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Please evaluate my profile (Engineer, Male 24 yrs, GMAT:710, WE:4.5)

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Please evaluate my profile (Engineer, Male 24 yrs, GMAT:710, WE:4.5) [#permalink] New post   26 Apr 2015, 12:01
Please evaluate my profile (Engineer, Male 24 yrs, GMAT:710, WE:4.5)


Total 3.5 years (will be 5 years by the time I join b schools) work experience in manufacturing sector. 2 years of static equipment designer at Godrej. 9 Months at one small private firm as static equipment designer. 1 year at Static equipment and piping designer at Reliance Industries.
I check the mechanical integrity of all static equipments of RIL Vadodara Manufacturing Division. I along with other couple of designers lead the team of 5 draftsmen who prepare drawing for all piping related modifications in all 14 manufacturing plants of our division.

GMAT: 2nd attempt 710(V37, Q50, IR: 7, AWA: 5)
1st attempt 640(V27, Q50, IR: 7, AWA: 4.5)

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Cumulative GPA: 8.12/10, Mechanical Engineering from NIT-Surat. (Among top 30 engineering colleges of India)

Extra curricular activity: I have completed half marathon runner at Mumbai marathon. Ran 15 Km at vadodara marathon. Lead the team of 8 during high altitude trekking (14000 ft) in Himalayas. Donate blood at different NGOs (5 times). I know that not strong profile. I am planning to join an NGO, which provides primary education to poor children of the society. I don’t know will that really help me or not.

Schools interested in: MIT Sloan, Yale SOM, Cambridge, University of Oxford: Said, Kellogg, New York University: Stern, Rotman-Toronto (My uncle is in staying in Toronto that's why I prefer rotman) Do I need to consider any other colleges?

I planning to apply in Round1, 2015-16

I am Interested in major career shift. Want to do specialization in finance.
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Re: Please evaluate my profile (Engineer, Male 24 yrs, GMAT:710, WE:4.5) [#permalink] New post   27 Apr 2015, 06:33
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Couple of things to consider. Make sure you can connect your engineering decisions to business results, ie you want to show that you understand how your engineering decisions impact the business.

Certainly do more on the extracurricular front. Opportunities to connect to you career would make sense, but something is better than nothing.

Career switch decision will have to have a very compelling answer. Consider not having it be completely drastic.

For the more selective schools you need to get that GMAT up another 20 points or more.
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Re: Please evaluate my profile (Engineer, Male 24 yrs, GMAT:710, WE:4.5) [#permalink] New post   27 Apr 2015, 09:57
I guess Rotman Toronto is pretty achieveable at 710 on GMAT
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Re: Please evaluate my profile (Engineer, Male 24 yrs, GMAT:710, WE:4.5) [#permalink] New post   29 Apr 2015, 12:09
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Your experience is good and having leadership in the engineering field will help differentiate you in the technology-heavy Indian applicant pool, but with ivy league schools and other top tier schools, you will want to try perhaps one more time to get the GMAT even higher to be most competitive. Having said that, a 710 is not going to be what keeps you out of these schools in the end, so begin focusing on how you feel you are different than someone with a similar cultural, educational and professional background as yourself and begin developing a narrative that is compelling and memorable. Transitioning in a career is not uncommon with MBA, but you don't want to be perceived as changing both industry and function, since those kinds of "double switchers" tend to scare off schools who must make sure you are employed on the backend in order to keep the rankings high. A mature transition for your career must be articulated, which ties in and leverages what you have done in the past with what you want to do in the future. Let us know if we can help you figure it all out.
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