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1) Basic demographic info: 22 years old, Indian, Male.

2) Educational Background: Btech in Electronics and Communication, Gpa of 7.20 on a scale of 10, will be giving GMAT test on Nov 28th 2012

3) Work experience: No work experience

4) Extracurriculars: Have participated in a few debate competitions .

5) Short/Long term goals: Short term goal is to gain experience in a real estate firm and the long term goal is to start my own firm.

6) Schools: Need help for this because i donot have any work experience so i am not certain how to choose .

Hey I am new to the GMAT. I need to apply for the same. I came to know that we have to fill 5 colleges to send our scores. Can you suggest how can we fill that?? Also i want to know the source of payment in dollars. My profile is as follows

1) Basic demographic info: 22, Male, Indian

2) Educational Background: Bachelors in Engineering(Computer Engineer), 65%(1st class), HSC(92%)

3) Work experience: I am currently Asst. System Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services since 6 months. I also had 6 more months of internship in the
same company. I got most consistent performer award(ILP Kudos) during our training.

4) Extracurriculars: I was secretary at Computer Society of India, Student Branch where we organized various activities, workshops, seminars, intercollege technical competitions and was awarded as best student branch in India during that period. I also have achieved various levels in trekking over Himalayan ranges and water sports. I won Runners up award in inter college competion in an event consisting of college students of 3 states. I am Tabla(Leather instrument) player and Madhyama Purna degree holder from Gandharva Mahavidhyalaya.

5) Short/Long term goals: I want to be as a managing part of any reputed company or even like to consider me as an entrepreneur.

6) Schools: No idea as of now...

Hi, I am very excited and priviledged to share my background with you. Any feedback on my application for Spring / Fall 2014 intake, I would greatly appreciate it.

1) Basic demographic info: 34, Female, Romanian

2) Educational Background: International Studies, 3.91, 700 (Q46, V40), any Masters of International Affairs in International Finance and Business

3) Work experience: Mid-office project manager PE firm investing in international carbon and renewable energy markets. Industry: environmental markets. 6 years post Masters degree.

4) Extracurriculars: mountaineering. I have raised funds for funding of small-scale water projects in developing countries. Past 2 years.

5) Short/Long term goals: work for large scale renewable energy / water projects in emerging economies. Preferably in Latin America.

6) Schools: US: top 10 MBAs, Europe: Insead.

Hi folks,

Well, I am planning to apply for the MiM programmes Sept 2017 intake, so which gives me approximately 18 months from now for me to complete my application. I want to know how good is my profile as of now and hence I request you to evaluate my profile and provide suggestions on the areas of development.

CGPA: 6.8/10 ... as a number this looks like a low cgpa.. But then in my university this is a first class CGPA. ( non -IIT top 20 engineering schools in India) Suggestion needed on this part.

GMAT- determined to get 700+ ... have been scoring 650+ in mock tests and I am planing to take my GMAT in JAN 2017. So this gives me 5 more months to prepare

Extra Curriculars



As of now Two Internships.. One as a client relations management intern in one of the top 4 insurance firms in India and the other one is a marketing Internship from one of the top three Tractor manufacturing firms in India. One more thing is some people say that it is good to have as many internships as possible during undergrads. But Some other people say that too many internships is looked down upon and a maximum of two internships is to be maintained. Suggestion needed on this part.

Secretary of The Wall Street Club (finance) club in my college.

Working on a online trading based paper along with a friend of mine which should be ready in another couple of months.

Apart from these

I have attended 3 Model united Nations conferences representing the delegations of various countries.
Quizzer during my school time and have won a lot of quiz competitions.
Business director of a web startup which failed after one year of decent reach though no profits were made.
Active member of the Entrepreneurship Development Club of my college
Have organised a lot of events which includes a Technical workshop which was attended by over 1000 Engineering students from all over the country.

Hereby I request you to kindly evaluate my profile assuming that I score a 700 in my GMAT and a overall cgpa of 7.2/10 by the time I start applying.

My target schools in the order of preference

1. LBS
2.Michigan Ross MiM - first intake Sept 2014.
3. Duke Fuqua - MMS FOB
4. ESCP
5. HEC
6. ESSEC
7. Rotterdam School of Management
8. Hult Business School



Thanks in Advance.

To add that this website is helping a lot of students these days. The best educational forums I have ever seen. Keep going.

Hello,

Please evaluate my profile and help me with selection of schools and admissions advice.

