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Profile Evaluation for MBA 2022 Intake-
GMAT: 710
Undergrad: 6.7 CGPA in Mechanical Engineering
University: National Institute of Technology, calicut, kerala,India
12th Grade: 82%
Work Experience: 5 yrs as Project Manager at Mechanical Automation systems OEM in India- Promoted Twice in the period currently leading a team and managing finance of Two National Projects in India under the direct control of PM Office.
EC’s - Hosted many events in Undergrad, District level Hockey Player won prizes in Undergrad, Been a part of Charitable organization for the past 5 years.
Certifications: CFA Level 1, CPMP and Online MOOC’s over Analytics and Data Science.
Post-MBA goals - Want to transit in Product Management in FMCG.
Hope for the Comments.
Also, Please let me know if pursuing MBA in India or in Abroad is correct for my profile.
which schools can I apply for?
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• GMAT: 690
• Nationality: Indian male
• Age: 27 years
• Work experience: 6 years
• Function: Investment Banking (2 promotions in last 4 years)
• Other academic: CFA all levels cleared
• Other courses: Company Secretary (Legal) Level 1 (Secured All India Rank 13). However, didn’t go ahead with it because liked Finance more
• Graduation: 89%, 12th: 84%; 10th: 85%
• Extracurricular: Football (City and District Level for School), Football Freestyle, Community Pranic Healing
• Target: Cornell, Simon, USC Marshall, Oxford, HEC Paris

• GMAT: 690
• Nationality: Indian male
• Age: 27 years
• Work experience: 6 years
• Function: Investment Banking (2 promotions in last 4 years)
• Other academics: CFA all levels cleared
• Other courses: Company Secretary (Legal) Level 1 (Secured All India Rank 13). However, didn’t go ahead with it because liked Finance more
• Graduation: 89%, 12th: 84%; 10th: 85%
• Extracurricular: Football (City and District Level for School), Football Freestyle, Community Pranic Healing
• Target: Cornell, Simon, USC Marshall, Oxford, HEC Paris

Q1) Request a profile evaluation and chances of getting into my target schools?
Q2) How important is sounding out the “social impact” in the essays?
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Profile Evaluation for 2022: GMAT: 720
•Nationality: Indian male
•Age: 26 years
•Work experience: 5 years
•Function: Hotel Management (3 promotions in last 5 years)
•Other Info: Worked at Front desk, eventually moved to Commercial services/ Business analytics within hotels
•Graduation: 70%, 12th: 88% (Science Background); 10th: 80%
•Extracurricular: E-sports, Cycling
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Profile Evaluation for 2022:
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•Other Info: Worked at Front desk, eventually moved to Commercial services/ Business analytics within hotels
•Graduation: 70%, 12th: 88% (Science Background); 10th: 80%
•Extracurricular: E-sports, Cycling 2) What could be future career paths can I take with this background?
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Profile Evaluation for MBA 2022 Intake-
GMAT: I do not have a score yet. What would be an ideal score to be eligible to apply to the top 20 schools?
I am an Indian Female
Undergrad: 7.74 CGPA in Bachelor of electronics and communications engineering
University: PES University, Bangalore, India
10th: 96%
12th Grade: 89% (96% in maths, physics and chemistry)
Company: Deloitte Tax LLP
Promotion: 1 - from Business Technology Analyst to Consultant. I have 3 members who report to me after my promotion.
Work Experience: 3 yrs as a product manager in the Tax BU where I work in a global role (working with more than 60 countries) and coordinate with multiple teams to better their tax processes every year.
I also am working in a huge transformation project where we are moving from an old technology product to a new gen product and have project management exp.
I also have rich exp in Org Change Management.
EC’s - nominated to be a core team member to coordinate a US Leadership Visit Virtual - Process management opportunity.
Also, have teaching exp in a school for children with limited means but I do not have a certificate for this. Can I still mention this since I do not have proof for this?
Recommendation letters: I will be getting them from Senior Managers at Deloitte
Post-MBA goals - Want to transit in Product Management in FMCG.
which schools can I apply for?
Disclaimer: I have not jotted out a lot a lot of my work ex. I do have a lot more. I can share my resume for complete information :)
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Hi! Here’s my profile:
• GMAT: 720
• Nationality: Indian Female
• Age: 25 years
• Work experience: 4 years (at the time of joining the program)
• Role: SAP Technical Consultant (Top 5% Performer consistently)
• Under Grad: Btech Computer Science 88% (Top 10% )
• 12th: 90%; 10th: 95%
• Extracurricular:
 Under Grad: Event coordinator for national level college fests, Dramatics-(Worked in a short film for a govt. awareness initiative)
 Work: Organized various employee engagement programs, CSR Initiative, Food Committee member, Active participant in various cultural and leadership events,
Multiple awards (for project work and cultural events)
• Target: Rotman and researching other schools
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Hi would this be a one on one session or a public session?
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hebbarpd, This is public session

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Indian Male Engineer

Undergrad Information:
- B.Tech in Mining Engineering from NIT, Rourkela ( a Tier I college, among Top 20 universities of India )
- CGPA - 8.8/10

GMAT: Didn’t take it yet

Work experience and leadership:
A) 5 Years in Tata Steel: 3 years as Operations Manager and 2 years as Senior Program Manager. Youngest to be promoted to this role.
- Led Multiple teams and large scale transformation programs in a 110 year old division:
a) Led a team of 130+ workforce
b) Led 20+ cross functional managers to drive digital and agile transformation programs
c) Reverse Mentored General Manager and led multiple cost reduction programs with signficant savings
d) Formulated business plans and long terms strategies for the division

B) Now working as a Social Impact Consultant with the government to transform primary education system of the state - impacting 1.5 Million students and 50K teachers, leading the Program Management Unit handling a $15M project.

