Hi everyone,

I am hoping to get an MBA 2 years down the line and need advises on how to improve my profile. Have a coworker with stellar academic and work experiences that got rejected from Northwestern ... kinda discouraging :(. Well, I just want to see how my profile is looking like and hopefully get some great tips on things to improve within these two years. I would greatly appreciate your honesty in letting me know whether I seem too ambitious based on my current profile and school choices :).

Background:

1.5 years of IT consulting in Big 8 accounting/consulting (will have 3.5 yrs by 2008) - Promotion offered for 2007. Have only done project management on a smaller scale (revenue and time based), hoping to have more responsibilities in the future.

CISA (CPA equivalent for IT audit)

U of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
BSc in Econ and BSBA in MIS 3.6 overall, 3.71 major

Non-US citizen (from South East Asia)

Two study abroads in Europe and Australia

Leadership roles during undergrad year - floor president, publicity committee, student diplomats, honor society, etc

Planning to take GMAT and hoping to score 700

Fluent in three languages and have a basic fluency in two others

Post undergrad activities: 2 short term volunteers abroad, IT related research with former undergrad professor, short term community service involvement,

School choices (not limited to): U of Chicago, Northwestern, NYU, Darden, Berkeley, Fisher, Tepper, INSEAD

Career aspiration post MBA - management consulting in Asia

Also, have just been reading the other forums and realized that I need to catch up on my post undergrad activities. I would greatly appreciate any kind of insights on this (i.e take grad level classes? community service? etc)?

Thank you in advance!!