kriti4654
Hi Bunuel,
I am planning to apply to my target B schools in R2 (Full time programs) this year. My profile is as follows:
Gender: Female
Age: 26 years
Location: India
Target schools: Booth, Berkeley, Wharton, NYU Stern, Ross, Marshal, UCLA, Stanford, Kellog, Cornel, LBS, INSEAD, HEC
POst MBA Target domain: Consulting
Work experience: ~5 years
I have worked as a credit analyst with a private bank and subsequently Citibank (1 promotion) in India for about 4 years. I then joined consulting firm Dun and Bradstreet as a strategy consultant in Doha, Qatar where I worked for 9 months. I will be moving to Prague to join Citibank as a Senior Aredit Analyst in mid January.
Education: Qualified ACCA (Association of Certified Chartered Accountants)
B.B.A majoring in Finance and Accounting
Undergrad GPA: 3.04 (on scale of 4)
Extra curriculars:
During Undergraution: Business Fest organisation and funds procurement , Volunteering for Model United Nations, Social work volunteering
Post Undergraduation:
While working at Axis Bank, led a award winning CSR project centered around financial literacy in the unbanked population of India
Cultivated and scaled a running community from 20 to 500 members.
Have worked for an NGO that works very actively for animal shelter and treatment
GMAT score: 740 (Q50 V41 IR3 AWA5)
Can you please let me know what schools I can target and what schools would be ambitious? Please feel free to recommend other schools not in the list
Hey, Let me tell you honestly, you have a perfect profile for getting admitted to B- Schools abroad, you can sure shot get a great and prestigious school because of your past academic track, work experience, GMAT Scores and of course, your extracurricular activities.
Let us start by talking about your work experience, I must say I am impressed by your experience not only because of its time duration but also because of how relevant it is to the course you wish to apply for. You are also going to get global exposure because of your job, which again is a plus point and is going to make your profile look different and help you stand out from the crowd.
Now, let’s come to your GMAT score, which is 740, good enough to get you into top universities! So you need not worry about it. Plus, your GPA is great to go, I don’t think it will create any roadblocks in your application process.
Here I am listing some TOP UNIVERSITIES ALL OVER THE WORLD FOR MBA that you should definitely apply to -
Stanford University,
Harvard University
Penn (WHARTON)
HEC PARIS
INSEAD
Columbia Business School
IESE Business School, Spain
Esade Business School
UCLA
Oxford University.
I would suggest you to definitely apply for some percentage of scholarships as you might be able to grab it and it will help you to pay hefty tuition fees for a program like MBA.
I hope this was helpful.