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Hello,

I am also interested in doing my MBA please review!

I have been working for 7 years and I want to start to look into applying for business school.

My GPA is abysmal: 2.29 so I would like to build an alternative transcript, is community college good enough or a particular program recommended? How many courses would you recommend in lieu of this?
I did take a course on Coursera just recently which is graded and got a 97% so starting from there. I'm sure I can do well in any course now, just my undergrad was a tough time for me, I had a hard time adjusting, changed my major and tried to complete a tough one(Computer Science) in two years, basically a lot of bad combinations.

I took the GRE and my score is 315/340. I think I can increase it for sure by at least ten points so planning to retake but is GRE okay? Should I only take GMAT?

Third, I'm concerned about my extra-curriculars, apart from taking some music classes, I haven't done much. How can I set myself apart in the leadership department?

Any guidance here would be super helpful!

Where do I even stand a chance given my horrendous gpa


Before I answer any of your queries, please reflect on Why do you want to do an MBA and why now at this stage in your career.

What are your post MBA goals?

What geography are you targeting for your post MBA goals? Which business school are you looking at. Given your GPA, I would suggest take the GMAT, you can overcome your GPA by performing outstandingly in GMAT.

Regarding extra curricular this post from Souvik is an amazing data bank on what you can do.

Business schools look at overall profile of candidates and not just one aspect of their personality. Make sure to bring out your personality in your essays, recommendations and application.

Good luck on your road to MBA.
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Request experts to have a look at my profile :
Nationality : Indian
Age : 36 years
Grad : Mechanical Engineering with 73%, not sure about converting it into CGPA
Senior Secondary 12th : 86%
High School 10th : 83%

Work Experience :
TCS (India's Biggest Software firm) : Core JAVA, 3 years 9 months
Then a career switch
SBI (India's Largest Bank) : in several Roles 9 years 9 Months ( Working as Relationship Manager- Commercial Loans, Retail Branch Head, Back office Credit Manager, Back Office Business Analyst, presently leading a team of 17 people)
Total Experience : 13 years 6 months
ECA : nothing special as such, but was associated with some NGOs for philanthropic work

Planning to give GMAT in April 2021, Request for tentative target score for Indian/Decent foreign B Schools
My query is whether I can target Full Time MBA Abroad(bit sceptical due to my age factor) or E-MBA in Indian/Any decent foreign B school

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Dear Friends.

Request if someone could help in reviewing my profile for admission to ISB/ IIM in 2022 admit. My details are as placed below-



Personal Info
 Indian Male, 30 years. Serving as an officer in Indian Navy 

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680 (Q49 V34)
Not sure if I should appear again

Work History –

2019 – 2020
Inventory Manager
Single handedly undertook management and streamlined a large and fast moving inventory of over 10.8 lack weapon equipment.

2016 – 2019
Technical HoD – Corvette class of Warship
Headed the technical department of a warship and effectively led a
team of 130 men.
Efficiently led the team into border patrolling post pulwama incident in
2018
Was awarded Commendation by the Chief of Naval Staff for excellent
performance onboard the Ship

2012-2016
Weapon Officer – Destroyer class of warship
Efficiently led a team of 75 men to ensure optimal maintenance of
weapons onboard a destroyer class of ship
Was awarded Commendation by the Chief of Naval Staff for excellent
performance onboard the Ship

Education –
B.Tech – Computer Science 71%
XII - 64%
X - 79%

Skill –
Operational activities
Human Resource management
Inventory management

Accomplishments -
Undertook fllod relief operations in Mumbai floods in 2018
Participated in intra state table tennis championship

Interest
Long Distance running

Post mba want to get into operations management specifically interested in supply chain.

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Hi guys

I'm Indian candidate looking to apply for Bschools. Here is my profile

BBA (Top 50 management institute in India) - 63/100 (%)
ACCA from UK
Nationality - Indian
Age - will be 30 this year

Work experience - After finishing BBA, worked as ASA in BIG 4 for a year
then moved to Similar Industry in advisory services worked for one year

Masters degree - National university of Singapore + CEMS (1.5 years)
GMAT - 730

currently working for big sports company for last 2 years (Nike, adidas, Puma etc.)

