Profile:
Target Session: Fall 2006 (Full Time).
Age : 26
Nationality: Indian
GMAT: 650 (Q: 51, V-26)
Under graduation: Bachelor of Engg. -75.5% (No grade system.) from IIT-R
Work Experience: 5+ years in an leading Indian IT company. exp. will be 6 yrs by the time I join (if I get accepted!!).
International Experience: UK (2.5 years) Role: Module Lead (Lead 5 member team), US(1 years) Role: Architect.
Current Role: Architect
Extra Curricular:
1. Was member of School/University Swimming Team. Won medals in Annual events.
2. Was member of University Rowing Team. Won medals in Annual events.
3. Was member of University Expedition Club and participated in several treks to Himalayas organised by university/club.
4. As a member of expedition club, I have also participated in several Cycle (Bike) expeditions organised by Club. Longest expedition being 400Km.

Community Service:
1. I am attached to a Rural development Group in India and quite a few times I have volunteered in government promotional programs.
2. I have also volunteered couple of times in a National mission to create awareness related to a disease. I was invloved in moving from door to door to convince ppl to take necessary actions to prevent it.

Recommendations: I can get excellent recommendation from my current and previous supervisor. I can also get recommendation from my client.

Post MBA Goals:
Short Term : I want to gain the indepth knowledge of how corporate finance works and after MBA, work in the same stream to gain some practical experience.
Long Term : May sound a little bit stupid. We, I and few other friends, want to start a IT Services Company and I will be handling the finances of the company. We have a very vague plan.

I would appreciate your inputs for the following questions:
1. Given my VERY low verbal score, which schools should I target? Also please mention how strong those schools are in Finance?
2. If I want to target European School, Which school should I target (again given my low Verbal Score)? I dont have any concern with Geographical Locations (US or Europe).
3. I was reading few applications. They were asking for Transcripts. Is the Transcript different from Degree Certificate and MarksSheet? Also How a %age system will work for US Schools (which are looking for 4 point Scale)?
4. Regarding reco., which one will be better. Taking from Previous Supervisor or Taking from one of the Client. From client I think I will get average reco. but from my previous supervisor, I will definitely get good reco.