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Thanks Apphelp!
I'll rephrase my question to - will spending 4.3 years at ZS have an impact on my post-MBA chances? Any help is much appreciated

Thanks a lot MBADecoder! I'll keep these points in mind

Hi there,

From what I can tell so FAR your profile and GMAT sound viable for the schools you are focusing on, but of course any additional points can potentially help when things are so competitive. So IF you feel a higher score could be within reach without a huge additional effort (based upon practice test scores and your own assessment of your ability), then there's no reason not to try just in case it helps! But you know yourself best, so if you feel you're tapped-out test score wise you can also move forward with applications.
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Hi,
I like your international experience for ISB; try to emphasize what you've learned and gained from those experiences. Your involvement is a plus too. Work experience sounds solid but I don't know the full details of what you've accomplished and the impact you've had. In terms of GMAT, GOOD LUCK on the 30th, and stay positive... many do see improvements from highest practice tests to the real-deal. It'd be great to be a little higher, stay optimistic and see what happens! Feel free to reach out afterwards for more input.
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Hi!!
Indian male (22 years old)
Acads
X 89.06 (2010)
XII 81.67 (2012)
BE (mechanical) 8.76/10 (2016)
Got few scholarships too(I don't know whether it would add anything)
Ratan Tata scholarship 1 lakh
Narotam sheksaraia scholarship 50k

Work ex 13 months manufacturing sector

GMAT 710

Extra curricular
College council events
Worked as Public representative officer for mechanical engineering students association

Can you please tell me what are my chances of getting into Isb if I apply through early entry option

Thank you


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Hi Erabm1439s,

No it does not. If anything, pre-MBA consulting is a great role to have and ZS is a great brand on the resume.

Hi mdgk,

ISB EEO is designed for applicants with less than 24 months of full-time work experience to secure their admission to the ISB PGP. Since ISB does not expect exemplary professional achievements from you with lesser work-experience, the focus of your application would be your academic background, GMAT and extracurriculars. While academics are okay, you would need more compelling extracurriculars (or even GMAT or any other achievements). Overall, exemplary essays can see you through, if you can build in that wow factor that can differentiate you from your peers.

Hi,

Please evaluate my profile for the Early Entry Option.

GMAT- 700 (V34, Q50, IR 6) - 22nd Sept,2017

10th- 86.6%

12th- 89.6%

Integrated Master of Science - Chemistry (5YR), IIT Kharagpur - 7.41/10

Work experience- 1 year 3 months

EXL Service (1 years 3 months)

Working in Retail & Media vertical of EXL.
My work majorly involves examining data trends and investigating business hypotheses to develop actionable insights and subsequently create front-end data-products for one of the leading global shopping centre companies in the U.S. & U.K

Only fresh recruit out of a batch of 300 to be awarded “Rising Star – Q3 2016” for exceeding management expectations.

Received accelerated promotion within 1 year.


NGO experience:

Mentored 20 socially challenged children (age group 12-14) for their upliftment in Izhevsk, Russia in a volunteering project.

International Experience:

One of the two students all over the world to be selected for summer research position at CNRS, Castres (France)


Awards & Achievements:

1. Institute Blue - Conferred by the Director for contribution to the Sports & Games at IIT Kharagpur and for bringing laurels to the institute in different competitions including Inter-IIT Sports Meet
2. Gold medalist, Cricket, 50th Inter-IIT Sports Meet (IIT-Bombay) - Inter IIT Sports meet is the annual sports meet of Indian Institutes of Technology. The meet is a General Championship consisting of 15 different Sports and Games for both boys and girls.
3. Silver Medalist, Cricket, 49th Inter-IIT Sports Meet (IIT Guwahati)
4. Rising Star - Q3 2016 (EXL Services)
5. Bronze medalist - Inter-Hall Choreography, Football & Hindi Dramatics
6. Hall Blue : for contribution in cricket
7. Special Mention : for hostel related activities
8. Medals in Inter-university sports tournaments

Positions of Responsibility:

*Contested for the post of Vice-President, Gymkhana (highest student position of IIT KGP); soapbox attended by 2000 students

1. Vice Captain, Inter-IIT Contingent, IIT Kharagpur- 51st Inter-IIT Sports Meet (IIT Madras)
2. Cricket Captain - Hostel
3. General Secretary, Sports - Hostel
4. Core Organising Team Member of Shaurya (Inter-collegiate sports meet of IIT KGP)
5. Cricket Secretary, Gymkhana


Internships:

1. Housing(dot)com
2. Laboratoire de chimie de coordination, Toulouse (France)
3. Dr.Reddy’s Laboratories
4. Hetero Drugs

Scholarship:

Recipient of INSPIRE scholarship for 5 years.

