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12th - 81
Grad - Mechanical Engineering (second division)
Gap after College - 4 years (medical reason)
Work Experience - 5.5 years - Head of Business Development for a Tech Start-up
Played football for my state among other co-curriculars.
Planning to apply in R3. Original GMAT scheduled for 15th Jan.
What should be my target score and how good of a chance do I have for a conversion?
12th - 81
Grad - Mechanical Engineering (second division)
Gap after College - 4 years (medical reason)
Work Experience - 5.5 years - Head of Business Development for a Tech Start-up
Played football for my state among other co-curriculars.
Planning to apply in R3. Original GMAT scheduled for 15th Jan.
What should be my target score and how good of a chance do I have for a conversion?
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makemytrip25 You should focus on getting an impressive GMAT score and discuss your profile with someone who can advise you after they understand your profile in detail. More than the title of a HOBD at a tech startup, I would like to know how you have developed and progressed over the last 5 years, also considering the previous health challenges that you faced. It seems like you have a lot of potential, but to say anything here would be too premature.
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Hello makemytrip25,
I hope you are doing good. Your profile looks good on the surface. Your academic scores from 10th, 12th, and graduation are in the second division. While they are essential components of your application, your strong work experience and leadership role can compensate for this to some extent. Be prepared to address the gap years due to medical reasons in your application and explain how you utilized this time effectively.
Speaking about your work experience, with 5.5 years of experience as the Head of Business Development for a Tech Start-up, you possess valuable leadership, strategic, and entrepreneurial skills. Highlight your achievements, impact, leadership roles, challenges overcome, and skills acquired during your tenure. Provide quantifiable achievements, growth metrics, revenue generated, partnerships established, or innovative strategies implemented to showcase your contributions and capabilities.
Coming to your ECs, mention your achievements in football at the state level and other co-curricular activities. Emphasize the leadership, teamwork, discipline, perseverance, and other transferable skills you developed through these experiences.
GMAT Target Score: Aim for a GMAT score above the ISB's average to strengthen your application and demonstrate your academic readiness for the rigorous PGP program. Considering your academic background, work experience, and the competitive nature of R3, targeting a GMAT score of 680-720+ would be advisable. However, focus on achieving a balanced score across all sections and showcasing your quantitative abilities given your engineering background.
Round 3 Considerations: Acknowledge the competitiveness of R3 and emphasize your unique strengths, achievements, leadership experiences, entrepreneurial mindset, and fit with ISB's values and culture. Highlight how your diverse experiences, challenges overcome, resilience, and growth trajectory align with ISB's ethos and how you will contribute to the ISB community.
Craft a compelling application highlighting your professional achievements, leadership potential, entrepreneurial mindset, teamwork skills, extracurricular involvement, and alignment with ISB's values. Address the gap years due to medical reasons proactively, emphasizing your resilience, determination, learnings, and growth during this period.
Choose recommenders who can provide insights into your leadership potential, achievements, skills, and fit for ISB. Prepare impactful essays showcasing your unique experiences, perspectives, challenges overcome, values, aspirations, and how you will contribute to and benefit from the ISB community.
Leverage your robust work experience, leadership role, entrepreneurial mindset, extracurricular achievements, and GMAT score to craft a compelling Round 3 application for ISB. Emphasize your achievements, growth trajectory, resilience, alignment with ISB's values, and genuine enthusiasm for its PGP program.
We offer a limited number of complimentary profile evaluations each week. We match you with the students and alums of top B-Schools according to your background and target schools. In this call, the experts will try to dig out your USP for top B-schools and provide you with honest feedback on your profile and chances to your target schools.
Book a free profile evaluation call now with Alums and Current students of ISB!
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I hope you are doing good. Your profile looks good on the surface. Your academic scores from 10th, 12th, and graduation are in the second division. While they are essential components of your application, your strong work experience and leadership role can compensate for this to some extent. Be prepared to address the gap years due to medical reasons in your application and explain how you utilized this time effectively.
Speaking about your work experience, with 5.5 years of experience as the Head of Business Development for a Tech Start-up, you possess valuable leadership, strategic, and entrepreneurial skills. Highlight your achievements, impact, leadership roles, challenges overcome, and skills acquired during your tenure. Provide quantifiable achievements, growth metrics, revenue generated, partnerships established, or innovative strategies implemented to showcase your contributions and capabilities.
Coming to your ECs, mention your achievements in football at the state level and other co-curricular activities. Emphasize the leadership, teamwork, discipline, perseverance, and other transferable skills you developed through these experiences.
GMAT Target Score: Aim for a GMAT score above the ISB's average to strengthen your application and demonstrate your academic readiness for the rigorous PGP program. Considering your academic background, work experience, and the competitive nature of R3, targeting a GMAT score of 680-720+ would be advisable. However, focus on achieving a balanced score across all sections and showcasing your quantitative abilities given your engineering background.
Round 3 Considerations: Acknowledge the competitiveness of R3 and emphasize your unique strengths, achievements, leadership experiences, entrepreneurial mindset, and fit with ISB's values and culture. Highlight how your diverse experiences, challenges overcome, resilience, and growth trajectory align with ISB's ethos and how you will contribute to the ISB community.
Craft a compelling application highlighting your professional achievements, leadership potential, entrepreneurial mindset, teamwork skills, extracurricular involvement, and alignment with ISB's values. Address the gap years due to medical reasons proactively, emphasizing your resilience, determination, learnings, and growth during this period.
Choose recommenders who can provide insights into your leadership potential, achievements, skills, and fit for ISB. Prepare impactful essays showcasing your unique experiences, perspectives, challenges overcome, values, aspirations, and how you will contribute to and benefit from the ISB community.
Leverage your robust work experience, leadership role, entrepreneurial mindset, extracurricular achievements, and GMAT score to craft a compelling Round 3 application for ISB. Emphasize your achievements, growth trajectory, resilience, alignment with ISB's values, and genuine enthusiasm for its PGP program.
We offer a limited number of complimentary profile evaluations each week. We match you with the students and alums of top B-Schools according to your background and target schools. In this call, the experts will try to dig out your USP for top B-schools and provide you with honest feedback on your profile and chances to your target schools.
Book a free profile evaluation call now with Alums and Current students of ISB!
Neha Hadke
Strategy Manager
Testimonials
Meet our Panel of Consultants.
Email: neha@mbaandbeyond.com
MBA and Beyond
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