Total work ex - 4.5 years as of today

EC

Playing Bansuri, state level badminton and squash

Language - French & Sanskrit

I would appreciate if you can help me choose which school to apply for

I intend to Return to India after completing my MBA & recouping the fees. Currently Profile is Internal strategy in one the big sport company after MBA I would like to return or go for MBB

I'm not keen on European MBA except a few namely Insead, LBS & Oxbridge. Ik I don't have chance in getting into M7 maybe Kellogg's
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Hi Team,

I wanted to understand where my application lacks strength and depth.
Can you help me with my profile evaluation?
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Hey, There!
Background and nationality
My name is Vinay and I'm from Bangalore, India. I would be applying for my MBA request some input on my selection of universities. I've added the details of my profile as briefly as I could. My shortlist of colleges is given at the bottom of the comment. I'm also wondering if I should apply to universities, some advice from you.

GRE
- 330 (V-157; Q-170; AWA- 3)


Undergraduate

Completed my Bachelors of Business Administration from Alliance University, Bangalore in Finance with an aggregate of 81.5% ( First Class with Distinction) Top 5% of the class. With a GPA of 3.3/4.


Work Experience
4 of Years work-ex, with the deep domain of equity research and valuation.
-Equity Research Analyst at Sarthak Returns ( June 5th, 2017 – Date ) – Sarthak Returns is a Stock Market Advisory Company based in Bangalore. Responsibilities here include
- Technical Analysis, Fundamental Analysis, Equity Research, Proprietary trading, Handling clients accounts, Blog writing.Was Handling a team of 3 people directly reporting.
- I had 3 promotions in the last 4 years
- I Handle 4 people team where they report to me directly.
- I handle and manage clients directly.


Certifications

NSE Academy's Certified Investment Analyst Champion (NCIAC) & NCMP Level 3
NISM-Series-VIII: Equity Derivatives Certification Examination
NISM-Series-X-A: Investment Adviser (Level 1) Certification Examination
NISM-Series-X-B: Investment Adviser (Level 2) Certification Examination
NISM Series-XV: Research Analyst Certification Examination


Extra-Curricular Activities:

• Volunteer with Youth for Seva ( July 1st, 2016 – September 30th, 2016 ), a Non-Governmental Organisation. The work involved teaching Spoken English and Basic Computer Skills to Primary and Middle School children. This continues till date in a Part-time effect, with overall service time over **Five Hundred Hours**.
• Organised “Mock Stock”, a stock market simulator, in an inter-college event.
•Co-Founded a start-up in the college days - Started with the platform-based company for travel (Air and Bus) with Hotel booking. It was improved based on blind spots, Started renting out textbooks. That rented out students' old books and paid them a share of the earnings, thereby enabling students to make money off books they do not need.
•Co-Founded a niche-based stock research firm meanwhile I was working as an equity research analyst. The firm employs 15 people directly reporting. The firm name is Valuenomics Research
• Have pursued Young Leadership program from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, the program was for the one-year duration with blend learning from both online and offline.


Post MBA goals
Short Term
Work for Asset Management Company

Long Term
Become Fund Manager in Asset Management Company


Hobbies
Reading Books, Playing badminton, Networking with people who aren't like me at all.

Please evaluate my profile, I'd love to hear your thoughts about my profile?

**UNIVERSITY SHORTLIST**

**Ambitious**
- NYU – MBA
- Cornell -MBA
- Ross- MBA
- Duke -MBA
- ISB - MBA

**Conservative**
- Simon -MBA

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Indian, Male, 24.
Commerce graduate,
gpa>3.6
gmat-- 650
Professional Experience-- 2 years, as an assistant accountant in an Indian FMCG firm, with 2 promotions,
Interned as a research associate for 4 months,
Volunteering as a teaching faculty in an NGO.(>1 year).

Target schools-- Tepper, Kelley, Desautels, Sauder, Schulich, kenan-flagler.
Applying in round2.
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Indian, Male, 24.
Commerce graduate,
gpa>3.6
gmat-- 650
Professional Experience-- 2 years, as an assistant accountant in an Indian FMCG firm, with 2 promotions,
Interned as a research associate for 4 months,
Volunteering as a teaching faculty in an NGO.(>1 year).

