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July 21, 2026 9:14am ET
Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Chicago Booth, Columbia Business School, Cornell / Johnson, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, Penn / Wharton, Stanford GSB, UVA / Darden, Yale SOM
Intake Year: 2027
Pre-MBA Career: Finance (Late Stage Venture Capital and Investment Banking)
Post MBA Career: Finance, Private Equity, Vista Equity Partners, Warburg Pincus, Venture Capital, Accel Partners, Andressen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, First Round Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital
GMAT: 715
GPA: 7.6
Location: India
Post MBA Location: New York
Notes:

Hi! I'll be applying for the Deferred MBA programs at the above mentioned school

Broadly summarising my professional life

Indian undergraduate at a Tier-1 engineering institute majoring in Bioengineering with a Minor in Management. (affected by documented medical issues and internship commitments),

Certifications: CFA Level I Cleared

Professional experience (Internships): Quantitative Investing (systematic equities), Credit Analysis, Investment Banking (middle-market M&A and PE syndication with a return offer), and Growth Equity/VC (biotech investment thesis development, sector mapping, deal sourcing, founder evaluation, and ecosystem engagement, with a fast track interview based return offer (PPI)).

Research: Publications at CVPR and ICVGIP on multimodal financial AI and efficient Vision Transformer interpretability, with emphasis on practical AI deployment and computational efficiency.

Leadership: Led government-backed social initiatives and engineering organizations, managing volunteer teams, fundraising, education and environmental programs, community healthcare initiatives, entrepreneurship activities, and interdisciplinary engineering projects spanning robotics and bioengineering. Took initiatives during my internships as well.

Teaching: Undergraduate and continuing education teaching assistant.

Career goal: Long-term career in growth equity/venture capital focused on technology investing