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Hello - Please review my profile below. Appreciate your thoughgts on my candidacy.


Hey there,
Soooooo, things are looking pretty good, but I got a few questions before I can answer you.
1. You wrote that you want to apply R1, but R1 is basically already over. do you mean you want to apply R1 of 2015???
2. You have your own business! Awesome!!! Can you tell me more about it? How many employees do you have? Did you get any angel funding or otherwise? How has growth been in terms of size/profits/workforce since you started? Have you made any significant achievements? Been int he news? Etc. Basically, I need a LOT more details about your company!!
3. Regarding your goals, am I to understand that your goal is to grow your existing firm? Into what? Can you be more specific about what and how???


Get back to me on this, and I will do my best to answer your questions...

All the best,
JF

Hi Jon - please see my response below, appreciate your help:

1) I have applied to Kellogg, Wharton and HBS in R1. But have decided apply to Stanford in R2 as I felt my essays needed a little more work.
2) The total # of employees is about 150 and I have run this without any funding (bootstrapping initially and then loans from banks). I have established two production units which have the highest throughput in India currently. The product I introduced in India is a first of a kind in Healthcare, one that reduces operational overheads and costs for hospitals and also significantly lowers infections.
3) My goal is to grow my company into the one of the largest healthcare manufacturing companies in India that manufactures high quality healthcare products at low costs enabling reduction of patient care in India and abroad
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Hello - Please review my profile below. Appreciate your thoughgts on my candidacy.


Hey there,
Soooooo, things are looking pretty good, but I got a few questions before I can answer you.
1. You wrote that you want to apply R1, but R1 is basically already over. do you mean you want to apply R1 of 2015???
2. You have your own business! Awesome!!! Can you tell me more about it? How many employees do you have? Did you get any angel funding or otherwise? How has growth been in terms of size/profits/workforce since you started? Have you made any significant achievements? Been int he news? Etc. Basically, I need a LOT more details about your company!!
3. Regarding your goals, am I to understand that your goal is to grow your existing firm? Into what? Can you be more specific about what and how???


Get back to me on this, and I will do my best to answer your questions...

All the best,
JF

Hi Jon - please see my response below, appreciate your help:

1) I have applied to Kellogg, Wharton and HBS in R1. But have decided apply to Stanford in R2 as I felt my essays needed a little more work.
2) The total # of employees is about 150 and I have run this without any funding (bootstrapping initially and then loans from banks). I have established two production units which have the highest throughput in India currently. The product I introduced in India is a first of a kind in Healthcare, one that reduces operational overheads and costs for hospitals and also significantly lowers infections.
3) My goal is to grow my company into the one of the largest healthcare manufacturing companies in India that manufactures high quality healthcare products at low costs enabling reduction of patient care in India and abroad

Hey there,
Okay, I got it! So first of all, your company sounds pretty awesome. 150 employees is a very good size. I STILL don't have enough detail, really, but I think this plus your GMAT should give you a shot a Top10 and for sure Top 20 programs. My suggestion to you would to be that you add 3-4 more schools in round 2. Really, ll the Top 10, and even all the Top 20 programs are awesome (each in its own way), and there's no reason for you not to apply to as many schools as you can, since you are decided to go to an MBA this year.

Hope this helps!!!
Best,