I would love some guidance with admission to the following schools for a full-time MBA from this year, arranged according to preference:
Oxford Said
Cambridge Judge
Imperial Business School
Cornell Johnson
If there is any other highly ranked school you think would be a good fit for me, please feel free to suggest.
I am sending a snapshot of my profile below:
GRE General Test: 328/340 on the GRE. Subscores are 169/170 in Verbal (top 1%), 159/170 in Quant. 4.5/6 in AWA
TOEFL: 113/120
Post-MBA goals:
1) Work as a leader for the CSR wing of impactful, socially responsible organizations
2) Establish my own social venture/s, preferably in health and education
3) Make use of my experience in telecommunications and IT management to attain the aforementioned goals
4) Not be constrained by borders with the recognition from a top business school, and use the alumni network to attain the aforementioned goals, i.e. lending credibility and connections that would help me spearhead CSR initiatives and grow my own social ventures
My current city is Dhaka, Bangladesh, where I hail from. My post-MBA locations are preferably in my country, Bangladesh, where CSR is still in a nascent stage and there is much need for social initiatives, and in MENA, a region which I am greatly interested in.
Work experience:
- 4.5 years+ at present, with 2 years of Managerial role for Product and Analytics Marketing in the 11th largest Telecommunications MNC in the world
- 1 direct report, headed multiple CFTs
- Multiple work recognition and awards (such as the Marketing Pride of 2018 Q2, and again Marketing Pride of 2019 Q1)
- Successful completion of 1-month international assignment and placement in HQ
- Former Management Trainee with fast track progression to Managerial role
- Project Manager for the first corporate merger in Bangladesh
- Product Manager for Facebook's Freebasics program in Bangladesh
Special Work experience:
- Beside my primary job, I also work as a Digital Engagement Advisor at a nonprofit organization that primary works on empowering Bangladeshi rural medical practitioners. The organization was cofounded by an Oxford Said MBA graduate and a Harvard Kennedy graduate. I am responsible for advising the project unit on digital engagement interventions. I have been with the organization for 2 months, as of now
Undergrad:
Institute of Business Administration (IBA), University of Dhaka (DU)
(IBA, DU is the most renowned and the most competitive business school in Bangladesh)
CGPA of 3.13/4
Major: Finance
Minor: Marketing
Professional association:
Associate, Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK
ECAs:
-Multiple international and national awards in social entrepreneurship business competitions
-Was featured at the front page and special panel in the national newspaper of my country, as the winner of an international business competition where my team beat teams from top universities such as MIT
-Winner of Global Health Prize in the Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC) of 2013, hosted by Foster School of Business, University of Washington
-Winner of Social Entrepreneurship Competition awarded by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus
-Coordination of nationwide charity drives, with a team of +100 people indirectly/directly reporting
-Wrote business articles for the most circulated business magazine of Bangladesh
-Was awarded national merit prizes for academic excellence in O and A levels
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