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Apologies. Not sure about the rules of the forum as I’m new here. Will delete if inappropriate. Specifically looking for advice about improving scholarship chances.
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it depends on your interview scores
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Hi,
Please evaluate my profile and let me know what I can do to better my chances to secure an admit.
X - 9.8 GPA
XII - 91%
B.Com - 8.62 GPA
Work Ex - 2 years 9 months in a Commercial Real Estate and Mortgage Banking company.
Got 2 promotions, won Best Employee award, automated tasks for cost savings, trained and mentored 3 juniors.
Right now, I am working towards setting up business along with my friend.
Social activities - I tutor few students, also I’m covering education expenses for 2 girls.
Extra curricular - I have recently started a online news blog and I have published few articles.

I took GMAT practice test yesterday to check where i stand and scored Verbal - 86, Quant - 76 and DI - 77.

Any suggestions to improve my profile, better my GMAT scores etc are welcome. TIA
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Hi all, would really appreciate any feedback on my profile and any general feedback or advice to improve admit/ scholarship chances! Thanks.

Education - Chartered Accountant (India) with All India Rank 44 in CA Finals.
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Total Workex - around 9 years. Currently Product Manager and Leading the Data Science team

Experience - 2 Years in Auditing and Taxation, 3 years in Teaching (had 2 CA rank holders in first two batches ever taught), 4 years in Product Management (Current. Started as Business Analyst, promoted to Product Manager and Data Science Lead after ~2 years)

Additional Points - Working as Visiting faculty in an MBA/ Commerce school along with current job; Youtube Channel (Education) with around 9k subscribers.

Extra curricular - Learning singing, harmonium (completed 3 certified classical exams in India long back, now resumed learning); Can speak 3 Indian Languages fluently, 1 Indian language semi-fluent and 1 Foreign language at above beginner level (Self- Learning - no formal course/ education)

Other points - Age 30 years; Married
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Yours seems to be a stellar profile. A definite question would be that “why do you want to do an MBA after all your achievements”. If you can justify your answer to that question I think it should be good.
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His main goal is not to seek information or advice. If with this stellar profile he is asking such basic questions then I genuinely question the profile. However, I think people with such profiles are posting them just to get attention and nothing more- they are completely self aware where they stand.
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His main goal is not to seek information or advice. If with this stellar profile he is asking such basic questions then I genuinely question the profile. However, I think people with such profiles are posting them just to get attention and nothing more- they are completely self aware where they stand.
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Yours seems to be a stellar profile. A definite question would be that “why do you want to do an MBA after all your achievements”. If you can justify your answer to that question I think it should be good.
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Yes...also, Auditing & Taxation, Teaching, and Product Management seem to be quite disparate career trajectories.

Was there a common thread/motivation behind these transitions?

p.s. Yours is the kind of profile that, if not selected, often invites comments such as the profile being 'too good' for ISB:).
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His main goal is not to seek information or advice. If with this stellar profile he is asking such basic questions then I genuinely question the profile. However, I think people with such profiles are posting them just to get attention and nothing more- they are completely self aware where they stand.
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But what will this person get after receiving that attention exactly?
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If it’s attention that they were seeking, definitely are successful 😂
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I required 100 score less than him😂😂
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Thanks for the responses! Will definitely work on the Essay and the answer to ’Why MBA’ specifically. Regarding the transitions - Both the teaching and ProdMan jobs were something I was passionate about. I’ve been into coding since my CA days and I still continue teaching along with my day job. ProdMan shift was primarily post COVID when teaching went completely online and became less fun. I am now thinking of making the switch to consulting or some better ProdMan opportunities.

One more side note here - I am quite interested in going for consulting jobs. However I have found that the MBB or similar firms’ setup is such that it is not easy to transition to them without MBA. In spite of being referred by an employee, getting the highest possible score on McKinsey Solve, and having a good CV, I got no callbacks from McK. or other similar firms unfortunately. CAs are generally considered only for specific jobs in the market, even after different experience.

For those criticizing, sorry my question or profile did not fit into your required criteria, but I do take this feedback positively that I should probably have researched about the scholarship requirements/ chances from elsewhere before/ rather than asking here! :)

However, just maybe, it defeats the purpose of having a help forum if someone with a specific profile cannot ask a specific question here without judgement. Rather than criticizing, let’s try to improve each other through collaboration. I am happy to help with profile building/ GMAT scores just like you guys are helping me with scholarship related info, which at this point is the most critical aspect for me and something about which I don’t have much idea.
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For those criticizing, sorry my question or profile did not fit into your required criteria, but I do take this feedback positively that I should probably have researched about the scholarship requirements/ chances from elsewhere before/ rather than asking here! :)

However, just maybe, it defeats the purpose of having a help forum if someone with a specific profile cannot ask a specific question here without judgement. Rather than criticizing, let’s try to improve each other through collaboration. I am happy to help with profile building/ GMAT scores just like you guys are helping me with scholarship related info, which at this point is the most critical aspect for me and something about which I don’t have much idea.
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Hey man, you’re an overachiever - never apologise for that :)

I would love to discuss your approach for GMAT - would you mind if I DMed you?
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Hi all, would really appreciate any feedback on my profile and any general feedback or advice to improve admit/ scholarship chances! Thanks.

Education - Chartered Accountant (India) with All India Rank 44 in CA Finals.
10/12/B.Com. - 85%/ 85%/ 63%
CAT 2021 - 99.62 %ile
GMAT Focus (2025) - 775 with Q90,V89,D87

Total Workex - around 9 years. Currently Product Manager and Leading the Data Science team

Experience - 2 Years in Auditing and Taxation, 3 years in Teaching (had 2 CA rank holders in first two batches ever taught), 4 years in Product Management (Current. Started as Business Analyst, promoted to Product Manager and Data Science Lead after ~2 years)

Additional Points - Working as Visiting faculty in an MBA/ Commerce school along with current job; Youtube Channel (Education) with around 9k subscribers.

