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Hi,

Requesting your opinions on my profile and target schools.

Gender: Male
Nationality: Indian,
Age: 26 Years old

Educational Details:
Undergraduate Degree: B.E. Chemical Engineering - Manipal Institute of Technology (Top 50 in India)
Undergraduate CGPA: 8.1/10 ~ 3.7/4
12th: 77.2%
10th: 87.33%

GMAT : 730
Verbal: 39 (89th Percentile)
Quant: 50 (87th Percentile)
AWA: 5
IR: 8

Work Experience:
Total Experience - 4+ years
Current Position (June, 15 - Present): Co-Founder of an early stage Art Materials distribution Startup.
Responsibilities include: Marketing and Product Management

Early Positions:
Feb, 2012 - June, 2015:
Business Development and Technical Head for a Family Business
Responsibilities Included:
  • Liasoning with three overseas principles
  • Developing annual forecasts and targets
  • Generated over $1million in revenue
  • Growth rate of 15% achieved year on year

June, 2011 - Jan, 2012
Associate Software Engineer - Accenture, India
Reponsibilities Included
  • Data Base Management
  • Ticket Management for report queries misfiring
  • New Report generation


Extra Curricular Activities :
• Food Blogger

Goals : Post MBA would like to join an organization which consults with major Brands on how to more effectively market to their core demographic and utilize emerging technologies.

Recommendations : Will get recommendations from former boss (CEO), General Manager of Distributors of one of our former overseas principles, general manager of our largest HVAC client Infosys which was a major lead generated by me.

Colleges Shortlisted:
    Dream Schools:
  • Kellogg
  • London School of Business
    Target Schools
  • ISB
  • INSEAD
  • Fuqua
  • HKUST
  • NUS
  • Kenan Flagler
    Other Options
  • Schulich School of Business

Would appreciate your feedback on the same. In case you need any additional information please do let me know.

Thanks for the detailed information and congrats on your startup! It sounds like an interesting business. Assuming you have good extra-curricular activities (have you had leadership roles in organizations outside of work?) you will have a good chance at the schools you listed.

There is a lot that can be done to create stories about a family business and your own startup. Why are you not interested in continuing your company after your MBA? The story would be a bit stronger if you wanted to continue it, but perhaps its a side business you plan to run.

Reach out if you want help crafting your stories and good luck!

Hi,

Thanks for the reply,

Unfortunately I don't have any extra curricular activities during the years that I was with the family business.
I will continue to hold a reduced equity stake in the company (start-up) and re-joining it is definitely something which will be considered.
However as most of the programs I am considering are two year programs and I will be taking financial aid in the forms of loans to repay the loans I will have to take up a full time job to repay the same in case the start up doesn't do as well as hoped. Two years in the start up world are an eternity and I had written my goals accordingly.

Would look forward to your thoughts on the above.