Hello-
I'd like to request a profile evaluation to determine if I am on/off the mark with the candidate schools I hope to apply to. Thanks in advance.
Age: 39
Lived and worked in Boston, MA and State College, PA
Work experience:
11.5 years total work experience in electrical engineering. I have no experience in business or finance. I come from a staff engineer role and do not have any experience leading teams except for a brief quality improvement team effort at a prior company. The QIT was a success in meeting our objectives of reduction in test process time.
Current position: Senior Electrical Engineer with a startup company in wireless sensors (5 years)
Previous position: Test Development Engineer with a midsize public semiconductor test company (6.5 years)
Undergraduate:
May 1992 - ASEET GPA 4.0, Norwalk State Technical College
May 1997 - BSEE GPA 2.27, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Alternative transcript (2008/2009):
Financial and Managerial Accounting; Grade: A
Intro to Microeconomic Analysis and Policy; Grade: A
Intro to Statistics for Business; Grade: A
GMAT:
1st take: 670 (V38/Q44), AWA 5
2nd take: 640 (V34/Q44), AWA 5
Extra-curricular activities:
Married with a 23 month old son. I like skiing, hiking and camping. I also like playing guitar and restoring vintage guitar amplifiers.
Goals:
I desire to make a career change into corporate finance. I want to solve problems using quantitative approaches and affect positive improvement across multiple functions of a firm. I'm looking for a broad approach to management education as well as a specialization in finance. While I feel that I have the capacity to excel in the hard skill areas, I know that I need help in the soft skill areas. I believe that a full time MBA program would best furnish me with the skills necessary to accomplish these goals.
Concerns:
In light of my staff engineer only positions held without any team lead experience, is my age considered a weakness? One positive aspect is that I can remark on many teamwork situations and relating to upper management. There is a lot to write and talk about here for the essays and interviews. Also, my undergraduate GPA is pretty low. During my undergraduate program I was very troubled and immature and did not strike a good balance between the social and the academic aspects of college life. This is very apparent due to the simple CAD course that I failed! I also failed some of the more difficult courses multiple times but still I persevered. I did manage to pull myself together and finish the last semester with a 3.0 for the term. Just recently I achieved A's in 3 quantitative courses to help offset any concerns with academic ability.
Do I have a reasonable chance at the following schools for a full time MBA program?
Duke University
University of Virginia
University of North Carolina
University of Maryland
Pennsylvania State University
Boston University
I'd like to request a profile evaluation to determine if I am on/off the mark with the candidate schools I hope to apply to. Thanks in advance.
Age: 39
Lived and worked in Boston, MA and State College, PA
Work experience:
11.5 years total work experience in electrical engineering. I have no experience in business or finance. I come from a staff engineer role and do not have any experience leading teams except for a brief quality improvement team effort at a prior company. The QIT was a success in meeting our objectives of reduction in test process time.
Current position: Senior Electrical Engineer with a startup company in wireless sensors (5 years)
Previous position: Test Development Engineer with a midsize public semiconductor test company (6.5 years)
Undergraduate:
May 1992 - ASEET GPA 4.0, Norwalk State Technical College
May 1997 - BSEE GPA 2.27, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Alternative transcript (2008/2009):
Financial and Managerial Accounting; Grade: A
Intro to Microeconomic Analysis and Policy; Grade: A
Intro to Statistics for Business; Grade: A
GMAT:
1st take: 670 (V38/Q44), AWA 5
2nd take: 640 (V34/Q44), AWA 5
Extra-curricular activities:
Married with a 23 month old son. I like skiing, hiking and camping. I also like playing guitar and restoring vintage guitar amplifiers.
Goals:
I desire to make a career change into corporate finance. I want to solve problems using quantitative approaches and affect positive improvement across multiple functions of a firm. I'm looking for a broad approach to management education as well as a specialization in finance. While I feel that I have the capacity to excel in the hard skill areas, I know that I need help in the soft skill areas. I believe that a full time MBA program would best furnish me with the skills necessary to accomplish these goals.
Concerns:
In light of my staff engineer only positions held without any team lead experience, is my age considered a weakness? One positive aspect is that I can remark on many teamwork situations and relating to upper management. There is a lot to write and talk about here for the essays and interviews. Also, my undergraduate GPA is pretty low. During my undergraduate program I was very troubled and immature and did not strike a good balance between the social and the academic aspects of college life. This is very apparent due to the simple CAD course that I failed! I also failed some of the more difficult courses multiple times but still I persevered. I did manage to pull myself together and finish the last semester with a 3.0 for the term. Just recently I achieved A's in 3 quantitative courses to help offset any concerns with academic ability.
Do I have a reasonable chance at the following schools for a full time MBA program?
Duke University
University of Virginia
University of North Carolina
University of Maryland
Pennsylvania State University
Boston University
