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Alastair9

Hey,

Please evaluate my profile for ISB:

Age: 27 yr

GMAT Score: 680

Unfortunately this GMAT score is not going to take you places Alastair9. See if you can aim for at least 30 point improvement.

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Hello Alastair9

The information is too quantitative in its current form. Let us touch upon all the aspects-

1. Work Experience- Amazon brand can help, and the number of years is in the sweet spot, but very little information around career progression in these 4 years and what are the key achievements worth talking about. This will be a key differentiator that will help you stand out from the competition. if not for this profile evaluation, then at least for your essays, you should be thinking on the lines of bringing out the qualitative details around your work ex.
2. GMAT score- slightly below par for ISB. Can it be compensated? Sure, by strong work ex, extracurricular and clarity of thought- but as mentioned above, it is difficult to comment on the work ex in its current form.
3. Extracurricular- Most look dated, unless there are stellar achievements worth talking about. Just like work ex, the qualitative details are missing and going by the bullet list shared, these seem too old enough to help you stand out. Do you have any recent extracurricular worth talking about?
4. Career Goals- most important piece of the admissions puzzle, this helps the school understand fit with the candidate and the level of clarity for someone willing to spend a year and big money. This is missing from your post and makes the profile evaluation incomplete.

You may want to read here on what factors work in a profile and here to add to your research on career goals.

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Alastair9

Hey,

Please evaluate my profile for ISB:

Age: 27 yr

GMAT Score: 680

Educational Qualifications:

Graduation: Completed B.Tech ECE AKTU 62.64% (2018)
H.S.C: secured 69.8% from CBSE
S.S.C: secured 9.2 from CBSE

Work Experience:
Working as a Quality Specialist AMAZON 47 months

Extra Curricular:
• District Level National Children Science Congress Winner (2008, 2010)
• International Olympiad of Science (2011, Olympiad Rank 2236)
• National Science Olympiad (2010, Gold Medal, School level)

Responsibilities undertaken
• Organizer / College Fest
• School / Annual Fest
• School Prefect

Hello Alistair9

Your academic percentage of 12th and also Engineering is Avg and your GMAT score is below avg. The only way to make it up for your avg acads is by scoring a better GMAT score. For your information, the avg GMAT score of the current batch is 720.

All the best!

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Please review my profile for application to
ISB, Tepper, LSB, Kelley, Mccombs

Brief overview:

Name: Tanishk Gupta
Work Ex: Total 47 months in the Automotive industry, Reputed MNC.
Current Role: Subject matter expert, engine development.
GMAT: 700 (Q49, V37)

Decent profile Tanishk. I didn't see your goals mentioned. Make sure they align with your career experiences so far.
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Hello Tanishk

Your work experience seems to be very good. However, would need your academic percentages and some other details to advise if the GMAT score of 700 is good enough or not. Kindly share your updated resume to [email protected] for one to one profile evaluation.

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Hey,

Please evaluate my profile for ISB:

Age: 27 years

GMAT: Test yet not taken (Please suggest target score based on my profile)

Educational Qualifications:

Graduation: Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical from a Government college under Gujarat Technological University, CGPA: 8.56/10, Completed in 2016
H.S.C: secured 78.4% from Gujarat Higher Secondary Education Board
S.S.C: secured 92% from Gujarat Higher Secondary Education Board

Work Experience:
Working as a Sales Executive at Koch Engineering Solutions India Pvt Ltd (Group Company of Koch Industries Incorporation, USA). Total Experience: 68 months
Currently handling sales of Mass transfer equipment.

Extra Curricular:
• Secured 1st rank in Patriotic Singing Competition at School level
• Secured 3rd rank in Drawing Competition at School level
• Participated in events named "CHEM-MAGICA" during Confluence 2014 held at our college

Goal post MBA:
Finance/Investment Banking (Currently pursuing short term courses on securities market and investment banking).

Hello Sandip

Your academic % is good. Please send your updated resume to [email protected] for a one to one profile evaluation. The interaction will help us understand your work better and we can discuss your post-MBA goal possibilities.