Extra curricular - Learning singing, harmonium (completed 3 certified classical exams in India long back, now resumed learning); Can speak 3 Indian Languages fluently, 1 Indian language semi-fluent and 1 Foreign language at above beginner level (Self- Learning - no formal course/ education)

Other points - Age 30 years; Married
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Scholarship Chances are Moderate to high

B.Com score is not impressive so global schools might consider it a roadblock

Stellar GMAT is a great help

CA rank is cherry on top

for ISB, 9 years experience might be a little misaligned. Plus, you need a good strong justification for 2 years career in education. Someone might say that you are better fit for PhD looking at your interests (Teaching career + Educational Youtube)

I think, you should consider IIM-A and B as top priority. because your experience level is more aligned with their batch profile.

Career Goal information is missing so this is best I could share on your profile and fitment.
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Hey man, you’re an overachiever - never apologise for that :)

I would love to discuss your approach for GMAT - would you mind if I DMed you?
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Thanks. You can, certainly.

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Scholarship Chances are Moderate to high

B.Com score is not impressive so global schools might consider it a roadblock

Stellar GMAT is a great help

CA rank is cherry on top

for ISB, 9 years experience might be a little misaligned. Plus, you need a good strong justification for 2 years career in education. Someone might say that you are better fit for PhD looking at your interests (Teaching career + Educational Youtube)

I think, you should consider IIM-A and B as top priority. because your experience level is more aligned with their batch profile.

Career Goal information is missing so this is best I could share on your profile and fitment.
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Thanks for the insights! Will work on the alignment of my profile with the schools.
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For those criticizing, sorry my question or profile did not fit into your required criteria, but I do take this feedback positively that I should probably have researched about the scholarship requirements/ chances from elsewhere before/ rather than asking here! :)

However, just maybe, it defeats the purpose of having a help forum if someone with a specific profile cannot ask a specific question here without judgement. Rather than criticizing, let’s try to improve each other through collaboration. I am happy to help with profile building/ GMAT scores just like you guys are helping me with scholarship related info, which at this point is the most critical aspect for me and something about which I don’t have much idea.
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Congratulations, You handled the unwanted bullying quite gracefully.

A rare quality :)
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Thanks for the responses! Will definitely work on the Essay and the answer to ’Why MBA’ specifically. Regarding the transitions - Both the teaching and ProdMan jobs were something I was passionate about. I’ve been into coding since my CA days and I still continue teaching along with my day job. ProdMan shift was primarily post COVID when teaching went completely online and became less fun. I am now thinking of making the switch to consulting or some better ProdMan opportunities.

One more side note here - I am quite interested in going for consulting jobs. However I have found that the MBB or similar firms’ setup is such that it is not easy to transition to them without MBA. In spite of being referred by an employee, getting the highest possible score on McKinsey Solve, and having a good CV, I got no callbacks from McK. or other similar firms unfortunately. CAs are generally considered only for specific jobs in the market, even after different experience.
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MS has lots of roles

But i can give an example based on what i know from my friend who is in MS:
MSCI will typically hire CA to do fundamental analysis and back end /back desk work - it will be a team of CAs ,

If you are more interested in front desk jobs then it will demand you to have better communication skills or to be more specific how good you are at pitching something - basically it’s all about generating sales and marketing at the end of the day.
Someone who is good at this with basics covered will be in charge of leading this groups of CA,
So rather than focusing solely on technical aspects maybe you should focus equally on non technical aspects while applying , but at the end of the day an MBA will indeed help you to network and land an interview which you are not able to get at the moment , and the B school should give you enough exposure on how to handle this interviews , especially the non technical aspect but you will have to do all the heavy lifting and prior to that you will have to showcase the same via your profile that despite being a CA you are more than just your grades and technical skills.
Also in US being a teacher add value and if you are really good at quants , even beyond GMAT then Investment bankers surely loves to hire teachers and one should not underestimate that aspect
Another factor to consider is diversity is valued even in work experience , as long as your career path makes sense everything will only add value
10+ work exp is surely something which you should worry about the most , first why MBA and not executive MBA and you need to have a very good clarity of why MBA at this stage in your career, a very generic advice and only something you can figure out and demands a lot of introspection

As far as scholarships are concerned if Indian bschools like ISB are similar to US bschools then they will hardly care about your GPA since it’s been a long time, your GMAT holds more value since it’s more recent and should definitely boost your scholarships chances especially if its merit based , duh good essays and recommendations will be cherry on top so don’t ignore those aspects and do take them seriously

And your questions are valid , over achiever or not let’s leave that upto ISB or any other B school to decide , we are all free to ask doubts and it’s always better to ask so called dumb doubts rather than being over confident and ignorant so feel free to ask questions, that being said no doubt is dumb in my opinion because I myself do that a lot 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hope that helps
Apologies on behalf of entire community and i am sure everyone was trying to be sarcastic and nothing personal :))

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MS stands for Morgan Stanely

MSCI stands for Morgan Stanley Capital international
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I am just starting my prep and application for round 2 ISB, bit late not sure if i would crack it but i wanna ask, does it make sense to join admission consultant or its better to do on our own ?
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Ask ISB students or alums not applicants

Generally, if you need help selling your story and finances permit, go for it if you want. If you’re clear about your narrative, and cash strapped, avoid, most aren’t great anyway.
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