Community and others:
1. Changemaker in a global non- profit striving to achieve SDG 4. Led a cross cultural team and won a global hackathon.
2. Consultant to a non-profit and implemented an education excellence program in 50 schools impacting 2500 children.

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CFA Level 2, Post Graduate Cert. in Data Science, Product Management Certification, Six Sigma Green Belt

Post MBA goals:
Want to work in the global social impact space as a consultant in the short term and start my own social enterprise to solve school to work transition problem in India.
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Hello consultants. Eager to hear your comments:

1. Xth=94%; XIIth= 88%
2. B.Tech in Chemical Engineering- 2018 batch- 78% overall- Tier 2 Government college
3. GMAT- 740
4. College internship with India based MNC in field of Energy and Environment- got absorbed after internship
5. Working with previously mentioned organization since 2018 ( 2 years, 10 months) as Business Manager for East Asia. Managing a business of 2M USD. Involved in various intiatives like ERP overhaul, HR initiatives, Analytics and Digitalization initiatives
6. Have been working with a NGO as a Public speaking facilitator for government schools for past 2 years. Average 150 hours anually engagement
7. Multiple prizes won in state and national level competitions for Public speaking and Research presentation. Started a state level event that still happens anually. Led a team of 40 people for the organization of an international MUN conference.
8. Good social and peoples skills. Skill set fitting for consultancy profiles. Wish to work as business consultant for companies in Chemicals and Pharmaceutical sector
9. Target schools: HEC Paris, LBS, Oxford, Cambridge, IE, IESE, ESADE. Aim to settle in Europe, preferably UK or France
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Background: Indian, Male 27 years old.



10th CBSE :94%
12th CBSE: 94.2%

GMAT: Preparing. Hoping to end up within 740 range within the next two months.

B.Tech : 73.2% (3.2/7.8 GPA)

Extra curriculars during graduation: Head of a quizzing community, Played football for my college team, Curated a TEDx Independent event, Participated and won events across colleges for quizzing and electronics based competitions.

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2015 June to December: Embedded Arch engineer in a startup which had seed funding of $100K before round 1. Was part of the electronic design of a product from scratch. Part of a kickstarter campaign which did not go live. Donned multiple hats including customer and market research for product as well as lead the content management team for company.

2015 December to present: Tech consulting at Big 4. Mainly coding for UI/UX design along with design decisions. Got promoted twice in 5 years. Currently into technical project management with multiple leadership and extracurricular roles during the tenure. Have not travelled internationally for work, but have worked with teams across the globe (China, Ukraine, Australia, UK and USA). Have travelled across the country for work.

I’m also a professional musician whos band has performed across festivals and venues such as hard rock cafe etc over the country. Our original compositions are reviewed by magazines and available in digital streaming platforms. I’m also having a solo classical music career.

Extra Curriculars: Music as mentioned above, been part of music communities as well as conducted events in my company. I play football for my company team and my alumni team. Volunteered for cancer societies especially with respect to donation of hair for wig making. I have grown and donated my hair for this cause.

Short and long term MBA Goal: Move into product management at a tech company. I have worked in UI/UX, project management as well as product design (during startup days) and would like to go down this path.

Schools Targeted: INSEAD, LBS, Cambridge, ISB , Oxford.
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To get the maximum members serve please be specific and on target and avoid unnecessarily lengthy details.
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Profile Evaluation for MBA/MSBA 2022 intake:

GMAT:760 (v42 q50 ir7)

Indian, Male

Undergrad : 8.8 cgpa Computer Engineering (Pune University)

12th Grade : 93% CBSE

10th grade: 95% ICSE

Work experience: 2 years as software engineer in Mediaocean (US Based IT Company) with interactions with a team in UK as well. Promoted once.

International experience: 6 months semester abroad in Hochshule Hof (Germany), and 1 month internship at NTU and NUS Singapore.

Certifications: Completed two levels of Cisco Certified Network Associate, Completed International Microsoft Certification Course in Network and System Security.

Undertook several projects related to Data Science in 4 years of college.

Extra Curriculars: Secured 3rd rank in the state in ICSE board examinations (10th grade), Played Table Tennis at State Level, participated in several MUNs including Harvard Model United Nations.

Completed open elective course- Economics, Global Leadership Programme in NTU, Singapore.

Completed open elective courses- Project Management, German A1 in Hochschule Hof, Germany.

I am considering MBA in colleges such as NYU stern, tepper, UCLA Anderson and Oxford Said and MSBA in colleges such as Imperial College, ESSEC, Manchester Alliance or Edinburg University. Can I get into a top college for MBA with scholarships (particularly interested in Oxford) and similarly can I get into MSBA top colleges with a significant scholarship? What can I do to make my profile stand out so that my chances for acceptance are increased? And finally, what is my profile better suited to – MBA or MSBA and if MSBA should I not pursue applications for MBA this year.
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- clean up -
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Mraax, Are you here?
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Is there any format in which we need to post our profile details?
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Revankumar, I think coffeeanddonuts, has good one
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