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Hi,

Answering your questions as below:
1. I see that you have shared your score - GRE: 321 (164Q, 157V). Though there is no section wise average or range declared by the school, it is safe to assume that it would still be benchmarked. I think a slight push to your quantitative score would position you more competitively. The overall score is definitely considered. It is safe to assume that being close to the school average GRE of 328 is a good target score.

2. For the ISB PGP application process till the previous admission cycle you were required to submit one letter of recommendation preferably professional. An academic LOR is not a requirement of the process.

DesiMozart

Please evaluate my profile. Need answers to the following questions:
1. Is the GMAT/GRE is looked at section wise or the whole score is considered?
2. How many academic and professional recommendations are needed?

Target School: ISB Hyderabad

Demographics: Indian, Male, 25 years

Academic Background:
10th:9.6
12th:91.2
UG: B. Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from GGSIPU, CGPA:8.04 (First Division)

Test Scores:
GRE: 321 (164Q, 157V)
GMAT: Planning to take in the next 3 months

Activities in Undergrad:
- Event Management head at an entrepreneurial society at the college. Organized 10 events with a total of more than 3000 participants.
- Lead a team of 6 members to the finals of a national level hackathon 2018
- Research Intern at leading central university (NIRF top 10 overall, Top 10 for research output) under the Dean of computer science department for a duration of more than 1 year. Published 4+ research papers in International Springer conferences and 2 Research papers in Journals. The domain was use Artificial Intelligence in Disaster Management and Disaster Risk Reduction. This role overlapped with my full time work too. Managed both things simultaneously.

Work Experience:
- 3 years at Consulting (Big 4).
- Joined as an analyst. Promoted twice. Promoted from Analyst to Consultant in less than 2.5 years.
- Worked for large banking clientele (Top 50 bank worldwide) for implementing intelligent automation solutions.
- Worked across more than 10 projects, delivering more than 100 FTE benefits across different verticals like Lending Services, KYC, Banking Ops.
- Tech Lead at Strategic solution working group, responsible for proposing and researching new tech and Banking areas for automation.
- Directly interacted with and managed stakeholders form UK, Philippines and Sri Lanka.
- Responsible for design and development of automation solutions saving more than 5000 hours each month.
- Built a model for detecting shell companies and duplicate vendors, removing execution bottleneck and bringing down execution time from 36 hours to 3 hours.
- Implemented Ontology mapping to bring massive amounts of data in different formats into a unified format and developed a mechanism to query this data. The solution was used in a propriety Data Pipelining tool being developed at my parent firm.
- Led development of a platform to facilitate touchless access to office facilities during COVID restrictions for more than 60,000 employees at my parent firm.
- Developed Attrition Forecasting model at my parent firm for Human Resource Department saving more than 500 hours of manual analysis required every month.
- Designed conversational agent at my parent firm for regulatory independence compliance, resulting in a 70% reduction of front office mail queries for the Financial Markets.

Training & Certifications
- Different Udemy Certifications in programming tools.
- Trained more than 15 employees on different automation platforms.

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- Awarded the Quarterly SPOT award 4 times for exceptional client service.
- Awarded the Consulting's Kudos award 2 times.
- Awarded Badge in intelligent automation and AI.

Social Service:
- Served and Led Food Delivery initiatives during COVID at district level. The NGO is well known.
- Took sessions on Industrial Applications of Computer Science for students of 11th and 12th at a CBSE school.

Career Goal:
- Consultant at MBB. Want to work in banking/government clientele, consulting them on digital transformation and disruption.

Hello

If your career goal is to be a consultant at MBB, then you definitely should write GRE again. And for GMAT, please note that the avg GMAT score is 720 for the current batch. Please share your profile/cv for a one to one profile evaluation discussion to [email protected].

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Hi,Tanishk1234,

Thank you for your post!

First, I would like to say you have a decent GMAT score and a good amount of relevant work experience. Moreover, you did well adding more about your academic statistics to back your profile. However, since you belong to an overrepresented pool, a score of 720-730+ would increase your chances at ISB, Tepper, LSB, Kelley, and Mccombs.

