sahiba96 wrote:
Name : Keerthana Balamurugan, 24yrs, Indian, Female, GMAT-720
UG: B.Tech IIT Roorkee, GPA: 4
WExp: 4 yrs, Senior Data Scientist (1 promotion) at Wipro (US$8.7 billion)
I delivered AI enabled services and helped clients, across 5 industries.
Community:
I lead a non-profit, with 1000+ women onboard, a online community, which is focused on women empowerment and is affiliated with an org founded by Sheryll Sandberg.
I am also part of another Non-profit as a mentor to senior year students.
Post MBA goals: Transition to Management Consulting and then move to sustainability consulting.
Target: Yale, Darden, Duke, Tuck, UCLA, Cornell.
In my professional job, my work revolved majorly around developing Proof of Concepts of which, most have not converted to full-fledged products where I could show my impact on business in $ millions or $ billions.
1)Do adcoms prefer to see the impact on monetary grounds ?? and can I highlight my non profit contribution to compensate it??
2)Also is it okay to highlight in the essay, as one reason, that I took up the nonprofit opportunity coz I felt that my job lacked the opportunity of developing significant leadership skills??
Hi sahiba96
Thanks for sharing your profile and MBA aspirations
You have a very interesting profile! From what I can see:
Great academics!
4 years of impressive work experience with a promotion GREAT (but how do you have 4 years while being 24?)
And fantastic extracurriculars!!!
Your GMAT is on the lower side (as you come from a competitive background of Indian engineers)
1. YES adcoms prefer to see people who “touch” the money or work on projects that have a money or % impact
2. YES, you can use your extracurricular activities for this! and show how you have had leadership experiences there
GOOD LUCK!!!!!