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Hi Experts!

I'd like to kindly request you for your feedback on my candidacy for HBS. Here goes.

Background:
Indian Male
Age 27
GMAT 720
Industry: Consulting (Front end consulting role in one of the largest HR Consulting organizations in the world, typically held by Tier-1 MBA professionals)

Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from IIT Delhi (CGPA – 7.0)

Work Experience: Total 4+ years (in india)
Worked for over 2 years in a social sector consulting startup and 1 year in an election campaign strategy firm (a SuperPAC). Working in the strategic HR consulting for last 1 year.

Extra curriculars – Won international competitions and worked on two international projects in Europe. Worked as Coordinator in various campus festivals and a student association club.

Post MBA Goal – Work in MBB strategy consulting firms

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Hi AD,

Your profile sounds good and I hope that you will crack that GMAT with 730+. But I am concerned about your goals as I don't find them befitting the rich experience you have gained so far. Accelerators are a dime a dozen these days, what's your purpose of focussing your goals around them? You also don't have relevant experience to build one.
Moreover, why education when you work in the automotive industry and there is so much disruption happening in this industry that you can build logical career goals here. As a warning, fancy career goals never work, Write something that you are passionate about and that your career history can support. The Harvard essay is open-ended, but if your story does not stick together, then its not gonna help at all.

Hi all, I am hoping for an evaluation. Thank you.

White male from the US.

Undergraduate: Northwestern/Brown/Duke
Major: BSc in Org Change / General Mgmt
GPA: 3.8 (cum laude)
GMAT: 760

~2y in strategy / due diligence consulting (second tier firm like Strategy&, Monitor, Oliver Wyman) promoted at end of year 1 and end of year 2 both times when eligible, with a sector focus on an "impact" sector (e.g., renewables, climate, education, public health, etc.
~1y in nonprofit/impact venture capital (e.g., Acumen, Omidyar Network)
~2y in upper middle market private equity (e.g., GTCR, Francisco Partners, New Mountain Capital) with strong alumni in H/S

Junior board involvement with two education non-profits on the side

Goal: start an international development private equity fund (e.g., target market returns, invest in things like roads, storage, power, etc., investing all "carry" into next fund, so, semi-impact investing).

Impressive resume.
What Harvard is looking for is Managers,
It depends a lot on the essay you write,
A 720 on GMAT takes care of 12% of the parameters that Harvard takes into account
Now if you have shown some qualities during the 4 years of your college training, qualities that makes you stand out from the crowd, include those too. Simply being IITian doesn't assure you Harvard.
One thing that I can probably say for sure is that you have a 75% chance to get invited for an interview if your essay is decent.

Stanford will grab you,
Harvard is unpredictable , but fairly good chances to be invited to the interview if a decent out of the box essay is produced

Thanks in advance for the profile review! I'm targeting to apply this fall.

Background and nationality:
US Citizen, 29, M, SE Asian

Undergrad Information:
Top 10 Public School
Bachelors in Business

GMAT:
700 (Working towards 720)

Work experience and leadership:
- 4 years in a leadership program (finance/strategy/sales/operations) at top tech company (FANG); 3 promotions
- 1 year in corporate strategy at another top tech company (FANG) before switching divisions
- 1.5 year in business operations/analytics at a startup division within FANG; 1 promotion + managing direct reports

Community and others:
- Served on nonprofit board during first 4 years of my career
- Led company employee resource groups
- Startup ideas with buddies
- Captain of video game team for internal tournaments

Post MBA goals:
Entrepreneurship in SE Asia - MBA is to build out my network, leadership skill, and knowledge of other functions. Hoping to meet other like-minded individuals and seed funding!

Anything else?
First generation American hoping to use talents in tech to accelerate the growth in SE Asia with leadership skills gained from HBS!

Hello,

Age:
22 (Plan to apply in 3-4 years)

Ethnicity:
Korean-American

Academics:
Top 10 U.S. University (not known for engineering)
Majored in Mechanical Engineering and Minored in Finance

GMAT:
740 (2nd attempt; thinking about retaking the GMAT again to achieve a score of 750+ due to my demographic)

Experience:
100% in the aerospace industry (internships)

Current Job:
Engineer at Fortune 100 Aerospace Engineering Firm

Intended Post-MBA Career:
Management consulting (MBB), using my experiences in the engineering industry (both small and large firms) to help clients with problems unique to the intersection of business and engineering.

Thanks in advance.

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Hello Everyone,

I want to get my profile evaluated and also wanted to know the GMAT score required to get into Harvard based on my profile.

10th- 83.6% CBSE
12th - 82.4% CBSE
Undergrad - 82.2% Tier 1 College

Work Experience - 3 Years 1Month

2.9 Year in Accenture ( Joined as a fresher in 2016 , received multiple awards, back to back promotion from ASE-SE-SSE)

Worked as a SAP MM&SD Consultant
Which included requirement gathering, business process blueprint preparation, constant interaction with clients and Implementing the supply chain business process in SAP

I was also a part of Automation team leading a group of 10 people and I have automated multiple SAP process which saved around 100000$ for the client

I was also leading a group of 5 people in SAP Team.

Currently working with Deloitte as a senior executive consultant leading a group of 15 people .
Major area of work - SAP MM, SD , Implementation

I have taken part in many Corporate Social Responsibility Activities .

I am also actively involved in my family business from an early age.

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Hi!

