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GMAT 1: 720 Q50 V38
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Profile Evaluation [#permalink] New post 17 Aug 2012, 11:16
Present position - Engineer/Consultant, Semiconductor (SC) Sales and Marketing

I help my customers in diverse industries including defense, medical, energy metering segments to design their systems. Work day is similar to that of an entrepreneur handling customers in my region and deciding actions based on business priorities. Worked in three different states in US (one year program) in three different business units. Work involved participation in Sales oriented training courses and driving revenue for business units by delivering solutions to the technical challenges customers face while designing/releasing products to market. I have authored multiple articles published on company's webpage.

2) GMAT.

Total - 720, Verbal- 38, Quant-50, AWA 6.0, IR 7

3) College info

Among top 10 engineering colleges, Aggregate %age of eight semesters = 83%, Department Rank = 4/100
Major - Bachelors, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Institute Merit Scholarship received through all four years.

4) Extra-C activities

Founder of my college's alumni magazine. I was involved in every phase of the magazine starting from building a framework, connecting with alumni, compilation, editing, design, sponsorship, forming team of 30+ students, delegating tasks etc. The team was directly mentored by Director of our Institute. Junior teams have come up with three annual editions since it's start.

Involved with a non-profit association for over couple of years - included two months internship in Boston Headquarters under direct supervision of Director of Computing at MIT Media Labs. Following internship, I helped in a deployment at a school in a slum community in India.

Authored publications on various technology topics (six in all) in international conferences, journals, electronic design etc.

6) My initial aim is to research more about H/S/W/K/Sloan/INSEAD/LSB.

7) Post-MBA goal.

I will like to go into consulting. I have experienced consulting on a smaller level and really liked it; now i will like to work on work on a bigger level and move into a broader space than just semiconductors.

I will appreciate your feedback on my profile and also if I have any chance of receiving scholarships. By the way, I am 23 years / male (started working at 20). I know INSEAD will be difficult at this age. Plus, I want to experience a 2 years course with an internship to get more exposure. Hence, I am planning to focus more on other schools.

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Re: Profile Evaluation [#permalink] New post 20 Aug 2012, 18:20
Hello,

Thank you for the detailed profile information. As an Indian male engineer, unfortunately, you fall into an 'overrepresented' candidate pool in the MBA application process. This means it's a bit tougher to get into the top programs that you listed.

Your academic profile is very strong, and your professional profile is also interesting since it's not strictly an engineering role. I think this will definitely help you. You are certainly very young compared to average candidates, but if you've had 3 years work experience, you'll be on par with other candidates. Your extracurricular and community activities sound quite interesting and should also help position you well.

All that said, given the fact that you fall into this particular candidate pool, I would suggest that you add some safer schools to your list such as Darden, Cornell, Tepper (or other schools in that range).

I hope this helps - best of luck!
Mili


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