costube20@gmail.com wrote:
Name: Kaustubh Ranjeet Shinde
Nationality : Indian
Secondary School certificate : 89.84% on 100% scale.
High School certificate : 82% on 100% scale.
Graduation : Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering with majors in Supply Chain Management & Business Process Re-engineering Aggregate 65% on 100% scale.
2007-2009 : Represented College Football team up to District Level.
2009-2010 : Founded SIPOC( Supply Input Planned Output Committee ) for mentoring students with a Kept Term in any engineering subject for first year.
2011-2012 : Summer Internship with SIEMENS in the manufacturing domain. Led a team of 4 interns on a productive project with goals clearly achieved.
2011-2012 : Added a module to SIPOC to boost the employ ability of students & also bring firms for placement activities within my alma matar.
2012-2013 : Summer Internship with Polytrans, a logistic firm. This internship was perceived with a goal of getting a pre requisite knowledge of my elective in final year - Supply Chain Management.
During this internship, assisted the Operations Manager in streamlining the business model & enhancing the overall profitability.
2013 - till date : Got placed at Polytrans, as a post cursor to my commendable performance during internship. In my current capacity as Assistant Manager for Operational Excellence, I am spearheading two crucial projects for my firm in Tier 1 cities.
January, 2015 - till date : Operations Volunteer & Content Developer for Mumbai based NGO, Mimansa.
March, 2015 - till date : Probono Consultant & Content Developer for AXAR Marketing, Mumbai based start up working in the field of Marketing, Data analytics & Bringing sustainability to business.
GMAT SCORE : Verbal 31 Quant 46 Overall 640 AWA 5 IR 7.
My Target Schools ( all of them for International Business or International Marketing ) :
1. Boston University
2. UB School of Management
3. Zicklin Business School - CUNY
4. Georgia Tech - Scheller
5. Pennstate Smeal
6. Purdue Krannert
7. SMU-Cox
8. NYU-Stern
9. Washington Univ - Fosters School of Business
10. Tepper
My aim of doing MBA : I would simply say I am passionate about two things - Strategy & Winning. I wish to pursue MBA with a single aim of transforming the way we look at world. Technology has brought us to a level where in we are facing stagnancy in terms of attaining the best efficiency out of the available resources whether its is human resource or any other type of resource.
I want to bring a change in the way of harnessing this efficiency of resources, in a revolutionary manner & become the best business leader the world will be looking forward to.
I would love to understand my choice of Universities, how good they are?
Hey dud,
Good to hear from you!
So my first piece of advice to you is that you consider retaking the GMAT. A 640 is very low for an Indian applicant, and the applicant pool is HUUUGE and TOUGH!
Here's an article that our Head Consultant Yaron wrote a while back about Indians retake the GMAT: I'd suggest you take a look!
https://bit.ly/B613MgcThat's really the most important thing for you to do now, and I think you shouldn't rush things, since you are young!
Best,
Jon