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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:55 pm 
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Dear Veritas,

I was hoping that you could provide some feedback on my chances of acceptance into a top 10 business school in the USA.

My profile overiew is the following:

Anticipated GMAT Score - Striving for 700-720
Undergraduate Degree - University of Colorado Boulder
GPA : 3.3
Major : Business Administration focus on Finance
Nationality - American
Age - 26

Work Experience : 4.5 Years
- 6 month internship at Johns Manville as the Deputy of the SVP of Tax
- 2 Years Alstom, global provider of transportation and power generation, in their Finance Graduate developement program. This consisted of 3 rotational position in the company in 2 different countries (USA, Switzerland).
- 1st Position - New York - Finance Work Package Controller in Transportation Sector
- 2nd Position - Zurich, Switzerland - Project Controller for several of our Gas Turbine projects all over the world for the Power Generation Sector.
- 3rd Position - Zurich, Switzerland - Operations Contoller for a newly created Business within our company where I had the chance to work directly with the SVP of Finance and developed the tools and platform for financial analysis and strategic decisions.
- 2 Years Alstom after the Finance Graduate Program
- Global Functional Controller for all Supply Chain Management, Quality, and Information Systems in our Power Generation business. Was the finance counterpart for the VP's of Supply Chain, Quality, and Information Systems : Location Switzerland
- Currently - Global Gas Business Controller - Business Controller overseeing a 2.2 Billion EURO annual sales Business where I work directly with the VP of Finance. In direct controll of all Cash Positions and flows, Resource Planning and allocation around the world, strategic evaluations of Cost Savings, etc.

Reference Letters:
Reference Letter from my Current Line Manager (VP Finance Gas Business)
Reference Letter from SVP of our Power Business (Insead Graduate)
Reference Letter from SVP and Managing Director of Europe, Middle East, Asia, and Africa from a company called Enersys (Wharton Graduate)

Extracurricular:
Travelling, skiing, fishing, golfing, climbing, mountaineering, soccer
International/Cultural Exposure
Went to highschool in Brussels, Belgium
Travelled to over 35 countries

Community Service:
Climbing instructor to children (this was many years ago)
Fund Raising for an organization that is devoted to research for Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Awards/Certificates
International Award - Gold

I will be applying from Switzerland, and was curious if this qualifies me as an International applicant. I have heard mixed views on this. Also, I am considering using Veritas Admissions support, what is the overall success for a profile like mine?

Schools of preference: Wharton, HBS, Stanford, Booth, and Kellog.

Any support would be more than greatly appreciated!

Thanks and all the best,

Matt Kreminski


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 Post subject: Re: Profile Review
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 3:12 pm 
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Hi Matt,

I think you have the beginnings of a competitive profile. Assuming you get a GMAT score in the range you're targeting, AND that you have great work experiences to draw upon when writing your essays, AND your letters of recommendation will be specific and enthusiastic, then I think you have a chance at a top-ten school. Your work progression looks good, so I expect that your candidacy should be strong in terms of the work experiences you have to draw upon in your application.

Naturally, you're aiming for five of the most selective MBA programs in the world, so I can't say that you have a "great" shot at any of them. Remember than Stanford's acceptance rate was below 7% last year! (What would a "great" shot be... a 25% chance of success?) Given your low undergrad GPA from a big state school (yes, unfortunately a 3.3 will look low vs. much of your competition), you may want to spread your bets a bit and include one or two slightly lower-ranked schools, but only if those are schools you would actually want to attend. Either way, you may want to think about doing one or two courses now to try to earn A's in those, and show that you're serious about doing well in school.

Also, you didn't mention your post-MBA career goals. That will obviously matter, especially in terms of what additional schools you might target.

To answer your question about whether or not you would be "international" in admissions officers' eyes, probably not (since you were educated in the U.S.), although your varied background will matter more than whether you're considered U.S. or international.

Good luck!
Scott

P.S. If you apply to Kellogg, make sure you spell the school's name right. It has two g's in it. :)

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