May 07: Live Profile Evaluation Chat Session with ARINGO

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Live Profile Evaluation Chat Session with ARINGO MBA admission consultants

Wednesday, May 07, 2025, at 9:00 AM PST | 09:30 PM IST | 12:00 PM EST

What’s in it for you- Live Profile Evaluation Chat Session with Jenifer Turtschnow, CEO ARINGO.

Come with your details prepared and ARINGO will share insights!
Pre-MBA Role/Industry, YOE, Exam Score, C/GPA, ECs
Post-MBA Role/ Industry & School List

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Sajjad1994 · Answer

Hello Everyone! We have a live MBA chat session with ARINGO today at 10:30 pm IST | 10:00 am PDT. Stay tuned

This is an MBA profile evaluation chat session so please keep your profile ready to post.

Thank you ARINGO for joining, Let’s start the session

I have two profiles from users who requested for evaluation.

ARINGO · Answer

Excellent! I will start from the top, but please keep adding your requests as we go!

Sajjad1994 · Answer

Nationality : Indian
Gender : Male
Age:25
Education
10th - 80.16%
12th - 81.86% (Science Stream)
BTech - 8.14 CGPA (Passed out from NIT Silchar)
GMAT - 650

Work Experience
1. Worked for a Big 4(Deloitte USI) for about 20 months.Domain - Cyber Risk
2. Internship at Kitabee Educational Services(2 Months)

Extra Curricular Activities
1. Captained the basketball team (during my final year) of my School and colleges (BTech and PG)
2. Member of football, badminton and table tennis teams during my PG.
3. Founding member of the All India Basketball Tournament held at NIT Calicut (Ragam Tournament)
4. Organized a public hearing at Badgaon, a village in MP (attended by likes of Asst Collector) for educating the public on importance of irrigation projects and getting their feedback.

ARINGO · Answer

WOW!!! Fantastic Profile - 765, family business, tech... all very good - statistically you are competitive for HSW - This is all depending on your goals and how you can utilize the program to get to that next step. R1 for sure!

Sajjad1994 · Answer

Here is the second one

General info:
28 y/o, asian female engineer turned supply chain manager
Education and stats:
1. Community college (2 yrs), 2013 - AS Engineering, 4.0
2. Johns Hopkins Univ (2 yrs) , 2015 - BS Materials Engineering, 3.78
3. GMAT 700
Work experience:
1. Supply chain manager in a biotech startup responsible for all manufacturing activities ($4M+ budget) and on-time delivery of products (1 year). Youngest member of an operations team of 5 (all others with 20+ years industry exp), got promoted to supply chain and mfg manager after demonstrating a knack for leading teams and delivering results.
2. Previously, a senior engineer who developed a manufacturing process for a blockbuster drug in Phase 2 clinical trials. (2 years).
3. Also worked in consumer goods and plastics as an engineer before finding a home in biotech. Very successful in these roles with metrics to show for it and great recommendations from previous bosses. (2 years)
Extracurriculars: 
1. Informal mentoring (community college students, women in STEM and other undergrads from univ going into industry and trying to follow a similar career path to mine)
2. President (student government - community college) and various other leadership positions in undergrad organizations
3. Started a cooking club
Post-MBA goal:
In the short-term, I hope to go into product or program management in the biotech/pharma industry. In the long-term, my dream is to lead a biotech/pharma company advancing novel, breakthrough therapies. I aim to leverage my technical background and business acumen to drive scientific teams and navigate the hurdles of bringing drugs to market.
Target schools:
1. Stanford
2. MIT
3. Haas
4. HBS

Sorry for such a lengthy profile

@Everyone you can post your profiles now to get them evaluated.

ARINGO · Answer

GReat question - There are some part-time Finance Masters programs - LBS is the most well known. Full-time MSFin may take a bit of convincing of the adcom to show why and how you will get employed after. I would encourage you to have a chat with programs that are of specific interest to you before applying . 
As for MBA programs - There is a class of Senior MBA programs made for candidates with 8+ years of experience that are full-time - Stanford MSx, MIT / LBS Sloan Fellows , Foster Global EMBA, USC IBEAR, RSM - and then there are part-time EMBA programs you can consider as well.

Prakriti2600 · Answer

Hi,

Background
Age: 24 & work exp 2 yrs
Gender: Female 
Location: India
Nationality: Indian

GMAT Score: planning to take in August. Aiming for 685-715 FE Score

Work Experience:
1. 2 years worked in Consulting as a soft dev for a US state health care portal.

Academic:
1. Graduated with a degree in Bachelor’s in Architecture from a GGSIPU (7.9 /10.0 CGPA)
2. Xth : 93% XII th:92% (ICSE and ISC) top 5 subjects - (97.2% and 95%)

International Experience:
1. Not a direct experience but have regularly interacted with California state officials in earlier work

Extra-Curricular Activities:
1. Active member of the social welfare society of the college and then later on became the coordinator as well. (Main work involved - teaching kids, conducting cleanliness drives, cloth donation, blood camp etc.)
2. Taught kids (mostly laborer’s) at the campus as well as taught at nearby Kashmiri pandit migrant colony.
3. Organized events/meetups for my city’s (Tier -2 town) local queer collective.
4. Used to participate in debates and quizzes in school as well as college and have won few times.

