Hi
kriti4654,
Thanks for reaching out to us with your profile. Your work experience seems quite strong, with well-known companies and international work. Though I'm curious about the short stint in consulting and then targeting that post-MBA too. You'll definitely need a good explanation for that. It seems like you have a good track record of community/NGO involvement too.
I think the challenging area is your GPA. The high GMAT helps mitigate that for sure, but a GPA below 3.3 is always a concern that I have when someone is looking at top schools. By the way, I think Stanford and Wharton are the most ambitious on your list, followed closely by Booth, Kellogg, Columbia. You have a long list of schools so at this stage I don't think that my suggesting more would be helpful! I'd focus on narrowing your list.
Hope that helps some!
Kate
kriti4654 wrote:
I am planning to apply to my target B schools in R2 (Full time programs) this year. My profile is as follows:
Gender: Female
Age: 26 years
Location: India
Target schools: Booth, Berkeley, Wharton, NYU Stern, Columbia, Ross, Marshal, UCLA, Stanford, Kellog, Cornel, LBS, INSEAD, HEC
POst MBA Target domain: Consulting
Work experience: ~5 years
I have worked as a credit analyst with a private bank and subsequently Citibank (1 promotion) in India for about 4 years. I then joined consulting firm Dun and Bradstreet as a strategy consultant in Doha, Qatar where I worked for 9 months. I will be moving to Prague to join Citibank as a Senior Aredit Analyst in mid January.
Education: Qualified ACCA (Association of Certified Chartered Accountants)
B.B.A majoring in Finance and Accounting
Undergrad GPA: 3.04 (on scale of 4)
Extra curriculars:
While working at Axis Bank, led a award winning CSR project centered around financial literacy in the unbanked population of India
Cultivated and scaled a running community from 20 to 500 members.
Have worked for an NGO that works very actively for animal shelter and treatment
Have worked as volunteer for an NGO that worked for Covid relief measures across the country.
GMAT score: 740 (Q50 V41 IR3 AWA5)
Can you please let me know what schools I can target and what schools would be ambitious? Please feel free to recommend other schools not in the list
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