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Schools: Kelley '18 (A) McDonough '16 ISB '15 Johnson (Cornell)
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Hi,

Please advise me about my chances at Kelley,Carnegie Mellon,ISB,McCombs

Indian female engineer
GMAT Score-740 Q-50 V-39 IR-4(1st attempt)
B'Tech-69.89%[from an average college in Haryana,India]
Class 12th-91.2%
Class 10th-94.6%

Work Experience:Three years of experience in a mid sized product based company(2000 employees) India as Software Engineer for two years and Senior Software Engineer since the past one year.I have mostly worked in the banking domain for two clients in the Middle East[Abu Dhabi,Muscat] and one client in the manufacturing domain in Europe[Greece].No onsite experience.Though have two Performance Awards and one certification in company's products.Not much in the name of extra-curricular activities.


My targetted field is IT consultancy.
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Hi,

Please advise me about my chances at Kelley,Carnegie Mellon,ISB,McCombs

Indian female engineer
GMAT Score-740 Q-50 V-39 IR-4(1st attempt)
B'Tech-69.89%[from an average college in Haryana,India]
Class 12th-91.2%
Class 10th-94.6%

Work Experience:Three years of experience in a mid sized product based company(2000 employees) India as Software Engineer for two years and Senior Software Engineer since the past one year.I have mostly worked in the banking domain for two clients in the Middle East[Abu Dhabi,Muscat] and one client in the manufacturing domain in Europe[Greece].No onsite experience.Though have two Performance Awards and one certification in company's products.Not much in the name of extra-curricular activities.


My targetted field is IT consultancy.
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Hi,

Although you have a nice profile (and a great GMAT), what you are going to suffer from is the problem of the plenty. There are just too many Indians applying with the same kind of stats (GMAT included), similar Work exp and to the same b-schools.

Here's what I suggest you should do:
1. Differentiate yourself in an over crowded space by showing your personal way of doing things, motivations, influences, challenges and achievements.
2. Apply to a larger set of b- schools so that you have some sure wins at the end of the application cycle.

Reach out if you'd like to discuss.