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ali_parkar:

Sounds like a great profile! You have good scores (GPA + GMAT) that will instantly make you a compelling candidate even coming from a competitive demographic.

A key thing for you will be making sure you explain the transitions from college to your current role. It's not common for MBA applicants at your age to have had 3 jobs, though by no means is it a negative. Your profile just requires more explaining.

Do you have any extracurricular activities from college or since college that you can tout? That is going to be very important to rounding out your profile.

As for your career goal, product management at big tech is great and fitting for Haas, but you are going to want a special angle otherwise your application will fall flat. What about a long-term career goal? Is that it? If so, you need to dream bigger. If not, what are you planning to do in 5-10 years or even longer than that?

Hi ali_parkar,

Thank you for sharing your profile. Starting with stats, your undergrad GPA is good, and a solid GMAT score is clearly exhibiting your academic potential. About your work experience, I can see a good career trajectory. You should explain how you perform better than your peers. Also, You have worked in different roles, and if you can showcase this as your strength in your post-MBA goals (by making them more specific and inspired by previous experiences). Haas is a perfect choice for product management, but you may need to discuss your ambitions in greater depth, split them down into short-term and long-term goals, and share your vision with the adcoms. Make a point of emphasizing how an MBA from Haas can assist you in filling gaps in your profile and achieving your goals. Your ECs are missing, try to add some. It will bring diversity to your profile and set you apart from other applicants. You may want to read the article on the Role of ECs in your MBA application and how you can improve this part.

If you need any direction/guidance over any aspect of your application and have any specific concerns, you can ask us on the forum Ask MBA & Beyond.

Overall your profile is good. What matters is connecting the dots and explaining your profile impactfully. I would like to know some major aspects of your work profile. If you'd like, we are happy to hop on a call with you sometime this week to discuss your profile in length and gauge your fit for the b-school. Feel free to book a free session with us as per your convenience.

Let’s maximize your chances in Round 1 for fall intake

Cheers!
Shantanu Sharma
Founder and Admissions Consultant, MBA and Beyond
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Email: shantanu@mbaandbeyond.com
What s app: +65-97158525

Hello ali_parkar,

Thank you for your post. You have an impressive GMAT and strong work/leadership experience. Since you are coming from a competitive set of applicants, you will want to figure out how to differentiate yourself in the applicant pool. Part of this will be applying to a broad range of programs. Where else do you anticipate applying to along with Haas? Keeping in mind your post-MBA goal of product management, you may want to look at Wharton, CBS, Ross, HBS, and Kellogg as well if you are open to exploring additional U.S. programs.

You will also want to articulate a more specific post-MBA goal. Since a lot of MBA hopefuls are interested in these big tech companies, you want to share how you will make your unique mark.

Another way you will want to differentiate yourself is through your personal story. Crafting a strong story here is part of our comprehensive services and one of the areas that Personal MBA Coach’s clients often need the most help with.

Do not hesitate to reach out to scott@personalmbacoach.com for a more extensive evaluation. Personal MBA Coach works with applicants from around the world, and many Indian applicants. We would love to further discuss your profile and ways to enhance your candidacy!

Regards,
Personal MBA Coach

Sorry for the long post! I am interested in knowing my eligibility. Targeting to join September 2022.
1. Background and nationality: 23 year Indian female
2. Pre-undergrad Information: Top 5% throughout school, 95% in 10th, 91.2% in 12th. Various accolades throughout school career (International and national abacus
champion, Diploma in Fine Arts, National Cadet Corps, etc.)
3. Undergrad Information: Majors in Economics from University of Mumbai- 9.13 GPA. Top 5% in the batch throughout college.
4. GMAT: Targeting 740 (680 in first official mock)
5. Work experience and leadership: - 2 years work experience (will have 3 by the time I join) in Ernst & Young LLP in government consulting.
- Received 4 awards in the short tenure of 2 years
- Worked back closely with diverse stakeholders like philanthropies (Gates Foundation), Central Ministry State Government, Local
Government, vulnerable groups like women Self Help Groups, sanitation workers, etc. Assisted in conducting various capacity building trainings and supported in livelihood intervention to these vulnerable groups
- Leading a team of 8 in Knowledge Management; supporting in capacity building of the entire team; independently published thought leaderships in the sector
- Worked extensively on Business Development and Strategy:
- Other experiences include vendor management of subcontractors worth 1 Crore, extensive stakeholder and project management
- Will be able to get good recommendations
6. Community and others: - Strong volunteering experience with Teach for India, and other educational NGOs, Social Media for change fellowship- worked back
closely on integrated rural development and solar project; crowd-sourcing of INR 50,000 after severe cyclone in home state through the NGO
- International and abacus Champion; Diploma in Fine Arts
- Other interests include mindfulness and yoga; swimming; scuba-diving; reading fantasy fiction
7. Post MBA goals: Consulting- ready to explore Strategy and Impact consulting. Want to ultimately settle in India (mostly)

