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I am from India.
GMAT score- 760(Q:49, V:44, overall 99 percentile).

Academics : I.T. Engineer from India GPA 3.9

Work Ex: Close to 4 years full time (software engineer) with 1+ year part time (teaching) work. I also got client appreciation and early promotion in work due to my exceptional performance.

Community service:
1. Volunteering with Hands on Bay Area and have also Lead 2 projects.
2. Led and helped organizing Leadership workshops based on Seven Habits of Highly Effective people.
2. Taught Mathematics to orphans in India.
3. Provided emotional support to inmates of old age homes during college days.
4. Provided some financial help to orphanage.
5. Organized and led a number of religious events with a team of 20 volunteers at Temples since the time I was in junior college.

not so positive:

I got married and came to USA in May 2008 and since then I am not working, earlier due to visa issues, and now due to recession. However, I have used this time to build a solid foundation for my newly formed family and to expand my vision by making use of the abundant information on internet, preparing for GMAT .

For Full time MBA program following are my target schools:
1. Stanford GSB
2. Haas Berkley
3. UCLA Anderson
4. UC Irvine
5. UC Davis

I have the following questions:

1. Which schools do you think will give me admit? What are my odds?
2. Do you see any particular weakness in my profile? If yes, any suggestions for improvement?
3. What are the strengths and weeknesses of my profile?
4. I just gave GMAT 2 days back, and I am a bit anxious as the first deadline for Stanford is Oct 7th. Could you suggest how should I divide this 5 weeks of time to write my application for Stanford and even partial applications for UCLA and HAAS ?

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by Cindy Tokumitsu » Mon Aug 31, 2009 6:39 pm
Hello,

I'm afraid it's impossible for me to evaluate your profile with key pieces of information missing, e.g., GPA, what kind of company you worked at and what business exposure you may have had, your goals, what kind of teaching, etc. Also, I must mention the challenge of being an Indian in IT, a group which is over-represented, including people with a high GMAT.

To answer your questions:

1) I believe that with no work since mid 08, it will be tough at the top schools unless you can really present compelling goals. Right now I think that all but Davis and Irvine would be almost out of reach because of the lack of recent work plus being in the over-represented group, unless there's something highly unusual or distinctive about your goals.
2) I can't tell, without knowing more about the particulars. It would always help to have more leadership, and you should continue being very proactive in pursuing learning related to your goals.
3) Strengths seem to be GMAT, strong performance at work, good extracurriculars. Weaknesses are lack of work for a long period and also just the disadvantage of being in a highly over-represented industry/demographic group that also features high numbers.
4) I wouldn't approach it so much as dividing your time. I suggest starting with Stanford and just keep going -keep a steady pace and be smart about adapting essays (i.e., take advantage of already developed material but never use expediency alone as the reason to adapt an essay).

Best regards,
Cindy Tokumitsu
Senior Editor, Accepted.com
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