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12 Jun 2021, 09:56
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Hi,
I seek guidance for my profile evaluation for 2022 intake for Full time MBA .
I took the GMAT in May 2021,scored a 770, Q51, V42, IR8.
A brief Intro :
A 34 year old male from India with 2 Years IT + 8 years Manufacturing experience .
My last 8 years experience constitutes of roles of Business development for 2 manufacturing companies with head office in Europe.
I was responsible for establishing a new branch in India ,and started the business from scratch .
It is more close to a startup environment .
References from C-Suite contacts in US and Europe, Essay i definitely need to improve, extracurricular points are avarage .
Target areas to work post the MBA:
1. Consulting
2. Strategy
3. Business development
4. Manufacturing
Target University countries :
Harvard Business School
University of Pennsylvania: Wharton
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Insead France
MIT: Sloan
London Business School
Columbia Business School
HEC Paris
University of Chicago: Booth
Northwestern University: Kellogg
University of California at Berkeley: Haas
Yale School of Management
Duke University: Fuqua
University of Cambridge: Judge
University of Oxford: Said
Courses where I can secure maximum scholarship will be the first criteria for me.
Kindly let me know .
Guys, thanks in advance.
Warm regards
Saurav S
I seek guidance for my profile evaluation for 2022 intake for Full time MBA .
I took the GMAT in May 2021,scored a 770, Q51, V42, IR8.
A brief Intro :
A 34 year old male from India with 2 Years IT + 8 years Manufacturing experience .
My last 8 years experience constitutes of roles of Business development for 2 manufacturing companies with head office in Europe.
I was responsible for establishing a new branch in India ,and started the business from scratch .
It is more close to a startup environment .
References from C-Suite contacts in US and Europe, Essay i definitely need to improve, extracurricular points are avarage .
Target areas to work post the MBA:
1. Consulting
2. Strategy
3. Business development
4. Manufacturing
Target University countries :
Harvard Business School
University of Pennsylvania: Wharton
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Insead France
MIT: Sloan
London Business School
Columbia Business School
HEC Paris
University of Chicago: Booth
Northwestern University: Kellogg
University of California at Berkeley: Haas
Yale School of Management
Duke University: Fuqua
University of Cambridge: Judge
University of Oxford: Said
Courses where I can secure maximum scholarship will be the first criteria for me.
Kindly let me know .
Guys, thanks in advance.
Warm regards
Saurav S
12 Jun 2021, 19:04
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Hi, Saurav S. It sounds like you have some very impressive experience and a great GMAT, but you are rather senior for many 2 year programs. Also, your goals seem fairly broad for someone of your tenure and I am not 100% clear on why you need an MBA for some of them. Do you really need an MBA, when money seems to be a concern, to break into business development when you've done it for 8 years? So, I think the schools will have a lot of questions if you present yourself as you do above. I think the other thing I wonder about is what kind of business development role you had-- did you lead teams, report to people, manage people, or were they more individual sales targets? The former tends to be more MBA friendly than the latter, so work hard to show those aspects in your app.
Once you get a few years past 30, it is certainly possible to pursue a 2 year US MBA program, but it isn't super common, and your "peer group" dwindles rapidly in the class. Those who make it tend to have a clear vision for why that program, why now, and how they will apply it. My sense is, this last piece is what would be critical for you to demonstrate to find success. I'm not sure that you have a clear idea though of 2 year vs. 1 year. Some of your programs on your list are more 1-year MBA programs (the European schools), and some of these schools offer alternative programs including EMBAs that might be a better fit (Fuqua global MBA?). I always come down to the goals - what are your goals, what are you trying to do, do you need a summer internship, does it make sense for someone like you, and how will you be successful? If you can reassure the schools of this pathway, and HOW exactly THAT particular school will be the best place for you, you will improve your chances!
Scholarships are tricky, and I'm afraid I don't have tons of information on that, because as I've mentioned to others, that usually happens at the end of the process, after admission, and I do not get robust info on how those decisions are made. But broadly speaking, the students I see get the most scholarships tend to be ones who bring either desired diversity to the class of some kind or help it out in some other way with strong stats or an especially enticing profile. So perhaps since you may not bring so much diversity, you might look for programs that are very concerned about their rankings and maintaining GMAT scores but do not always get super high scoring applicants (where your 770 perhaps is a notch above the 80th percentile range)???
Hope this is helpful!! Good luck!!
Julie-Anne
Once you get a few years past 30, it is certainly possible to pursue a 2 year US MBA program, but it isn't super common, and your "peer group" dwindles rapidly in the class. Those who make it tend to have a clear vision for why that program, why now, and how they will apply it. My sense is, this last piece is what would be critical for you to demonstrate to find success. I'm not sure that you have a clear idea though of 2 year vs. 1 year. Some of your programs on your list are more 1-year MBA programs (the European schools), and some of these schools offer alternative programs including EMBAs that might be a better fit (Fuqua global MBA?). I always come down to the goals - what are your goals, what are you trying to do, do you need a summer internship, does it make sense for someone like you, and how will you be successful? If you can reassure the schools of this pathway, and HOW exactly THAT particular school will be the best place for you, you will improve your chances!
Scholarships are tricky, and I'm afraid I don't have tons of information on that, because as I've mentioned to others, that usually happens at the end of the process, after admission, and I do not get robust info on how those decisions are made. But broadly speaking, the students I see get the most scholarships tend to be ones who bring either desired diversity to the class of some kind or help it out in some other way with strong stats or an especially enticing profile. So perhaps since you may not bring so much diversity, you might look for programs that are very concerned about their rankings and maintaining GMAT scores but do not always get super high scoring applicants (where your 770 perhaps is a notch above the 80th percentile range)???
Hope this is helpful!! Good luck!!
Julie-Anne