Can someone please help me understand my chances of making it through EEO. Given that my CGPA and GMAT are on the lower side, do you recommend taking the GMAT again & apply for R2 instead of R1?

Thank you very much for the consideration.

Hi pm12345,

You have a good profile. Since academics are a crucial part of the EEO, it would make sense to give GMAT another shot (especially if you were scoring higher in mock tests). Boosting GMAT by 20-30 points will make a lot of difference to your application.

Hi pm12345,

I am an ISB alum CO14, and through my admission consulting firm, CrackAdmission (www.crackadmission.com) have been assisting applicants in their journey to global business schools. Please find below my evaluation of your profile :

Strengths of your candidature : IIT KGP Brand name, Accelerated Promotion, International Experience, Cricket related honours and positions of responsibilities, Internships across broad spectrum of industries, Consistent Scholarship recipient, NGO Experience with an international community, switch to a research firm after doing a masters in Chemistry.

However, there are certain aspects of your candidature that might pull you down – average GMAT, average CGPA.
I am confident that with a strong application where you demonstrate your strengths and how they will help you to add value to the ISB community, you can definitely raise positive interests of the admission committee in R1 with your current score. Having said that, you will need to showcase very clearly as to how you are certain that you will need ISB’s MBA program, almost 1.5 years before you join the institution. Also, what you will be doing in the next 1 year to make the maximum out of the ISB program and also improve your chances to achieving your post MBA goals.

Please feel free to get in touch with me at contact@crackadmission.com and/or +919701215544 (Calling) in case you want a detailed discussion.

Wish you the very best.

Cheers
CrackAdmission Team
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Hi! It would be really helpful if you could evaluate my profile

Male, 29

Class X: 87% (Tamil Nadu State Board)
Class XII: 92% (Tamil Nadu State Board)
B Com: 78% (GRD School of Commerce and International Business)
Professional qualification: Chartered Accountant

Work experience:

1) 5 years post qualification experience with EY as a tax and corporate law consultant - Currently a manager

2) 3 1/2 years of articleship experience with work involving conducting statutory audits, preparation of projected financial statements for loan syndication, etc

Volunteer experience:

1) 1 1/2 years experience with AIESEC - a global student-run not-for-profit engaged in facilitating student exchanges globally

2) Currently working with Make a Difference (MAD) (engaged in providing support to under-privileged children by way of education support, mentoring, etc) as a fundraising volunteer

GMAT: I currently have a GMAT score of 680

Any guidance would be helpful - Thanks!!

Hi Udit,
Trust you are doing well.
I am an ISB alum, CO14, and have been assisting applicants in their admission journeys o global business schools for the last few years. Please find below my take on your profile.
ISB loves CA’s to be part of its classroom as CA’s bring the much needed finance/taxation experience to the table. This in itself gives you an edge over a lot of people in the application pool. Having said that, this information is open source and off late a lot of CAs have been applying to ISB thus making the pool more competitive.
Your experience with a global name such as E&Y validates your credentials. However, you will need to clearly state what will be your post MBA goals and how your current experience and ISB’s PGP program will complement to help you achieve the goals.
Apart from the obvious facts as to how a CA adds value to the classroom, you will have to be very specific how you ‘Udit’ will benefit the classroom. This has to be something highly correlated to the specific projects you have worked on and expertise you have developed.
As far as volunteer experience is concerned, you will need to call out what motivates you to contribute, what have you learnt from these engagements, how has it influenced your personality and what impact you have had.
It is common notion that role of a CA is mostly as an individual contributor. Therefore it become critical for you to showcase where and how you have demonstrated leadership and team management.
In a nutshell, with a highly articulated application (Essays + LOR + form) where you portray clarity in your thoughts, you have a good shot at raising interests of the admission committee.
Please feel free to get in touch with me at arijit.biswas@crackadmission.com and/or +arijit_biswas89 (Skype) in case you want a detailed discussion or need professional assistance.
Wish you the very best !!
Cheers
AB
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Thanks in advance to evaluate the profile

