Confused if colleges shortlisted are ambitious.. Please help
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24 Feb 2015, 09:38
Hi,
I have just completed all the examinations and I am planning to apply in round 1 for September 2016 intake. I have a pretty decent work experience. But I am not sure if it is good enough for the colleges I have shortlisted. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
GMAT - 720 Q:51, V:35, IR:5, AWA:5.5
TOEFL - 116
Undergrad - NIT, Rourkela (Electronics Major)
GPA - 8.36/10
Nationality - Indian
Work Ex
Sony India (Aug 2011 to Jul 2013)
Product Development, Individual contributor
Significant contribution - Went beyond project boundaries to execute and showcase a module due to which we could bag 3 related projects for the next year from Sony Corp. It was presented to the Japanese clients. Handled many solo modules
Awards - 2 division level (500+) and 1 company level (2000+)(Young achiever of the year)
Samsung Research India(Aug 2013 to present)
Joined as Senior Engineer and got an early promotion to Lead engineer (1 to 1.5 years before the average age)
Significant contribution - Joined a project when it was escalated. With 2 yrs of work ex.. took over the complete project in a month's time leading a team of 4 and stabilized it. The person heading the project (a 9 yr experience guy) was eventually removed from the project. I was awarded for successful completion of this project within 5 months of joining Samsung
Led a team of 4 for another project which involved regular communication with 5 engineers at HQ, Korea. Completed it successfully and traveled to Korea for 3 months to conclude the project. This bagged me early promotion.
To Summarize -
Awards - 3 sony, 1 samsung
Before time promotion at Samsung.
Leading projects at Samsung with work ex much less than the average (8-9 yrs)
International work ex of 3 months
Recommendations from my reporting manager at Sony as well as Samsung are going to be pretty good as they have seen me grow.
By the time I join, total work ex will be close to 5 yrs.
Volunteering Activities-
Co-founder of an NGO which is dedicated to children education. Have been running basic courses in a govt. school for children aged 5 to 9 for 2 years now. Designed course curriculum and have achieved promising results.
Though this is not my complete profile, these are the basic highlights.
Short term goal - Project execution for a product (capitalizing on my previous work ex)
Long term goal - Product management
Why MBA - acceleration in career, understand the whole gambit of financial, operational, marketing aspects of product development beyond the technical development, improve/re-fine my leadership skills, and develop a network
Target Schools - INSEAD, MIT sloan, Haas, UCLA Anderson, Tepper
I am keen to know if these b-schools are too ambitious as per my CV. My GMAT score is not a great one but is it going to be a bottleneck.