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fabyaog - your schools may be possible with a 740. You have a good profile. For more details, you may check with my friends from South America: Paulo from Philadelphia Consulting, and Maria Cecilia Pineda
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Are these alumni or coworkers? also I am looking for scholarship program, do you think it would be possible with that gmat score?
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Roja1995 - yep ISB, Imperial, and UCL should work. Depending on the significance of your achievements you may wish to target schools stronger than UCL and Imperial as well.

fabyaog - they are MBA admissions consultants who operate out of South America, and are more knowledgeable about the prospects for students from that geography.
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@fabyaog - they are MBA admissions consultants who operate out of South America, and are more knowledgeable about the prospects for students from that geography.
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We have answered all the questions today and now closing this chat session. Thank you AugustAcademy for your time and inputs. This was really a good session, We greatly appreciate it.
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Thank you Sajjad - definitely happy to help. I would encourage everyone to reach out if they need any help.
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Hi,

I am a female, Indian MBA aspirant. I scored a 690 on my GMAT (67 percentile quant; 82 percentile verbal and 48 percentile in IR - 85 percentile total). I have one year of work ex as a software engineer at one of the leading investment banking firms in the world. I completed my undergraduate degree in Computer Science from a reputed college in India, finishing with a GPA of 9.12/10. I am aiming for an MiM in one of the top 20 b-schools. How would you rate my chances of getting into my dream program with this profile? Should I retake the GMAT and improve my score for a better chances?

Sincerely appreciate your help and feedback.

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You seem to have a good profile - I would rate your chances of breaking into a top 20 program for an MiM to be high. To be on the safer side, you can try to improve your GMAT score to 720, if possible.

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I am a female, Indian MBA aspirant. I scored a 690 on my GMAT (67 percentile quant; 82 percentile verbal and 48 percentile in IR - 85 percentile total). I have one year of work ex as a software engineer at one of the leading investment banking firms in the world. I completed my undergraduate degree in Computer Science from a reputed college in India, finishing with a GPA of 9.12/10. I am aiming for an MiM in one of the top 20 b-schools. How would you rate my chances of getting into my dream program with this profile? Should I retake the GMAT and improve my score for a better chances?

Sincerely appreciate your help and feedback.

Thank you!
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AugustAcademy I came across your profile and wanted to get your views on my candidature to European business schools for an MBA.

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Age: 28 & work exp 5 yrs
Gender: Male
Location: India
Nationality: Indian

GMAT Score: 690 (Might get 700/710 in re-attempt , please suggest if it makes a considerable difference in my application)
Schools: Open to suggestion for European colleges with focus on green energy/sustainability or the colleges which has strong alum network in these sectors is preferred

Work Experience:
1. 5 years of work experience in Wind Turbine industry. 3.5 yrs with Vestas (danish company, among top 3 players in the industry). Worked at system level to calculate aeroelastic loads. Handled sales team (technical bid manager’s) requests for product customization & wind farm optimization strategies (But no direct interaction with client). After 2 yrs promoted as Technical lead (unofficial designation) for repowering business in US, handled a team for 3 for this.
In last 2 years switched to Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy worked on product development of Offshore wind turbines. This role was more focused on New product development unlike customization focused role in last company.
2. Experience involves load calculation and analytics support to sales team in the form of maturing bids for specific sites. Also worked on developing best practices, identify gaps, perform continuous improvement. As a tech lead for repowering directly worked with Sr. Director (Technical bid management head) to propose various feasible solutions.
3. Strategy projects such as technology implementation into values chain to match needs of post product development activities. Achieved a milestone: to reduce around 2% steel weight for towers.



Academic:
1. Graduated with a degree in bachelor’s in mechanical Engg from Shivaji University. Held first position in class of 2015 (67% Absolute grading)
2. M.E in Design Engineering from BITS Pilani (8.67 CGPA Relative grading)
3. Xth : 86.36% XII th:70%

International Experience:
1. Closely worked with technical bid managers across the world mostly from US, Europe & APAC,where I tried to analyze requirements & proposed optimized solutions.
2. As a loads engg closely worked with teams in Denmark on various projects related to New product development. Worked with Noise experts from Denmark to help sound reduction at sensitive sites.

Extra-Curricular Activities:
1. Founder of Vestas Chess Club , Led Vestas Chess team to 1st FIDE international Corporate Chess Tournament in 2021 . Also member of Vestas Sports club, co-organized various sporting events for a group size of 100+ players.
2. Speaker at 2 international conferences in 2017,2018
3. Published 2 research papers during my Master’s degree
4. Volunteered as M.E Students representative in BITS
5. Cofounded Chess Club during in my bachelor’s college 2011. Also won zonal chess championship in 2012.
6.Member of Indian Climate Youth Netwok

Post MBA Goals:
Short Term: Work as a strategy consultant in a big consulting firm in field of Energy. I am passionate about energy transition & climate change mitigation. So using my past exp in wind industry I would like to consult projects in renewable field.

