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Hi, JSD341747,

Thank you for your post!

First, I would like to mention that you have a decent GMAT score, and your overall GPA is ok and something that could be fixed if you can back them up with some substantial examples of leadership, decision making, and analytical skills. Coming to your work experience, you do have a substantial amount of work experience, hence would be no shortage of examples of leadership; therefore, I would advise you to dig further and provide examples of instances when you have stepped up to take on leadership positions. Moreover, since you have worked in diverse roles, I would like you to mention the challenges faced, new roles & responsibilities, impact-generated, and innovation created. Furthermore, in this scenario, any international work experience/exposure (don't worry about being a virtual experience) would also come in handy to boost your overall profile.

While it’s true that NUS greatly stresses academic excellence but is quite transparent about the fact that it does look beyond academics and work; hence, I would like you to highlight your ECAs to add a unique personality and charisma apart from your academic background. Your NGO work could be very well incorporated into your ECAs and provide a strong point in your overall character. So additionally, add some challenges faced, new skills developed, the impact generated, and relate the experiences to your MBA candidacy to engage the adcom in it!

Overall, you have a decent profile and have a realistic chance at NUS. However, you must be extremely clear on how NUS can help you reach your Post-MBA goals and mention your motivation/driving force, your aspirations about NUS, and finally, why you think it’s a good choice for you and you have relevant skills to be successful! That’s all for now! 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 chances to NUS Business school, feel free to book a free session with us at your convenience.

Cheers!
Neha Hadke
Profile Analyst & Channel Manager, MBA and Beyond
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Hello JSD341747,

Thanks for writing in.

Good to see you have stuck around with a company, taking on different roles. Schools see much merit in stability. Your GMAT score, too, is decent and the GPA though relatively low isn't all that poor either.

We would, however, go ahead with an Operations Management role rather than a consulting profile owing to your higher years of work experience.

All in all, you have a pretty decent profile to make it into NUS provided you are able to put forth a set of essays that adequately represent your career progression and showcase strong sync between your existing skill-set and career goals.

Should you have any further question, please feel free to reach out.

All the best!

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Hi, vvv000,

Thank you for your post!

First, I would like to congratulate you on having such a diverse profile at such a young age! Moreover, If you could just back a score of 720+ in your GMAT, you could definitely target top schools like HEC and ESSEC for your Master's. Also, you have a decent overall GPA. If you can back them up with substantial examples of leadership, decision-making, and analytical skills from your long tenure, it would be more than okay on your academic front.

Coming to your profile, you have a good amount of work experience for Masters, and having famed brand names incorporated into your profile at such a young age will play to your advantage! To add more gravity, I suggest you elaborate on the roles and responsibilities, critical projects, add any professional accolades, skill-set developed in your diverse tenure, and any chance at leadership. Also, you can add any certified course or any international experience, which would be greatly valued at this stage and would allow you to expand new horizons and start an interesting conversation with the adcom.

Coming to ECAs, you need to make them more dynamic! Add more about your contribution, challenges, leadership roles, the impact generated, and relevant skills developed through your ECAs to bank upon them! And finally, adding well-described, relevant post-master's goals; will showcase your vision, quality, and introspection, and that's something very rare there are very few people who have clear, unique motivations behind pursuing a master's, and you seem one among them. Make sure you specify how each school can help fill gaps in your profile and lead you to your life goals.

Overall you have a competitive profile and a good chance at top schools if you apply early. I see much potential in your profile, the only thing you need is a bit of guidance and fine polishing around the rough edges! 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 shortlisting Master's programs; feel free to book a free session with us at your convenience.

Let's prepare a 2-month action plan for Round 1

Cheers!
Neha Hadke
Strategy Manager, MBA and Beyond
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Email: neha@mbaandbeyond.com

hi,

Is this profile evaluation thread still active? Need help with my profile evaluation for NUS Full time MBA 2023

Hey Ayushi0212

Yes, we are happy to evaluate your profile. Please share your profile on this thread or you can directly schedule a free profile evaluation session with us. We’ll be pleased to help you and make your profile stand out. Feel free to schedule a call with us here for in-depth profile evaluation & get additional benefits.

Let's discuss with Alums to set up your R2 MBA applications

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I'm posting on a thread for the first time so I'm not sure if this will go to the right place but well, here we go:

I recently took the GMAT and scored 670 (Q42 V40)
Quant was never my stronghold but I also missed out on the last question of the section so I probably faced some penalty on it as well, not sure how that might reflect in or affect my application.

