Please evaluate my profile :
GMAT :690 (Q49, V35) Manuf Sector 6yrs Exp.
I am not going to retake the GMAT.
Engineering College: NIT (Top 10 in INDIA)
Engineering marks: 69.75% ( Topper - 77%.) Class Rank 4th.
Experience
6 Years Exp in Non Ferrous Metal Industry (Core Industry). MNC - London Listed Company.
Had 4 promotions in 6 years of experience.
Currently leading a team of 210 Engineers, Supervisors and Workmen.
Represented my company at an international seminar at Norway.
Selected as a Star Performer of my company based on my leadership skills and deliverables.
Extracurricular:
Volunteer with CSR of my company
Member of organising committee of the Inter Departmental Football tournament at college and work.
At College, was head of the department association.
I was also department football team captain at work and at college.
I have already sent scores to
HBS, Kellogg, Stanford, MIT Sloan, Cornell.
Also, I plan to apply to NYU, Columbia, LBS, ISB(India).
I have to get into any of the top B-Schools in the coming session.
How do you rate my chances?
Do you suggest any other school ?
Will there be very tough competetion from the sector I come from ?
Thanks in advance.
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- MBA Advice
It seems like you were the captain, the head, the best of everything that you were involved in. Just apply to Harvard. You are the best, man. You rank the highest. You have 4,000,000 promotions, and you manage 1 billion engineers.
Don't waste time with other schools, mate. Harvard all the way.
You. Are. The. Best.
Don't waste time with other schools, mate. Harvard all the way.
You. Are. The. Best.
- MBAApply
Your chances at any one school are better if you don't apply to so many schools. Desperation tends to seep in the tone of your essays (and interviews) when you're preparing that many applications.
HBS and Stanford are long shots for you; your sweet spot schools are more in the Cornell/NYU range. I wouldn't apply to Columbia's Regular Decision at this point unless you really really want to go there. It's hard to say with engineers sometimes because the strength of their candidacy is driven by the "person behind the resume". On the surface, you seem like a solid candidate, but as you may or may not know a lot of other engineers tend to be severely lacking in the interpersonal skills department as well as critical thinking skills (being able to handle ambiguity and subjectivity) compared to other non-engineers -- and these traits only come up in the essays and interview. What you'll notice is that the biggest difference between the ex-engineers at a top-16 school vs. those outside the top-16 isn't academics or analytical abilities (or even their overall resume), but it's their interpersonal/social/critical thinking skills which can only be inferred through the essays and interviews.
Alex Chu
alex@mbaapply.com
www.mbaapply.com
http://mbaapply.blogspot.com
HBS and Stanford are long shots for you; your sweet spot schools are more in the Cornell/NYU range. I wouldn't apply to Columbia's Regular Decision at this point unless you really really want to go there. It's hard to say with engineers sometimes because the strength of their candidacy is driven by the "person behind the resume". On the surface, you seem like a solid candidate, but as you may or may not know a lot of other engineers tend to be severely lacking in the interpersonal skills department as well as critical thinking skills (being able to handle ambiguity and subjectivity) compared to other non-engineers -- and these traits only come up in the essays and interview. What you'll notice is that the biggest difference between the ex-engineers at a top-16 school vs. those outside the top-16 isn't academics or analytical abilities (or even their overall resume), but it's their interpersonal/social/critical thinking skills which can only be inferred through the essays and interviews.
Alex Chu
alex@mbaapply.com
www.mbaapply.com
http://mbaapply.blogspot.com
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