Hi
suelahmed,
Thank you for your post. I think you would likely encounter some challenges related to GMAT score, work experience, and career goals. When applying to leading North American and European programs from such a crowded and competitive demographic, you generally want to target a GMAT score that is 30+ points above the average for a given program. MIT Sloan (and Kellogg) are out of reach, and I'd view INSEAD and Jones as a stretch right now, too. I see some added challenges around how deep a direction your education and career have gone in terms of petroleum engineering. You'll have to explain why, after a fairly recent two-year technical masters in the field and extremely deep technical work in the field, you'd now like to pursue an MBA. (You will also have to explain the employment gap.)
The specificity surrounding your career goals, rationale for MBA, and rationale for each program will need to be significantly developed, as will the narrative of how who you are and what you've done to this point -- plus the MBA -- equals or leads to your very specific short- and long-term goals. What knowledge, skills, and experience do you already have that are relevant? What knowledge, skills, and experience are you missing and therefore need to acquire via the MBA? How will you acquire those things at each MBA program to which you apply? Which courses, clubs, extracurriculars? What about each program's culture, community, or career opportunities make it right for you? How exactly will you contribute? What unique perspective can you bring to a given class? You will need to be highly specific and have a compelling, coherent, and credible story. You can read more about these things here:
https://www.avantiprep.com/blog/the-mos ... on-processYour scores make more sense for Rotman than the others, but Rotman is likely to see a flood of Indian applicants this year as many begin to look outside the U.S. (Rotman seems to pop up in tons of
profile review requests these days!) And even then, you would need to overcome and execute very well across the dynamics outlined above. If, as you develop your career interests, the roles you seek still reside within the energy sector, then you might also consider looking more closely at Texas A&M (Mays), Imperial or Warwick in the UK, Melbourne in Australia (a little tougher), or perhaps Edmonton in Canada (lower average GMAT). All line up a little better from a score perspective (to varying degrees), but again, they'd require excellent application execution across the aforementioned parameters. I do think your articulated goals should lie in the energy sphere, that way you can try to position how your technical experience in the field plus the MBA experience (very specific) can lead to your goals (also very specific).
Best Regards,
Greg