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[myst_ari]

I'm interested in:
1) Haas Ewmba
2) Booth Weekend
3) Kellogg Weekend
4) UCLA Anderson femba
in that order.

Any other schools you recommend (or not recommend)??

My main concerns are:
1) Haas EWMBA is my 1st choice school. Will age (38) become a factor in admissions into the Haas EWMBA program?
2) Will Chicago Booth & Kellogg become stretch?

-GMAT attempt Dec 2013 700(Q48,V38), Jun '13 attempt 650 (Q45/V34)
-Senior Software Engineer with 17 years of experience (Indian male IT professional in the bay area)
-B.E. Computer Science (about 68% aggregate from an Indian University, non-IIT)
-Extra curricular: Toastmasters for about 2 years- Been Secretary and VP Education,
conducted speech contests and organized a lot of meetings.
-Helped a friend in his potential start-up in terms of software development/ideas during spare time.
-Lots of start-up experience (7 years) starting from the ground up but as an engineer, not a manager(5 start-ups in 5 years at one time)
-Demonstrated leadership and mentoring experience as a Lead/Senior Engineer (lot of examples)
-Current position, not just software development but vendor interactions, participate in roadmaps, Engineering Requirements, lots of customer management.
-Influenced senior management/VP in companies I worked for.
-2nd Engineer of a branch of a bay area company started in India -involved in ground-up work.
-Community experience- helped organize meetings and actively volunteered against an apartment management for better facilities. This eventually led to a lawsuit. Also volunteered in temples.

[mbaMissionJenK]

Hi there,

Thanks for your post. So it sounds like you are aiming for part-time, but not exec MBA programs. Your GMAT score is within range, and you certainly have a lot of experience to draw from; the two key question areas as I see it would be:

1) What sort of leadership and management experiences do you have that you can highlight? And/or times you've made an impact or went above and beyond expectations?
2) Why do you want this degree and why now? Especially with so much experience?

If you can answer these in a compelling way, and focus on what makes you unique and what you'll bring to the program, there is a chance at a few of these programs, but I would caution that they are very competitive... with Haas as you probably know the #1 rated PT program currently. You may want to add one more 'safety' school as well just in case. https://premium.usnews.com/best-graduate ... int=9baa7c

Good luck on this process!