1) Basic demographic info: age, gender, nationality

Age: 26
Gender: M
Nationality : Indian

2) Educational Background: undergrad major, GPA, GMAT score, any grad work you've done
Undergrad Major : Engineering (Information and Communication Technology) , SASTRA University India
GPA: 7.6/10
GMAT SCORE : 720
Grad School : Management Information Systems from Liataud Graduate School of Business, University of Illinois at Chicago
GPA : 3.8

3) Work experience: what is your current role? Have you had any promotions? What industry do you work in? For how long have you worked?
Current Role - Sr Business Analyst
Promotion - 1
Industry - Travel and Technolgy
Total Experience - 5 years
Expedia - 2 years, Masters 2 Years, TCS 1 year

4) Extracurriculars: do you participate in any extra-curricular activities? What is your role there? For how long have you been involved?
Worked as a volunteer for 2 years of my masters and helped 6 people with disabilities start small businesses
Volunteered around chicago for a NPO for one year
Business Case and Business Plan competitions in Undergrad and Grad school
Hiking - Hiked the tallest mountain in lower 48(Mt Whitney) and several others within US


5) Short/Long term goals: what do you want to do after your MBA? Any geographic preferences?
Short Term - Management Consulting after MBA
5 years after MBA - Start something on my own in technology sector or lead the strategy for technology startup
15 years after MBA - Use my experience through MBA and consulting/strategy in starting a non-profit for developing the educational opportunities for the underprivileged children

6) Schools: Which schools have you considered already? Any on your initial short list?
Three schools under consideration
1.Kellogg
2.Booth
3.ISB

Looking for suggestions on other schools which would be good for strategy consulting after MBA. Also guidance on preparing the applications for the schools

Cheers,
Varun

1) Basic demographic info: 27, female, American

2) Educational Background: Finance (University of Wisconsin - Madison), 3.33, 690

3) Work experience: 4.5 years of experience in technology (NetSuite/Oracle and Uber) as marketing analyst; Currently starting my own business (past 6 months)

4) Extracurriculars: Skiing, traveling, running

5) Short/Long term goals: Short: entrepreneurship - hoping to grow my business in bschool; Long: Venture Capital - focus on investing in female entrepreneurs

6) Schools: Kellogg, Ross, Fuqua

Although these questions were asked a long time ago, I hope answering them helps other newbies, even if they don't help the OP anymore.





chaudhuryalok31,
Missed your post. If an evaluation would still help you, please pm me your details, with your GMAT score, and any preference for geography/country/ schools/ ranks or so on for a free profile evaluation.

Although these questions were asked a long time ago, I hope answering them helps other newbies, even if they don't help the OP anymore.





samarthsshah
Scores from your mock tests will give you an idea of what range of schools you should target. Distribute the 5 from ambitious, target and safe schools in this range). If an evaluation helps you, pm me your detailed resume, with your GMAT score, and any preference for geography/country/ schools/ ranks or so on for a free profile evaluation.

Hi! Can i please get your valuable insights here?
I scored a 670 gmat! I am looking at Mim one year programs.

Do i stand a chance at LBS, LSE or NUS?
Also what other schools would you recommend?

Here is a little background on my profile:

Age: 21 (Indian Female)
Class 10: cgpa 10
Class 12: 94.5%
Graduation: 70% ( First division from GNDU. Accredited with A status from Naac)

Internships:
*Accountancy Intern, Sports Specialist Pvt. Limited, Jalandhar (June 2015- August 2015)
*Management Intern, Universal Sports Industry (December 2015- February 2016)

Work Experience and background:
I come from a business family and eventually want to set up my own business.
Currently working with father since first year of college.
Expanded work and set up two independent units of my own.
Working on 2 more projects with him.

Have a decent range of curricular activities and social work.

Thanks a lot
aggarwal.srishti@yahoo.com

Hi Srishti,
While LBS and LSE value diversity in courses and otherwise, and may look at your Sports profile, your UG from the no-name schools will certainly cause problems. NUS however, wants deeper academic/ professional proof.

That said, it is difficult to understand your profile from your brief description. Please pm your resume and connect for a better evaluation, free.

Hello Gmatclub community,

New here. Considering doing an MBA in fall of 2020 and looking for some guidance on realistic targets. Here is my profile:

- 28 years old, Indian-American (parents from India)
- 700 GMAT
- Went to IU Kelley (Honors) for UG, graduated Magna Cum Laude
- Worked at ATK for 4 years until Manager
- Left a few years back to start a real estate investment firm, raised about $4m from investors. Doing well. About 20-25% ROI.
- Started a construction / contracting company as well, generated $500k in revenues first year.
- Both doing well, but looking to ideally break more into 'hard' finance in same sectors, a la REPE or something similar.
- Essays and LOR's will probably be average
- VP of non-for-profit, solid extracurriculars

So, given my profile, what schools do you think are realistic? Looking for US only. Thanks!

