callmeAA wrote:
Hello,
Hi @callmeAA - thanks for your post! Here are my thoughts.
Please evaluate me profile and I really appreciate your help. I am targeting Duke, Cornell, McCombs, UNC, Booth, and Fisher.
GRE score: 320, Q166V154
Your Quant score is great - your Verbal is a bit low for these schools. When do you plan to apply? Do you think you have time to take the GRE again, and if so, would be able to raise your verbal score? If not, you will need to demonstrate differentiating strengths in other areas of your applications.
Undergraduate university: The Ohio State University (Graduated in 2017) 3.37 GPA
Your GPA is also a little low given the schools you are interested in - making it even more valuable to raise your GRE Verbal score if you can and/or showing other differentiating strengths on your applications.
Undergraduate major : Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Demography: 25 y/o M Indian
Work ex: 3.5 years
College career: Sponsorship head, Society of Manufacturing Engineers at Ohio State
Board member, Indian Students Association at Ohio State
Work experience: Working for a top automotive supplier company as a manufacturing engineer
- Responsible for managing production/ operations on a $10M machine line generating >$20M in revenue
- Manage 8 machine operators and train new engineering hires
- Implemented powerBI report currently used throughout the plant for machine evaluation
- Various cost savings project and machine improvements initiatives.
Great that you can demonstrate management experience and this level of responsibility! It will be great to show quantifiable achievements as the result of your cost savings and machine improvement initiatives.
Extracurricular activities: Young alumni ambassador for Engineering college
- Founder of Tennis club in my city, currently around 15 active members
Nice to show involvement and leadership beyond your work.
Future goals: I have interest in finance as I enjoy stock investing, reading balance sheets and my goal is to combine my technical skills with finance tools (I am indirectly involved with P&L at my work).
I would love to learn more about how you hope to combine your technical background with your transition into finance. Also the *why* you want to do that. Crafting that compelling story will be a key part of your applications.