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Thanks for your reply, Paul

My primary target is Stanford, Harvard and MIT.
Could you please elaborate why you consider my work experince weak. As I noted previously, as a team leader, I manage a team of 6 employees as well as several more external part time workers and out sourcers. Additionaly, as a Chief Software Architect, I am in charge of development of the company future production line. So if you could
explain me why this experience is not strong enough and how I can strengthen it, I would really appreciate this.

Thanks in advance

deowl,

I don't consider your work experience weak. It just may not be strong enough and *distinctive* enough to get you into Stanford and HBS. (MIT is another matter.) I assumed that your leadership responsibilities were more informal than they apparently are, so you are stronger than I initially thought. The fact that you work for a small firm as opposed to the same position at Oracle weakens your impressive profile *somewhat* but there's nothing you should do to try to strengthen it. My only point is that people with backgrounds as impressive as yours routinely get dinged by Stanford and HBS. In my experience, the ones who don't get dinged have some extra quality of unusualness or 'superhuman-ness' that I did not detect in the info you gave me. If we were to work together on a client-consultant basis I might in fact discover several aspects of your background that lift you closer to the HBS/Stanford realm. I am not discouraging you from applying, and you may well get in to HBS and Stanford. I'm just giving you my gut reaction based on experience.

Good luck,