Hi all,

Here is my profile

Nationality: Indian
Age: 28
Undergrads: B.E Civil Engineering from university in India, 2.4 GPA
Masters: Computers and Information system from American University 3.1 GPA
Work Ex: 4 years experience as ITSM consultant including 3 years of international experience. Expert in automating workflows using different technologies.
Currently working as Team Lead at Guardian Life Insurance
GRE: 326
Goal: To get into the startups and Private equity
Reco Letters: Can arrange letters from my Director and managers in the US.

Let me know if I can provide any other information

Hi vishnusnow

Your undergraduate GPA seems unusually low. Can you confirm how you converted it to a 4.0 scale (if it was not already on that scale)?

Hi I'm looking for a profile evaluation for the full-time 2 year MBA at Hass starting next year (2022)
Below are details of my profile

Demographic
Indian | Male | Age 25

GMAT
710 (Q49 V39 | IR 6 | AWA 6)

Academics
Under-Graduation: 75.74% (First Division) | Bachelors in Commerce (Honours), Delhi University
12th Grade: 96.75% | Commerce Stream
10th Grade: 9.6 CGPA

Post MBA Goals
Short Term: Marketing & Communication Impact Consulting
Long Term: Set-up my own design and communication consulting organisation

Target Recruiters
IDEO, Dalberg, Bridgespan Group, Ogilvy, Dentsu, Unilever, Frog Design (other similar recruiters, open to your recommendations as well)

Work Experience
Function: Marketing
Tenure: 3.5 years
Industries: Hospitality, Consumer Products & Services, Social Impact
Specialisations: Advertising, Strategy | Additional Exposure: Business Development, General Management

Tenure Details:
July'21 | Tentative Engagement with Malaria No More, India (This is yet to be finalised, but in the pipeline; I'm in the last phase of recruitement and have received a somewhat positive response)
/ Digital Marketing and Communication on their Nation-wide Malaria prevention awareness, treatment, and management Social Behaviour Change Communciation Campaign

December'20-Present | Self-Employed
/ Co-founded social media and website based e-commerce fashion brand 'aurai by dt' (hair accessories) - engaged with an NGO building livelihood of impoverished women through skill building in stiching and tailoring
/ Freelance digital advertising, content strategy, and design solutions consultant to small scale consumer product & service brands

April'20-October'20 | Vihara Innovation Network
/ Marketing and Business Development Associate

June'19-March'20 | Vizara Technologies Pvt. Ltd
November'19-February'20 | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi
/ Project Associate - International Heritage Symposium and Exhibition 2020

March'18-May'19 | Templatolio Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
/ Client Servicing Associate
/ Client Servicing Analyst

Co-curricular Development
Social Development:
June'20-Present | Rotary International
/ Member of Rotary Club of Delhi South Metropolitan. Taken active participation in monthly virtual meetings and assisted with operational and design solutions for those meetings

January'21-April'21 | Sofia Smart Centre
/ Engaged with this skill development NGO that enables impoverished women through skillbuilding to generate livelihood (for my hair accessories venture)

June'11 | Music Basti
/ Volunteered at the NGO focused on the holistic development of underprivileged children to bolster their personalities through the medium of music

