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10 May 2015, 03:16
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The basics - 27, female, Indian
Work experience -
- 4 years in management consulting with a focus on social entrepreneurship and venture capital (social enterprise - a venture that creates positive social impact through its core activities while creating financial value at the same time). This is with a top-tier firm in my industry but is not a Big4 so I'm pretty certain ad-com wouldn't have heard of it. I could potentially offset by listing its key achievements and since I've had a hand in some it might fit in well with my essays.
- Designed, built, and currently manage an incubator (in addition to regular consulting gigs - with folks such as World Bank, International Finance Corporation, several European aid agencies, and PE funds that invest in socially impactful firms etc.)
- 3 promotions in the past 4.5 years, made a lateral move from operations (marketing and corporate development) to consulting within the same firm; only non-MBA, only woman, and youngest amongst my peer group
- Sectors of focus - healthcare and renewable energy (with technology and product innovation as cross-cutting themes)
- Pre-consulting: 1 year as a business analyst in the real estate industry but quit quickly because I wanted my work to have more meaning than just raking in the money.
GMAT
700 (AWA - 6, IR - 5, Q - 41, V - 45)
- I know Q is weak but I have math scores from school and college that put me in the top 20% of my class. Also consulting is inherently quantitative and analytical in nature. I don't know what it is with "is x>y" type of questions but my mind completely shuts down and refuses to deal with them out of sheer boredom. I do rigorous analytical at work everyday though - I've built a specific business success predictor algorithm as part of a project that involved pretty advanced stat and some coding - all self-learnt. I think the difference is that real world problem solving is something I enjoy very much, unlike the GMAT quant type of stuff. So can I get by this hurdle without taking the GMAT again? By justifying it in my optional essays? I really cannot do anymore pointless Algebra - I'd rather go MBA-less I think.
College info
Public University in the South of India
GPA - 3.5
Major - Engineering in Biotechnology
Year of Graduation - 2009
Significant college and post-college extra-curricular activities or community service, especially leadership experience.
Just before starting college (if that counts at all) - youth ambassador to the UK for a month, trained with the British Army as part of a cultural exchange initiative
College - 3 years of extra-curricular volunteering with AIESEC where I played several leadership roles and won a bunch of awards.
Part of the core student committee in college responsible for annual student fests and so on
Captained the throwball team for 3 years
Post college - Mentored startups and have assisted several in writing business plans (especially non-English speaking entrepreneurs)
Target programs
In order -
Stanford
MIT Sloan
Haas
London Business School
Harvard/Wharton
(Should I have safer schools on this list as well?)
Target application dates
R1 - 2015-16
Post-MBA goal
Return to India to continue helping social enterprises grow but with a very specific focus on product and technology innovation.
Work experience -
- 4 years in management consulting with a focus on social entrepreneurship and venture capital (social enterprise - a venture that creates positive social impact through its core activities while creating financial value at the same time). This is with a top-tier firm in my industry but is not a Big4 so I'm pretty certain ad-com wouldn't have heard of it. I could potentially offset by listing its key achievements and since I've had a hand in some it might fit in well with my essays.
- Designed, built, and currently manage an incubator (in addition to regular consulting gigs - with folks such as World Bank, International Finance Corporation, several European aid agencies, and PE funds that invest in socially impactful firms etc.)
- 3 promotions in the past 4.5 years, made a lateral move from operations (marketing and corporate development) to consulting within the same firm; only non-MBA, only woman, and youngest amongst my peer group
- Sectors of focus - healthcare and renewable energy (with technology and product innovation as cross-cutting themes)
- Pre-consulting: 1 year as a business analyst in the real estate industry but quit quickly because I wanted my work to have more meaning than just raking in the money.
GMAT
700 (AWA - 6, IR - 5, Q - 41, V - 45)
- I know Q is weak but I have math scores from school and college that put me in the top 20% of my class. Also consulting is inherently quantitative and analytical in nature. I don't know what it is with "is x>y" type of questions but my mind completely shuts down and refuses to deal with them out of sheer boredom. I do rigorous analytical at work everyday though - I've built a specific business success predictor algorithm as part of a project that involved pretty advanced stat and some coding - all self-learnt. I think the difference is that real world problem solving is something I enjoy very much, unlike the GMAT quant type of stuff. So can I get by this hurdle without taking the GMAT again? By justifying it in my optional essays? I really cannot do anymore pointless Algebra - I'd rather go MBA-less I think.
College info
Public University in the South of India
GPA - 3.5
Major - Engineering in Biotechnology
Year of Graduation - 2009
Significant college and post-college extra-curricular activities or community service, especially leadership experience.
Just before starting college (if that counts at all) - youth ambassador to the UK for a month, trained with the British Army as part of a cultural exchange initiative
College - 3 years of extra-curricular volunteering with AIESEC where I played several leadership roles and won a bunch of awards.
Part of the core student committee in college responsible for annual student fests and so on
Captained the throwball team for 3 years
Post college - Mentored startups and have assisted several in writing business plans (especially non-English speaking entrepreneurs)
Target programs
In order -
Stanford
MIT Sloan
Haas
London Business School
Harvard/Wharton
(Should I have safer schools on this list as well?)
Target application dates
R1 - 2015-16
Post-MBA goal
Return to India to continue helping social enterprises grow but with a very specific focus on product and technology innovation.
25 May 2015, 04:25
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From a pure profile stats perspecitve, my instincts tell me you are aiming too high given your paper qualifications, but as a female, you are at an advantage, and certainly your core stats are within the ballpark. The problem is, there will simply be too many other female applicants with high quant scores on the GMAT to compete against, so you must be bringing something else to the table which justifies telling those other applicants "no" and telling you "yes." Often, these differentiators in one's application come from outside of work, where engagement and leadership is more meaningful because it's not a requirement and therefore demonstrates passion. Sounds like you are the type of person to get fully engaged, at least from what you say about college, and that stint training in the military would be a great hook--very few female military apply to b-school. If you emphasize these kinds of unique attributes, you could very well stand out from the proverbial crowd, which will be necessary to get interview invitations from your target schools. Once you have an interview scheduled, your odds of admission go up dramatically (to say, 50/50 vs. one in ten, where everyone starts out). Let us know if we can help.
