Hi,
I have secured 620(42Q,34V) on my gmat given during mid-october.
I have 4.5 years of IT experience.
In this phase, i have been promoted from Sr. software engineer to team leader in 1 year and from latter to Development Manager in 6 months.
My experience includes managing a team of 4+ for past 1 year.
It also includes client interaction , onsite-project deployment and client co-ordination.
I am looking for a career change to finance.I have zeroed in on the following universities:
University of Maryland--College Park (Smith)
University of Florida (Hough)
Ohio State University (Fisher)
Indiana University--Bloomington (Kelley)
University of Southern California (Marshall)
Boston College (Carroll)Chestnut Hill
Cornell University (Johnson) Ithaca
Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)
Dartmouth College (Tuck) Hanover
University of Texas--Austin (McCombs)Austin
University of Rochester (Simon)
University of Michigan: Ross
Duke University (Fuqua)
Purdue University: Krannert
what are my chances to make it into the above colleges?is there anything i should do strenthen my profile apart from a good gmat score.
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Re: Profile evaluation
Hi Jshirish,
Thanks for writing. My first piece of advice would be to narrow down that list of schools! A thorough MBA application can take about 30 hours to complete, so there's no way you could do a good job on all of those for this year's deadlines.
On a quick glance, Dartmouth, Cornell, Kelley, Tepper, Ross and McCombs strike me as "reach" schools given what I know of your profile -- you may want to select just one of those. And then you can choose 3-4 of the others, depending on which suit your interests.
GMAT aside, you need to make a case that differentiates you from the pack. IT is an overrepresented sector in the applicant pool, so what is it about you that an admissions reader will want to remember? Perhaps you have good anecdotes from the leadership side of your job? You'll also want to explain why you decided to switch from IT to Finance.
Good luck!
Daniel Richards
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Thanks for writing. My first piece of advice would be to narrow down that list of schools! A thorough MBA application can take about 30 hours to complete, so there's no way you could do a good job on all of those for this year's deadlines.
On a quick glance, Dartmouth, Cornell, Kelley, Tepper, Ross and McCombs strike me as "reach" schools given what I know of your profile -- you may want to select just one of those. And then you can choose 3-4 of the others, depending on which suit your interests.
GMAT aside, you need to make a case that differentiates you from the pack. IT is an overrepresented sector in the applicant pool, so what is it about you that an admissions reader will want to remember? Perhaps you have good anecdotes from the leadership side of your job? You'll also want to explain why you decided to switch from IT to Finance.
Good luck!
Daniel Richards
http://www.mbamission.com
Read the mbaMission Insider's Guides (14 individual school titles)
Visit the mbaMission Blog
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