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Hi ,
My name is Aishwarya
Nationality - India
Age - 20

Academics

Currently 3rd year in BBA with specialisation of IT.
Top college in the country
CGP - 6.76/10.0. (avg of 4 semsters - 6.34,6.60, 7.09 , 6.93)
top 30 in entire college. still have 1 year for improving my score
10th- 7.6
12std - 72% commerce
Gmat expectation 750

Academic Certification

- Google certification in Digital Marketing 95%
- The Wharton School Introduction to Marketing Graduated February
2019
- Harvardx Entrepreneurship in emerging economics ,Graduating July
2019.
- Google Certification with 92% in Digital Marketing
- National Stock Exchange of India certificate for Wealth Management in finance
-Alison online Institute Marketing Management 2019

Internship experience

- Registration team lead Volunteer for a Non-profit company Villgro Innovations .Instrumented the Registrations of 900+ attendees
- Volunteer for NGO which developed skills in 500+ underprivilged kids
- Internshala ,India's no.1 internship and training platform . Brand ambassador in SICSR.
Strategise in Social Media Campaigns


Accomplishment

1). Founder of *Dance clubs* in my college .
- Impacted in converting 150+ students to join.
- Organised 2 fests which had 1000+ participations .
- Head of management for 6 months.

2). Leading a team to create an App come platform for connecting farmers with whole salers and aiding them financially. This is a need based unique project I have started up to help more than 1000+ farmers across country. This could save many lives and bring in a change .

3) Part of a project that is creating a app for connecting lost children to parents helping the police and parents by reducing child trafficking. A great and dream project.

Extra Curricular

-Elementary Grade Drawing Examination awarded by State Government ( C ) 2012
-Intermediate Grade Drawing Examination awarded by State Government ( C ) 2013.
-Pidlite Industries LTD Drawing Competition participant in 2010.
-Youth Hostels Association of India Certificate for completing National Himalayan Trekking Expedition 2015 youngest to climb 15,000 feet
-Excellence Certificate by Times of India and Byju’s for successfully qualifying for the City Finals Think&Learn Challenge 2015 .
-Inter-School Table Tennis participant(silver medallist) 2014.

Looking forward for your reply
*PLEASE EVALUATE* my profile for HBs 2+2 MBA programme and Stanford MBA programme.

Hi ,
My name is Aishwarya
Nationality - India
Age - 20

Academics

Currently 3rd year in BBA with specialisation of IT.
Top college in the country
CGP - 6.76/10.0. (avg of 4 semsters - 6.34,6.60, 7.09 , 6.93)
top 30 in entire college. still have 1 year for improving my score
10th- 7.6
12std - 72% commerce
Gmat expectation 750

Academic Certification

- Google certification in Digital Marketing 95%
- The Wharton School Introduction to Marketing Graduated February
2019
- Harvardx Entrepreneurship in emerging economics ,Graduating July
2019.
- Google Certification with 92% in Digital Marketing
- National Stock Exchange of India certificate for Wealth Management in finance
-Alison online Institute Marketing Management 2019

Internship experience

- Registration team lead Volunteer for a Non-profit company Villgro Innovations .Instrumented the Registrations of 900+ attendees
- Volunteer for NGO which developed skills in 500+ underprivilged kids
- Internshala ,India's no.1 internship and training platform . Brand ambassador in SICSR.
Strategise in Social Media Campaigns


Accomplishment

1). Founder of *Dance clubs* in my college .
- Impacted in converting 150+ students to join.
- Organised 2 fests which had 1000+ participations .
- Head of management for 6 months.

2). Leading a team to create an App come platform for connecting farmers with whole salers and aiding them financially. This is a need based unique project I have started up to help more than 1000+ farmers across country. This could save many lives and bring in a change .

3) Part of a project that is creating a app for connecting lost children to parents helping the police and parents by reducing child trafficking. A great and dream project.

Extra Curricular

-Elementary Grade Drawing Examination awarded by State Government ( C ) 2012
-Intermediate Grade Drawing Examination awarded by State Government ( C ) 2013.
-Pidlite Industries LTD Drawing Competition participant in 2010.
-Youth Hostels Association of India Certificate for completing National Himalayan Trekking Expedition 2015 youngest to climb 15,000 feet
-Excellence Certificate by Times of India and Byju’s for successfully qualifying for the City Finals Think&Learn Challenge 2015 .
-Inter-School Table Tennis participant(silver medallist) 2014.

Looking forward for your reply
*PLEASE EVALUATE* my profile for HBs 2+2 MBA programme and Stanford MBA programme.

HI,

You have a great GMAT score.
I have a few questions to understand your profile better: what exactly are your achievements at your job? What are your career goals post MBA?

You should really work upon your GPA while you still have time.
Your app work sounds interesting, but ultimately one would want to know what you achieved out of it. Same comment about your work with Villgro- getting 900 people to register is always good, but how did they benefit and how many eventually benefitted?

Hi all,

What are my chances to get in?

Background:
Age/S: 27M
Nationality: Central Asia
Education: 3.4 GPA, BA in Econ (top university in the country)
GMAT: 700 (Q49, V34, IR 8) - planning to take the test again to increase my verbal score

Work experience
6+ years all in Singapore
Company: multinational Fortune 100 company, top 2 in the industry
Industry: Energy / Natural resources
First 2 years as sales graduate , got promoted and move to a different department as global procurement analyst, then got promoted to specialist role. Delivered few million dollar savings to the company.

I know my title looks junior on paper, but it actually equals to mid manager level positions in other companies e.g. banks, consultancy firms

Post MBA goals:
Want to start my own business / move to tech

I'm not optimistic about your chances at HBS for the following reasons:

1. Your GPA and GMAT are below average for HBS. Obviously if you retake and raise your GMAT as you intend, the latter could change.
2. I don't see a lot of community engagement or leadership in your post. You may have it, but I'm not seeing it. If you can show leadership and impact in multiple arenas, you may have a chance.
3. Your goals seem disconnected from what you've done in the past and very general. If they are connected,may that connection clear in your app.

Best,
Linda