Profile evaluation for ISB, Retail: E-commerce background, from India

9 months ago

Hi @quianihil,

Your have a strong and well-rounded profile - early leadership roles, and a compelling story of grit—working during college, supporting your family post-COVID, and tutoring to earn income and it aligns with what ISB looks for in high-potential candidates. Professionally, your trajectory at Amazon, from operations to strategy to compliance, with leadership and mentoring experience demonstrates growth and adaptability. Your transition to full-time entrepreneurship adds a strong narrative of ownership.
While your undergrad GPA is modest, you should target to offset that with a GMAT score of 675+ to boost academic competitiveness. Overall, your profile shows resilience, initiative, and leadership, traits which are highly valued.

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MBADecoder

9 months ago

A few points:
1. Your Amazon experience sounds compelling. Amazon operations is a challenging and meaningful job with lots of opportunities to take initiative, challenge the status quo and show real, quantifiable impact. Also, three years is good enough time to build up on your achievements. So you should definitely capitalize on this experience and mention stories of impact and learning in this experience, ISB's essays this year with focus on experiential learning and intellectual experiences will give you a good window to mention your examples.
2. I like the food truck business too, Again your experiences here will give you ammo for b-school essays
3. while your certifications won't hold much importance in admissions, but your volunteering work sounds meaningful - 2 years of volunteering at AMazon is good. what were your projects like? Were these related to initiatives for the Amazon employee community or were they external? Either way, you can glean some achievements from this experience and that can add towards showing consistent leadership capability.
All the best to you and feel free to reach out. With a good GMAT score, you should have a good shot as ISB if you play your cards right while building the application.

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TheIvyLeagueEdge

9 months ago

Hi @quianihil,
as has already been detailed above, your WE and transitions across roles in Amazon, and then to your own entrepreneurial stint can be played well (although it would truly depend on how you demonstrated your food truck business as a career move).
Assuming the other factors in your Applications, esp the LORs are strongly drafted, I would still see it very difficult for you to achieve an impressive post-MBA outcome from ISB. In fact, I would strongly suggest you to look at a wider net, both to access scholarships, but also get you loans without collaterals from Top 20 programs.

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