Dear Conrad:

I submitted the application on the 6th January deadline. Please clarify the below things for me.

a. My application is 'Under review'. I have received the payment received confirmation email but no email acknowledging submission. I hope this should be fine and the admission committee will review the application

b. I realize now that Judge prescribes a certain format for CV. I have submitted a similar one page CV. As I was rushing to meet the deadline, I could not customize the CV to the format given. Will that be an area of concern?

c. I have been following up with my recommender and unfortunately, given his extremely busy schedule he could not meet the deadline. I will have him submit at the earliest. Please let me know if that is fine.

Regards

Hi Admissions committee team,

I am planning to apply for Sept 2018 intake and had some concern regarding the references that I can use. Following is a brief summary of my profile. Since Apr 2015 I was working on my own startup in B2C space so I do not have a supervisor/manager who can recommend me. I wanted to check if it will be fine to use work reference from my manager in Arista with whom I worked in 2015.

Work Experience
Post my masters worked as an Application Engineer for an investment research company for 1 year. As I wanted to work for a startup joined a cloud networking startup( Arista Networks ) in Bay area founded by Co-founder and initial investor in Google. Worked with the same startup in Bay area for 2.5 years. In 2011 I returned to India and was instrumental in setting up, recruiting and training people for Bangalore office. During my employment at Arista, I was the lead developer for 71xx series of switches, helping and enabling other colleagues to understand the nuances of the chip and also making sure all the support cases related to 71xx are resolved in a timely manner.

Entrepreneurship
In July 2015, Arista went public which gave me the financial freedom to start my own venture, Funrento - An online toy & book library for kids in the age of 2-8 years. I along with my wife started Funrento, realizing the importance of toys in the development of the child. However, toys in the market are very expensive and little ones do not with these expensive toys for very long. Due to some logistics challenges and difficulty in scaling, we decided to close the online toy library in Feb 2017.

Investment
During the last 2 years, I developed a lot of interest towards public and private investment. I exposed and learned a lot about different kinds of investment vehicles in India such as equity, mutual fund, debt and real estate. Investing in equity exposed me to a lot of financial ratios and parameters which were very helpful when evaluating a public company.

Also, I became an angel investor in 2 early stage startups, advising them on the strategy and helping them raise more funds from family and friends

Hello,
I would like to know what is the general acceptance rate for student s with GMAT score less than 700?
What factors can contribute to strengthen the profile in such a case?
I have a first class in my undergrad and 3 and half years of experience. I am also in performing arts and I am a national level performer.
Do all these things? N to what level would they be useful?

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