Experience - 15 Years
Management Experience - 5 years
Current level - Director, IT strategy, planning and transformation
MS (CS) - GPA 3
PMP (Project Management Professional from PMI)
MCPM (Master Certificate in Project Management from Washington university)
GMAT 640 (Q47/V31)
Situation:
I am currently working as a Director at a fortune 250 company. I have a good progressive experience. 4 years in India, 5.5 years of consulting in US at fortune 50 companies with strong growth in billing rate (a good indicator in consulting field), spent last 5.5 years managing large program teams (5-100 people, $5-100M programs). Currently working as at a Director level. My goal is to reach at CIO level in next 3 years. While MBA is not neccessary for me to get there as I already have enough work experience but it would certainly strengthen my business side of job as more and more CIO roles now get involved with company strategy.
I am also serving as a VP on my community home association board.
After getting some timeoff from work (14 hours workdays) I decided to take a crack at GMAT, spent last 15 days preparing but could crack only 640 (was targeting 700).
Question:
I attended Wharton info session on EMBA last month. They indicated that GMAT was only one component of their selection and they place much more emphasis on recommendation letters. Also, they shared GMAT profile of last year EMBA students that showed 17 students had GMAT < 650 so it certainly gives me some hope.
Let me know what do you think of my chances of getting selected in EMBA at Wharton, Kellog or Berkeley. Kellog does not even require GMAT for EMBA students. Do you think other attributes of my applications can pull it off for me.
Thanks in advance!!
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Management Experience - 5 years
Current level - Director, IT strategy, planning and transformation
MS (CS) - GPA 3
PMP (Project Management Professional from PMI)
MCPM (Master Certificate in Project Management from Washington university)
GMAT 640 (Q47/V31)
Situation:
I am currently working as a Director at a fortune 250 company. I have a good progressive experience. 4 years in India, 5.5 years of consulting in US at fortune 50 companies with strong growth in billing rate (a good indicator in consulting field), spent last 5.5 years managing large program teams (5-100 people, $5-100M programs). Currently working as at a Director level. My goal is to reach at CIO level in next 3 years. While MBA is not neccessary for me to get there as I already have enough work experience but it would certainly strengthen my business side of job as more and more CIO roles now get involved with company strategy.
I am also serving as a VP on my community home association board.
After getting some timeoff from work (14 hours workdays) I decided to take a crack at GMAT, spent last 15 days preparing but could crack only 640 (was targeting 700).
Question:
I attended Wharton info session on EMBA last month. They indicated that GMAT was only one component of their selection and they place much more emphasis on recommendation letters. Also, they shared GMAT profile of last year EMBA students that showed 17 students had GMAT < 650 so it certainly gives me some hope.
Let me know what do you think of my chances of getting selected in EMBA at Wharton, Kellog or Berkeley. Kellog does not even require GMAT for EMBA students. Do you think other attributes of my applications can pull it off for me.
Thanks in advance!!
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