Hi folks !

I have a question.

I got an admit from ISB and the program begins in April but I am waiting for results from Tepper and Kellogg.

Since I wanted to spend some time with the family , I resigned in Februray to stay with family for around 1.5 month.

At the same time , if I get a positive result from either tepper or Kellogg , I might be jobless for next four months. Will this affect my application or post MBA prospects ?

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Hi vj1994,

Congratulations on your admit from ISB!

To answer your query for Kellogg and Tepper, if you get an admit (hope you get!) from any or both, you have the luxury of time! You can do some pre-MBA internships (if your short-term goals involve a career switch, you can explore the fields you want to pre-MBA) or you can get involved in some community service (having more impact in the profile can be the cherry on the cake for your resume during recruitment season).

These are my two cents. Best of luck!

Cheers!
Shantanu Sharma
Founder and Admissions Consultant, MBA and Beyond
Schedule a free session
Email: shantanu@mbaandbeyond.com
What s app: +65-97158525

Hi Team,

Request you to evaluate my profile.


About Me:

Indian Male
Enigneer (BTECH CSE)
Age - 25
Current situation - Was recently promoted and transferred from Cisco India to Europe Headquarters at Cisco Poland.

A seasoned professional with expertise in Design, Support, Consultation, and Implementation of Cybersecurity technologies.
Proven track record of advocating for Customer Success and aligning customer business goals with cost-effective technology solutions.
I often like to optimize and fix problems that others won't or can't.


Gmat Details

GMAT 2 - 720 ( Q49,V40, IR-2,AWA-6)
GMAT 1 - 680 (Q49, V34, IR-5, AWA-5)

Target Schools -:

• Harvard Business School
• Stanford GSB
• Wharton
• INSEAD
• Chicago Booth
• London Business School
• Kellogg
• NYU Stern,
• UC Berkeley Haas
• Michigan Ross

Education summary

B.Tech- Computer Science &Engineering (2014-2018)
CGPA - 9.01/10 (Among top 10% within a batch of 800 students)
VIT UNIVERSITY VELLORE , India --- Ranked 9th Best University In India



12th Standard - 92.8% - Apeejay School Saket, New Delhi, India
10th Standard - 8.8/10 CGPA - Apeejay School Saket, New Delhi, India



Work History summary

Customer Success Specialist (CSS) - Cyber Security|Cisco Poland
Krakow , Poland - August 2021 - Current


• Maintained customer satisfaction with forward-thinking strategies focused on addressing customer needs and resolving concerns.
• Owing to my success in the previous role as Technical Consultant, I was promoted and transferred to Cisco Europe as a CSS to manage major clients in Europe and Americas Region. Youngest member in a team of 14 senior CSS.
• Leveraged sales expertise to promote products and capitalized on upsell opportunities.
• Developed community reputation through commitment to customer satisfaction and strong client relationships.
• Collected customer feedback and made process changes to exceed customer satisfaction goals.
• Regularly exceeded daily sales and product add-on quotas.
• Evaluated account and service histories to identify trends, using data to mitigate future issues.
• Liaised with customers, management and sales team to better understand customer needs and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Cultivated customer loyalty, promoted repeat customers and improved sales.


Sr.Technical Consulting Engineer|Cisco India
Bengaluru , Karnataka - August 2018 - July 2021

