Hi, I am an Indian national willing to pursue MS in Finance for fall'14. As I have a lot of time to prepare myself for GMAT and other application related stuff, I would be highly grateful for your suggestions regarding university selection and my chances to get into good MSF programs. Any additional suggestion to improve my profile during the year would be highly appreciated. Here's a list of my background and
Background :
Undergrads : Engineering in Electronics and Communication with 63% Aggregate(upward trend).
Opted for 2 courses at London school of economics (Summer School'12) : Finance and Financial Markets (3 weeks each)
Work exp - Started to work in a private financial firm since sept'12 and until I start my grad I would be having in all a exp of 2 years (sept'12-sept'14).
Job profile : Financial planning & Analyzing and maximizing the current ROI of Loan Portfolio of the company.
Other than this I have a full time work exp of 6 months before my undergrads as a Front Office Coordinator ( I am not sure, whether that would be acceptable or not during applications as they ask for full time work exp after completing your undergrads)
Internships : 1 Technical internship of 3 months in VODAFONE .
GMAT : Yet to take, Targeting 720+
Extracurricular :
National player in 100m sprint race
Winner in 100m at Zonal level and State level competition
Coordinator in various events organized by the college including Tech-Fest
Senior coordinator in Farewell activities and Department Day's of the Electronics branch for three consecutive years.
Chief Coordinator of the " Entrepreneurship group" during undergrads
Member of State's Cancer society. Volunteeres in various events .
Sports Captain of the School for 2 consecutive years and House Captain for session 2005-2006.
Leaded the school's Kho-Kho team in Clusters(State Level) .
Won various medals in inter and intra school competitions in various sports activities.
Now coming to the universities, I am a bit centric towards central London but to keep my options more diversified I had shortlisted 10 universities I would like to apply for,
LSE : MS Finance
Imperial : MS Finance
Cass Business School : MS Finance
Warwick : MS Finance
Princeton MSF
Vanderbilt (Owen) : MS Finance
DUKE : MMS
Stockholm school of economics :MSc Accounting and Finance, specialization in Corporate Finance
Rotterdam School of Management : MSC Finance and Investments
Washington St. Louis Masters in Finance (Olin)
Simon- Msc Finance
Fisher School of business (The Ohio state University) : Specialized master in finance
Apart from this I would love to apply for London Business School Msc in Management
I'm more interested in Corporate Finance / Investment Management rather than Quantitative Finance / Financial Engineering.
I am good at mathematics but my grades does not support me to go into Quantitative Finance.
Kindly, Let me know what are my chances into these universities
Suggestions provided will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance