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Hello,

I would really appreciate any insight you could provide with based on my profile:

1) Brief description of your full-time work experience. What do you do?
By the time I enroll, I will have worked 4 years at a Fortune 2000 global company based in Midwest. I have been working as Manufacturing Engineer in a plant for 2.5 years. I traveled extensively to work with international suppliers and led capacity installation projects. I was recently promoted to a senior engineering position within Corporate Purchasing, effective next month.
I also worked as an intern for half year at BMW in Germany while in College.

2) GMAT 
760 (Q51/V41), AWA 5, IR 6

3) College info:
2 years in China, finished some courses
4.5 years in Germany, Bachelor + Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering, GPA equivalent to 3 (a decent rating in the German school)
0.5 years in the US as visiting scholar completing Master's Thesis

4) Significant extra-curricular activities or community service. 
During college, president of the Chinese Student Association, organizing culture events
Avid traveler across 4 continents

5) Important certifications:
No proper certification
Native Mandarin speaker, fluent in English and German, some knowledge of Japanese.

6) Your target programs:
Top US programs - M7 + Haas, Ross, Yale, Anderson

7) When you plan to apply? 
R2 2014 (maybe a couple in R1); the reason is that I would need more time to put experiences/stories from my new position on my resume and essays

8) Your post-MBA goal.
Career Change - I want to make greater impact to the business from strategy level instead of operation level, by starting from Consulting. Mid term goal is management/leadership role in supply chain. Long term goal is corporate management/leadership role.
In terms of geography, preferably in the US for the next 5 years.

Again, any suggestion and recommendation would be much appreciated!
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Thanks
MW

bryantmichaels · Answer

MW you have a great profile and will undoubtedly have a shot at your target list. I also like that you have a broad list, which should guarantee your ability to go to a good school (likely will have a choice). I assume you are a German citizen, which is an advantage since Germany is under-represented in US b-schools. Your academics and your GMAT score will assure them you are ready for the rigors of the curriluclm and your experience is diverse, multi-national and progressively responsible. Make sure you bring out the leadership angles. I would encourage you to apply at least to a couple of schools in round one. If you have good recommenders, I see no reason why you should delay to round two just to polish off a couple of new experiences in your new role--the promotion speaks for itself and by the time you interview, you will be able to go into more detail in person. If you can thougtfully explain why you want the MBA and put your post MBA vision into a passionate narrative, you should have a great chance to get in one or more of your dream schools. Let us know if we can help you pull everyting together.

vessantra · Answer

Hi 
I'm an Indian undergrad in my senior year from a top level state university(not iit) 75.6%-Top 5% of the class.
-3 Internships. One at Honeywell , one at state power generation corporation, one in a large construction firm in India.
- Worked as an internal consultant for an IT startup(held many key responsibilities including funding for modernization and re-architecture process, served as a change agent by introducing techniques like prototyping and risk assessment and management also handled a few client projects)
- 2 international publications(not ieee, one of them pure computer science related and another is based on risk assessment and an alternative solution to FMEA)
- State 3rd rank in high school examination (98.8 percent, was given special recognition at an educational fair by the then Home Minister of the State) and 93% in 10th standard.
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Led several teams in many competitions like :

1)" Manthan"- A nationwide political competition to address 14 critical challenges that India faced in 2013(18,000 students participated in it). Led the team to 2nd place in popular category of our theme and was invited to Grand Culmination Convention which was graced by the presence of dignitaries like the Current Prime Minister of India, Finance Minister of India, Chiefs of staff of many departments and other business and thought leaders.
2)Honeywell Young Innovator Challenge, led the team to finals (competition had several phases which lasted 8 months long including show and tell session on the final day where we engaged with a crowd of more than 2000 marketing and proposing our idea. Youngest team there competed with grad school students and senior year students while we were in sophomore.was awarded an internship later)
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Was elected as a member of the organizing committee of the annually held national level technical symposium. Was responsible for managing the entire finance and budget, monitoring cash flows, supervising event coordinators, leveraged this opportunity to create funds to the IT startup in an innovative way making them conduct workshops for students to learn new technologies with hands-on experience.
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I'm applying to HBS 2+2 in R1 can you shed some light on my chances and also Yale Silver Scholars and Stanford GSB deferred admission (applying through the Reliance Fellowship, confident enough of being a finalist).

(Yet to give gmat expecting a good score)
P.S I also have a strong network of Influential people and I mean really influential.
( Sorry for the Lengthy info. :p)

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bryantmichaels · Answer

You are thinking about applications in the right way. you have a great profile, but if you have some enhancements which will come later, postponing to round two could work out well. I always tell clients it's better to wait until you have the best application possible before submitting and the odds in round two are roughly the same as round one. in fact, many of the hard chargers go in round one, so there may be fewer 150+ GMAT scorers in round two, which could help you stand out. Your Post MBA vision ties well into your past experience and your international work experience will go over very well. Let us know if we can help you pull it all together.

bryantmichaels · Answer

2+2 was essentially crafted for applicants such as yourself. Make sure you decide if you would rather go work for two years or do like they do in the Yale SS and do the internship. You should have a good shot at either in my view.

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