• Worked for Network Security team in the Customer Experience Org.
• Collaborated with Cisco Clients, assisted in troubleshooting, design configurations, and escalation problem management.
• Worked with over 70+ key client accounts in EMEA and APAC region in the field of Financial services, Health care, Government, Manufacturing and retail, IT, Intelligence services etc.
• Supported complex network infrastructure responsible for critical business processes.
• Liaised with Engineering units in product innovation for security org based on feedback from customers and field implementations.
• Developed and contributed to internal and external knowledge bases.
• Instrumental member of the team responsible for deploying world's largest identity-based Firewall solution (Reliance Jio) which helped secure a deal of $10M in future projects with Reliance Jio.
• Led an initiative (Security Health Check) in collaboration with Cisco Sales team which doubled the sales of license for cisco security product portfolio. Trained over 300+ Cisco partners and Customers in APAC region. As a direct result of these trainings, Feature adoption increased by 60% which led to subscription license sale increase by ~40%.
• Was the Escalation lead engineer to retrieve and recover over 1000+ HDFC ATM's across India that went out of service because of network outage and compromised vulnerabilities in 2019. Managed a team of 4 engineers to help retrieve their network.
• Played a key role in bringing the Security Experience Center (Executive Briefing Centre dedicated to Security with direct impact on Security Sales) to life in partnership with Security Business Group, GSSO, Security & Trust Organization.
• Architect for DevNet skill ramp up in APJC Customer Experience theatre that resulted in over 1000 certifications, multiple innovation and automation projects within the Center. As a result, I was awarded for my contributions in University Recruitments and Cisco Ideathon.
• Youngest employee in India Security team to be promoted twice within a span of 3 years with a gross salary hike of ~60%.
• Trained over 100 engineers in CCNA certification, DevNet certification, and Security concepts across multiple bootcamps
• Delivered multiple sessions on IoT, Cybersecurity, Cryptography etc at multiple forums including Seccon APJC/EMEA/AMER (Industry Wide Security Conferences), ACM winter school, and colleges. The average attendance for each of the session varied from 250-500 People.
• Part of the core team for EMEAR SecCon 2020 (Cisco's flagship annual security conference) and a distinguished presenter at Seccon APJC/EMEA/AMER on topics related to CyberSecurity.
• Instrumental in streamlining and reviewing hiring process for security TAC engineers.
• Selected to be the one of the 5 Security Engineers from Cisco India Security team to be a point of contact and key member for supporting Tokyo Olympics (2020-2021) . Responsible for ensuring smooth functioning of cisco security network.
• Played a key role in the hiring and technical ramping up of two recently opened Cisco Theatres in Australia and Mexico. Still continue to be a point of escalation for these theatres.


Network Engineer Intern|Cisco India
Bengaluru , Karnataka - January 2018 - July 2018

• Among 15 students selected from a batch of 2500 of students in my college. (top 1%)
• Underwent comprehensive network and cyber security related trainings.
• Successfully completed several industry wide certifications in the field of network and cyber security. The certifications have a success rate of less than 3%. ( CCNA, CCNA-Security , CCNP- Security)
• Led a team project (team of 3) under the guidance of my mentor at Cisco. Project dealt in creating a bot for secure log analyzer and upgrade assistant for cisco products. The project was internal to Cisco and aimed at effectively managing the resources within cisco teams and bringing security to forefront of company's flagship products.
• As the leader of the team, I pitched our project in an internal hackathon conducted for all the interns by senior Cisco Leadership. The project was a resounding success and our team won the "The innovation hackathon". We were awarded the first prize.
• Actively involved in CSR activities and a core member of Early In Career - community in Cisco.


Awards And Achievements

• Speaker at SECCON AMR + EMEAR Security Conferences (2020)
Had the chance to present at SecCon EMEAR and SecCon AMR on the
topic "Cisco Threat Response - Next-Gen Threat Intelligence” and "Newest disruption in the identity Security". The sessions were attended by over 500+ customers and partners .
• Cisco - Customer Champion Award (2019)
Received the award twice in Q1 and Q2 FY-2019 at Cisco Systems for
brilliant customer service and exemplary attitude.
• Cisco - Customer Excellence Award (2019)
For Outstanding performance and contribution to CX APJC - Q3- FY19 to customer experience.
• Host , Cisco worldwide events - Connected Recognition (2019)
Hosted Women of Impact (WOI) worldwide event and multiple Security
All-hands events.
• Best Speaker Award - Toastmasters International - VIT chapter (2016)
Received the Best speaker award as a part of Toastmasters VIT Chapter

Key Achievements
• Led an initiative (Security Health Check) in collaboration with Cisco Sales team which doubled the sales of license for cisco security product portfolio. Trained over 300+ Cisco partners and Customers in APAC region. As a direct result of these trainings, Feature adoption increased by 60% which led to subscription license sale increase by ~40%.
• Architect for DevNet skill ramp up in APJC Customer Experience theatre that resulted in over 1000 certifications, multiple innovation and automation projects within the Center. As a result, I was awarded for my contributions in University Recruitments and Cisco Hackathon.
• Selected to be the one of the 5 Security Engineers from Cisco India Security team to be a point of contact and key member for supporting Tokyo Olympics (2020-2021) . Responsible for ensuring smooth functioning of cisco security network.
• Instrumental member of the team responsible for deploying world's largest identity-based Firewall solution (Reliance Jio) which helped secure a deal of $10M in future projects with Reliance Jio.

Community Service and Volunteering

• Ardent champion of Women Inclusion at Work Places. Acted as the co-lead of APJC centers for Women Of Impact (WOI) chapter at Cisco. Conducted and hosted several events, workshops and skill based trainings for Women in Cisco to help in their career development.

