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Can anyone share some insights if professional certifications such as CAPM, PMP or Six Sigma would help my MBA application if my post MBA goal is consulting? Also, consideirng that the other components of the application are decent. 
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Can anyone share some insights if professional certifications such as CAPM, PMP or Six Sigma would help my MBA application if my post MBA goal is consulting? Also, consideirng that the other components of the application are decent. 
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­If you are Indian candidate, focus primarily on your GMAT.
I have gotten people in without prior certifications, that is not the hard part.

But those with certifications and low GMAT cannot compensate for the stringent problems of OR applicants.
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Can anyone share some insights if professional certifications such as CAPM, PMP or Six Sigma would help my MBA application if my post MBA goal is consulting? Also, consideirng that the other components of the application are decent. 
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Hello ironman_97,

Thanks for writing in.

Certifications are an add on; so, yes, they help add another talking point; however, if you need to allocate your time on building your profile, remember that a number of other aspects would possibly rank above certifications.

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Can anyone share some insights if professional certifications such as CAPM, PMP or Six Sigma would help my MBA application if my post MBA goal is consulting? Also, consideirng that the other components of the application are decent. 
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Presenting certifications in your application must have an objective. What is your objective? Do you have a low GMAT/GRE score or low CGPA that you are trying to make up for through showcasing an academically oriented mind? If thats not the case, just from a goals perspective your certificates carry very less meaning. Folks who have CAPM, PMP or Six Sigma dont necessarily make better consultants than those who dont. For those applicants who mention consulting as a post MBA goal, adcoms consider whether their quant and verbal scores are above the 90th percentile and both sections are balanced. Nothing more, nothing less.

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­ironman_97 - I transitioned to management consulting post-MBA, and did no certifications pre/ post MBA - this is also true for most consultants I've known.

While certifications could give you a better understanding of some concepts, practical experiences (e.g. internship, consulting projects: at/ outside work, etc.) would add much more weight. For example, advising your friend or a small business on their strategy/ operations, and having an impact (ideally a success metric) would be great way to demonstrate your on-the-ground learning for consulting.

Needless to say, GMAT/ GRE scores would be higher priority. Other broader angles to building your profile as an MBA applicant are highlighted in this write-up.

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ironman_97:

As noted above by many, these certifications are kind of like additional skills. They're nice to have but far from essential. They will merely speak to your "expertise" in certain functional business areas.

That being said, the MBA admissions committee isn't going to assess whether you are more likely or not to achieve your career goals in consulting in general, and certainly not based on pre-MBA skillsets. That's left up to the consultancies themselves that have their own processes for evaluating candidates (i.e. the case method), but regardless, don't have requisite requirements for breaking into the industry. The AdCom is interested in why you generally want to go into consulting and, if it's a short-term goal, what that you will for you in terms of achieving your long-term goals.

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There is no doubt that PMP is the among all.