You did a fine job mentioning each aspect of your work experience. Your accomplishments highlight your leadership and problem solving quality of yours. The same goes for your ECA; it’s efficient and diverse. All you need to do is mention the challenges faced, leadership roles played, the impact generated, and the relevant skills developed through your ECAs to bank upon them! In addition, stories related to your off-road trip to the Himalayas will help you start an interesting conversation with the AdComs. Regarding your post-mba goals, I want you to understand that defining an innovative & relevant post-MBA goal is one of the major aspects of an applicant’s profile. Hence you would require to define both your short-term and long-term goals by linking them to your past experiences.

All in all, you do have a decent profile and have a shot at McCombs, Kelly, and Tepper. Applying in early rounds could definitely help secure a spot in the top 10 US B-Schools. For your reference, I suggest you read How to strengthen your MBA application for Round 1 MBA? you will get some beneficial insights. You are a relevant applicant with a robust profile and have a good chance at the top MBA program. 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 help you with your profile-building strategy; feel free to book a free session with us at your convenience.

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Tanishk1234

Please review my profile for application to
ISB, Tepper, LSB, Kelley, Mccombs

Brief overview:

Work Ex: Total 47 months in the Automotive industry, Reputed MNC.
Current Role: Subject matter expert, engine development.
GMAT: 700 (Q49, V37)

Career Trajectory:

Graduate engineer Trainee (1 year)
Team manager New Model Quality: 1 Year 5 Months
Assistant Manager Product Development: 1 Year 6 Months

Major Accomplishments:
Designed and established an Organization-wide digital magazine with an outreach of 8537.
Proposed 5 new revenue streams to CXOs to enhance the digital presence of the organization as a part of the Incubation center.
Recognized for successfully conducting employee engagement activities for 5000 employees on a global scale.
Recognized for organizing engaging events to celebrate Quality month across organisation
Reduced problem resolution time by 50% by developing & implementing a data analytics system across 6 plants
Conducted 18 organization-wide skill development webinars as a project lead, helping more than 2000 employees
Collaborated as lead from New model center in a global project to resolve customer complaints across 5 countries

Academic:

Under Grad:
B tech Mechanical Engineer, CGPA 8.05
Under Grad Project was selected among the 40 most innovative projects of the State by the council of Science and Technology (govt body).

Intermediate:
90.8 % Second Position.
House captain: Led the House for a year, the house was rated the best in the school.

High school:
10 CGPA Gold Medalist

Extracurriculars:

First runner up in Business Simulation games, organized by AIMA at the organization level.
Winning captain of Intra-plant cricket championship.
Did a 2000 km Off-road trip to the Himalayas on a solo motorbike trip.
Grand Finalist in Guitar singing competition organized at the organization level.
Under 19 quarter finalist of table Tennis championship in east zone championship organized by CBSE.
Gold Medalist in JUDO karate at the Interschool level.

Volunteer Experience :

TOASTMASTERS INTERNATIONAL
Vice President of Public relations at HPTC
Responsible for Branding and Promotion (external and internal) of the club.

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Hello Tanishk1234 thanks for sharing your profile details with us. Hope you are doing well

I like that you have a product development background (non-tech) since this type of role generally brings a lot of exposure in terms of stakeholder management (often international in the automotive domain), production stakeholders, marketing teams, supply chain, R&D, and so on (in my own experience in the automotive sector).
Since in product development you are at the epicenter of all new project initiatives related to the product, it would be impactful to convey in applications, your experience in situations where you were faced with an uphill task of expediting projects, meeting deadlines with limited resources, resolving conflicts between stakeholders, influencing senior management to take suitable decisions, mentoring teams leveraging your subject expertise and so on. Your professional achievements are noteworthy and if presented well, will make a good case to pivot to the most popular industries post-MBA (consulting/strategy, tech, and analytics, general mgt).

Your GMAT is less than impressive for an otherwise very promising profile. How consistently did you perform on the mocks? Do you think you have 20-30 points up your sleeve and can take another shot at GMAT? If you can, your chances of getting an admission would go up drastically especially since you even have LSB and ISB on your list. I am also curious to know why do you have LBS on your list, you may want to evaluate your fit well before you apply.

Feel free to get in touch with me if you want to discuss about your profile in detail.

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Greeting,

I am an ISB Alum, CO15, and have been assisting applicants to get into global business schools since then.

