MBA 2015 - Profile Evaluation Request
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08 Dec 2014, 14:49
Hi,
I decided in July this year, to pursue an MBA in 2015. Fast forward to the present and I have a 660 (IR5,Q41,V39) score for my GMAT (2nd attempt). My first attempt at the GMAT only yielded a 620, largely due to nerves. Both times, my main problem lay in lack of timing discipline. I may take the GMAT again, as I am certain that I can hit 700 but there is not enough time to lock in this score for the round two applications.
I am a South-East Asian Chinese woman, with a post-graduate Legal Practice Course certificate (this is a professional diploma in practical legal skills) and a Law LLB undergraduate degree at a good university (a top 10 university during my time there). Unfortunately, because I had come from a very strict, sheltered, traditional background before being sent halfway across the world, alone, to university, I went crazy and spent more time partying than studying. As a result, I ended up with a 2:2, in spite of promising results in the first semester.
Briefly, the things in my favour are as follows:
- I am a sole in-house lawyer, a member of senior management, with 6-7 years' experience in total;
- I created the legal department from scratch in my current job;
- I currently have one assistant lawyer under my charge;
- I have experience from several different industries and in a previous role, I led the legal team in the chief legal counsel's absence;
- I have a history of managing many multi-million dollar, high-level deals independently but also have a good record of working well across all departments, with both internal and external parties (many co-workers and business associates from my previous jobs have become firm friends);
- Although my area of expertise is mainly law, I have plenty of business exposure, since my work requires me to have a good understanding of general business principles and the industry in which I work.
- I am currently working on a potential start-up, on the side.
- I work with parties and contracts from numerous different jurisdictions, from Asia, the Middle-East, the U.S., Europe and Africa. My work also brings me to different countries and I have lived and worked in Asia and Europe.
I should be grateful if you could let me know whether I have any chance of getting into LBS, HBS or Standford at all and what I should do about increasing my chances.
Many thanks!