Profile evaluation request

Hi there! Congrats on scoring 720 on your GMAT and all the other successes you have enjoyed to date. Impressive! At a preliminary glance, there are two things that stand out about your profile that we should take special care to address:

1) Each b-school program has specific rules about admitting candidates seeking a second MBA. Tuck, Fuqua, Owen and Haas have historically not allowed it. Wharton, Sloan and Ross are open to it, as long as you provide a very detailed explanation as to why you need it. Then there are the maybe programs like Darden, Kellogg (1-year accelerated) and Goizueta, each of which has their own conditions.

For those programs that do allow it, the challenge is to explain convincingly exactly WHY you need the second MBA. Was your first degree more technical in nature and you’re looking for more strategic and practical experience? You’ve already successfully made the leap to IB/PE. Congrats on that! But what skills are you still missing that your existing MBA doesn’t provide? This is the key to showing the adcom that you need a seat just as much as the next candidate.

2) You mention that you are looking to stay in the same field, but would like a change of geography. This won’t seem like a strong enough reason to convince the adcom that you need a seat. We’ll need to be particularly careful because the competition among Indian men is already fierce. Ross and Fuqua shoot for around 30-40% non-US international students, a minority of which are Indian. Of those, many have gone to IIT/NIT and have already worked outside of India. This means that your application materials have to be even more memorable. The best way to accomplish this is to tell compelling stories that lead us to why you have chosen your short- and long-term career goals, which in turn should reveal why you are a great fit for Program X. While we’re at it, we also want to showcase how you’ll contribute to the program because even though you’re paying for this education and should take from it everything you need, the adcom will be more eager to save a seat for someone who gives back.

All this may seem easy on paper, but so many candidates have trouble expressing it all in a believable way. We have helped thousands of applicants work through this and it’s always ultra necessary for each individual (and super interesting for us) to drill deeper than the first few layers, which all tend to sound the same. Everyone’s best case tends to tie to something unique and personal which is where the real argumentation strength lies.

With the somewhat limited parameters you have outlined regarding your profile, I would suggest the “maybe” programs listed above, as long as you match their second MBA criteria. I would urge you to consult each admissions committee to find out the most up-to-date details for each school.

Email us if you wanna chat or if you want to do a more formal consultation, you can reach us through the link in my signature. If you decide to take the plunge with a free consultation, take your time and really sink into that form. The more info you can give us, the meatier and more helpful the chat with our consultant will be.