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10 Dec 2020, 02:32
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Hi raindr0p,
It is no doubt that you have an outstanding profile in terms of your GMAT score, GPA, ECs and work-experience. Your specialised banking and finance work-experience in itself makes your profile very strong and your ECs showcase your competitiveness.
At each point, your profile looks highly competitive. You may check the detailed class profile here
One thing I would like to stress upon is the importance of hobbies and learnings. You have to make a good story around how your certain hobbies and past have made you a good candidate to pursue an MBA at Harvard. You’ll also have to highlight how all this will blend together and make you a good leader in the long-run.
While there are a lot of ways to go around it, I will personally not recommend you to write and speak in your essays and interviews which you haven’t done or haven’t been through. To counter this, the adcoms grill the candidates to their very core. Also, for any school, exhibit that you are TRULY interested in their program through your past actions.
Columbia can be a great choice as well for your career goals. If you'd like, we are happy to hop on a call some time this week to discuss your chances in further detail and help you understand these top schools better. Feel free to book a free session with us as per your convenience.
Cheers!
Shantanu Sharma, Linkedin
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It is no doubt that you have an outstanding profile in terms of your GMAT score, GPA, ECs and work-experience. Your specialised banking and finance work-experience in itself makes your profile very strong and your ECs showcase your competitiveness.
At each point, your profile looks highly competitive. You may check the detailed class profile here
One thing I would like to stress upon is the importance of hobbies and learnings. You have to make a good story around how your certain hobbies and past have made you a good candidate to pursue an MBA at Harvard. You’ll also have to highlight how all this will blend together and make you a good leader in the long-run.
While there are a lot of ways to go around it, I will personally not recommend you to write and speak in your essays and interviews which you haven’t done or haven’t been through. To counter this, the adcoms grill the candidates to their very core. Also, for any school, exhibit that you are TRULY interested in their program through your past actions.
Columbia can be a great choice as well for your career goals. If you'd like, we are happy to hop on a call some time this week to discuss your chances in further detail and help you understand these top schools better. Feel free to book a free session with us as per your convenience.
Cheers!
Shantanu Sharma, Linkedin
Founder and Admissions Consultant, MBA and Beyond
Testimonials
Email: [email protected]
What s app: +65-97158525
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10 Dec 2020, 22:13
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Hi there,
Academically, a GPA of 3.9 showcases your academic prowess which coupled with your international exposure will help differentiate you from the crowd. Most schools are looking to add diversity to their cohort and your background gives you a unique perspective which definitely provides a valuable addition to their program.
While your grades do play an important part, your extracurricular activities and your other endeavors matter as well because AdComs are constantly looking for applicants with holistically developed profiles. Thus, it is essential to shed light on the endeavors you’ve taken up at the clubs, associations, fest, and events you managed or participated in during your undergrad/postgrad.
For your extracurricular activities, your achievements and role of founding and leading the Investment Club as well as being designated as the president of the Investment Banking Club during your UG showcases your leadership skills and ability to take on initiatives. Therefore, make sure you elaborate on your entrepreneurial traits, what you did in these roles, and how you handled problems, planned the events, raised funds, etc. You should dig deeper into this aspect and bring out varied skills in your profile. Though to be clear, Adcoms are more interested in impacts created, rather than participation, hence highlighting your quantifiable achievements would help enhance your application.
As far as your work experience goes, you should focus on explaining and highlighting major projects of your work and how these experiences helped you develop and further groom your skills and knowledge. Additionally, since you lack big brands in your CV and you would be competing against applicants with work experience from the big four firms, you need to highlight why you chose these firms, how you have gone beyond the role, any initiatives you’ve taken, and any kinds of impacts created to showcase a strong profile.
Moreover, since an MBA focuses more on the quality of the work and the brand name, you should attempt bagging a job in the big four firms within the time period of 3 years or so before enrolling for the program.
Furthermore, you could take up some courses or certifications in the field of management, as top b schools are on the lookout for those who are constantly on the path of upskilling themselves. Also showcasing any volunteering or CSR activities that you participated in during your work experience would strengthen your application. If you do not have any yet you should definitely work for a social cause or an NGO as it would showcase your drive to give back to society.