Cultural Development:
September'14-May'17 | Music Society Member, Under-Graduation
/ Performed as member of the society at college annual fest

July'15 | Summer School, London School Of Economics (LSE)
/ Attended Summer School from London School of Economics (LSE) inManagerial Accounting and received 'A' Grade in the assessment examination

April'09-March'14 | Lead Guitarist-School Band, High-School
/ Participated in and won a few music competitions where I represented my school with my band
/ Performed on the opening day of the International PASH (Partners forthe future) German Leaders' youth camp; organised by the DPS Society in association with the Goethe Institute at Max Meuller Bhavan

February'09-January'12 | Rockschool Guitar Examinations
/ Cleared up till grade 4 guitar examinations with distinction; certified by Trinity School of Music, London

July'10-August'10 | Artek - The International Children's Festival, Ukraine
/ Represented India at this UN initiative, held in Ukraine. The festival encouraged cultural interaction and mutual dialogue betweenchildren from a vast variety of countries

Curricular Accomplishments
May'17 | Under-Graduation
/ Passed my undergraduate degree with First-Division

May'14 | Secondary Education
/ Ranked 10th in my high school, in a batch of approximately 1500 people, in the 12th grade CBSE Board Examination
/ Received a Gold Medal and Certificate of Merit for 7 consecutive years (2006–2014) of academic excellence - from my high school, D.P.S. R.K. Puram

Hobbies/Leisure
Watching sports-Cricket, F1, Tennis, Baseball / Electronic Music Production / YouTube Learning / Streaming Platforms / Traveling /Reading

Thanks for your help

Background and nationality: Hispanic US Citizen - lived in Argentina most of my life
Undergrad Information: BA in economics (7.09 / 10 GPA)
GMAT: 680 (took it twice)

Work Experience:
Mercado Libre (Leading E-commerce/Fintech company, 45+ million active users in 18 countries in Latin America)
Planning Supervisor, Mercado Envios, Pricing and Analytics team - promoted after 12 months to lead a new team focused on analytics of Delivery Promise
Senior Analyst, Mercado Envios, Pricing and Analytics team.
Nestle Purina
Demand Planner: Received 2018 Purina Ambassador Award. Award for performance, values, and principles

Extra-curricular:
- Diversity & Inclusion at Mercado Libre.
- Women's group at Mercado Libre.
- Media assistant for TedX Barrio San Nicolás
- Tae Kwon Do: Practiced for 10 years
- Extensive travel (+30 countries)

Post MBA goals: work at a leading tech company (amazon, google..) as a planning / operations manager

Hi ggiovanelli,

Thank you for sharing your profile. Starting with the stats, your undergrad GPA is good. The average GMAT score required for Haas is 725, while yours is quite lower. I recommend that you strive to increase your GMAT score and aim for a score of 720 or above to boost your chances. On the work front, I see elements of leadership in your profile that, if emphasized in your essays, can help you stand out. There is also an indication of career progression in your work, which is great. Your extracurricular activities are pretty interesting and highlight other aspects of your personality, which is wonderful. Tae Kwon Do and traveling, in particular, would assist you in adding diversity to your application.

Overall, your profile is good. However, in order to maximize your chances at Haas, I would advise you to strive to improve your GMAT score. What matters most is how you connect the dots and create a compelling narrative. What’s going to matter most is how you connect the experiential dots and build a great story. If you’d like, we are happy to hop on a call with you sometime this week to discuss your profile in length and further chances to Haas. Feel free to book a free session with us as per your convenience.

How to enhance your application and maximize your chances for fall intake

Cheers!
Neha Hadke
Profile Analyst & Community Manager, MBA and Beyond
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Email: neha@mbaandbeyond.com

Please let me know what you think of my profile and odds

Background: Mexican
Undergraduate: ITESM (Top LATAM university)/GPA: 85/100 (top 20%)
GRE: 325 (165Q/160V)
Work Experience: ~65 months of full-time work experience by matriculation.
4.5 years of experience in private equity at a US$1bn + fund in LATAM (1 year) then left to co-manage a small VC fund (spent 1.2 years there; US$5mm AUM) in Mexico. Once that fund was fully invested left to join a starting PE fund worked for 2.5 years there (4 promotions across work history). Recently joined a energy start-up in the US to gain more international experience prior to my MBA.

