After 3 dings, I am one week away from my last expected result and its difficult to not be on the less-hopeful side rather than the hopeful one. However, in thinking about my re-application strategy, I was wondering what changes to my profile I can make. As background, I have taken the GMAT thrice, twice with disastrous results before I finally managed a 680 (Q44 V40), which I believe does reflect my abilities accurately. And to spell my abilities out - I have never been great with Math but always done well in English, right through school and then all the way out of engineering college. That said, I don't believe I have no quant abilities because my job is quantitative in nature (think - number crunching and data analysis for survey data for a consulting company).
GMAT was a tough process emotionally and my final score came pretty late ( in early February) by which time, I had submitted my application to all my target schools and I feel that despite my updated score, they had already made their decision based on the score I originally submitted with my apps . I don't really think giving GMAT again can help me improve my score. My nightmare will be the score going below 680!
Professionally - I was promoted last year and don't see a promotion again this year before the application cycle ends. I will however be a part of an integration process for a new company which was acquired by my employer in the last few weeks and taking on people management responsibilities. These are likely the only changes to my current profile. I will be trying to improve my leadership profile further by applying to lead a pro-bono consulting project for a prestigious local non-profit consulting organization(think Taproot). I have been working then with since 2011.
Now for my question - I feel my profile can be presented in a more competitive way by better essays. However, my low Quant score in GMAT and in my undergrad may still raise flags despite my quant work experience. Does anyone have any recommendation about what else I can do too make my profile more competitive? MATH X402 - 001 Math for Management by UC Berkeley Extension is something that came up in my research. But, any other suggestions, anything other people have done and feel that it has added to their application when they applied the second time around?
Look forward to hearing from you!
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Profile: Indian, non-IT female, will have 7 years of Product Mgmt/Consulting experience (in India and US) in Aug 2014.
GPA (from Top 20 college in India - NIT) ~ 3.5+,
Community Service: about 4 years of non profit consulting work experience in helping with global non-profits on strategic alignment, funding strategies, network expansion & mgmt strategies.
Target schools - Ross, Kellogg, UNC, Duke, Kelley, McCombs.
Target career - General Mgmt - RLDP programs leading to Corp Strategy or direct Corp Strategy jobs.
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16 Mar 2014, 19:48
