Profile evaluation please

[tarunrehani]

Hi,

I´d appreciate if you could evaluate my profile
Country: India
Age: 30 (31 next fall)
GMAT Score: Planning to give on 15th of Nov with a target of 710+
GPA: 3.0 (Second Class )
Education : Bachelors in Electronics & Communication

Total Exp: 7 years (8 Years next fall)

International /onsite Exp: 3 years and 9 months.

Job Profile: Currently working as a Validation Lead in second largest semiconductor company in Automobile sector,India(From June 2010 - till present)
Previous Exp: Technical lead and Technical reference for Three different sites(Noida'India', Milan and Palermo)
6 years and 9 months in Europe's largest and World's 5th largest semiconductor company with $8.5B annual revenue (2009).
During those 6 years and 9 months in my previous company ,I was in europe (France and Italy) for 3 years and 9 months.
Interacted with lot of customers(Bosch, delphi, Conti.. )
Awarded Two times best engineer in my group.
Youngest in my team with average exp of 10 years.
Was memeber of Global Validation core group , Engineers are from World's top 2 semiconductor company in automobile sector
Generated validation guidlines and templates ,which is currently being implemented in 4 different sites inside my previous company.

Extra Curri- Member of EBAI- Eye Bank Association of India.
Was member of school , college and company Football and cricket team ,where we won lot of inter companies and inter-group competition.

Area of interest: Marketing and Consulting

Why MARKETING and WHY MBA NOW? :
After 7 very fruitful years, I consider that the moment for a change and refreshing has come.
After working for 7 years in R& D group in Semiconductor companies , I want to work in technical marketing ,where I'll be interacting customer one to one ,providing and understanding their perspective in a better way because of technical background.I want to take this challenge ,where one guy make big profit for his organization.
I always good marketing guy can help you sell average software/application/design ,whereas average marketing may not be able to sell the good design /application/software.
Responsibilities carried by marketing guy is ver very high ,because in a techie organization there is one marketing guy for 30-40 engineers.
On Top , I enjoy travelling ,so with marketing profile i will be able to achieve my both aspirations(Definitely I will not be writing this in Essay

Why MBA NOW:
Was in Europe from May 2008 to May 2010.
Wanted get more international exp. in my profile because of LOW GPA.


Target Schools:
Dream school / safer school: Haas, Ross, Duke.
Stretch Schools: Kellog, Harvard

Negative points about my profile:
LOW GPA
Age

I will really appreciate if you can evaluate my profile and suggest ,if there is any hope considering i can apply only for R2.

Warm regards,
+- TR

[Stacey Oyler]

Hi,

Thanks for for your post. You are pretty perceptive and seem to know your strengths and weaknesses. Your GPA is a bit low, but given you have yet to take the GMAT, I can't fully address your academic profile. However, you should know that as part of an oversubscribed applicant pool, your academics will be of importance. I strongly suggest aiming to score 720+ on the GMAT to help compensate for the lower undergraduate academic performance.

While you have solid work experience and clear goals, you will want to find a way to distinguish yourself from others in the applicant pool. Perhaps some of your extracurricular involvement can be used in some of your essays.

Since I don't have your GMAT score I can't determine just how competitive your are likely to be for admission at the schools for your list. However, I suggest you consider adding a few top 20 schools to your list in addition to the top 10 programs currently on it.

Best,

Stacey