lentera wrote:
Hi Jon,
Could you help to evaluate my profile?
Indonesian female
GMAT: 730 (Q48 V42 IR7 AWA4.5)
GPA: 4.0 / 5.0, engineering degree from a top university in Singapore
3 years of work experience in Singapore (4 years upon matriculation):
2 years of internal operations consulting in a Fortune 100 European bank
- Conducted quantitative and qualitative analyses for process improvement and offshoring projects
- Worked with top management, operations (both local and regional teams), business, IT to implement recommendations
- Led a project for one of the smaller branches in Southeast Asia, coached a junior in the process
1 year of business analytics in a local telecom
- Made the switch to gain experience in consumer business and exposure to revenue-generation side of the business + develop quantitative skills
- Lead data analyses to identify opportunities for customer retention, work with product managers and operations to design and implement marketing campaigns
- Provide analytical advisory to marketing, product management, sales, finance
- Build and automate dashboards to track the health of business
Volunteering / extras:
- Biweekly mentor to ~20 foreign domestic workers, teaching basic computer skills
- Weekly English conversation class over Skype with sister and her friend in Indonesia
- 3 years finance + research experience in a nonprofit consulting (started in college, but learnt so much that I continued to volunteer even after I left college)
- 10 days of community service in China (in college), equipped a kindergarten with IT infrastructure and taught teachers basic computer skills
- Working with a group of friends on app development over the weekend
Post-MBA goals:
- Short term: management consulting, hopefully to ultimately specialize in education / public sector practice
- Long term: run or found an edtech company to widen access to education in Southeast Asia
Others:
- Born and raised in a small town in Indonesia, first English speaker in family and first to leave for overseas education
- 8 years of high school and university education in Singapore were fully funded on scholarships
Target schools:
- Kellogg
- Yale
- Tuck
- Haas
My biggest concern is if my switch from banking to telecom will be perceived negatively by the admission team, especially when taking into account my post-MBA goal to break into consulting. Is this a valid concern? How should I address this in my application?
I’ll also need to depend heavily on scholarship. Do you have tips on how I can improve my chances for scholarship?
Thanks again and looking forward to your reply.
Hey there!
Great to hear form you! We LOVE Indonesia at
Admissionado (seriously!)
I think you have a great profile - you come from Indonesia, you are a female candidate, with experience in two great industries, you have great academics, you have a stellar GMAT, and even International experience and very very good volunteer work.
I think all of this can translate into an admit at a Top 10 program.
I think your story and your goals are actually very good. You can switch from what you are doing into consulting without a problem. The one thing that really DOES need to be explained/justified is your desire to move into education: What do you want to do exactly? Why? Where? what impact do you hope to have on the world?
I think your school list is pretty good. You may want to add a few more schools if you can though. Like I said your profile is pretty good, and the more schools you add the more chances you will get not only to get in, but to get scholarship offers. So why not, right?
If you need any help with your essays or application materials, just drop us a line:
https://admissionado.com/free-consultati ... n=mba_blogBest,
JF
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27 Jul 2016, 17:50
