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- geetsood
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please do guide me!
hi,
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- geetsood
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Re: please do guide me!
Will anybody reply my query???
Is there any form moderator??
Is there any form moderator??
- mbamission
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Re: please do guide me!
Hi, thank you for your inquiry. Congratulations on the coveted 700- that must have felt very good after the lower scores!
Your work experience is the biggest weakness simply in terms of the time you have spent there. Since you're looking at application a year or two out, that will take care of itself. But in that time, focus on trying to get work assignments that demonstrate increasing responsibility and leadership.
If you want to switch to banking, you face the additional challenge of being a career changer. Whatever you can do now to make that transition less radical would be helpful - like taking finance classes, shadowing someone at a bank, etc. You're going to want to demonstrate that the career change is logical and well thought out, and that you've been focused on achieving it for some time. Certainly your plan of switching to a job at a bank will be the best evidence that you are working hard towards a specific goal.
Your current (post-college) community activities do seem a bit lacking so yes, more volunteer work for an NGO would strengthen that aspect, especially as with your work setting, if you can initiate projects and carry them to completion, showing your leadership, drive, and organizational skills.
Doing well in additional classes in English will definitely help alleviate concerns the admissions committee could have; it doesn't have to be a diploma program but courses that involve both writing and verbal will be quite helpful. For specific conversion of your 70%, you should talk to the different schools; they have nuances of how they convert grades and are best able to address that.
If you address all of these issues in your application, you still face being in an overrepresented demographic but if you select schools well and write good solid essays that highlight different aspects of your personality, I think you have a reasonable shot.
Best of luck.
Jessica Shklar
MBA Mission
646-485-8844
Website: www.mbamission.com
Blog: www.mbamission.com/blog
Your work experience is the biggest weakness simply in terms of the time you have spent there. Since you're looking at application a year or two out, that will take care of itself. But in that time, focus on trying to get work assignments that demonstrate increasing responsibility and leadership.
If you want to switch to banking, you face the additional challenge of being a career changer. Whatever you can do now to make that transition less radical would be helpful - like taking finance classes, shadowing someone at a bank, etc. You're going to want to demonstrate that the career change is logical and well thought out, and that you've been focused on achieving it for some time. Certainly your plan of switching to a job at a bank will be the best evidence that you are working hard towards a specific goal.
Your current (post-college) community activities do seem a bit lacking so yes, more volunteer work for an NGO would strengthen that aspect, especially as with your work setting, if you can initiate projects and carry them to completion, showing your leadership, drive, and organizational skills.
Doing well in additional classes in English will definitely help alleviate concerns the admissions committee could have; it doesn't have to be a diploma program but courses that involve both writing and verbal will be quite helpful. For specific conversion of your 70%, you should talk to the different schools; they have nuances of how they convert grades and are best able to address that.
If you address all of these issues in your application, you still face being in an overrepresented demographic but if you select schools well and write good solid essays that highlight different aspects of your personality, I think you have a reasonable shot.
Best of luck.
Jessica Shklar
MBA Mission
646-485-8844
Website: www.mbamission.com
Blog: www.mbamission.com/blog
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