Profile evaluation

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HI MBAPrep,

Could you be kind enough to review my profile


NRI currently based at Zurich, Married Male, 27


Education:

Electronics Engineer from a premier Institute VJTI, Mumbai, India ( Institute has more than 121 years of educational heritage and is par with IITs and NITs)

%: 67 ( we dont have GPA)-Always stood in Top 10

Diploma in Industrial Electronics- Avg 85% -Annual pattern, Merit holder, Stood in top 3 across the state MH, India


Prospective GMAT--

around 700 ish ( I will give exam in Jan end...)


Experience:
5 years of experience across Oil Industry and IT ( American and European clients)


( In the reverse order)

Duration: 2.5 year +

Specifics: IT Consultancy

Co: Leading IT provider, Forbes Global 2000 Fortune 1000

Client: Over 2 years of International experience at a Zurich based leading bank

Leadership: In the last fiscal year, single handedly cordinated projects worth 1 million CHF across different Line of business in Private banking. One of the projects include online banking portal. This was the first online portal launched in Switzerland 11 years ago and is highly appreciated worldwide.

Accolades:

Case study made by us was acclaimed at Computer world program as Laureate and finalist in "Finance, Insurance and Real estate"

Project was accredited with Project of the year award.

Several client appreciations from Dir, VP level.

Role: Onshore cordinator-> IT consulant



Duration: 1.5 year

Specifics: IT - Processes, Testing

Co: MS subsidiary- small set up

Clients: American client base: Primarily MS

Role- Team member-> Team Lead and offshore cordinator

Accolades: Several client appreciations

Leadership: Led "Genuine " drive , a niche initiative to curb piracy of MS sofwares. Rollout was across huge languages and across many countries.

Reason for leaving: wanted to gain experience with European clients- Also, Many IT cos. had started their expansion in this region.


Duration: 1 year

Specifics: Marketing

Co: Indian Oil Giant BPCL, Public Sector Undertaking, Fortune 500 co. , Navratna co.

Role: Officer Trainee -> Manager-Company owned installation

Accolades: Promotion within span of 6 months, Represented my Installation in a Manager meet , chaired by Dir- Retail Marketing. Avg exp of colleagues: 12-15 years. Was the youngest memmber with 6 months of experience.

Reason for leaving: Realized that PSU environment may not be conducive to Individual growth.


Extra curricular:

In free time, co-founded a Training co. led training dept, planning, strategies, etc..Started with one center and now more than 10 centers

However, could not remotely control operations from Zurich and hence voluntarily gave up responsiblities.

Additonally, I actually have some cliche curriculars

Certfifications: Testing and Process based certificates


Worth considering:

In a span of 4 years, managed own to settle my mortgage ( Current worth 2 million USD)


why MBA in top 20 institutes

So far Learning curve in Technical aspects has been quite stellar. However, would soon reach a point where roles and responsiblities would look mundane and would , now look for a MBA -Finance or Enterpreneurial management to climb up the ladder

Target top institues to have a brand, strong base of alumni, be with motivated colleagues, take benefit out of their innovative approaches like case studies, interactive learning and finally placed well with a meaty package. Package is not the only criteria considering high payment standard of Swiss.

Looking for: HBS, wharton, columbia, Stanford, Sloan, NYU Stern, Tuck, Yale, Kellog

Safe choice: IMD and HEC

Differentiating factors from Highly competitive Indian IT applicant

1. 40% of my experience is International for a leading bank. I may still continue untill I lend up in a top institute.

2. Led to IT by choice. Did wonders in limiited Marketing stint.

3. Academically strong and educated from premier institutes

4. Diversified IT experience across areas such as Testing, Processes, mannagement, Training across various domains such as Finance, Insurance, Telecommunication

5. got the right base and experience, which complemented by MBA would make my profile highly competetive.


Recommenders:

One German and one american client..People who have closely worked with me.


Qtns

am I material for top 20

Can I further differentiate myself from highly competetive group

Any specific advices or schools that are within my reach based on details provided.

I dont want to write the same extra curriculars..any source that can guide me as to present the best out of my cliche extra curriculars



thanks

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Hi

Could admission consultant pls provide their feedback on this

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Pls reply

[MBAApply]

I understand that you were trying to be exhaustive, but know that in many cases it is far more effective to be concise. That was part of the problem with your original post.

Anyhow, schools near the bottom of the top-16 such as Cornell, Yale, NYU and UCLA are going to be stretches for you (schools such as Kellogg, HBS, and other top-8 schools are out of reach); schools within the top-30 such as USC, UNC, Georgetown, Indiana, Purdue, etc. are schools where you'll likely be more competitive.

Alex Chu
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