• Led an initiative along with Cisco Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) team at Cisco to architect a career development plan for early in career women at Cisco to provide them guidance and mentorship. We assigned Cisco Women Leaders (with 10+ years of work exp) as mentors who helped newcomers in transitioning into the professional world and guided them to excel in their roles. The program had an immense impact and we observed exceptional women participation in multiple projects happening across APJC centers.

• Led an initiative along with Cisco CSR team to conduct 1 hour resume building training and Q&A sessions for students across 20 universities in Southern India during pandemic times to assist them in securing jobs during the ongoing Covid Pandemic.

Entrepreneurial Journey

FREELANCING ( Mar'20 - 21)

• Started undertaking freelance projects related to Cyber and Network Security, Cloud migrations, Network Design and Implementation. Worked with over 10+ key clients from multiple geographic locations in a span of 1 year and logged in 1500+ hours of work-time.Some notable clients include - UCS HealthCare, Airtel Communication, Indian Army, Vizodo Technologies, etc.
• Leveraged my Technical skills along with Project Management expertise to meet all the deliverables in time and enhance customer experience.
• Went the extra-mile to enhance customer satisfaction by delivering trainings to internal client teams for a proper knowledge transfer.
• Liaised with client internal teams to better understand customer needs and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Earned a net revenue of $50K from all the freelancing projects with possible future contracts worth $100K.
• Top-Rated freelancer on Upwork platform for the year 2020.

NetVolte Technologies LLP. - Founder (May'20 - Present)

• NetVolte Technologies LLP. is a global technical consulting company which aims to provide and supply of information technology solutions including end-to-end solutions, systems integration and development of software and hardware, networking and consulting services to clients all across the globe.
• As the founder of Netvolte and given my extensive experience in Networking and Security, my objective is to introduce an affordable and reliable way to secure our client's network and capitalize on the power of open source tools to provide more customized solutions catered to the needs of the customers.
• Built the company from the start-up stages; capitalized financial requirements through a combination of bootstrapping, limited partnerships, and borrowings. Total investment to start the company - $1000.
• Responsible for managing day to day operations of the organization.
• Managing key functions: Business Development, Sales and Marketing.
• Oversaw and actively contributed with fellow partners in areas like Technical support, Accounting , HR etc.
• Onboarded 5 of my previous freelance clients accounts in the organization and also onboarded 3 new clients within a span of 3 months in APAC region.
• In the process on onboarding 2 new clients from EMEAR region with contracts worth $30K.
• Responsible for hiring, onboarding , supervision and training of 3 employees with full employee retention.
• Conceptualized and formulated a proper onboarding plan for new employees and temporary workers.
• Responsible for managing a team of 7 freelancers which were hired on per-project basis.
• Earned a Gross revenue of - $60K within a span of 3 months. Gross Profit - 59K.
• Responsible for further growth of the organization.

Post MBA goals -:

I want to move into my startup full-time and leaverage the experience and network that i built over the course of my MBA to expand my business globally while keeping technology and customer success at the forefront.

Questions I have -:

1. Is my profile good enough for the colleges i'm targetting ?
It will be of immense help to me if you can categorize the schools above as
1) Not possible, forget about it!
2) Good Chance
3) Not at all easy but can be given a shot

2. I'm targetting round 2, hence i want to know whether the colleges usually have rolling admissions for R2 in which case i'll have to hurry up and apply , or can i apply till the deadline is there?

3. Is my GMAT score good enough, or should i retake it? I somehow tanked my IR (Score - 2) , is that going to be a detterant in my applications?

4. Is my profile good enough to get decent scholarships?

5. Since currently i just have 3 years of work experience and by the time i join MBA it'll be 4 yrs, should i wait for another year and then apply, or this is a good time to apply?

6. What more I can do to strenghten my profile so that my chances of making to top 5 US B-Schools increase?




Thanks and Regards
Yash Kejariwal

I’d love someone to review my profile to see if I’m being overambitious

1) Basic demographic info: 24, F, Indian

2) Educational Background: MSc in Marketing from Lancaster University, 650 GMAT score,

3) Work experience: 2.6 yrs of work experience. I work in client development and am currently a Client Partnership Manager. I’ve been promoted every year since joining the team.

4) Extracurriculars: I have my own website that I use to showcase my writing. I dance. And I recently started an Instagram page that I manage to promote reading

5) Short/Long term goals: I want to go into consulting to give me the opportunity to explore more fields and scenarios and then take over my father’s business

6) Schools: NUS, NTU, NYU, UC Berkley, UCLA, Chicago Booth, Yale and Columbia Business School



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