Post MBA Goals: Start my own ed-tech company or work at a ed-tech startup (think Coursera)

Strong LOR and Essays

Extracurriculars
co-captain of Private equity fund football team
Spend 20 hours a year cleaning rivers and planting trees (not much free time in private equity)
in college spent over 300 hours helping a small organization focused on improving the quality of life in low income rural towns in Mexico (roughly spent 20 hours a month)

Hi,

Would love to know what my chances would be if I apply to Hass in R2. Would be great if you can share which schools I should be targetting (Target, Stretch and Safety)

Personal Details: 25 M (Indian)

Academic:

GRE- 336 ( Q-170, V-166)
B.E. (Electrical Engineering) from IIT Delhi (Top Engineering College in India) - 7.7/10
WE - 4 years at the time of intake

Professional:

Worked 1.5 years straight out of college at Samsung R&D
- Worked as a software engineer to develop bluetooth systems.
- Picked up cross-functional tasks to work with teams across engineering, vendors and project managers

Working for the past 2 years at Goldman Sachs Bengaluru office as a software analyst
- Worked with multiple stakeholders across divisons to remediate operational risks of electronic trading systems.

Extra-curriculars:

- Was part of University field hockey and dance teams which won several competitions
- Also held leadership position in Dance club
- Was a manager at a student run NGO, handling a 3-tier team of 40+ volunteers across colleges in Delhi.

Post MBA-goal : Work at a Big Tech company as a Product Manager.

Hi,
Would appreciate your support for profile evaluation-
hass MBA...
Nationality- Indian
GMAT- 770
Work Ex - 52months (day of enrollment)
International work ex - 29 months
Industry- oil and gas , epc sector
Position- procurement engineer
Currently spearheading edtech business venture of the company in middle east market.
Certification- SAP MM, SIX SIGNA GREEN BELT, BLACK BELT, PMP(PDU CERTIFICATE ONLY, EXAM IN DEC 2021)
work exp in countries such as nigeria, saudi arabia, dubai etc...
Post mba career - consulting (operations/scm)
Long term- to head scm /operations division with amazon or walmart ...

Target school-
Hass...

Good essays-7/10
LOR- all good as have some interesting stories and have led multiple projects for big clients like aramco , sabic etc...

Looking forward to hearing from you...
Cheers

BR
Sk

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shaunak075:

You stand a good chance! Scores, GPA and experience looks about right for Haas.

You might want to jazz up your career goal a little bit. You have appropriate ST/LT goals but want to make sure you're determining what type of impact you can have in those roles.

I didn't see any ECs. Can you share any? That's the major missing component.

If you'd like to discuss or need help with your application, my team is available. Please sign up for a free consultation using the link below:

https://admissionado.com/free-consultation/

Ecs- Avg
Some participation college competitions...
Sports captain for volleyball and table tennis and winner for both in year 2015-2016
Dont have typical NGO exp but do have community impact example while i was stuck in saudi arabia because of covid.
Helped bring back 230 ppl from saudi in the midst of covid via chartered plane... repatriation support , so thats there...
Another instance was when i was able to help save my manager's life while he was having a heart attack, my quick thinking and action of taking him immediately to emergency treatment saved him...

Hobbies-
Motorcycle touring enthusiastic...have done many tours across india and some even in saudi while i was there....
Dared to do - ..
Budding trekking enthusiast...have done some beginner level treks to sahyadri montain ranges...
Soon will be joining everest base camp expedition in the month of December...
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Thats all... I know not much ecs but have some interesting stories ...

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Hi, please evaluate my profile. I am planning to apply for 2year Stem MBA ( specialization in consulting/finance ) in US [Round 2]. I’m a reapplicant at Duke, Ross, and, Cornell

Short term MBA goal : work as a consultant with firms, such as Mckinsey or BCG, and help global financial institutions solve strategic & operational issues.
Long term MBA Goal : To build a technology-driven banking option for India’s marginalized that merges the conveniences of Neo-banks with attributes of traditional banks.

