guitarfreak wrote:
Thank you for the detailed response! - have a few further queries:-
1) Why do you say I am from the Indian "IT" male background? Have never done IT... did mgmt consulting for 2 yrs, and will complete 2 yrs as part of the strategy group of a growth stage healthcare firm
Oops, i missed one I, apologies.
Yes, your management consulting background will be a plus point for you.
Given your profile, i would say you are a fit for top 10 b-schools, but you should ideally shortlist 6/7 schools, interact with current student, admission director, alums etc and understand the strengths of each program and you can shortlist 6/7 schools as per your long term and short term goals.
I would just make one point here, when you apply to top 5/7 b-schools, you really need to differentiate yourself from others, because there will be many more equally qualified ( consulting , top gmat etc ) , so every small battle ( professional exp, gmat, EC etc ) is important and gives you an opportunity to knock the other one.
Coming back to your GMAT - if you choose to apply to top 5/7, you are very near to their average scores, so you do not loose anything, but you do not gain anything as well, with GMAT of 750, you have a reason to scream that i am better than average.
guitarfreak wrote:
2) Do adcoms pull you up for low verbal scores? Don't they look at the overall GMAT score? Would appreciate some more clarity on this...
The answer to your first Q is , it depends, if you are from India ( specially from IIT ) , they know that you are great at Quant, so they would want to see how you have overcome your challenge of scoring in verbal, at the same time when they assess the profile of native speaker, they expect native speaker to do great in verbal but want to see great score in Quant too, these are small battles that you win to secure bigger victory
Naturally, overall score is always important, but a better split adds more value to it.
Good Luck.
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