Hi everyone, I need some help with a profile evaluation 🤞. Here are my details:
- 10th: 96% (Aligarh Muslim University)
- 12th: 85% (Aligarh Muslim University)
- BE (Mechanical Engineering) with a minor in Finance from BITS Pilani
• CGPA: 8.1
• Internship at Deutsche Bank
• Cleared CFA Level 1
- Work Experience: 3+ years across 3 companies
• Started as a Business Analyst at a gaming company - 1 year
• Became founding team member of another gaming startup (eventually shut down) - 8 months
• Currently working at an audio entertainment company for 1.5 years. Joined as Product Analyst, promoted to Senior Product Analyst
- GMAT Focus Score: 645
• Gave it twice, but won’t be able to improve further due to low Verbal score
- Additional experience:
• Volunteered with CRY (NGO) for 2+ years
• Running a side startup with 10K+ installs on the app
• Held multiple leadership roles in college (like department representative, etc.)
Looking to understand:
1. What are my chances for the programs?
2. Any areas where I can improve to strengthen my profile?
Thanks in advance!
, 1. You have decent chances. There are many admits with 645 and lower score every year, so score itself should not lead to rejection, but its not great enough to give any major advantage. The academics are decent and work experience is interesting with gaming/tech/entertainment industry with start up founding member experience. The extra curricular is also strong. At the end of day, since you have been in product, you will appreciate, its not the core product itself that’s the only important stuff but how you position it and sell it. There are enough sparks to create a good narration at interview and will require good effort from your side, but its quite achievable. 2. Regarding anything to improve, if you are planning to apply in R1 if this is the final score you are expecting, then nothing, focus on application as return on investment of time on "improving profile" will be much lower than focusing on presenting whatever your existing good profile is.
Hope it helped. Best wishes.