For the ISB program, a minimum GMAT score of 710+ is ideal. You need to focus on your extracurriculars since it seems dated. There also seems to be a lack of leadership roles in your profile. It would be good if you could list the work projects and initiatives you have undertaken in recent years. ISB looks for a strong profile with good extracurriculars and leadership roles Along with the GMAT score. It is essential that you present a strong application with clear indications of what impacts have achieved in your endeavours.

Please feel free to contact us @crackadmission.com for any other queries you might have.

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Hello,

Please evaluate my profile for ISB:

Age: 25 yr

GMAT Score: 710

Educational Qualifications:

Graduation: Completed BTech in Mechanical Engineering from JNTUH in 2019 with 91.2%.
12th: secured 88% from Science stream from Telengana Board in 2015.
10th: secured 92% from CBSE Board in 2013.

Work Experience:

Working as a Policy Specialist / Geo Data Engineer for Google for the last 30 Months. (In a leadership role)

Extra Curricular:

1. Was the President for Indian Society for Technical Education.
2. Was the Head of Marketing and Fund Procurement for BKFCT.
3. Presented papers on "Leadership" and "Green Transportation"
4. Published a paper in an International Journal
5. Won a statewide hackathon
6. Bagged many awards like "Leading icon" and "Fast Learner" at workplace

Hobbies:

I am a very jovial and outgoing chap.
Love talking to people.
Love my guitar and singing.
Also cooking, diving, reading books , research about cars and stuff(An avid petrolhead)

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Hi,
From the information that you have shared here you have a strong profile. To stand out amongst equals prepare a strong application. Your achievements and leadership positions will definitely be a plus when you do that.

All the best!

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Hello Shounak16

A brief review of your profile:

1. Your academic % is good, especially your Engineering academic %. A GMAT score of 710 will go well along with your academic %.
2. You have held the office of responsibilities during your college days and display quality leadership experience. Hope this quality did not stop with your college and you have continued to display similar leadership qualities post your graduation when you started working.
3. The Leadership role/experience at work sounds good. Awards won at the workplace justify the quality of your leadership. If presented well, you stand a very good chance of getting the interview call.

Feel free to reach out to us for one to one discussion and a detailed profile discussion. Ex ISB Admission officers and the ISB Alums from similar backgrounds associated with us will help you make a strong application.

Check out our youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiJwHNknheQy6LQChCik7xg to know more about how we have helped prospective applicants applying to the ISB.

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Hi Shounak16

Interesting profile. What is your work like as a policy specialist and geo data engineer? Also, what are the goals that you want to achieve through the MBA?

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Hi,
You have a good profile but considering you come from an overrepresented pool of applicants it is recommended you try to up your GMAT score by another 20 to 30 points if possible. Good essays will be a game changer.
All the best!

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Hi, please help with my profile evaluation & do suggest how I can improve my profile to secure an interview call and subsequently a seat at ISB!

Indian
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School:
ICSE Class 10: 92% in 2013 (math and Econ)
ISC Class 12: 94% in 2015 (humanities)

Undergrad:
BSC Economics (Hons) from Symbiosis School of Economics in 2018.
CGPA: 7.88

Work Ex:
4 years at an international investment bank. Currently working with Credit Suisse as a market risk analyst.

Outside work:
2 internships. One at an NGO (in2016). One at an insurance company (in2017). Both internships were for a month.

Gmat:
720 (Q47,V41)

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Hi Mekhs,
Sharing the feedback on your profile below:

Academics: 10th, 12th and GPA keep you well within a competitive pool.
GMAT score: Also within range - you can try a re take if you feel you can increase the score. However this 720 will not be a road block - in fact will support your application quite well.
Work Ex: 4 years with an International investment bank is also a competitive work profile.
Extracurriculars : Past extracurriculars do reflect a well rounded profile, but the ones given here are not recent. It is understandable that everyone does not have a lot of time to pursue extracurriculars while they pursue their career. However you can add some recent engagement - you can consider continuing any of your extracurriculars/ hobbies to a next level if you have the time. It will be good.
Story: The story that you want to share and your goals post MBA - i.e. essays, application & interview would all be important for the seat that you aspire. Would suggest that you should spend ample time to work on all aspects of your application.

All the best!

Mekhs

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Hello!

