your career and what your post-graduation goals are. Finally, Harvard emphasizes leadership so be sure to communicate your ability to lead in a variety of settings (professional, academic, community, etc).

LBS also emphasizes leadership. You can read more about the school's culture here: https://www.veritasprep.com/mba/schools/London/
You definitely meet/exceed the average profiles at the other schools however I do not know the trends in the current applicant pools. I would suggest you look at the school profiles to get an idea of how you stack up against the current students.