Profile: 27 year old, did my Bachelor in Management Studies from SSCBS, DU 76.4% (3.3 GPA?)

6+ years of work experience if I apply for the 2023 intake.
4 years of work experience in Real Estate (International Property Consultant firms) which includes
~2 years as Valuation Analyst at Cushman and Wakefield
~2 years as Senior Associate Consultant (promoted from Associate) at CBRE - inlcuded a 6 month international assignment (Kazakhstan - development of smart cities)

Switched industry and joined as an associate consultant at PwC (SDC Bangalore) - Financial Services fortune 500 clientele - all US based.
Will be working here for 1.5 years now but making another switch to Bain Capability Centre - again management consulting associate but specialising in Fintechs.

Have been involved in a couple of startups during college (both didn't work out unfortunately). Not sure what else to portray in extra curricular.

Is it wise to apply at NUS, or any top college for that matter, with this score and profile?

While your GMAT score is low, your profile is very good. A GMAT retake would be the perfect solution. If you apply with this score, add other European MBAs to your target list as well so that you can maximize your chance for an admit.
Its not advisable to convert your undergrad scores to a GPA system, and moreover, b-schools don't ask you to convert by yourself. That said, the UG percentage looks average - you must educate the adcom by mentioning where you stood in class ( as in what rank/position). Being among the top 10% is considered a good academic record. If your GPA is not that strong, a GMAT retake may make all the more sense.

Hope that helps.

Hey kapoor6295,

Thanks for posting.

Your profile looks good on the surface. Starting with the stats, your GMAT seems decent. To prove your academic greatness, we would like to learn a little more about your academic history.

On the work front, 6 years of experience establishes your professional profile. Working in a Property consultant firm as an analyst and senior associate displays your professional determination and your managerial skills. You will need to highlight the roles and responsibilities you have undertaken and the impact it has brought. Talking about the projects you led will help you demonstrate the leadership qualities of yours. We would also like to know about your global exposure since it plays an important role in your profile. Switch in your work profile will bring diversity in your application. However, you would also need to talk about your reason for switching. Since you highlighted your startups, even if they didn't succeed, you may still show the key lessons you learned from them.

ECs play a major role in your application. They give your profile a unique blend. I suggest adding any relevant community or volunteering work you are involved in currently or even some interesting hobbies and briefly stating them. For instance, I suggest you go through our article on Significance of ECAs for MBA Application, to understand the importance of drafting exemplary ECAs essays!

I would like to know about your post mba goals to gauge your chances at NUS. NUS looks for individuals who are strong leaders with the ability to thrive in a rigorous environment and are willing to have a robust impact on the society. The average GMAT score at NUS is 670, we have recently helped an applicants with 640, 650, 670 GMAT score to get into top business schools.

Overall you have a robust profile. But we would like to know more in depth to understand it fully and suggest schools for you. If properly worked upon, your profile stands a high chance of acceptance. Hence, If you'd like, we are happy to connect you with our Profile Experts (who are alums and students of top B-Schools) who will discuss your profile at length in a 30-45 minutes call and provide you with feedback based on your aspirations and goals. Feel free to schedule a call with us here for in-depth profile evaluation (and some networking on the side!)

No one knows the application process better than the individuals who have gone through it. We match you with alumni from your desired business school. Meet our Panel of Consultants.

Let's discuss with Alums to set up your R2 MBA applications

Cheers!
Neha Hadke
Strategy Manager
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Email: neha@mbaandbeyond.com
Visit our website www.mbaandbeyond.com for more MBA resources

Hi kapoor6295 hope this finds you well

Although you have a strong profile, your 42 in Quantitative aptitude may put you at a disadvantage when applying to competitive colleges. The typical Indian demographic's average score is at least 10–20 points higher than the school's average. If you still choose to apply, you may have to make a compromise on your choice of school. Additionally, if your aspirations are consulting-related, your GMAT score may be scrutinized even more closely.

Feel free to reach out should you need guidance.

Regards

Hi! Can you please evaluate my profile?

