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COO of an energy technology company in India that has an annual revenue of ~$3M and is currently valued at ~$25M. I am leading the Customer Success, Operations and Engineering Teams of the company.
Passionate about learning. Believe that creating an environment where individuals can do their life’s best work is the best way to make global impact.
Target School: StanfordĀ GSB
Considering: MIT Sloan
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Application Status: Open
Undergrad School: IIT Bombay
Undergrad Major: Electrical Engineering
GPA: 3.7
GMAT: 770
Age: 28, Ethnicity: Asian or Indian
Other Degree/Certification: M.Tech
School Name: IIT Bombay
Extracurriculars: Built an electric racecar as leader of a varsity student team to compete in the Formula Student Competition, Member of a semi-professional football team (now) and the varsity football team (in university), Financial Portfolio Manager for Family and Friends.
Title: COO
Industry: Power / Energy
Company: Start-Up
Length of Employment: 3 yrs, 3 mos
Title: Product Manager
Industry: Technology
Length of Employment: 2 yrs, 9 mos
– I got promoted from a Program Manager to the COO of my current company, which is a total of 3 promotions, within a span of 18 months. – I successfully diagnosed and treated my Mom’s mental disorder. She was suffering from it for over 10 years and was completely non-cooperative with any kind of professional medical help.
I have a good background in technology. I want to develop my business, strategy, financial, and HR skills with an MBA that will set the perfect foundation for me to become a tech-entrepreneur. I want to build technology and products that make the world more equitable by making education, sanitation, healthcare and financing accessible.
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This is a near perfect profile for Stanford. Your undergraduate education in engineering from IIT in Bombay, a solid GPA, and a jumbo GMAT score leave no doubt that you can not only handle the quant in the core MBA curriculum but can probably help your more poetic classmates through stats, finance and accounting. The fact that you have won three promotions in just 18 months at a meaningful startup in the energy field and achieved the title of COO is all icing on the cake. And then finally, your ability to diagnose and treat your Momās mental disorder shows you to do a caring, compassionate and loving human being. It also gives you an immensely powerful and personal story to tell in your essays. …
This is a near perfect profile for Stanford. Your undergraduate education in engineering from IIT in Bombay, a solid GPA, and a jumbo GMAT score leave no doubt that you can not only handle the quant in the core MBA curriculum but can probably help your more poetic classmates through stats, finance and accounting. The fact that you have won three promotions in just 18 months at a meaningful startup in the energy field and achieved the title of COO is all icing on the cake. And then finally, your ability to diagnose and treat your Momās mental disorder shows you to do a caring, compassionate and loving human being. It also gives you an immensely powerful and personal story to tell in your essays. But as you know, Stanford is the most selective business school in the world when it comes to the actual admit rate for a prestige MBA degree. And there are a lot of Indian engineers in the applicant pool, eager to get in. Nonetheless, I think for all the reasons above you will stand out. That is why I am estimating your odds at more than three times the latest Stanford GSB admit rate of 8.9%. I do think you should also apply to a few other schools, including Harvard, UC-Berkeley, and Wharton. If you have the time and energy to complete applications for all five schools, I can’t imagine that you wouldn’t be accepted by at least three of the five and possibly everyone of them. The reason you want to spread the risk is obvious: Elite MBA admissions can be very random. Your chances are often dependent on strong execution on the application itself and the current pool of candidates you are competing with. Those are unknowns here. Do apply in round one when all the seats in the next class are available so when adcoms craft their next classes, you face a clear field ahead so that the desired number of Indian engineers in the class has not yet been met. Good luck to you!
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