About my profile:-
I am 29 year old Male from Mumbai, India. [ Nationality : Indian ]

Educational Qualification:-
Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), CFA Institute (Virginia, USA) - Cleared all levels in 1st attempt, Top quartile in 9 out of 10 subjects
Chartered Accountancy (CPA Equivalent), ICAI (Delhi, India) - Cleared all levels in 1st attempt, Top 5% amongst 43,000 students
Bachelor of Commerce, HR College of Commerce and Economics (Mumbai, India) - Secured First Distinction with a cumulative grade of 80%

GMAT Score :- 740 ( Q50 V41 )

Work Experience:-
I worked at Drip Capital INC (US based Fintech Startup) as Senior Finance manager from Dec’18 - present ( 2 years & 11 months ) - got one promotion
I worked at ITC Limited as Assistant Finance Manager from Nov’15 – Dec’18 ( 3 years & 1 months )
Total years of experience : 6 years ( as of today )
While entering MBA : 6.6 years

Achievements & Participation :-
At Drip Capital INC
• First hire in the finance department; Conceptualized financial management and regulatory processes across USA, Mexico, and India, and built a 5-member core team
• Spearheaded financial due diligence for Series-B funding of $25M led by Sequoia Capital and Accel and collaborated with US-based capital market team for securing first banking line of credit of $40M
• Ideated and convinced the founder on reorganization of business operations for better tax efficiency and delivered tax savings of $400,000 on y-o-y basis

AT ITC Limited
• Steered a 5-member team to evaluate and implement major impact points of new indirect tax regime on 20 projects operating across 15 states of India, effectively regulating yearly tax benefit of $14M
• Customized and automated information workflow in SAP software, an improvement unique across both ITC and SAP India, Augmented compliance and reduced manual reconciliation by 200+ manhours on y-o-y basis
• Key member of core team; Collaborated on yearly budgeting and quarterly variance analysis of capital expenditure across operational turnkey projects worth $850M
• Mentored 10+ member core team having average experience of 10 years; Enhanced their productivity, 4 of them got promoted

Outside Work
• Avid trekker - Trekked across South India and the Himalayas, Volunteer at local trekking club
• I have undertaken multiple pro bono engagements, wherein I helped fellow CA students/graduates with their study plans, career projections, general advisory, etc.
I want to maximise the chances of my selection. Kindly advise I should apply to which Top 20 US based B-school

I'm asking for an eval for a traditional MBA (2 yr) degree at Haas:

Background and nationality - Indian
Undergrad Information - Econ Major from St Xavier's College, Mumbai University; CGPA - 3.45
GMAT- 740; V44 Q47

Work experience and leadership - 2.2 years full time work ex. I have 7 months experience in product marketing at a small home automation/security business and 1.7 years experience as a product analyst for an OTT platform in a big tech company (Jio) that required me to perform many product management duties as well (Platform ownership, sprint planning, project management)
I have additional 6 months work ex being an editor (not a full time role) and some months experience participating in organizing a college festival but doubt that would be relevant.

Post MBA goals - I would like build on my current foundation to pursue product management in the consumer internet industry

Anything else?
I am currently also doing a 7 month Post grad certificate in product management in India and learning the basics of Python (as part of the course)


My primary concern is if my work experience and the quality of it would be a deal breaker - and if not- if I would have limited scholarship opportunity because of it

Mallika18:

Yes, your concerns are limited work experience (less about quality and more about length) is going to make it more difficult for you to get into Haas. Scholarship money is going to be even more difficult.

Why do you need to apply this year? Are you eager to move on from your current role? Can you potentially spend another year working and apply next year? You could also switch jobs that potentially gets you closer to your goal of PM in the consumer internet industry.

Your extracurricular activities appear thin. That will also make it more difficult as those can balance out work experience for younger candidates.

I'm not saying you can't apply, but even with a great GMAT score it'll be a tossup.

-Admissionado