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Planned Year of doing MBA - 2009 Fall.
Planned Schools - Top 10 Schools around the world.
GMAT : Yet to be taken. Trying for 700+ score.
Age : 33.
Years of Experience : Around 11 years now in World renowned IT Services firms in India, UK(around 4 yrs) and US(3+ yrs).
Areas of Experience :Delivery Management and Technology Management - 3 years.
Team Leadership :6-7 years
Architecture Work :Around 2 years
Technology Consulting Work :Around 2 years
Other : 3 years.
Note: Consulting work/Architecture are overlapping as in delivery organisation, a person has to wear multiple hats.

Community Work : Part of Open Source Development work in a Major Open Source Team.

With age slowly turning against me(but experience on my side), this is most probably the borderline...Please do inform me do I stand a good chance. I do have geniune reason for doing MBA. Appreciate your response on it(although anyway, I will go for it).

Thanks
Regards

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Slight Correction:
Note: Consulting work/Architecture are overlapping with Team Leadership/Management roles as in delivery organisation, a person has to wear multiple hats

[MBAApply]

The key challenge for you is being able to successfully convey in the application that you are more than your resume. Given that there will be plenty of applicants very similar to you in terms of demographic and occupational category applying -- personality can go a long way since the process can be very subjective if the resumes/profiles look so similar from one person to the next.

Having said that, assuming your GMAT is competitive (700+), you have a decent enough chance at some of the top schools that it's worth a shot:

Chicago/Kellogg/MIT/Columbia/Tuck -- these are "reach" schools for you; you'll need stellar execution on your app, plus a lot of luck on your side (adcom happens to really like you); choose 1-2 schools from this

Duke/Darden/Michigan/Berkeley/NYU/UCLA/Cornell/Yale - these are the "sweet spot" schools for you; in other words, schools where you should be competitive for; choose 2-3 schools from this list

UNC/USC/UTAustin/Georgetown/Indiana/Purdue/CMU/Rochester/Emory - these are "safety" schools for you; choose 0-1 schools (or 2 schools if there are schools in there that you'd love to go to). These are schools where you shouldn't have much problems getting into unless you run into bad luck.


Alex Chu
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