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Need help with profile evaluation - GMAT 700/6 yr WE 07 Jan 2017, 16:37
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Hi,

Happy New Year!!!

Would like feedback on following:

- Relative strength of my profile for my target schools
- Things missing from my profile

My profile is as below:

- Indian Male, 30 (at the time of application in Fall '17)
- Bachelors in Computer Engineering/Honors Distinction/2009/India
- Masters in Computer Science/GPA: 3.5/2010/Georgia Institute of Technology/USA
- Work Experience:
    - 6 years/Software Development/San Francisco Bay Area
    - Promoted twice
    - currently Senior Software Engineer Level
- Volunteer work: Mentor UG-level students in bootcamps for software programming
- Interest: Product Development
- GMAT score: 700

Planning to apply for the MBA Class starting in 2018.

Target B-Schools:
- Stanford GSB
- LBS

Please let me know if I missed any required information.

Thank you for your time!
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Need help with profile evaluation - GMAT 700/6 yr WE 09 Jan 2017, 05:59
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Hi,

Happy New Year!!!

Would like feedback on following:

- Relative strength of my profile for my target schools
- Things missing from my profile

My profile is as below:

- Indian Male, 30 (at the time of application in Fall '17)
- Bachelors in Computer Engineering/Honors Distinction/2009/India
- Masters in Computer Science/GPA: 3.5/2010/Georgia Institute of Technology/USA
- Work Experience:
    - 6 years/Software Development/San Francisco Bay Area
    - Promoted twice
    - currently Senior Software Engineer Level
- Volunteer work: Mentor UG-level students in bootcamps for software programming
- Interest: Product Development
- GMAT score: 700

Planning to apply for the MBA Class starting in 2018.

Target B-Schools:
- Stanford GSB
- LBS

Please let me know if I missed any required information.

Thank you for your time!

Hey there,

Hey there, so first of all Stanford is a very far stretch for you and unless you have a GMAT of 740+ it's not really worth your time applying, and even then it can be hard.

For the rest I’d love to help you out but without more info it’s gonna be hard. Where do you work? What do you do? How quickly have you advanced? Do you have any leadership? What are your great achievements? Do you have notable community service or extra curriculars? Which school did you graduate from?

All of these will play important roles in your evaluation.

And then if you also tell me what you are looking for in terms of schools we can give you some advice,

Best,
Jon Frank

And feel free to drop us a line for a more full-on Free Consultation: https://bit.ly/mbafcGC
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Need help with profile evaluation - GMAT 700/6 yr WE 14 Jan 2017, 13:18
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Hi,

Happy New Year!!!

Would like feedback on following:

- Relative strength of my profile for my target schools
- Things missing from my profile

My profile is as below:

- Indian Male, 30 (at the time of application in Fall '17)
- Bachelors in Computer Engineering/Honors Distinction/2009/India
- Masters in Computer Science/GPA: 3.5/2010/Georgia Institute of Technology/USA
- Work Experience:
    - 6 years/Software Development/San Francisco Bay Area
    - Promoted twice
    - currently Senior Software Engineer Level
- Volunteer work: Mentor UG-level students in bootcamps for software programming
- Interest: Product Development
- GMAT score: 700

Planning to apply for the MBA Class starting in 2018.

Target B-Schools:
- Stanford GSB
- LBS

Please let me know if I missed any required information.

Thank you for your time!

Hey there,

Hey there, so first of all Stanford is a very far stretch for you and unless you have a GMAT of 740+ it's not really worth your time applying, and even then it can be hard.

For the rest I’d love to help you out but without more info it’s gonna be hard. Where do you work? What do you do? How quickly have you advanced? Do you have any leadership? What are your great achievements? Do you have notable community service or extra curriculars? Which school did you graduate from?

All of these will play important roles in your evaluation.

And then if you also tell me what you are looking for in terms of schools we can give you some advice,

Best,
Jon Frank

And feel free to drop us a line for a more full-on Free Consultation: https://bit.ly/mbafcGC

Hi JonAdmissionado,

Thank you for your time and I appreciate the feedback.

Best,
A
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Need help with profile evaluation - GMAT 700/6 yr WE 23 Jan 2017, 10:41
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Hey dude,
Good to hear back from you.Sorry for my delay in answering you here. I was abroad for business. But now I'm back in action!

So I don't want to be "the bearer of bad news" but I think you may want to adjust your target schools. Your profile is good, but it's a little bit tough, because it has many small weaknesses for Top 10 programs:

- GMAT lower than average
- Indian background, which means you will be in a VERY competitive pool
- Non IIT grad (I'm assuming you would have written, if you were)
- Non Ivy Grad
- Working in software dev
- A bit on the older side.


All of these in combination would likely put Top 10 schools out of range for you. If you would like to take another shot at the GMAT and think you can do better I can only recommend it: https://admissionado.com/mba/the-tuesday ... n=mba_blog

Otherwise I would suggest you re-targeting schools in the 10-30 range (in the US).

I hope this helps!
Best,
Jon