Re: HBS 2+2- Calling all Applicants (Class OF 2018)
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12 Jul 2014, 20:25
Hi,
I'm an Indian undergrad in my senior year from a top level state university(not iit) 75.6%-Top 5% of the class.
-3 Internships and a consultant experience in an IT startup. 1st at Honeywell (A Blue Chip MNC) , 2nd at state power generation corporation and 3rd in a large construction firm in India.
- While working as an internal consultant for the IT startup held many key responsibilities including funding for modernization and re-architecture process, served as a change agent by introducing techniques like prototyping and risk assessment and management also handled a few client projects
- 2 international publications(not ieee, one of them pure computer science related and another is based on risk assessment and an alternative solution to FMEA)
- State 3rd rank in high school examination (98.8 %, was given special recognition at an educational fair by the then Home Minister of the State) and 93% in 10th standard.
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Led several teams in many competitions like :
1)" Manthan"- A nationwide political competition to address 14 critical challenges that India faced in 2013(18,000 students participated in it). Led the team to 2nd place in popular category of our theme and was invited to Grand Culmination Convention which was graced by the presence of dignitaries like the Current Prime Minister of India, Finance Minister of India, Chiefs of staff of many departments and other business and thought leaders.
2)Honeywell Young Innovator Challenge, led the team to finals (competition had several phases which lasted 8 months long including show and tell session on the final day where we engaged with a crowd of more than 2000 marketing and proposing our idea. Youngest team there, competed with grad school students and senior year students while we were in sophomore.was awarded an internship later)
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Was elected as a member of the organizing committee of the annually held national level technical symposium. Was responsible for managing the entire finance and budget, monitoring cash flows, supervising event coordinators, leveraged this opportunity to create funds to the IT startup in an innovative way making them conduct workshops for students to learn new technologies with hands-on experience.
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I'm applying to HBS 2+2 in R1 can you shed some light on my chances and also for Yale Silver Scholars.
(Yet to give gmat expecting a good score)
P.S I also have a strong network of Influential people and I mean really influential.
( Sorry for the Lengthy info. :p)
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