Hi Jon

Firstly, thank you so much for taking out time specially on a Friday. I would love to provide you more details.

1) Where do you work? What do you do? :- I am currently working as an Audit Senior in one of the Big4 accounting firms in the world. I basically do the financial statement audit in the Investment Management Industry covering Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Fund-of-funds and Mutual Funds.
I joined this company 2 years ago as an Audit Senior Assistant and within 9 months was promoted to Audit Senior. I report directly to Manager/Sr. Manager. I currently handling a team that varies from 3-9 depending on the client requirement.
Before this company , I was working in a mid-sized accounting firm ( 30 employees) as an Consultant in Taxation and Auditing role handling a team of 3. I am a Chartered Accountant ( CPA equivalent) and I have a post CA experience of 5 years.

2)Do you have any leadership? - As regards to the leadership experience , I do lead a team in various engagements and also formally participate in the annual feedback/appraisal for my team members.

3)Do you have notable community service or extra curricular? : Currently I am a member in a non-profit organisation working to ensure equitable outcomes for children in orphanages and street shelters.
I was also a part of my company's cricket competition. During my school days, have regularly participated in various quiz competitions/essay writing competitions. Received a bronze medal during a national level essay competition in school.

4) Which school did you graduate from? : Ok, so I did my Senior Secondary is Delhi Public School which is rated among the top 10 schools in the country. I did my undergraduate ( Bachelors in Commerce) from University of Delhi (1st Division). I also did my post graduation (Masters in Commerce) from University Of Delhi ( 1st Division) .
I am a Chartered Accountant (CPA equivalent) and also hold a Masters in Business Finance ( All India Rank Holder) from Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
My post CA work experience is 5 years and post graduation experience is 6.5 years. CA's also undergo a 3.5 years of mandatory article-ship (internship ) which I have not included in the experience.

5) What are your great achievements? : In my first company , me and my colleague were able to re-design the Finance reporting department. In my current company, within 1 year I received spot award ( for handling a pressure scenario in a UK based fund audit ) and Applause award (for all the planning and execution of a US based alternative investment fund audit) . Receiving it in an year is not very common here.

6) Rest , do not have an on site work ex but deal daily with US/Uk teams. Love to travel and have traveled to US , Dubai and many places in India.

I understand GMAT is one of the biggest factors which can just ruin my chances of a business graduation.But getting the same score in 2 separate attempts, I really have no strength to go back to GMAT and would like to use it all on the essays.
My aim is to work in Strategic consulting and to do that it is necessary to have an MBA ( Trust me!!! Had various discussions with many HR executives as well as the employees working in these areas and they all had on answer. MBA ).

IF you could help me adjust the school list too that would be the best help possible right now!!!

Lots of information so please feel free to answer whenever you can . Again , thanks a lot for taking out time and helping me!!

Kind Regards
Manky

Hi Donna

Thank you very much for replying and for providing some more options. Will look into the details.