How to build a strong profile if you are more than 12 months away from your MBA deadlines?

Building a strong MBA profile is the most crucial and initial step in the MBA application process. Some parts of an MBA candidate's profile, such as academic performance, professional accomplishments, leadership experience, and community service commitments, cannot be built overnight.

There are the following two aspects of the whole MBA admissions process, and both of them play an important role in determining your chances of selection.

MBA Profile- involves all the different components of your MBA application profile, i.e., academic strength, work experience, and extracurriculars. You need to have strong achievements in all these aspects to stand a good chance at the world's top B-schools.

MBA Application- Having a good MBA profile is one thing, and portraying and selling it to b-schools is another. Each of the various components of an MBA application, from the essay to the reference letters to the CV, is important and helps showcase your personality and how you are a good fit for these top B-schools.

Hence, applying to b-schools is not just a 1-2 month process. You need to get started at least 12-15 months before your MBA deadlines to evaluate and start building a strong MBA profile and application.

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This article will help you understand the whole MBA application process and provide you with some super relevant insights into how you can increase your chances of selection at top B-schools. Here's a snapshot of the article:

Why Should You Begin the MBA Applications Process Early?

It’s a no-brainer that starting preparing for something early helps you provide a competitive edge and more so for MBA applications as the process is exhaustive.

Moreover, it includes building a strong MBA profile, and you can only build a strong MBA profile when you know where you stand right now for your target b-schools and what you need to do to improve and strengthen your MBA profile to showcase a good fit to the schools.

We mentor applicants to build a strong MBA profile if they are more than 12 months away from their MBA application deadlines. You can check out our profile building services here.

Along with building a strong MBA profile, creating strong MBA applications to portray it plays a very important role (as already highlighted), and mark our words, you can only build strong MBA applications when you have enough time to introspect on questions like why do you need an MBA? How is an MBA going to help you achieve your goals? What are your short-term and long-term goals?

When you figure out these most important questions, you can deeply understand your MBA profile and personality better and portray it in your MBA applications. And our dear friend, this introspection process takes good time.

You can read how we help MBA applicants introspect and strongly portray their unique selling points.

MBA Application Process: When and How to Apply for an MBA

Having 12 months on your side provides you with several advantages. If we talk about points, these are the areas you may cover in entrepreneurial develop an excellent MBA profile.

If you don't have a strong MBA profile based on the abovementioned factors, 12 months will give you enough time to cover all of the components and strengthen your MBA profile.

You may learn some good tips to work on your MBA profile and application here- How to build your MBA Application 101?

Aside from academics, ECs, and work experience, the GMAT/GRE should be one key consideration.

GMAT- You must take the GMAT, the most difficult obstacle in your MBA application process. The GMAT is one of the most important factors to consider when creating a list of target B-schools and one of the most exhaustive parts of the whole MBA application process. The best time to get done with the GMAT is at least six months before your MBA deadlines to plan your MBA application strategy (as the GMAT will influence your list of schools to a good extent). And in case you do not score the desired score., you will have time to retake it before focusing on other aspects of the MBA application (school selection, résumé, essays, and recommendation letters).

You can read about how your GMAT and application strategy are strongly interconnected and why you should start working on them as soon as you can.

Admission to an MBA school is a difficult process. Some individuals can accomplish it in 3-4 months, but most MBA applicants need 9-12 months to prepare (and almost all our successful MBA applicants are a testimony to why you should start early). The key to success here is to outline all critical stages, schedule them, and ensure that you follow through on your strategy. Spend 3-4 hours a day studying for the GMAT, spend your weekends talking to b-schools and current MBA candidates and alumni, think about your personal story, etc. There will also come when you may get stuck and feel clueless about the process. But, in any case, MBA and Beyond are here for you through thick and thin.

We make sure that our MBA applicants can build 100% unique applications, and we are happy to evaluate your profile and help you create a strong action plan for your applications! If you’d like, you can jump on a free Profile evaluation call with our experts here,

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