Ask Stacy Blackman

Hi Stacy,

I have been browsing through the forum and appreciated your pragmatic responses to certain profile-evaluation requests. This encourages me to kindly ask: how to work my application to get to my pre-selected 6 schools listed in the topic ?

Let me detail my profile first:
- Born in Czechoslovakia, Slovak citizen
- 29 years old
Education
- 1 year High school in PA, US
- 5 years Engineering Master's Degree, France, (graduated with honors), unknown French engineering school.
- 1 year Postgraduate Masters degree specialized in Project Management, France, (graduated with honors), prestigious top French business school.
Work experience
- 2 years as software consultant for a major UK consultancy, Paris, France
- 3 years as Cofounder and CEO of a French-Slovak start-up company in high-tech security software, Paris - France and Bratislava - Slovakia
Community:
- 3 years, Lecturer in Project Management course, law senior students at Universite Paris XI
Hobby:
- 3 years, Ice-hockey player, Paris, France
Languages:
- mother language: Slovak (mother language)
- fluent: English, French
Test Scores
- TOEFL (not taken)
- GMAT (not taken)
Recommendations:
- 5 articles where published about the start-up company and the management team in French and Slovak newspapers.

Questions:

Q0: What are the risks (points I should avoid) and the opportunities (points I should accentuate) of my profile ?

Q1: Which parts of my profile would you recommend me to improve, before submitting the applications for R2 (fall 2008 intake) ?
- Apart from GMAT I currently study for. Target score: 680+.

Q2: How to work them (hire consultant, volunteer for more community work, ...) ?

If you need any more specific information I omitted - please ask. Thanks a lot for your help.

Best,
V.