pascalchristian wrote:
Hi, please evaluate my profile:
I'm a 25 year old, Indonesian male
GMAT 710 (predicted, plan to take on late May)
GPA 3.72 (Bachelor of Medicine/MD) from top 5 university in the country
Several online courses on computer science, finance, and social sciences
Work experience
2 years internship as a resident doctor in top public hospital
1+ year (and running) as a cofounder and CTO at an award winning, VC funded mobile health technology startup
Extracuricular
Programming since 10
Classical guitarist and play in a band
Head of journalism club while in school
Active member in the startup community in Jakarta
Won several business plan competitions
Volunteer activities
Several months of teaching at underpriveleged areas
Family doctor at primary health care centers in poor villages
Organized several public health events (vaccination awareness, cervical cancer seminar, etc)
Reason for MBA
I was sort of disillusioned after med school. Figure out how little a single doctor can do in term of helping patients, when the healthcare system in Indonesia is pretty much broken. I started a mobile health company to try to solve that and it went pretty well but feel that I've reached the point where I need help. Hope that MBA will provide me the skills and knowledge to start a startup in health technology or biotech.
Target schools: Stanford, Sloan, Haas, HBS, Tuck
How are my chances?
Also, since I'm not a typical applicant and also not a native speaker I highly consider getting an admission consultant. However I don't have any idea on how to choose one and when to get help (after GMAT? after my first set of essays?). I plan to admit on round one next October.
Your work, career path, and stats all sound like good fits for the programs you are targeting. I would also recommend looking into
Yale,
Haas,
Wharton,
MIT,
Duke, Vanderbilt, and
Johns Hopkins given your medical entrepreneurial goals.
Of course, I highly recommend
Accepted.com as admissions consultants. How should you judge admissions consultants apart? Check out how much information they share on their
website, read their
blog, review the
testimonials, and
speak to an editor directly to get a feel for how well you can work together. I would not recommend waiting until you have drafts of the essays ready before you begin working with an editor. Instead, get started as soon as you complete the GMAT so that you'll have time to identify any weaknesses and begin mapping out your essays. This will leave you time to fill in those blanks and complete more applications in Round 1.