petrifiedbutstanding wrote:
Hello,
At the outset, I really appreciate this opportunity.
Please find a brief of my profile:
1. Educational background: I have a Mechanical Engg. degree from VTU, India (the university is among the best know universities in the India). My aggregate over the 4 years stands at 65%.
2. Work experience: I have roughly 74 months' work experience in Product design and product documentation. The division of experience has been roughly 50 to 50, with my present role being in documentation for a company that develops software and hardware network-security appliances. I've worked in a number of domains, given the nature of my job. I also have completed a 3 month internship in Marketing for a software company that develops software in the travel domain, for the exposure.
3. GMAT: I'm taking the GMAT this month and hope to achieve a score between 670 and 750.
4. My target schools: Duke (Fuqua), Yale SOM, Chicago GSB, Purdue (Krannert), Indiana (Kelley), Ohio (Fisher) Cornell (Johnson), MIT (Sloan), Michigan (Ross).
5. Reasons for these choices: Good funding options, career switch into marketing, specifically brand or product management, post-MBA. I would like to keep my options about Entrepreneurship open.
6. Extra curricular activities and community service: Member of the STC India chapter; take part in planting trees in and around my city; worked with autistic children for a period of 1 month; have also assisted with research and writing for two articles published in the Lancet - a leading medical journal; take part in CSR initiatives within the organization
Please let me know your opinion.
Documentation sounds more technical than creative or leading the development of new ideas. I would certainly put the focus of your application on the creative and team leadership roles instead - the marketing internship and product design sound like a good start. Your activities sound more participatory than leadership, so I do advise you to step up your involvement to take more initiative, recruit more members, lead activities, and make larger impacts. These efforts will improve your chances of acceptance at the top programs you named.