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Profile Evaluation

by abhir » Mon Aug 05, 2013 6:25 am
Hi,

I have taken the GMAT and scored 700 (49Q,35V). I want to know which all colleges can I apply to. I want to get into top 30-40 colleges. I just want to know where all do I have my chances. I am open to both the options of MBA in strategy consulting and general management.

Profile: 24 years female, Indian. Will be 25 years by the time I join b-school.

Background:I have done computer engineering with 70%. I was working as a software engineer with a healthcare giant for 14 months and then with an IT giant for 7 months as the project was moved to the IT company (In all I have 21 month of work experience. The company change was not voluntary but because my department was moved to the IT company). My work involved application development for the Latin American countries and many from the Asia Pacific. I had to interact with the users from these countries on day to day basis. As i was interested in starting my own company I left the job. But because of some problems I might have to shut it down and go back to a job in an IT company again.I want to know will all of this affect my profile? In 3 years of time (by the time I start my MBA) it will be almost 4 job transitions. The work ex by the time I start MBA will be around 2 years 9 months.

What i frankly think of my profile is that things are not as organized as I have seen in other people's profiles. I want to know which colleges will be open to consider my profile. I want to get an MBA to move on to the consulting side and work at a tier 1 firm post MBA.

Extracurriculars: Have volunteered for events in college. Volunteered for CSR at my office. Have participated in dance both at office and college. I am also a sponsor of a child in a charity organisation.(This I have started recently as I didnt know about this before.I dnt want this to sound as a desperate attempt to show NGO work. I might remove this from the real apps. Although I need your advice on this.)

I am planning to apply this year for the R1.
Please suggest me 8-10 colleges.

Thanks for all the help,
Abhivarna
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by Jon@Admissionado » Thu Aug 08, 2013 8:42 am
Dear Abhivarna,
My fist piece advice to you from what you wrote is to wait it out a wee bit. With 2 years nine months, your work experience is on the low side, and you will have a tougher time against so many other Indian applicants with more experience. Plus this will give you some time to stabilize your career, because from what you wrote you have a bit too many changes int he last time. One thing I should say though - trying and failing at a startup is NOT a bad thing! Actually it seems very brave, and probably you learned a LOT more than what you knew before, so you can actually use it to your advantage. You have a quite nice GMAT score, and I think that if you get some stability in your career arc and wait a bit, then applying to schools ranked 20-50 will be in order.

In the meanwhile, I would advise you to do what you can to continue strengthening your profile, and gathering more experience.
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