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Anyone who has made a final decision regarding which MBA program they will attend is encouraged to share their information. This includes applicants this year, as well as current MBA students and alumni. The information entered in response to “Entering Year” will distinguish current applicants and their decisions from those of candidates from prior years.
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What if I have changed my mind in terms of where I plan to enroll?
This does happen. During the summer, for example, some schools start admitting more candidates from their waitlists, resulting in some decision changes. If you find yourself in this situation, please add a new entry and contact [email protected] to notify us so that we can remove your existing entry.
MBA Applywire
Hi All! Here are my profile details:
28M Asian/indian
Status: On an H1-B with only 2 years used, will pause and use COS and will still have H1-B out of school post grad
Education:
Undergrad: Berkeley 3.4 GPA (slightly lower first couple years but 3.9 last 2 years + Dean’s list)
Masters: Duke Fuqua Masters in Management (3.9 GPA Fuqua Scholar top 10% of class)
GRE: 332 (168Q 164V 5.0 AWA)
ECs:
- led diversity recruiting teams and “safe space” teams to improve mental health awareness and holistic personnel development at workplaces
- founded couple diversity-focused consulting clubs on campus
- mentored underprivileged kids during college to job transition, including networking, recruitment, offer negotiation, etc.
Work exp:
- 2 years doing product and business development strategy at an innovation management startup (before MMS)
- post MMS:
- 6 months at top Econ consulting firm
- 1 year at consulting arm of F500 payments firm (think Visa, Mastercard, Amex)
- 2.5+ years at MM Private Equity Advisory shop working on CDD, VDD, growth strategy projects (2 promotions in 2 years and now at engagement manager level with top 25% bucket performance); firm is mostly ex MBB but more boutique brand level
Short term goal: Guaranteed return offer from firm at an SM/D level return post MBA with financial sponsorship so goal is to leverage courses and experiential learning to focus on helping MM/SMB funds have a stronger more fulsome approach to diligence to ownership to exit lifecycle. Feel like I have the DD and strategy chops but still missing some of the core investment-focused financial expertise and operational know how to help smaller funds end to end, especially first time funds and smaller funds that don’t have $$$ to afford full-scale diligence and value creation teams want to come back and spearhead building an AI-led but strategy oriented diligence service that can be scaled across SMB/MM; granted there are a bunch of AI-led DD products out there but none have yet shown consistent sign of delivering real DD ROI, and value creation support
Long-term goal:
- try and transform the MM/SMB deals lifecycle/space: smaller funds need highly targeted and scalable support around DDs, advisory, exit strategy. SMBs need help transitioning ownership, selling to right buyer, maximizing multiples. Wish to create a platform that helps both sides (not on the same deals) with comprehensive financial and commercial/strategy insights during transaction process.
LORs should be strong and pretty highly thematic around leadership, innovation, incremental team contribution, and transformation.
Dream schools: R1 most specifically H and W (in the process of essays at the moment)
Overall target: rest of M7s (doing 3 more R1) and potentially Tuck and Haas/Stern (either R1 or R2 based on capacity)
Alternative post-MBA goals are around PE/growth equity investment roles in MM/LMM shops to get to similar LT goals.
Would love an honest profile eval around realistic chances at these schools, WHICH schools seem like the strongest fit, what I should focus on differentials over the next month plus, and where there are potential gaps.
I'm an engineer working in digital transformation at a Fortune 100 energy company with approximately three years of experience by matriculation. My role involves translating business requirements into SAP solutions while working across global stakeholders on transformation programs, process improvements, migrations, upgrades, and business divestments. I've also had opportunities to lead initiatives beyond my formal responsibilities and was promoted relatively early.
Outside work, community building has been a consistent theme throughout my journey. During university, I was involved across technical, entrepreneurship, photography, and comedy etc organized a startup recruitment fair connecting startups with students, and helped build student learning initiatives. At work, I've continued that pattern by introducing team traditions and contributing to DEI initiatives.
Post-MBA I'm targeting consulting (ideally MBB or another top strategy firm) before transitioning into corporate strategy or product leadership within the energy/technology space.
My application theme focuses less on technical expertise and more on being someone who creates momentum, builds communities, and influences change without formal authority.
I'd appreciate feedback on:
Competitiveness for these schools.
Whether my positioning is differentiated.
Scholarship prospects.
Any gaps you see in my profile or story.
Have worked in strategy/policy at a large utility for 3 or so years now, mostly focused on transmission and energy policy. Much more focused on policy but I have some financial experience. Lots of experience with data center interconnection and large load policy, which I would look to use to my advantage in applications.
Completed Yale Financing Clean Energy 6 month course
Promotion is very likely around November or so. It's mostly a title change, but it should also come with more responsibility.
Strong volunteer experience coaching youth sports.
MBA LiveWire
Accepted with $80k scholarship