mehtasagar90 wrote:
Hi,
I have have narrowed certain colleges and would really appreciate if you could advice if those are the right options based on my profile :-
GMAT: 700 (44Q, 61%, 41V, 93%)
Age: 25, Male
Nationality: Indian
Engineering from IP University , New Delhi.
Work experience:
Bank of America, Gurgaon, India ( Jul 11 – Present)
Responsible for Forecasting of bank’s expenses over the next 3 years; Analysis and maintenance of all data using Business Intelligence (BI) Tools; Working on deliveries of large-scale programs to help global CFO/CFO Teams achieve high performance ; Financial Reporting of all expense across all verticals of the Bank
Accomplishments
• Only 1 of 63 students to be selected for the highly sensitive and critical Financial Reporting team of the bank
• Received 1st appreciation within 5 months of joining by the LOB Manager
• Conceptualized and rolled out automation which led to the team’s time saving of 120 hrs/month
• Mentored 3 new team members
Extra Curricular:
I was a volunteer for the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) division of my college and within an year was elected as Director (Event Management) of IEEE Student Chapter. Some of the significant achievements include representing our college in the IEEE DELHI SECTION 6th QUARTERLY MEET, Organizing the DELHI SECTION 2nd QUARTERLY MEET in our college, the IEEE Annual Technical Festival of the College and the IEEE-ASET day in college.Also I was an active member of the Rotaract Student Chapter in college and later a part of ASPIRE- a company wide initiative for helping different NGO's. Also I am an avid golfer (handicap-18)
I want to make a career switch to Finance(Corporate Finacne). I am currently pursuing a certification in Financial Analysis and plan to appear for my CFA level 1 exam in June 2014. Apart from that I am trying to learn as much as I can via different sources like MIT open courseware.
I plan to apply for Fall 2014 session for the following colleges :-
NYU Stern
UCLA: Anderson
University of Michigan: Ross
University of Virginia: Darden
Cornell University: Johnson
University of North Carolina- Kenan Flagler
ASU: WP Carey
I know some of these are a little ambitious ,especially Stern. I made a campus Visit To Stern and was really impressed with the campus and the curriculum they have to offer. Would highly appreciate if you could provide me with an insight on the probability (if any) of me getting into Stern.
Thanks in advance !!
Regards
You GMAT quant score is hurting you, particularly if your grades are not strong.
You have a competitive profile for KF and Carey. The other programs, especially NYU Stern, are stretches. If you want to have a serious chance at these schools, I recommend you [ur=https://blog.
accepted.com/2012/07/06/should-you-retake-the-gmat-2/l]take the GMAT again. [/url]
Best,
Linda