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Hi fdundo

The rest looks good, but please try and raise your GRE score by at least 5 points.

Hi Opiumcandy
- Overall, with a law and advocacy related profile, you would bring a lot of diversity. That, and the 700 GMAT, can help overcome the low GPA.
- Would invite more details on your career goal. Way it seems right now, you would be bringing more of your legal skills to such a role. Would need to think more deeply to understand how the MBA would help here. Generally, most lawyers applying to ISB take the corporate route. Social consulting is not impossible for you (you have after all been providing pro bono legal advice too), but would need more scoping.

Hope this helps. Feel free to come back with more queries as needed or to get in touch directly for a quick chat.

Hi OpiumCandy,

You have substantial work experience as a corporate and litigating lawyer. From this, you will have to find the right nuggets that would be relevant to business school and would excite the adcom for the business knowledge and learning you bring to the MBA class. Some questions that come to my mind are: What kind of experience do you bring through the real estate court? Have you worked on any high profile cases? Have you been involved in RERA cases? Spoken to the regulators? At the Family court, have you been involved in cases related to trust laws, HUF? Basically, what are the cases that you have worked upon that involved some business and would thus be relevant for business school? For the NGT, have you been involved in some landmark cases which you could leverage to position your career goals in the development sector? Lastly, it will be important to tie all of the above together to make a case for why you need an MBA? While an MBA does help pivot a career change, you should have clarity on how it would help YOU in particular in achieving that outcome.

Among the extracurriculars, your help to the underprivileged women ties directly to your lawyer experience and is thus very valid. The NSS stuff, i would say is dated and of lesser value.

Hi All,

Please evaluate my profile and let me know on the chances of getting in

Nationality: Indian
Gender: Male
Age: 26 years
Class X: 93.2%
Class 12: 94.4%
BE in Civil engineering (PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore): 9.12%
GRE Score: 326 (Q167 and V159)

Work Ex:
Overall 4 years of experience in Decision Science company "Mu Sigma Business Solutions Pvt. Ltd."
Working with Fortune 100 US bases organizations. Primary role as a Program Manager

Extracurricular:
Active at quizzing and theatre through school and college
Help start the only online college magazine
Participated in CSR initiatives from company side

Post MBA goal:
Switch to roles in consultancy, strategy or technology sector

Please let me know.

Hi sharatrbabu
- Your professional experience is quite favorable. Analytics professionals are in demand, as much at ISB as in industry.
- Your GRE score and academics are good as well.
- Please provide more details on your ECA and you level of involvement. Slight concern area here as quizzing and the college mag may not count for too much.
- On your goals, strategy will be tough to get into. Tech is possible, but depends on your exposure so far. Consulting is on.

Hope this helps. Feel free to come back with more queries as needed or to get in touch directly for a chat.

Hi Team,

Please evaluate my profile and tell me the probability to get into ISB and top 50 Eurasian b schools

MALE, GENERAL, ENGINEER

AGE; 25
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

1OTH: 87.8(ICSE)
12TH: 96.2
GRAD:80.82 (MECHANICAL)
COLLEGE: GVPCOE (1 OF THE TOP IN THE STATE)

WORK EX: 4 YRS IN TCS

1. WORKED AS MECHATRONICS ENGINNER IN PRINTER PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT FOR 8 MONTHS
2. QUALITY SPOC AND LEAD FOR 20 MEMBERS IN NETWORK BUILD PROJECT

WHY MBA: INTROSPECTION ON MY LEADERSHIP ABILITY. FELT HARD TIME LEADING 20 PEOPLE AND ALSO WANT TO SHIFT TO CORE DOMAIN AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

ACHIEVEMENTS:

1. NOT SO NOTABLE ON STATE OR NATIONAL LEVEL
2. WON NIIT CERTIFICATIONS IN SCHOOL
3. CONDUCTED EVENTS IN COLLEGE TECHNICAL FEST

HOBBIES:

COOKING, CRICKET

GMAT SCORE: YET TO TAKE

KINDLY REVIEW MY PROFILE AND GIVE ME SCORE TO TARGET.

