MBA Profile Evaluation 680

Question

Hi,

I am Vivek Vishal from India.
Please evaluate my profile.

GMAT : 680 (48Q/35V)
GPA : 7 /10

Grad School : National Institute of Technology (Surat)

Work experience : 7.9 Years.
Designation :
Technical Leader (Research and Development). Team Size : 8
and Team Leader of Total Quality Management Team ( Team size : 10)

Achievements : Delivered more than 15 Telecom Softwares under my leadership.
Implemented LEAN Process Improvement in Motorola

Awards : 5 Motorola High Five Awards for my contributions.

Subject Matter Expert : LEAN , TL9000 Audit, TELECOM PROTOCOLS

Performance : Top 5 %

Companies : 2 years in Alcatel (Software Engineer) ,3 Years Motorola as Senior R & D Engineer and 2.5 Years Nokia as Technical Lead
Volunteer Work : Worked for CRY,GREENPEACE, SMILE: The Mission and other small Charity Organizations ,manly focused of Childcare and Education.

Certifications : Nokia Certified Big Data Engineer , Nokia Certified Cloud Engineer.

Hobbies : Traveler ( Bag Packed almost all of India , Europe , Australia, South East Asia ), Travel Blogging , Pianist .

Goals : I want to become a Product Manager at a Information Technology organization creating and managing consumer Internet and Data analytics products that reach out to and impact millions of users.

Extra Curricular : Social Service ,Teaching .

I am looking for Schools in US/India/Singapore

Schools I am Planning to apply : UIUC, Tepper ,Fuqua, Mendoza ,Scheller ,Tepper ,Nanyang,SMU

I know I have a low GMAT score .
Though I ll give one more try but the thing is that I work for nearly 13 hours a day ..so I hardly get any time to study ...

therefore , I want to start my application based on this score.

Please suggest me schools in which I would have fair chance.
Schools with specialized focus on IT would be preferable.

Regards,
Vivek

therefore , I want to start my application based on this score. Please suggest me schools in which I would have fair chance. Schools with specialized focus on IT would be preferable. Regards, Vivek

Admissionado · Answer

Hey there,
And good to hear from you!

Now, I'd LOVE to help you out and get down with your profile.

The thing is I am missing detail.

I need a LOT more info from you - school name, employer name, titles, promotions, greatest achievements, volunteer work, sports, community service, religious involvement, leadership.. etc. before I can give you a real evaluation.

It will also be very helpful if you can elaborate upon your goals.

Have a look at some of the other very detailed profile requests on this board and do something similar and I'll be happy to get back to you.

Best,
JF

PersonalMBACoach · Answer

Vivek,

Thank you for your post. Based on the information you provided, I will recommend a broad range of schools. Once you provide some more details, I can narrow down the list and possibly add some.

US 
Carnegie Mellon Tepper
Emory Goizueta
Texas McCombs
Cornell Johnson

India 
MDI
Fms
XIME
IMI
Potentially ISB

Singapore 
NTU
NUS

Questions for you
 
1) Undergraduate school?
2) Current and former companies?
3) Performance at work relative to peer? (best performer, top 5%, 10% etc)
4) More details about extra-curriculars, and leadership roles in each
5) Post-MBA goals

I look forward to hearing from you!

vivvishal · Answer

Hi Guys ,

Thanks for your reply 
I updated my profile in the original Post .

Kindly share your views.

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