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Profile evaluation request [#permalink] New post   05 May 2015, 00:39
Dear All,

Please help in evaluating my profile...

Please suggest which are the colleges I can apply and What are the areas I can improve upon so that I can apply for better colleges.

GMAT : 670 Q:48 V:33 (first attempt : will retake again)

Academics :
10th : 85%
12th : 97.2%
Engineering : 3.57 / 4 ( GPA )

Work Experience :

3 years at Business Intelligence unit, ICICI bank. (got 2 appraisals)
Working as Deputy Manager, Business Intelligence unit, ICICI Bank
Projects : 1) NPA Provisioning analytics
2) Risk Analytics - Segmentation of the loan Portfolio
3) Debt Service Management Group - Collection Analytics ( many left... just for giving an idea... limiting to this)
4) Hands on experience on SAS,Vertica,R,Hadoop,BigData

Educational Achievements :

1) CIMA(UK) - Chartered Institute of Management Accounting certificate in Business Accounting
2) Specialization in Financial Analytics - Jigsaw Academy ( #1 analytics training academy in india)
3) WCBDA - Wrox Certified Big Data Analyst (international IT certification) - By AnalytixLabs
3- 4 courses in EDx and Coursera

Extra-Curricular Activities:

Represented Tamil Nadu State Cricket Team in under 16 category
Captain of Thiruvallur district Cricket association in the under 16,19,22 categories
Winner of Inter district cricket tournament under my captaincy in under 19
Winner of Management Guru, nation level technical symposium by Anna University
Winner of Yuvashri KalaBharathi for outstanding achievements in Sports and Academics simultaneously.
Junior Coach of younger kids in a renowned cricket academy in Mumbai( on weekends)

Since Analytics is one upcoming field and I have started my career as a data analyst in financial services, I would like to stick to this field.
I have been hearing from people that this is one good area where I can differentiate myself from the rest of the applicants pool ( Is it really so? )

1) I wanted to know with this score which are the universities I can apply?

2) What are the aspects I need to improve upon to aim for better schools (definitely GMAT score) other than the schools state above.

3) Would a 700 on GMAT score with this application and good essays and LOR fetch me admission from top 20 colleges?

4) Are Top 10 schools far from me? :( or Can I offset this Low GMAT with this application?

Please help me out. Hoping for a reply. Would help me a lot going forward.

Thanks and cheers
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Profile evaluation request [#permalink] New post   05 May 2015, 01:57
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kkarthik1692 wrote:

1) I wanted to know with this score which are the universities I can apply?

2) What are the aspects I need to improve upon to aim for better schools (definitely GMAT score) other than the schools state above.

3) Would a 700 on GMAT score with this application and good essays and LOR fetch me admission from top 20 colleges?

4) Are Top 10 schools far from me? :( or Can I offset this Low GMAT with this application?

Please help me out. Hoping for a reply. Would help me a lot going forward.

Thanks and cheers


Hey dude,
Thanks for writing and let me do my best to answer your questions

1. Its not just a question of your GMAT score (although of course that is important too!) Your prior school and your grades and your volunteer work and your work experience are ALL important!

2. Okay the GMAT you know about, so I won't spend any time writing about that. Right now, what I am missing in your profile is who YOU are. Okay, you are an analyst at a bank, but do you have any idea how Indian bank analysts there are who will apply? LOTS! so what makes you you? What makes you unique? What do you have to offer than NO other candidate can offer (it's not cricket! :) ) So I think the most important thing is for you to do a bit more digging and figuring out how to position yourself.

3. Top 20? Maybe. Depends on how good those essays are, and what you come up with. You'd be safer with a 720.

4. Top 10 are probably out of range for you - As a non IIT/NIT grad (the large majority of Indian Top 10 candidates come from those schools) plus not having a Top job (say investment banking at Goldman Sachs) will make things hard, even with a 740 GMAT. Right now with your current score, your range would be in the 20-50 range, and if you can up it to 700, I'd say the 10-30 range.

I do hope this helps!

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Jon
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Profile evaluation request [#permalink] New post   05 May 2015, 05:51
JonAdmissionado wrote:
kkarthik1692 wrote:

Hey dude,
Thanks for writing and let me do my best to answer your questions

1. Its not just a question of your GMAT score (although of course that is important too!) Your prior school and your grades and your volunteer work and your work experience are ALL important!

2. Okay the GMAT you know about, so I won't spend any time writing about that. Right now, what I am missing in your profile is who YOU are. Okay, you are an analyst at a bank, but do you have any idea how Indian bank analysts there are who will apply? LOTS! so what makes you you? What makes you unique? What do you have to offer than NO other candidate can offer (it's not cricket! :) ) So I think the most important thing is for you to do a bit more digging and figuring out how to position yourself.

3. Top 20? Maybe. Depends on how good those essays are, and what you come up with. You'd be safer with a 720.

4. Top 10 are probably out of range for you - As a non IIT/NIT grad (the large majority of Indian Top 10 candidates come from those schools) plus not having a Top job (say investment banking at Goldman Sachs) will make things hard, even with a 740 GMAT. Right now with your current score, your range would be in the 20-50 range, and if you can up it to 700, I'd say the 10-30 range.

I do hope this helps!

Best,
Jon



Thanks Jon... This was very insightful... I liked your response to the 2nd question :) ... will definitely think on projecting myself out.

Just to add on some more points. I graduated from Anna University, MIT campus. It is ranked 9th in India.

I hope you are aware that ICICI Bank is the largest private sector bank in India. I think ICICI is as good as Goldman Sachs in terms of recognition.

And regd the Volunteer work, I though working for an NGO will be so obvious that a candidate is trying to get into a B-School and thats why started to do NGO work, so I tried to blend it with my passion "Cricket", as a junior coach in an academy in mumbai and previously was a junior coach in chennai.

If not Top 10 or 20 are these schools in reach?

NUS,NTU, Ross, ISB,Faqua, UCLA, Darden

Again thanks a lot Jon... will definitely focus on your 2nd answer... seems to be very important...
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kkarthik1692 wrote:

Thanks Jon... This was very insightful... I liked your response to the 2nd question :) ... will definitely think on projecting myself out.

Just to add on some more points. I graduated from Anna University, MIT campus. It is ranked 9th in India.

I hope you are aware that ICICI Bank is the largest private sector bank in India. I think ICICI is as good as Goldman Sachs in terms of recognition.

And regd the Volunteer work, I though working for an NGO will be so obvious that a candidate is trying to get into a B-School and thats why started to do NGO work, so I tried to blend it with my passion "Cricket", as a junior coach in an academy in mumbai and previously was a junior coach in chennai.

If not Top 10 or 20 are these schools in reach?

NUS,NTU, Ross, ISB,Faqua, UCLA, Darden

Again thanks a lot Jon... will definitely focus on your 2nd answer... seems to be very important...


You are welcome dude,
Happy to help :)

I didn't mean to say BTW that your cricket activities were not great, buuuut that you have to be careful in that one thing I see happening a LOT is that candiates think something is more unique than it appears to the readers. And there are some activities for Indian candidates (like tutoring, helping out the poor neighboring village, cricket, university cohort leader) that are quite common in Indian applicants (hey, it's great stuff to have too... buuuut :) )

As for your question: Fuqua is a solid Top 10 school and will be tough likely. The others should all be more competitive for you (depending of course on your nailing that GMAT!)

So in the meantime, I'd say, worry about nothing other than getting that GMAT score up as high as you can take it.

Best,
JF
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