Post MBA Goals:
Tech Product Management or tech consulting

Wanted to know which schools should i target and what else i can do to improve my profile?

Sajjad1994 · Answer

Others all participants are equally encouraged to post their profiles for evaluation.

ARINGO · Answer

Strong start to your career. CGPA is good, GMAT could be improved - you have time, retake if you haven’t taken multiple times already or try GRE... or consider waiver schools. ECs are great!
WE is a bit low, but will be at the minimum of 2 years at time of application - so you are OK to apply... but you need a really compelling reason as to why you need an MBA and have enough to share with a class room with candidates with typically 4-5 years of experience.

Great education & GPA and career history - sounds like you have a very compelling story to draw in the interest of the adcoms and can instantly see ways to tie them to different program concentrations (and treks and clubs too). 
GMAT is a bit lower than the average scores, but you are still admissible. I’d go for it, but also adding some back ups with Healthcare /Biotech focus.

Rachel152 · Answer

Hi Aringo,
Could you help review my MBA profile?
 • Vietnamese, female, 31 years old, 8 years of experience
 • Bachelor’s in International Business (Vietnam, GPA 3.68)
 • Master’s in Supply Chain (Europe, GPA 8.13/10)
 • Currently working as an Expert Data Scientist at a local bank
 • Background in e-commerce, logistics, telco, and finance
 • Started in supply chain analyst/operations, then self-learned and transitioned into data/AI
 • Involved in digital transformation projects, working with cross-functional squads and consulting firms
 • GMAT Focus: 700
 • Post-MBA goal: move into tech consulting
 • Looking for schools strong in tech with good scholarship chances – I really like Scheller (Georgia Tech)

A bit concerned about not having formal leadership titles and a gpa
Thanks so much in advance!

ARINGO · Answer

Good profile, but still on younger side for MBA. If tech is where you want to be - I highly recommend the Tech MBA programs - they are more open to less years of experience and can get you directly where you are wanting to go! They are made for you. Leverage your EC’s as how you will be a strong contributor and builder and be able to handle the rigorous curriculum during career search. Traditional 2 year MBA’s may be a bit harder to convince why you need an MBA only after 2 (3 at entry) years experience and what you have to offer in the classroom.

espresso12 · Answer

Hi,

Background 
Age: 27 Female

Work experience of 4 years in a leading law firm in India. 
Practice focused in Arbitration, Commercial disputes, and White collar crimes . 
Have worked on various high profile matters in India.

Education: BA LLB(H) (5 year degree)

CGPA: 8.5

Secured All India Rank 20 in Company Secretary Course (Foundation level)

Cleared Executive Part 1 of Company Secretary.

10th Standard Marks: 8.6 CGPA 
12th Standard Marks: 9 CGPA

Aiming for 685+ GMAT FE.

Did extensive Internships at Chambers of Senior Counsels and various top tier law firms in India.

Extra curricular activities:
Was Memeber of Trial Advocacy Society (Law School)

Research Papers: 2 Papers and 1 Article published

ARINGO · Answer

Hi Rachel152 , ! You have a good profile, 31 is a little higher, but 8 years of exp b/c of your MS helps this!

Nice work experience - interesting, exciting, dynamic, never going away... you have relevant skills and experiences to share in the classroom. Not sure if you mean your GMAT is 705 FE or is the equivalent of 700 on old GMAT? - either way, 700 is admissible for T20, so you are good there. Scheller is a great option, you can also consider Tepper, Cornell... maybe even NYU - there are less candidates from Vietnam, so you bring additional insights there (good for scholarship). RE: Leadership - if you don’t have a formal title, you need to share what you’ve done as a leader - projects, initiatives, product rollouts/updates to tech/training - they will look for this! You have a strong profile! Work experience and academically - all looks good. with even a 675 or higher you’d be competitive for T10/M7... need to determine goals and how to connect to the specific school/program/concentration

Sajjad1994 · Answer

Everyone! We have last 10 minutes left in this chat. Post your profile for evaluation now

espresso12 · Answer

Hi, thanks a ton. My only worry is not many research publications and extra curricular activities

ARINGO · Answer

Thank you for sharing profiles today! These are great! If you don’t get to share or have follow up questions - email me at jenifert@aringo.com or schedule a profile eval (mention we spoke here) https://calendly.com/jenifert-aringo/gmatclub

espresso12

Hi, thanks a ton. My only worry is not many research publications and extra curricular activities

Research papers are less important to b-school adcoms... for EC’s do you do any volunteer or probono work with current/past employer? mentor or tutor someone? it doesn’t have to be under a formal organization or have a certificate - its about showing passion, drive and community involvement ---> how will you be involved while at XYZ school? how will you contribute? can you manage multiple responsibilities/priorities?
How about hobbies?

Rachel152 · Answer

thank u a lot. Scholarship is important for me so I want to balance between ranking/ tech focus and chance to get high scholarship.

ARINGO · Answer

Yes, I think you could get that with some of the other schools that are higher than Scheller as well. You could consider the 1 year Tech MBAs as well and have an even higher ROI with only 1 year opportunity cost and high chance of scholarship and employment.

Sajjad1994 · Answer

All right! We are closing this chat session. Thank you ARINGO for your time and inputs. We greatly appreciate it.

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