Hey
Priyanka here from ARINGO. Speaking about your profile, IIT Madras top-10%, strong leadership in Hyperloop + Placement Cell, an NUS Asia Fellowship, and now high-impact GenAI work at Amex with $300M+ business impact, that’s all gold for top MBA adcoms.

Your GMAT score also looks solid. Work on strengthening your narrative. What will matter most is how you articulate your leadership trajectory, your ownership of cross-functional work, and your unique angle, using AI for fraud prevention and for mental-health impact.

GSB and HBS especially care about depth of purpose, so the NGO angle and your bigger mission can differentiate you if framed well. With about 3 years of experience, your timing aligns nicely with traditional MBA paths; just make sure your essays show maturity, not just technical excellence. Overall, your profile looks competitive and differentiated.

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Thanks for sharing your profile @Ashdev7. You’re building a nice profile for the top tier; your combo of IITM, AmEx GenAI, leadership, and mental health NGO is the kind of story HSW/Booth will pay attention to.

Strengths you can use: Tech, product, and impact. You’re not just a “coder at AmEx”, you’re effectively a data + product hybrid working on a $300M-impact GenAI platform. Emphasize: Ownership (roadmap decisions, trade-offs), cross-functional collaboration (risk, legal, infra, business), metrics- improvements in fraud detection, false positives, latency, etc, leadership track record at a young age, Head of Placement & Internship Cell. NGO head in mental health. Any leadership within the Hyperloop team (subsystem lead, ops, sponsorship, etc.). Values and purpose narrative: you’re interested in using tech to solve human problems (mental health, safety, trust in financial systems). That can be a powerful anchor for HBS/GSB essays.

Risks: Over-represented demographic (Indian/tech/quant). Many applicants will have IIT/AmEx/FAANG-type backgrounds + high GMAT. Your differentiation must come from: real leadership (team size, decisions, conflict, risk), clear personal “why” (mental health + responsible AI, for example), depth of impact, not just “cool project.” Clarity of post-MBA goal- “Tech industry” is too broad. You need a function: Product Management, AI Strategy, or Tech/AI consulting? Domain: Fintech/mental health tech/broader consumer AI? Geography: US vs Asia vs global? NGO substance, adcoms are very sensitive to “just started an NGO for the resume.” You need to show how long you’ve been involved, what exactly you do (programs, services, partnerships), numbers, how many people served, sessions delivered, and volunteers managed.

You can also explore other schools, such as Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Berkeley Haas, or INSEAD/LBS, as global options if you are open to non-US careers. Talk to current students/alums at each school in tech/AI/product and mental health/social impact spaces. Use those conversations as input to your essays.

You can watch our Harvard, Stanford, & Wharton Essay Workshop on YouTube; it might be insightful.

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