JonAdmissionado wrote:
Hello there Rishabh Jain,
Good to hear from you. First of all congratulations on your most fantastic GMAT score. You have what seems to me to be a great profile. Your numerous prestigious awards, and your real non-profit involvement are real strengths that set you apart from most candidates.
The BIG question for me as I was reading through your profile is the strengths, size, importance and potential of your family firm. Many schools like family businesses, but it can make a BIG difference if you come from a huge/famous/successful family business (which you will take over) than a mid-sized one.
But still, with your Young Leaders Program and many awards for the NGO work, like I wrote above, your experience is pretty exceptional, and I think Top 10 schools should be within range for you. (again flexing a bit up or down dependent on the strength of your family business). So, if you give me a bit more detail about what you do, and what the firm does, and so on, I can probably answer your main question about figuring out which schools might fit you best, otherwise my feeling is that things look pretty good.
I don't see any noticeable weaknesses in your application, so I don't think you need necessarily improve anything. The one thing is that your work experience is on the low side, and this might somewhat weaken your profile, but I feel that if it really is much better for you to apply this year you could.
So get back to me with more info about the family business, and I'll get right back at you!
Best,
JF
Hello Jon,
Thank you so much for your evaluation.
I will try to explain to you the work of my family business. Its definitely a mid size firm. However, we are involved in significant land deals and around 10 months back we were instrumental in brokering a land deal whose net worth is more than INR 50 billion or just below $ 1 billion. Other than that we are on the verge of resolving a 25 year old family dispute for property which many of the biggest names couldnt help resolve. The worth of that property is INR 2.5 billion. Besides that we are advisors to some of the biggest industrialists of eastern India. My father is also one of the few specialist Family Business Consultants in India. He has written a couple of books which have won great critical acclaim. He is also a well known public speaker.
I am currently working on a coffee table book on best practices of businesses. And my recent work has involved developing MIS system formats for a few companies.
I hope this helps.