Please help me in evaluating my profile for ISB and what my chances for selection might be. Here are my details -

Age/Gender - 28/Male

GMAT - Expected 750 (+/- 20 based on mocks)

Education -

CA (2021) - First attempt, but 5 years gap in between eligibilty and actually clearing final exams, marginally missed out on an AIR
LLB (2019) - Government Law College, Mumbai - Ranked top 1% in the University
B. Com (2014) - Institute of Distance and Open Learning, University of Mumbai - Ranked top 10 in the course of 6k+ students
12th (2011) - 81% - Maharashtra State Board
10th (2009) - 86% - Maharashtra State Board

Work Ex -

Founder/CEO of a seed funded mobile gaming startup, since Jan 2021.
Legal/financial consultant to a few SMEs in the housing and wine industry.
Co-founded a fantasy sports website in 2018 with IIT/IIM grads. Shut down in 2020. No salary, was paid in equity.
3 years CA articleship at a small CA firm.

I'm primarily concerned about -

quality of my undergrad (since it was a correspondence course)
no metric for establishing my rank in CA and university courses
amount of work ex (whether 3 years of CA articleship and 2 years of unpaid startup experience would count)
quality of my work ex (although with big responsibilities, it has been in small startups)

Thank you!

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Originally posted by essaysexpert on 28 May 2022, 05:51.
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Hi adityaroongta, the motivation for each course or professional pursuit needs to be clearly portrayed in the essays since as it is depicted now, it appears patchy and impulsive. Your achievements are great, you need to lucidly spell out the reasons for taking up for initiatives for the application to appeal to ISB. All the best and I hope you achieve your target score! In case you need help with essays, do reach out.

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CA (2021) - First attempt, but 5 years gap in between eligibilty and actually clearing final exams, marginally missed out on an AIR
LLB (2019) - Government Law College, Mumbai - Ranked top 1% in the University
B. Com (2014) - Institute of Distance and Open Learning, University of Mumbai - Ranked top 10 in the course of 6k+ students
12th (2011) - 81% - Maharashtra State Board
10th (2009) - 86% - Maharashtra State Board

Work Ex -

Founder/CEO of a seed funded mobile gaming startup, since Jan 2021.
Legal/financial consultant to a few SMEs in the housing and wine industry.
Co-founded a fantasy sports website in 2018 with IIT/IIM grads. Shut down in 2020. No salary, was paid in equity.
3 years CA articleship at a small CA firm.

I'm primarily concerned about -

quality of my undergrad (since it was a correspondence course)
no metric for establishing my rank in CA and university courses
amount of work ex (whether 3 years of CA articleship and 2 years of unpaid startup experience would count)
quality of my work ex (although with big responsibilities, it has been in small startups)

Thank you!

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Hi All,

Please help me evaluate my profile for ISB.
Any help is appreciated!

Age: 23 yr

GMAT Score: 710 [Quant:50 , Verbal:35, I.R.:3 , AWA:6]

Educational Qualifications:

Graduation: B.Com (Hons.) from Delhi University (7.56 CGPA)
12th (CBSE Board - India): Commerce with Maths (90%)
10th - 8.8 CGPA

Work Experience:
Assurance Senior at EY with experience of more than 2.5 years.
Work role includes leading a team of associates, performing multiple financial analyses and handling end to end processes.

Extra-Curricular:
● Organising Member, WIBE (EY), Responsible for organising and handling in-house team engagement activities and out-house team building activities.
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● Head of Photography (DU Beat - India's Largest Student-run media organisation) - Led a team of 30 people and managed all the operations throughout.
● Participated in and won multiple photography competition
● Completed 20+ projects in Fashion and Event Photography.
● Coordinator, Kitaab Club (Social welfare)- led a team of 10 members to handle operations and raise funds for teaching campaigns for needy students.

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Leadership roles during undergrad and at EY will have to be significantly fleshed up in the essays for the profile to be competitive given the 710 GMAT. It is a good score but things tend to get extremely competitive there. Do you have the bandwidth to retake the exam and increase the score up to 740 / 750? That would put you in a more competitive position. In any case, even if you cannot retake the exam, I do feel you should give it a shot. If you have any other questions, feel free to reach out.
Best!

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