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16 Dec 2010, 08:10
Hi
I am 27 years old, Indian and male. I am looking for a post MBA career in not for profit or public management.
GMAT: 770 Q50, V47, AWA 5 (Only attempt)
Education:
Undergrad in Computer Engineering from a relatively mediocre Indian engineering college with mediocre grades (65%). Was the webmaster of the college website for a year. Helped organize red cross blood donation drives for kids suffering from a certain blood disease (thalassemia) .
Masters in Computer Science from the University of Iowa, Iowa City IA. Sucky GPA (3.09). Held Teaching Assistantships throughout the degree (4 semesters). Co-authored a paper presented at an International Conference on Interaction Design and Children. Part of research team that developed free software that helps kids and old adults with motor disabilities use a mouse. Will get great recommendation from Professor who led the research.
Work Experience:
Worked for 1 year 2 months at a small software firm in Texas. Pretty regular stuff, developed enterprise web applications, nothing exciting but will get an excellent recommendation from supervisor.
Worked for 1 year 9 months at the Children Youth and Families Department of the Govt. of New Mexico as a contracted Web Developer. Pretty much single-handedly wrote an application that non-governmental agencies use to bill the state government for services provided to kids in the juvenile justice system and to victims, witnesses and perpetrators of domestic violence (services like free counseling, shelter, legal advice etc). Wrote code that produces reports for the Feds as well as the state government. Will get super recommendation from supervisor.
Returned to India around 4 months ago. Trying to establish along with a friend a school-after-school kind of thing at a rural area close to our home city (Public schools in the country side are ridiculously pathetic, kids don't learn sh*t).
I hope to get into an MBA program that's strong in social impact management. My strength, I reckon, is having been involved in projects that have a social impact. Biggest weakness is poor academic record. Don't exactly have a long employment history. No flashy extracurriculars either.
Schools I am looking at:
U Virginia (Darden)
George Washington
Duke (long shot?)
York University, Canada (Schulich)
I am thinking of applying to Berkeley, Cornell and Yale because it would be kind of exciting applying to Berkeley, Cornell and Yale.
Does that seem like a reasonable list? Am I even ready for an MBA? Because I sure am freaking tired of writing software for people.
Thanks,
Lefto