I am a 36 year old Indian male. Could give me a general profile evaluation and then we can go into details and I can hire your services. GMAT - 700+
My work profile is below:
Work Experience (WE): 120 months (all in USA for Intel, Qualcomm, Microsoft and Synopsys, a chip-software-design-firm)
I started with Intel, then switched to 2 startups one after another which were bought out by Synopsys (SNPS), then worked for Qualcomm, Iphone chip maker, then Xbox 360 chip.
2 years ago, started my own healthcare services venture and today run my own venture and lead 40+ staff.
Industry: Technology, then last 2 years in HealthCare
Function: hardware chip design and marketing- product differentiation, sales experience; single handedly developed software used in my health care venture
Undergraduate Degree: GPA: 3.8/4.0 B.S. (Electronic) from VJTI (A top 10 school in India - in the same league as IITs or 1 notch below IITs) - The degree was a four year course.
Graduate Degree - Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering - GPA: 3.8/4.0
Despite extenuating childhood and teenage circumstances due to family-health, constantly worked and still work everyday to improve myself and emerge pretty successful with academics and later in work sphere various roles.
Community Service: My extremely difficult childhood familial circumstances (provide details on phone) and tough-time getting jobs after masters in USA just after Sept 11th 2001 made my existing strength of seeing from other person's point-of-view=empathy MORE stronger.
Since 2005, I personally helped 100+ students get $100k jobs - can provide names/emails to admission committee. chintanpurohit dot blogspot dot com
My plans after MBA, in the order of preference, are to start another venture of my own and/or pursue academia - economist after few years.
That was my detailed profile overview. Coming to the questions:
1) Considering my profile and my GMAT score, what are the chances of getting into chicago-booth, harvard, wharton, tuck, kellogg ?
2) I can retake GMAT; get higher 750+ score. I have had extremely difficult childhood and have motivations for evangelizing disease awareness and then establish rehab and treatment options in emerging economies?
If asked about 10+ yr exp. what I'll bring: my unique contribution to the school that a 28 year old cannot bring -
The time to let thoughts stabilize and reach equilibrium rather than the impulsive reactionary decision-making, the personal awareness and the awareness of the world around me, the courage to pursue actions with convictions and the sturdy maturity yet, the agile nimbleness that my thoughts offer make my diverse background valuable to the class. I've seen 8 chip designs tape out, seen the high stress times to meet the deadlines and seeing final fabricated product multiple times tailored for various applications make me assertive on hardware design, its possibilities, limitations and timelines.
why after 10+ years?
Today, owning my own business, I have pure clarity, pure vision and sense of purpose behind my actions. Through my self-awareness, I discovered my strengths/limitations; working (long-term more than 1 year) in Consulting is not my goal.