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Profile Evaluation for 2022: GMAT: 720
•Nationality: Indian male
•Age: 28 years
•Work experience: 5 years
•Function: (3 promotions in 5 years). PMP certified.
•Working as a Project manager at a Mechanical Auomation systems manufacturer. Currently managing a team of 150 people, cross functional teams across different geographies.

•Extracurricular: Part of professional clubs and core organising teams for Tech and cultural fests at University. Also a part of two NGO’s. Avid sports player and entusiast.
•Post MBA Career Goal: Senior management role in a project based industry or Operations based roles
•Kindly advice suitable schools to apply and us and various post MBA career goals that are possible with this profile. Thank you.

I did my Engineering in one of the top Institutions in India. Have been working as a mechanical Engineer for a little over 3 years. 95% in matriculation, 98% in 12th and 80% in Undergraduation. I have handled a couple of high impact projects during my 3 tears at work and have also received a couple of awards.I have a lot of National-level achievements in Singing, Drawing, Poetry, Theatre, Academics and Writing. I also hold a 7-year dimploma degree in Indian Classical music. I am yet to give GMA, which is just a month awt and I expect somewhere around 730 as mocks say. What are my chances of getting into top 20 B-schools in the world. Really looking for a reply

I did my Engineering in one of the top Institutions in India. Have been working as a mechanical Engineer for a little over 3 years. 95% in matriculation, 98% in 12th and 80% in Undergraduation. I have handled a couple of high impact projects during my 3 tears at work and have also received a couple of awards.I have a lot of National-level achievements in Singing, Drawing, Poetry, Theatre, Academics and Writing. I also hold a 7-year dimploma degree in Indian Classical music. I am yet to give GMA, which is just a month awt and I expect somewhere around 730 as mocks say. What are my chances of getting into top 20 B-schools in the world. Really looking for a reply

Name : smehrotra

Indian Male , 25 years old

GMAT : 740

Undergrad Major : Bachelors of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering, Class of 2018. CGPA : 7.8 / 10
Undergrad College : Manipal Institute of Technology (Tier - 2, but with well placed Alums acorss the world)

Works Experience :
->Software Engineer at Samsung Research for 1 year
->Software Development Engineer at Amazon for 2 years and ongoing. (Part of a team very important to Amazon’s transportation network). Lead projects for 3P Carriers in China and Canada.

LOR : Current Manager and an alum of CMU Computer Science Engineering School.


Extra Curriculars:
->Part of clubs and committees organizing college festivals
->Run a blog / page to help working professionals invest in Indian Stocks markets.
->Teach coding to nuerodiverse students inroder to skill up and find jobs.
->Volunteered in a goverment of India project to buid software to promote Virtual Education through Tech.

Short Term Goals : Transitioning from a software engineer to a product manager / tech strategy role. I am also keeping consulting as an open option.

Target Schools : UC Berkeley Hass, UMichigan Ross, UCLA Anderson , CMU Tepper, UWash Foster, NUS, Rotman.
Would like more suggestions on other schools too.

Indian/Male/23 YO (as of June’21)
Academics: -
Graduation: Engineering (Information Tech.) from Pune University – 8.15/10
12th: 84.48%
10th: 9.8 CGPA

GMAT1: 690 (Q50, V33, IR5, AWA3)
GMAT2: 750 (Q50, V41, IR3, AWA4)

Work Ex: -
Analytics Consulting (straight from college – completed exactly 2 Years as of June’21)
Planning to continue working until Aug-Sept (before the fall semester starts), so will have 3 years work-ex at matriculation
Managing 2 – 3 junior associates in the team (one of the youngest members to be doing so)
Fast-tracked promotion
Working with a big European client (direct and daily communication with the brand leads) and leading several lines of work
Multiple core (work-related) and non-core (other team and management activities) initiatives at work
Piloted couple of things in the team related to delivery scope

Extra Curriculars and achievements: -
Lead various committees and events in college across sales, marketing and management
Taught Phys. & Mathematics to high school students for ~3 years during my graduation
Top 0.25% to get placed in the most competitive company that recruited from our campus

Post MBA Goals: -
Switching to strategy consulting (leveraging my experience in analytics consulting)

Target Schools: -
H/S/W, Other M7s, LBS, HEC, Open to other suggestions

Name : Akash Tomar, 30yrs, Indian, Male, GMAT-Yet to attempt

UG: B.E. Pune University, Agg – 64%
PG : M. Tech (Design Engineering), BITS Pilani GPA: 8.4
WExp: 9 yrs, Regional Manager – Sales and Marketing (3 promotion) at GKN Sinter Metals (11K Billion Pound Group)
6 months of Work Experience in European Countries (Germany)
Responsible for all OEM’s like Maruti Suzuki, Honda, Hero – All top automobile manufactures in India

Extracurricular : Basketball captain college team, Technical events participation

