roran456 wrote:
Hi
Request you guys to help me out. Do i have a shot at Kellog's, MIT Sloan, IMD, INSEAD, HEC with the profile detailed below?
Age - 27, Male
Country - India
Work Experience - 3 years in Vodafone (Telecommunications company). Started out as a trainee in a young leadership program, went to Manage a sales team of 16 for a year accruing 4 mln $ revenue. My work was appreciated and was then assigned national projects. Got promoted from there and now I am a program Manager handling a program worth 45 mln $ revenue.
GMAT - 700 (80th percentile verbal, 82nd percentile quants)
MBA from IMI (Decent A grade college in India)
Bachelor's in Computer Science Engineering 65%
I can read and write in English, Hindi and French. I can speak a couple more indian languages.
I have been a part of the national team in Equestrian sports from 1997 - 2003. Spent 6 months in Sydney competing. I am still informally involved in the sport in coaching and mentoring some really promising talent.
The biggest challenges I see in your application are proving that you need the MBA and that you are realistic in your post-MBA expectations. Since you have an MBA (or more probably a PGDM), then you are going to need to explain why you need another business degree at all. Second, since it sounds like you are in a position of significant leadership now, you are going to need to demonstrate that your post-MBA goals are reasonable: do you recognize that you will invest a lot of money in the degree and then graduate to be on par with or only slightly higher in the corporate hierarchy than you are now?
In addition to these application concerns, I would also suggest that you see if you can network your way into the post-MBA role you are dreaming of instead of using the MBA as the stepping stone to it. You may find that you are ready for the role already and don't need to spend 2 years learning for it, which would save you time, money, and some boring accounting classes