Profile Evaluation

[ashutoshtyagi]

Hi, i am from India, here are my details:

GMAT: 720/5.5
CFA levels 1 and 2 both cleared.
Did Mechanical Engineering course from the one of the top 20 college in India(70.2%)

I have an experience 4 years in financial services company, have an international experience in south-east asian countries. I progressed from role of testing to being an application consultant in a period of 4 years. have handled huge investment banking projects (SCB, OCBC, UOB, JPM, etc). i have a failed start-up also. worked (as a volunteer) with NGO's for 3 years (teaching blind people, slum children) and even had a social group of my own working on the solid waste management projects.
I was an organizer of various events and functions at my college level.

I am more interested in working in the M&A sector or private equity firm.

Please advise which colleges to apply.

[Cindy Tokumitsu]

Hello,

It looks like you're a fundamentally strong applicant, the one hurdle simply being an overrepresented category. Your strong finance slant helps in that regard. I'd consider schools like Chicago, Columbia, Yale, and Wharton to be reasonable reaches, and programs such as Cornell, LBS, and Tepper to be on-pars. Obviously, both of these categories are broad, and the schools vary in competitiveness within them.

Best regards,
Cindy Tokumitsu
Senior Editor, www.Accepted.com