Post MBA goals: Consulting role or Sales and Marketing

Target: LBS, Oxford, Cambridge, INSEAD, HEC, Other Top Canadian School

Mainly handling a team for regular sales and new business development, handling top customer of my company and responsible for entire region sales. Can show savings in project for company total valuGe will be in Millions $

1) What will be the ideal score required for getting in colleges listed above
2) Is my profile very common for the above colleges
3) I don’t have any experience working in non profit organization will that work against my profile for college I’m trying to get into
4) Is my profile suited for these type of colleges or should I target some other region / colleges

I was working with Vedanta Limited, an MNC. I was posted in the power plant. There the Operation and management was looked over by a South Korean Company. They were working as a 3rd Party company for Vedanta. I was directly involved with people from south Korea. I managed a team comprising of 12 members from there company.

Requesting Profile Eval for MBA 2023/2024 Intake. Thanks in advance for your time!

Age: 29
Sex: Female
Ethnicity: Southeast Asian (US Citizen, Immigrant, 1st Generation College)
Schools: HBS, Wharton, Sloan, Columbia, Booth, Haas

GMAT
Not yet taken, aiming for 690-710

Academics:
-BS in Mechanical Engineering from HYPSM
-Theatre minor
-2.9 Cumulative GPA, downward trend (It’s my weakest area, I know... It was hard adjusting to college, I was dealing with depression... I plan to explain in optional essay)

College Leadership/Work Experience:
-Executive Board Member at Diversity Group 1
-Community Engagement Chair at Diversity Group 2
-Part-time jobs
-Study abroad in Germany

Work Experience:
- 4 years in F100 Aerospace – Mechanical Engineer, Program Manager, Promoted 1x, Given Program-level award, $1-2million projects w/ international clients, process improvement initiatives saving company $500K
-Lead my office Employee Resource Group (ERG) focused on Community Engagement
- 1 year in FAANG – Mechanical Engineer, $50-70million projects

Extra Curriculars:
-Volunteer for national organization focused on Education enablement and College Prep for first-generation students of color - Teaching STEM classes, CS TA, resume workshops
-Ski instructor (2 years)

Goals:
-Short term: Work in Tech - Product Management or Operations
-Long Term: Expand my venture focused on Mental Health and Wellness, Head of Product at Tech company

Questions: harvard
-Other than GMAT, any other ways to mitigate my low undergrad GPA? Do you recommend HBX Core vs. re-taking college courses?
-Any other US B-schools you think would be a good fit?

Requesting Profile Eval for MBA 2023/2024 Intake

Age: 24
Sex: Male
Ethnicity: South Asian (Indian, 1st Generation College)
Schools: Stanford, HBS, Wharton, Booth, Columbia, INSEAD

GMAT
760

Academics:
-Bachelors in Commerce from Shri Ram College of Commerce, India’s top undergraduate institution. Scored 97.4% in the national board exams (rank 10 out of 15 lakh plus students)
-8.068/10 Cumulative GPA
College Leadership/Work Experience:
-President of the Finance and Investment Cell, led a team of 106 students. Raised 1.75 lakh rupees over the course of a year. Held regular knowledge forums

Work Experience:
- 3 years in Government at the national and state level. Prepared speeches and interventions for parliamentary debates. The speeches formed part of the discourse on women empowerment, Kashmir’s legal status, consumer protection, insolvency and bankruptcy, and online privacy amongst others. The same are available on the Indian parliament’s official website. At the state level, created an institution to help youth from the rural areas in the state of Haryana get training on entrepreneurship modules and launch their own ventures or earn a livelihood through getting a job in a sunrise sector. Approximately 500 youth have benefitted already and the program will be expanded over the coming year.
-Founder of Punya (https://www.punya.in) an e-commerce platform and business development partners for NGOs and charities with a mission to make these organisations financially independent. Garnered national media attention and partnered with 30 organisations across India. Raise more than rupees 3 lakhs for these organisations within a year with plans to expand.

Goals:
-Short term: Corporate management in the USA
-Long Term: Come back to India to work on improving supply chains in agriculture and creating circular economy organisations to tackle agricultural waste while creating value


Questions: 1. Whether the profile is good enough for the M7 considering there is no big brand in consulting of finance associated with it? 2. There is a 1 year gap on my resume because of health reasons, any advice on how to offset the same? 3. Chances of acceptance at the targetted schools

I think you may have a challenge with your GPA and a GMAT that is on the lower side. It’s good that it came from a top university, but it’s still definitely on the low end, and your GMAT is slightly below average, as well. So the rest of your application will need to be outstanding to compensate. You may need additional experience at a very high level of achievement to apply to the top schools. Otherwise, they can find someone with a similar profile with higher stats. In terms of your GPA, I’d say the most effective thing would be to have a high GMAT to counterbalance it, so it might be worth investing your time in GMAT prep. I would look at schools where you are closer to the average GMAT.