ascar wrote:
Hi,
I need advice for my profile:
Age: 32
Nationality: Italian
Degree: Undergraduate degree in Marketing grade 101/110 and Postgraduate 1 year course in Economic Statistic grade 108/110 - I have an 'hole' of one year in my undergraduate studies, I was not very motivated at the time, so in the end it took me five years to complete a three year course. This is my first weakness. But it happened ten years ago.
GMAT 760 with 50Q - 45V - IR 8 but AWA only 4,0 , I can write in english but it took me a lot of time during the test and I could not organize the answer in terms of structure/expected template
Work Experience: I worked for 7 years as a Consultant working for a Software Developing firm. It is a small (20 employee) Italian firm, but I had pretty good clients I can talk about. Since the firm is completely flat I never had promotions (but raises and benefits like a company car, bonuses etc)
I have no extracurriculars to talk about since they are not part of our educational system and I had other interest, like creative writing, photography, all activities that you do by yourself. I played volleyball in high school and university but I was not a particularly accomplished player.
I am particularly interested in continuing working in software/technology as a Product/Project Manager
I already applied to Sloan, Stanford, Haas, UCLA
I know that most of these schools are long shots so I am beginning to think about which schools I can target for R2, I was thinking McCombs, Tepper, maybe Ross?
Can you think of other schools that I can target "safely" with my profile and that are in line with my post MBA interests?
Thank you very much
Well, first dude,
You deserve a huge slap on the back for that killer GMAT. go you! A 760! and you're not even from China
So that's great. Your UG GPA is very good, although keep in mind it will depend on the University and program you graduated from. If you graduated from one of the Top 3 in Italy, that's great for Top 10 schools, if not... it's well... less good
Your work experience from what I can see here is your big weakness - a small firm, IT, with no promotions... Gonna be tough here. My suggestion would be to dig out what else you can in terms of Sports/ Hobbies / Extra curriculars/ volunteer work.. otherwise your profile can look flat.
Also, as a member of the Adcom, I am gonna be curious about: Why MBA? Why NOW? What can you do to PROVE you have some wicked biz skills?
Stanford, Sloan and Haas will likely be a bit of a long-shot for you (although hard to say without seeing your applications). McCombs, Tepper, Ross are more in your "Sweet spot". I'd also urge you to apply to INSEAD and maybe Oxford and Cambridge, as I think these programs can fit you well (although they are one-year... like almost all Euro MBAs).
Best,
JF
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23 Oct 2014, 08:49
