Hi,
First of all I want to thank you for helping MBA applicants.
Here is my profile:
IT professional/MALE/ Indian "Applying for FALL 2010 "
Total years of full-time Exp by sept 2009: 8 Yrs (all in software development)
Age : 30
Current JOB: Software Product Development
(Experience in current company 2 yrs.)
Location : Bay Area, USA
Work exp in USA : 3.5 yrs (rest in India)
Current title: Techincal Team leader (interact with other teams e.g sales, product management, qa and international team in India and UK)
Recommendation: Can get Excellant reco. from current Manager
Under Grad : B.Tech. from IIT (One of the top univ in India)
Major : Manufacturing Sc & Engineering (Mechincal Engineering)
CGPA: 8.16/10
Adv Degree : not applicable
GMAT: 710 (Verbal 38, Quantitative 50, AWA 4.5)
Extra Curricular: not much after college. In IIT, contested student election for general Sec. but didn't win. member of National social service for one yr during my second yr in IIT.
After work Activities : last yr, worked with a startup company as partner and helped to design its sotware product, but the company didn't become successful.
Interested in : General Management/entrepreneurship
Schools interested in:
MIT
ROSS
UCLA
HAAS
DUKE
CORNELL
LBS
Questions:
1. Do you think the choice of schools is right?
2. Do you think that I should join some community service for few months to improve my credential on extra activities?
3. If yes on prev questions, what kind of community service would be best fit for short time.
4. Do you think retaking GMAT and adding 20-30 more points could help in my case?
5. Is it good to get both reccomendations from the current employer?
6. Please suggest if I should add any other B-school in my list
Thanking you in advance.
First of all I want to thank you for helping MBA applicants.
Here is my profile:
IT professional/MALE/ Indian "Applying for FALL 2010 "
Total years of full-time Exp by sept 2009: 8 Yrs (all in software development)
Age : 30
Current JOB: Software Product Development
(Experience in current company 2 yrs.)
Location : Bay Area, USA
Work exp in USA : 3.5 yrs (rest in India)
Current title: Techincal Team leader (interact with other teams e.g sales, product management, qa and international team in India and UK)
Recommendation: Can get Excellant reco. from current Manager
Under Grad : B.Tech. from IIT (One of the top univ in India)
Major : Manufacturing Sc & Engineering (Mechincal Engineering)
CGPA: 8.16/10
Adv Degree : not applicable
GMAT: 710 (Verbal 38, Quantitative 50, AWA 4.5)
Extra Curricular: not much after college. In IIT, contested student election for general Sec. but didn't win. member of National social service for one yr during my second yr in IIT.
After work Activities : last yr, worked with a startup company as partner and helped to design its sotware product, but the company didn't become successful.
Interested in : General Management/entrepreneurship
Schools interested in:
MIT
ROSS
UCLA
HAAS
DUKE
CORNELL
LBS
Questions:
1. Do you think the choice of schools is right?
2. Do you think that I should join some community service for few months to improve my credential on extra activities?
3. If yes on prev questions, what kind of community service would be best fit for short time.
4. Do you think retaking GMAT and adding 20-30 more points could help in my case?
5. Is it good to get both reccomendations from the current employer?
6. Please suggest if I should add any other B-school in my list
Thanking you in advance.