Background-31M, Indian

GMAT: 660, 51Q, 27Q, Preparing for another attempt

12-86
B.Tech-75 with honor's

Professional: 7+ years of experience. started as an Engineer Trainee at Infosys (India) and then moved on to Technology analyst within 3 years. I was instrumental in doing a PoC (proof of concept) resulting in a multimillion contract. I further built a cross-functional QA team to assist with implementation. Seeing my integrity and technology advances I was chosen to lead the team at the client location and establish deeper relationships, winning employee of the quarter award. I moved on to VMware, USA as a Member of Technical staff responsible for a crucial project with beverage industry leader to create a smart machine and was awarded for going above and beyond to identify an error that saved around $400k

International Work; 4+ years

Extra- Curricular: I use my creativity through Dramatics as a tool to educate people and spread awareness. I was a state level boxer and now help kids interested in boxing with basic training and equipment. I am active with Teach for India and other Non-Profit organizations. I co-founded an environment club In the very first year, we planted 15000 trees around our community and organized educational trips, quizzes, and seminars & guest lectures. This club is being run by current students.

Hobbies: Numismatic, poetry-writing

Hi Experts,

Please help evaluate my profile for the ISB - 2018. Below are my details.

GMAT1 - (650) Q47, V33, IR 3, AWA - 5.5 - Date - 22nd July, 2017.

GMAT2 - (680) Q49, V33, IR 4, AWA - 5.5(Guess) - Date - 25th Sep, 2017.

GPA - 3.3/4 (UG - Biotechnology Engineering Grad)
University - VTU (Karnataka)
Class 12 - CBSE - 75%
Class 10 - CBSE - 81%

7 years of Work experience with 3 years Onsite(Unites States)
Experience working with clients from United states, South East Asia - Singapore and Philippines, India and russia (for a very short duration).

Industry - Techno Functional Consultant. Banking and Financial Services Domain. Started working as a Systems Engineer in a Top Tier IT firm in India and now a Banking Domain Consultant.

Responsibilities include Client Meeting and discussion on requirements.
Provide consulting and Functional Expertise for Deposits and Lending Products for a Financial Services client.
Guiding an offshore team of 5 members from India on agile development projects and enhancements.

Extra Curricular - College Cultural Secretary and Placement Coordinator. Part of the College and school cricket team. Have participated and won may cricket tournaments for the inter companies Cricket events in India. Have been involved with Rotary clubs and organised a number of cultural events in the organisation and College. Have been in the organizing committee of the college for various events and International Seminars. Most prominent being an event on Trends in Nanotechnology and Future Developments at the IISC (Indian Institute of Science) Bangalore.

Please let me know if my profile is good enough to land an ISB interview call, or do I need to improve on my GMAT score. The Round 1 deadlines are 20 days away and I need to decide if I go for round 1 with current GMAT score or wait for couple of months , improve my score and opt for Round 2.


Thanks!!

To improve your chances I would highly recommend re-taking GMAT and get 700+. Thus target R-2 assuming you still need to work on your application. Good luck!

You might have to retake the GMAT as the competition is pretty intense for IT. Also, make sure that you do not include College Cultural Secretary & College and school cricket team in your Extra Curricular. Bschools looks for Extra Curricular which are more recent, usually in the last 3 to 4 years. When you say that you have been in the XYZ committee always mention the impact you had, designations alone don't carry much importance.

The international experience and extra curricular definitely strengthens your case. If you can get a GMAT of around 700, you should have a strong overall profile.

Thanks For the inputs Vivek. I will include more recent extra curriculars and definitely need to improve on my score.

Please evaluate my profile...

GMAT score: 700 (Q50,V34,IR8)

Btech (Mechanical Engg) from IIT (ISM) Dhanbad. CGPA of 7.02/10
10th : 91.4 %
12th: 91%

Age 25, Male.
Working exp: 4 years in PSU (Maharatna Company)
Recipient of CBSE scholarship
Should I have to take GMAT again

Target Colleges: ISB, NUS singapore, Insead, LBS

Thanks