Long Term: Work in leadership roles at Product companies focusing on UN sustainable goals.
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I am planning to apply to my target B schools in R2 (Full time programs) this year. My profile is as follows:

Gender: Female
Age: 26 years
Location: India
Target schools: Booth, Berkeley, Wharton, NYU Stern, Ross, Marshal, UCLA, Stanford, Kellog, Cornel, LBS, INSEAD, HEC
POst MBA Target domain: Consulting

Work experience: ~5 years
I have worked as a credit analyst with a private bank and subsequently Citibank (1 promotion) in India for about 4 years. I then joined consulting firm Dun and Bradstreet as a strategy consultant in Doha, Qatar where I worked for 9 months. I will be moving to Prague to join Citibank as a Senior Aredit Analyst in mid January.

Education: Qualified ACCA (Association of Certified Chartered Accountants)
B.B.A majoring in Finance and Accounting
Undergrad GPA: 3.04 (on scale of 4)

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While working at Axis Bank, led a award winning CSR project centered around financial literacy in the unbanked population of India
Cultivated and scaled a running community from 20 to 500 members.
Have worked for an NGO that works very actively for animal shelter and treatment
Have worked as volunteer for an NGO that worked for Covid relief measures across the country.

GMAT score: 740 (Q50 V41 IR3 AWA5)

Can you please let me know what schools I can target and what schools would be ambitious? Please feel free to recommend other schools not in the list
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Refreshing this page for the new admissions year - please write in with your queries related to MBA admissions.
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T15 - T20 schools.

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Born in India, but lived in Japan for 8+ years, naturalized Japanese citizen. Fluent English, Advanced Japanese (JLPT N1)

GMAT 730, B.Tech from a no-name Indian college. GPA 8.7 / 10

Started my career at a WITCH company, moved to Japan within a year, and worked in a client-facing role for 4 years. (Project management / Client Liaison)

Moved to a computer software and services company listed on the S&P 500 in a technical sales position. Started at associate level, currently managing the department in APAC and India - 2 direct and 4 indirect reports across Japan, China, Korea and India. 3 promotions in 6 years. Consistently helped generate around USD 1M in revenue every year.

Co-curricular - Founded some clubs and groups back in high school and college. Used to do combat sports when younger. Used to be part of a Toastmasters club till a couple of years back (held a VP position).

Post-MBA Goals - Want to move into Customer Strategy at my own company.

Likely irrelevant, but also have a PMP certification (and tons of software certs). Please let me know if there's any more information I need to add.
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Hi - you have a great profile, and you should be a good candidate for a T15 program. Hope your applications are going well!

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Born in India, but lived in Japan for 8+ years, naturalized Japanese citizen. Fluent English, Advanced Japanese (JLPT N1)

GMAT 730, B.Tech from a no-name Indian college. GPA 8.7 / 10

Started my career at a WITCH company, moved to Japan within a year, and worked in a client-facing role for 4 years. (Project management / Client Liaison)

Moved to a computer software and services company listed on the S&P 500 in a technical sales position. Started at associate level, currently managing the department in APAC and India - 2 direct and 4 indirect reports across Japan, China, Korea and India. 3 promotions in 6 years. Consistently helped generate around USD 1M in revenue every year.

Co-curricular - Founded some clubs and groups back in high school and college. Used to do combat sports when younger. Used to be part of a Toastmasters club till a couple of years back (held a VP position).

Post-MBA Goals - Want to move into Customer Strategy at my own company.

Likely irrelevant, but also have a PMP certification (and tons of software certs). Please let me know if there's any more information I need to add.
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­Prospective Applicant: When do #BusinessSchools usually allow prospective students to begin their applications on their websites for next year?

Answer: Schools typically release their #MBAessays in late May/June. 

They will also start prospective student outreach shortly - so stay connected with them (email/social media/website signup) so you can stay updated about the latest news. 

Attend admissions webinars and events as and when possible. Signing up for events, and attending them is a strong signal of you interest.

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Can you get an #MBA #LOR from a manager at a company that you would have worked in for a very short period?

Candidate: I would have been with my company for only 3 months by the time I submit my apps. If I take an #LOR from my then-current supervisor would the adcom view it negatively? Would they think that my manager has not known me for long enough to write a great LOR?

My answer: Schools will not view getting a letter from your then-present supervisor negatively.

Having said that, they would probably feel that the period of engagement wouldn't be long enough for your supervisor to have formed a certain impression of you about which he/she can write objectively about - this holds both for good and for bad opinions.

So, they may view the LOR to be inconclusive, even if they don't view it negatively.

Of course, exceptions exist.

If the new manager has enough content to write about you - sometimes you may work for a very short period but still on something impactful - that’s perfectly fine.

Having the previous supervisor write one would be a good backup!

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