Background and nationality: male, 27 years old, Indian

Gmat - 700 (Q49, V36)

Undergrad Information: B.Tech in Electronics and communications - 76%

10th, 12th - 92%, 94%

Work Ex: 5 years in a Defense PSU
Roles and responsibilities - 1.Project -Electronic voting machines
Shift incharge in a Manufacturing Facility, Achieved 100% shift targets during the production of Control units of EVMs(Electronic voting machines), Completed production of 7 Lakh units in just 7 months.
2. Project - Troposcatter communication systems for Indian Airforce
In Development and engineering department - FPGA programming, Hardware designing, Testing, Production support, Installation and commissioning and field trails.

Extra Curricular:
Organized events in collage
Organized Bike rides for biking club


Post MBA goals:
Operations consulting

Hey Gurunathps,

Thanks for sharing your profile.

To begin with, you have a stellar GMAT score and your GPA also settles on the upper end.

On the work front about 3+ years of work experience sounds good. However, I see a shift from the core sector to advising roles, AdComs would be curious for an explanation. You will need to explain this thoroughly. I would also recommend demonstrating career trajectory during your work tenure. If you have got any promotions and how you have worked better that your peers. Also global exposure if any would also prove to be beneficial for your profile. You will need to showcase yourself as a high performing individual.

You haven’t mentioned your ECs. ECs add diversity and play a very important role to strengthen your application. Ad coms search for multi-linear candidates, thus in addition to demonstrating your accomplishments in an academic or professional environment, you should be able to show how you have acted on your passions, values, hobbies and convictions. Also considering your post MBA goals, I would suggest Columbia, Booth, Duke and Cornell.

We have recently helped one of our applicants to get into CBS, Yale, NYU and Fuqua that too with scholarships. Ms. Oil & Gas Engineer (Columbia, Yale, NYU, Fuqua- 40k $ scholarship).

Overall you have a great profile and stand a good chance at these schools. I suggest you should start your applications for R2 and what’s going to matter most in your profile is your 'Branding for MBA'—branding is how you present your profile to business schools. It is critical in making a convincing case to adcoms. It is the pre-work that we do with all our applicants. If you'd like, we are happy to connect you with our Profile Experts (who are alums and students of top B-Schools) who will discuss your profile at length in a 30-45 minutes call and provide you with feedback based on your aspirations and goals. Feel free to schedule a call with us here for in-depth profile evaluation (and some networking on the side!)

No one knows the application process better than the individuals who have gone through it. We match you with alumni from your desired business school. Meet our Panel of Consultants.


Cheers!
Neha Hadke
Strategy Manager
Testimonials
Email: neha@mbaandbeyond.com

Visit our website www.mbaandbeyond.com for more MBA resources.

Hello Gurunathps,

Thanks for writing in.

You have a stable career graph, a set of career goals that sync well with your profile (even though you will need to explain the shift to consulting), and defense sector experience that sets you apart. The extra-curricular activities you have mentioned appear basic unless you are missing out on something important.

Of course, the GMAT hovers around the average. Thus, if you do not plan to improve your GMAT score, you must commence working on your essays rightaway to put something strong in place before the deadline.

All the best!

Hi kapoor6295


Not a great score, but still OK for NUS, provided your application presents a solid story, integrated with the other sides of you.


Particularly for DU, that converts to a much higher GPA. Works well to offset your lower GMAT; explaining this in an optional answer will help. Also, please see my other comments below.


Good experience; you need to leverage this well in your applications


This embellishes your overall WE, if presented well.


From my experience working with candidates worldwide, there are many ECs that we miss out on. Your working with a consultant will help you uncover these to the fullest.


While a score of 700+ would definitely improve your chances, the other components in your profile can help offset this part, if played well.

Hope that helps

Hi Gurunathps,
While your GMAT is on the lower side, your Work Ex presents you in a sweet spot, and all in all, I can see you with a potential for the Top 30 (2 year programs), possibly with Scholarships. Please ping for a FREE session to answer your questions 1-to-1, and to discuss your profile in detail.

what are the parameters for evaluation ?

Broadly,
Work Exp & Achievements
Your demonstrated competitiveness in College & Course
Your clarity about your career path and goals
Brand names associated with, in each your college and workplace
Extra-Curricular Activities
Examples of Leadership in each area
How well-represented/ over-represented your profile and broad demography is
Any specific elements of Spark that differentiate you

There are finer nuances to each of these, and are uncovered on the way, since these are different and divergent with different candidates

Hope that helps