As for your GMAT, your overall score is on the lower end and for most of the management courses, it is one of the referencing points. That said, if you are open to boosting your score further, I would recommend that you retake the GMAT to improve your score by 50-60 points and aim for a minimum overall score of 710 and above to increase your chances at the top business schools like Georgetown, Vanderbilt, Emory, and Cornell.
Overall you have a pretty decent profile and you can be targeting several programs at the top schools. As for the schools you are targeting, Cornell and Vanderbilt fall into the dream category while Georgetown and Emory fall into the competitive category.
You would have a 40-50% chance of getting an admit from the schools in the dream category and a 60-70% chance from the schools in the competitive category. Even though you have a pretty good profile but you need to remember that you will be competing with aspirants with equally good or better profiles. Hence, to increase your chances of getting admitted to these schools you would need to ensure that you have a very strong application to back your profile. Hence, you need to back the application with finely drafted LORs, Resumes, and Essays that highlight your strengths and overshadow your weaknesses.
Moreover, whenever you are applying to schools abroad, it is always better to target a good mix of dream, competitive, and safe schools. Hence you can broaden your options, and thus look at 7-8 more schools in the respective mix of categories that better fit your profile.
Having said that, if you want to know more about where you stand amongst the competition or about the other top B-schools that you can target, you can take up a FREE Profile Evaluation that will give you a more accurate and personalized suggestion based on your inputs.
Click on the link below to avail your free evaluation:
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Hope this helped!
11 Dec 2020, 06:58
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Hey there!
You have a pretty decent profile.
Starting off with your academic background, your GPA of 4.8/5 coupled with your GMAT score of 730 authenticates your academic prowess and opens the door for you to target most of the top schools in the world.
Coming on to your work experience, you have 3.5 years of work experience in notable organizations and companies. However, you need to be mindful of the fact that your work experience does fall short as compared to the average applicant for an MBA program and you’d be competing against applicants from Big4 companies. To negate the lack of big brand names, talking about the kind of projects you have undertaken, the impact you created and your career progression with major learning takeaways would definitely showcase the quality of your work and establish you as no less than a big4 candidate.
Further, on the note of extracurriculars, you must be cognizant of the fact that schools seek applicants having a holistic profile. Hence, your participation in various programs and competitions such as the Future Leaders Exchange program and Erasmus Intensive program displays the breadth of knowledge you possess in the domain as well as your competitive spirit. Your experience at the Krynica Economic Forum panel discussion highlights your excellent communication skills while your participation in Google Startup Week showcases your multifaceted and diverse skill set. Moreover, clearing a competitive exam such as CFA level 2 furthers goes on to prove the mettle of your excellent financial skills. Even though all of these varied experiences do paint a picture of a well-developed and holistic profile, schools tend to favor candidates with community involvement as it showcases the candidate’s skill to apply theoretical knowledge to bring forth positive change in society. Hence, to build upon the same you should partake in volunteering activities at a local NGO or Non-profit organization.
You also have various experiences that add international exposure to your profile which gives your profile a boost and sets you apart from the average applicant pool
Given your school choices, all of the schools you wish to apply to fall under the dream category which means that these schools have an acceptance rate of 8-12% and hence you stand a 40-50% chance of making it into the program.
Having said this, I would suggest you to hedge your bets wisely and apply to a few schools in the competitive category (chances of acceptance - 70%) as well. Hence, you can also look forward to target schools such as UCLA Anderson, Cornell, McDonough, Tepper etc.
Lastly, you must lay emphasis on your admission application as the application acts as the window through which the admission committee can peer into your skills calibre and your personality. But simultaneously, it is also the way through which you can highlight your strengths and give apt justifications for your weaknesses (Lack of work experience and big brands) to smooth over any flaws in your profile. Moreover, a strong application holds a 30% weightage in the entire admission process and hence it is imperative that you use this tool in your arsenal to the best of your advantage.
All things considered, since the second round of applications is fast approaching, you can book a free consultation call with our expert consultants who would clear any doubts you may have regarding the admission process and would help you chalk out a winning strategy that would definitely earn you an admit from your dream school!
Link for the FREE Consultation Call:
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Hope this helped!
