Berkeley / Haas - 05-23-2024 | Clear Admit ApplyWire

May 23, 2024 7:06am ET

Applying: Berkeley / Haas, Cambridge / Judge, Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Columbia, Cornell / Johnson, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, ESADE, Georgetown / McDonough, Harvard Business School, HEC Paris, IE Business School, Indian School of Business, INSEAD, London Business School, Michigan / Ross, MIT Sloan, Nanyang, Northwestern / Kellogg, Notre Dame / Mendoza, NYU Stern, Oxford / Saïd, Penn State / Smeal, Rice / Jones, Stanford GSB, Toronto / Rotman, U. Chicago Booth, UCLA Anderson, UNC Kenan-Flagler, UPenn / Wharton, UVA / Darden, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2025

Pre-MBA Career: Auto Retail

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Consumer Goods, MF, Auto, Aerospace Companies: AT Kearney , Bain , BCG , Ernst & Young , PWC , General Mills , Nestle , Nike , PepsiCo , Proctor & Gamble , Unilever , GE

GMAT: 695

GPA: 3.58

Years of Work Experience: 5

Location: India

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alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1603 Do you have any geographic preferences, post MBA? Will also be important to narrow the focus of your post MBA goals, pick a pathway that makes sense for you. Both these factors will help you narrow your list of target programs.

Apply in Round 1, if you can. Showing impact and growth at work will be important. Are you also involved in activities outside of work?

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rishitha Likes Earned: 1 West Coast is preferable option at the point, but many of my dream schools seems to be on the other end. Hence flexible in terms of location. I'm an active contributor at my undergrad alma mater, curretnly leading a project of Mentorship which involves building a end to end system to help students achieve their career goals. Other than that, I've been involved in many other acitvities during under grad. (0)

rishitha Likes Earned: 1 Also planning to apply in R1 itself. Hopefully I will be able to. At work, I've got multiple promotions leading sales, operations and customer experience across a state in India. Currently leading B2B corporate strategy for the org. (1)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1603 Be curious to hear more about your post MBA goals, short and longer term? (0)

rishitha Likes Earned: 1 In the short term I’m looking forward to work in Consulting with focus on auto industry or else work in auto OEMs like General Motors, ford etc. In the long term I would like to come back to India to start my own consulting company to fix certain loop holes in the auto industry. Also as a plan B I’m flexible to explore Consumer goods industry at my B school. Strategy roles at FMCG or retail companies like Walmart, PepsiCo, Amazon interests me. (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1603 Keeping your goals focused on the auto industry makes good sense. (1)

rishitha Likes Earned: 1 Can you give any suggestions on the schools I should target keeping in mind the goals, gmat and work experience? T25 is what I'm looking at. (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1603 I would look at a few in the top 16, and top 20, and top 25, spreading the risk, a little. All in round 1, or at least a mix of them in Round 1. (0)