Target schools-- Tepper, Kelley, Desautels, Sauder, Schulich, kenan-flagler.
Applying in round2.
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I wondering anyone can help me with ding analysis here, previously this year I applied to HBS but got rejected without an interview. may someone can assist me to develop the weakness of my application. thank you

• 750 (40V/51Q) GMAT
• 3.36/4.00 GPA
• Nationality Indonesia (SE ASIA pool) - Male,29 years - 1st Generation of student in my family.
• Education from B.Eng from Top 3 Indonesian Universities wt numerous online course completions from Coursera, Edx, Green Belt (6-sigma) and free course from Harvard Online.
• Work experience includes two and a half years as business leader for 15 countries in APAC at top f100 company and two years as sales manager at top f50 company, with promotions. And each 1 year become sales engineer from local stated owned company + a half year as senior sales manager at 1st decacorn startup in SE-ASIA.
• Extracurriculars include consistent volunteer work-space and handle sport club communities
• Short terms goal : Pivot career to VC/PE/Fund company.
• Long terms goal : Build a startup (fintech) company that will bring micro-investment access from retail investors who want to start becoming entrepreneurs and owning SME business.
• My essay explain 1st my self and family background including how we suffer in a certain position. 2nd the idea is how I cover my family and bring back the throne on the position in adulthood. 3rd how I want continue give some support outside family with creating startup that will able provide micro-fund to SMEs.
• “I have a feeling bad in my ESSAY + LOR and just didn’t have that special tooping HBS is looking for?”
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Hi Alexanderdims,

Your profile looks good on the surface. Regarding your essays maybe you didn't connect the dots correctly, or your USP wasn't well highlighted in your application, or maybe you didn't incorporate Harvard's values like contribution, growth, potential, and so on. We can assist you with ding analysis, examine your assays and advise you on the next steps. If you'd like, we'd be happy to hop on a call with you sometime this week to go through your profile in length and discuss further chances at the school. Feel free to book a free session with us as per your convenience.

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Hi There,

I wondering anyone can help me with ding analysis here, previously this year I applied to HBS but got rejected without an interview. may someone can assist me to develop the weakness of my application. thank you

• 750 (40V/51Q) GMAT
• 3.36/4.00 GPA
• Nationality Indonesia (SE ASIA pool) - Male,29 years - 1st Generation of student in my family.
• Education from B.Eng from Top 3 Indonesian Universities wt numerous online course completions from Coursera, Edx, Green Belt (6-sigma) and free course from Harvard Online.
• Work experience includes two and a half years as business leader for 15 countries in APAC at top f100 company and two years as sales manager at top f50 company, with promotions. And each 1 year become sales engineer from local stated owned company + a half year as senior sales manager at 1st decacorn startup in SE-ASIA.
• Extracurriculars include consistent volunteer work-space and handle sport club communities
• Short terms goal : Pivot career to VC/PE/Fund company.
• Long terms goal : Build a startup (fintech) company that will bring micro-investment access from retail investors who want to start becoming entrepreneurs and owning SME business.
• My essay explain 1st my self and family background including how we suffer in a certain position. 2nd the idea is how I cover my family and bring back the throne on the position in adulthood. 3rd how I want continue give some support outside family with creating startup that will able provide micro-fund to SMEs.
• “I have a feeling bad in my ESSAY + LOR and just didn’t have that special tooping HBS is looking for?”
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Hello everyone!
I’m planning for the 2025 intake, got 585 Gmat FE, planning for MS Finance - LSE, LBS and MBA - Imperial, Oxford, and Cambridge.
1) Education - CGPA(undergrad)-9.7 from H.R. College of Commerce (Mumbai University) also cleared 2 levels of CFA and I am planning to give 3rd level in Feb-25
2) Work ex- Currently, 4 Years and will be 5 years by the time I start my course next year (2 years with Deutsche Bank in the middle office and 3 years of experience in boutique front office Investment Banking working on live deals and fund-raises)
What is the possibility to get into these colleges in R1?
I am done with GMAT because my score is not improving so wanted to know, do I have a chance at any of the above colleges?­
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