Profile Evaluation Please (GMAT:690 with exp at Big4 and GE)

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Hello,

Can you please evaluate my profile and let me know if my target schools are reasonable and what I'll need to do to improve my application?

GMAT: 690 (Q46,V38)

Education:

- Bachelors in Electrical Engineering at a good Canadian university.
- Six-Sigma Management Methodology - Green Belt Associate Certification
- CFA L2 Candidate
- Awarded a scholarship for the CFA L1 exam.

GPA: havnt calculated my GPA, but i have an average of about 70% (engineering is extremely intense at my university and a 70% is pretty decent. I guess i could elaborate this point further in an optional essay on my applications?)

Demographic:
25/M/Canadian of East Indian origin living and working in Bahrain

Experience:

- 1 year with General Electric as an Electrical Engineering Intern
- 2.5 years with a Big4 as a Consultant

Extra curricular: charity work, marathon participant, silver medal at chess competition, community involvment, organizing social events at work - nothing too out of the ordinary to be honest.

Im thinkin about applying for September 2013, so I should have passed my CFA L2 (fingers crossed) and got another year of experience by then. Please do advise. Should i consider writing the GMAT for the second time? im fairly confident i could bring it up to around 720-730 should i put in the effort.

Im aiming for (in no particular order):
- Ivey(Canada)
- Schulich(Canada)
- Rotman(Canada)
- Queens(Canada)
- Fuqua/Duke(USA)
- Haas/Berkely(USA)
- Johnson/Cornell(USA)
- Yale(USA)
- Tepper/Carnegie Mellon(USA)
- Stern/NYU(USA)
- Ross/Michigan(USA)
- INSEAD(France/Singapore)
- IE(Spain)
- NUS(Singapore)

Any insight would be much appreciated. Thanks a ton! :)
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