THANKS

Thank you so much for your response. Regarding ECA - as part of the company CSR I have helped solving the problem of traffic in Rural Bangalore, India. As with quizzing, I made it to the finals of Tata Crucible Zonal round in college. Additionally, I have contributed to NGO- Make a Difference (MAD) during my college days by helping them in organization various events.

For YLP 2019 (Admit 2021/22)

Nationality - Indian
Gender - Female
Age - 20
Background - Commerce
Graduation - Sri Venkateswara College’ 19

Percentage/ GPA
10th - 9.4
12th - 95.6%
Graduation - 7.5

Extra Curricular (College)

- Placement Cell, Placement Coordinator 2016-2019
- Finance Club 2016-2017
- Marketing Club, Executive Member 2016-2017
- Social work - ABLE Charities India, Team head (2016-2019)
- Choreography society, SVC (2017)
- Campus Ambassador SPJain 2018-2019

School
- Recieved 6 scholar badges
- scholarship for class 11th - 12th
- Prefect, Student council
- Annual functions (Dance)



I gave gmat on 10/7/19 and scored 610 (47/27)

I’m giving another attempt on 15/8/19.

Please let me know how to improve my profile and what score should I target?

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Hi ShagunAbbey

Are you currently in contention for YLP Round 2 (after clearing Round 1)?

Looks decent Sharat. Go ahead and start working on your apps and target R1.

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ShagunAbbey

As of now focus your efforts only on the app and the GMAT. You are 70+ points away from a decent score (YLP-wise) and ~100+ from a competitive one. Also make sure you put in a strong essay and app - the topic for this year requires a lot of thought to select the right examples and emphasis.

Apart from these angles, the rest of your profile is fine.

Hi rahul396

You belong to one of the most competitive segments of applicants. Therefore your aim should be to bring out aspects of your profile that set you aside from your peers. Some of these could be in the form of achievements, initiatives, and awards at work, others could be in the form of extracurriculars. Cooking can be a great hobby too; if you are really serious about it and can talk about it in-depth, say, for instance, a signature dish. Further, we feel that you may need a little more clarity on goals - both short term and long term and what kind of roles would you like to take up.

In terms of GMAT, aim for a high GMAT score 720-730, and of course, the higher the better.

Hope this helps. Feel free to reach out for a discussion.

Hi

Requesting a profile review.

Management consultant at a boutique firm. 3 years of experience with an on-track progression in terms of promotions and responsibility-specialising in private healthcare as well as Impact Investment.

CGPA of 3.2 from St. Xavier's Mumbai-BA Economics-Commerce

Strong leadership experience in extra currics, ahead of cohort

But poor scores on my XII board. HSC 79%. 92% in the X grade.

Yet to take my GMAT

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Hi Moulika,
your work experience sounds relevant for business schools - although it would be great to hear the details of what you do and what your achievements are. You should be good to apply to ISB this year - just get a good GMAT score - think 700+

All the best.

Hey - I am planning to apply for ISB Round 1 and here's my profile -

10th - 90.00
12th - 89.60
Undergrad - 8.72/10, VIT Vellore

Work Ex - Deloitte Consulting, 3.5 years, Salesforce Consultant. Always rated in the 5%, can get stellar recommendation from manager. Worked with clients from varied industries like Healthcare, TMT, and Public Sector.

Extra-curricular - Toastmasters member, organised events in college, active participant in CSR activities.

GRE - Have a score of 317 in GRE. Planning to give GMAT next month, scoring around 680 in mocks taken yet.

Thanks in advance!

Hi namitav

The rest looks good; two priority areas:
- Raise your test score. Target 700+ on the GMAT. Minimum 690.
- Your ECA need a deeper look. Toastmasters and event organization are not very differentiated. Please provide more details.
- Other than that, academics and professional experience are quite good.

Hope this helps. Feel free to come back with more queries as needed.