Ask Veritas Prep Admissions Consulting

Nationality: Singaporean
Age:29
Work experience:7years
GMAT: 620 (Q42, Verbal 33),taken twice- latest was yesterday, previously in 2008

BE, Mechanical & Production Engineering Undergrad GPA: 2.75 (NTU, Singapore) 2003
Masters in Precision Eng (part-time): GPA 4.1/5 (NTU, Singapore) 2007
Masters in Applied Finance (part-time): GPA 3.4/4.0 (Singapore MGMT Uni)
CFA level 1 Passed

Work Ex:
5 years for Novellus Systems Inc. (Semiconductor Industry) : 2 years HW Service Engineer, 3 years- Senior Process engineer/Technical Sales Engineer (2 promotions in 5 years). Best employee award for 2/5 years. 2 technical Paper publications. Won Customer service award from client (Work location:split between US/SG)

2 years at SAS Institute Inc. as a Pre-Sales Risk & Advanced Analytics Consultant: Won best Staff Award 2010 - recently helped win a multi million dollar consulting deal with a bank. My work is very quantitative. Led a team of three.

EC: research team member for a transient workers community org. (last 2 years), represented University in cricket team for 4 years. Publications secretary for American society of Mechanical engineer during undergrad.

Preferred Post MBA field: Management/Financial Consulting
Preferred MBA school location: US/CANADA

I realize that my Gmat score is not good, but I feel the need to do an now because of a few factors - career at a stage where MBA will equip me & accelerate my move up, age (I feel i want I need a full time MBA to fully realize its potential and thus want to finish it before marriage), networking in North America to complement my Singapore networks to increase my professional options.

Thanks for your patience with my lengthy post.Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Your GMAT score is a bit low for top-tier U.S. MBA programs but it may still be in the competitive range for some mid-tier schools. The bigger issue is the fact that you already have two graduate level degrees. It will be difficult to create a compelling case as to why a third master's degree will give you an advantage that your years of experience and two other master's degrees cannot. The "why MBA" essay will need to be especially strong.

Scottie@VeritasPrep wrote:Your GMAT score is a bit low for top-tier U.S. MBA programs but it may still be in the competitive range for some mid-tier schools. The bigger issue is the fact that you already have two graduate level degrees. It will be difficult to create a compelling case as to why a third master's degree will give you an advantage that your years of experience and two other master's degrees cannot. The "why MBA" essay will need to be especially strong.

Many Thanks for the great insight. I am taking GMAT one last time next month to improve my score as much as I can. As far as the two MSc. degrees are concerned, I am thinking of dropping the engineering MSc. degree from my app and not using it. Primary reason for that is the fact that it is a very specialized technical degree which has limited relevance to my present career path.

Thanks again.