Hi. I think a similar post of us posted a few days ago about someone who is 33 or 34.
I would say at that stage of your career, your work experience, and you were professional achievements, would be more important, and have a greater weight to determine your admission.
There is obviously a difference between the US business schools, European, and Indian and Asian. The US business schools struggle what to do with people with extensive work experience. At the same time, European and some of the Asian schools seem to be pretty open.
The reason US business calls struggle with older candidates is that the recruiting is optimized for a certain experience group. Most companies look to hire people with about six years of work experience to join in their mid management team. Getting someone with 10 years or more, they would not fit into the ideal candidate profile. Extra work experience is actually not helpful. As the result, more experienced candidates, have to resort to off-campus recruiting, and have to recruit on their own, often missing out on a lot of the value provided by the on-campus opportunities.
Here is a post to set your expectations a bit
https://gmatclub.com/forum/mba-after-30 ... 00397.htmlPosted from my mobile device