Ask ARINGO - if your GMAT is (or might be) below 720

 • Indian
 • Male
 • Age: 31(For fall 2022)
 • Scores: 10th: 86%, 12th- 81.6%, Undergrad: 60% in Computer Science engineering (tier 3 college) -changed college after 1st year(health reasons).
GMAT: Target 760+.
 • Brief intro: Generalist background. Changed industries and functions many times to learn different skills.
 • Work experience: 7.5 years(till fall 2022).
Chronology-
1) 1 year: Software Engineer(fortune 100 MNC)selected despite lower GPA than cut off(service role, engaging with onsite team and clients, analytical nature of work). Great review.
2) 3 years: MBA admission consultant/Group discussion faculty/trainer for interview stage of Indian MBA programs selection process. 5/5 feedback.
3) 5 months: Sales(Indian edtech unicorn startup). Best in state for 2 weeks.
4) 2 years till date: Currently working for Government of India, as an Intelligence Officer in Intelligence Bureau(role is Indian equivalent to FBI agent of USA)-Collection of human intel from extremely remote and threatened areas with bootstrapped resources and manpower; completed special assignments as incharge for intel collection of an area with 2,50,000 population where dealt with 80,000 radicalized crowd and repercussions of Tablighi Jamaat COVID crisis (was in global news) in my area, advised local administration on partial/complete/lockdown/unlockdown, served as intel incharge of insurgency affected area-No. 2 commander surrendered after collaborated operation with police and army.
 • EC: Appeared in state media twice as student panelist, Freelance contributor to national daily(4 articles), Basic Mountaineering Course; Leadership roles -Student Placement Head in college(mentored and placed 40% batchmates); Organized, hosted(Public speaker) and managed multiple college events(30+). MLM alongwith graduation (lead 50 people team), Informal Community engagement(No NGO exp)-saving & feeding animals and birds; distributing clothes & food to the needy; mentoring students; currently assisting local religious community in collection of funds for developmental activities.
 • Achievements: Top essay contributor for national magazine(twice); Brilliant student medal in 8th standard, Top 1% in National Standard Examination in Chemistry in12th Standard, Won debates & GD in college(20+), All India rank 197 among 7,50,000 candidates in entrance exam of Intelligence Bureau.
Post MBA: Strategy Consulting (preferably MBB).
Target: H,S,W, INSEAD, LBS.
Q. Chances?
Q. Chances for MBB shortlisting?

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 Shimri! Thanks a ton for doing this! Advice needed for 22/23 intake
Indian Male, Entrepreneur, Work Ex: 7 Years, Age 27 yrs.
Bachelors in Business Management from Christ University, Bangalore India (Tier 1, Ranked No. 1 in India during my time there)
Graduated in 2014 GPA 3.28/4
GMAT (Yet to appear): 700 Expected
Work Ex:
• Packaging Design Consultancy firm which I founded right after graduating. Alongside a team of 30 employees, I work with brands and manufacture efficient and high-impact paper-based packaging, especially for consumer brands. Over the past 7 years, we have over $2.5 Million in Sales and have managed to partner with new brands every year and steadily increase in-house production capacity.
• Business development and Business Process Management for an award-winning Nutraceutical Brand – I Help streamline processes within the firm, ranging from hiring, reporting, finances to taxes.
Post MBA Goal ST: Pivot to strategy/innovation consulting
ECA’s: Extensive During Undergrad
• Leadership position in the capacity as a member of the Core Committee (Among 5 others) that would organize all Inter-College Fests
• Head of the Creative and Design Team responsible for all material design assets needed during fests
• Participated in and won numerous inter-college business fests
Target Schools:
Rotman, Ivey, Schulich, HEC Paris, LBS, ISB
Questions:
1. How best do I represent work experience in a somewhat succinct manner, coming from a non-traditional background? What should be the key points/achievements/stats as an entrepreneur that you feel I should cover?
2. What would be Ideal GMAT Score ranges for top B-Schools in Canada?

Demographics (nationality, gender): Indian , Male

· Education (undergraduate institution, GPA, major - high school/entrance exams not needed): Bangalore University, GPA: 8.2/10, Major: Bachelor of Business Administration (International Business)

· Other coursework or post-undergraduate education: NA

· GMAT or GRE (include section breakdown): 770 (Q51, v44)

· Work experience (highlight amount of work experience, industries, roles, promotions, special accomplishments, international exposure):
1. Several Corporate internships while pursuing my undergraduate degree. (Human resource internship in a large apparel design and manufacturing company employing over 3,500 people and Marketing Inter at a start up)
2. Family Business: Had to deviate from my plan to work in Banking to Join my Family’s Trading Concern right after college because my father was not going to be able to work for a year. Brought about changes to the Inventory management, Vendor Management and Accounting methods) -1 Year
3. Analyst at a Large Bank : Working on lending deals up to 10 million AUD on a daily basis. Providing Financial/Ratio Analysis reports to make lending decisions. Trained Colleagues on processes. Managing workflow and planning activities. Working with Australian teams on a daily basis. 2 promotions in three years.

· Extracurricular activities (highlight notable undergraduate and post-undergraduate ones): Board of the Rotary Club of my college .Part of Case competition teams representing our college. Part of team that organizes case competitions. Fundraising activities carried out as part of an NGO around my house. Founder of a start up that operated for about a year and serviced 400+ students.

· Post-MBA goals: Management/ Strategy / Operations Consulting.

· Target schools: Booth, Kellog, UCLA, Columbia, Darden, Rotman, Stern, Cornell, Tepper and Tuck.

· Other information relevant to your profile: First generation graduate

Hello Everone, 
I am planning to retake GMAT(this will be 4th attempt), aiming 750+
I want to know if there are chances to be admitted with a 7.04/10 CGPA, a current score of 680 on my GMAT. 
Also, any help in narrowing down the school list for the same will be a great help. (will be reapplicant in some of the schools- Vanderbilt, ASU, Carlson, Georgiatech, Georgetown, and UT Austin)

26-year-old Indian Engineer Male

Education:
IP University(Btech in Electronics and Communication, passed out in 2016)

Professional Experience:
Post Btech, I started working for an Ed-Tech startup and was heading the operations training program there. Along with day-to-day interactions with students from various schools and negotiating with School representatives.
After working there for 8 months, I joined Accenture Technology where I was loaned as an asset to one of the biggest Telecom Providers in India in handling M&O for them. Responsible for managing a network servicing 25+ million people and saving them more than 10 million$ in revenue by automating the processes. 
Working for approximately 2 years I decided to join my family business - catering to the automobile, plastic, and pharmaceutical sector in India in 2018. 
Leveraged my learnings in helping automate and modernize the 25-year-old business, impacting the bottom line and increasing profit margins as well as helping the existing employees in upskilling themselves.
Because of my keen interest in giving back to the environment, I am also helping various Solar Installation companies to increase their outreach/client base and enhancing their supply chain along the way.

Is online non profit work considered as significant and strong as field ones?? Just curious to know.