Kindly evaluate my profile for Rotman Business School

General: Indian Male 28 yrs—Lawyer/Legal Services/Legal Consultancy/Legal Advisory Services

Academic: GMAT: 760(Q48,V45)

All India Rank 69 and 17 in the All India Law Entrance Test and the Common Entrance Tests respectively

72% (Top 5% of the Batch) in B.A.LLB(Hons.) from Panjab University

Rank 1 in Taxation Law

93% in 10th Standard 92% in 12th Standard

Work Experience: Total 5 years
0-3 yrs: Worked in the Chambers of a designated Senior Barrister and was thrown, within 6 months, into the deep end of complex commercial disputes of in the Intellectual Property Rights, Infrastructure and Corporate Laws sectors. Led a team of Junior Legal and Paralegal staff and was responsible for A to Z preparation of cases, coordination with clients and liasoning with auxiliary services providers including court staff and other senior/non-senior barristers.

Highlights:
1. Complete case strategy, development, preparation and drafting of a dispute of a cumulated claim of $71 Million (500cr), while representing one of the states (provinces) in India and coordinating with 2 government agencies in the same.
2. Solely responsible for preparing, drafting and strategizing 100+ cases.

4-5 yrs: Joined a small boutique firm, focused on business advisory and insolvency resolution services, as a partner and on the administrative side took a lead role in client maintenance and business development.

Highlights:
1. Pioneered development of case strategy, drafting and preparation of an Insolvency Dispute while representing a Berlin based financial consultancy which had raised funds from a well reputed Nordic financial institution
2. Represented one of the largest Asian Banks, (Malaysia Branch), in disputes pertaining to Bank Guarantees
3. Advisory services to an e-commerce startup in the Hospitality and reasonable housing space valued at $10 million in the last funding round.

Leadership roles held:
President, Moot Court Society of my law school
Chief Convener, of the inaugural Model United Nations of the University
Chairperson in a number of Model United Nations Competitions (IR is a hobby of mine)

Query 1: Is the B.A.LL.B. degree accepted. Its a five year course in which I have got a Bachelor of Arts degree as well as a Law degree. I want to get some inputs before putting this questions to admission representatives.

Query 2: Is there a minimum percentage which Rotman will require in my under-graduation. Someone on this forum suggested 74% is the minimum. Is that the case? My 72% represents the top 5% of the batch and 1st division, when the highest score was less than 80%. I want to get inputs on this as well before putting these questions to the reps of the school.

Great thread by the way!

I applied to Rotman for Class of '21 in Round 3 and got dinged.

Any advice on how I can improve my chances Class of '22?

Nationality: Indian
GMAT: 750
IELTS: 8.5
Undergrad: Computer Science from India
Masters: Masters in Management from Fuqua
2 Years Work Experience in M&A Investment Banking for a Boutique Investment Bank in New York and Digital Financial Transformation Consulting for Global Consulting MNC
Post MBA Goals: Work in Investment Banking/Investment Management

Hi totodile6ix

Round 3 last year was too late for international applicants to apply to. That could have been a key factor.

Other than that, your profile seems solid. The goals need a bit more explanation in terms of what you would want to do as it seems quite similar to what you are already doing. Why get an MBA, and what will be different/better about your post-MBA plans?

Feel free to get in touch directly for a quick chat and evaluation.
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Hi shwethanand
- Your GMAT score at 650 currently is not ideal. Look at a 30-50 point raise. This will also enhance your chances at other schools.
- The other part in your profile which you will need to manage a bit is your story - you have moved around a lot in different functions/companies, and there needs to be a central focus on why you need the MBA and what you will do post-MBA.

Hope this helps. Feel free to come back with more queries as needed.
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Hi ThusSpokeZ

Looks really solid vakil sahab. Why are you not applying to a Kellogg/Cornell/Duke? On your queries:
- The BALLB is certainly accepted. No worries there.
- If you have a query on the percentage, get in touch with Rotman directly. This has not been a huge issue in the past.

A question from our side as well:
- What are you looking for post-MBA? Why the MBA and what are your goals?
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Hi testtaker2019

Your GMAT is absolutely fine. Your overall profile is pretty good as well. You would have an excellent chance. Go ahead with your apps.
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Hi IwaterMyPlants

- Your international experience and Master's degree will give you an edge over many other applicants. For this reason, your 690 could work.
- The role as hub manager and in operations, in the Canadian context, gives you a further advantage in finding jobs after Rotman. Another plus.
- The research experience from earlier is not that relevant, but the fact that you have publications and awards highlight your capabilities.
- The ECA part is pretty good as well (important for Rotman).

Overall, you are well set. Ensure that you focus on your applications and bring your experiences together meaningfully. Feel free to contact directly for a chat or post questions here.
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Hi Sid5050
- Seems quite interesting overall. IIT + GMAT 720 helps. Your GPA is a bit low though.
- The focus on consulting will need a closer look. Your experience has not been domain specific in consulting, so you might want to define a focus area. Would suggest you expand your ambitions beyond just MBB, as getting into MBB is always hard (though not impossible) if one is not coming from there in Canada.
- Would need more details on your ECA. What were the competitions about? The campus festival thing will not count for much.


Hope this helps. Feel free to come back with more queries as needed or to get in touch directly for a chat.
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Hi abhisekmohanty86

Are there any gaps (education/work ex) in your profile that you may have neglected to mention here?

Other than that, would suggest the following:
- Your work-ex and GMAT seem ok.
- On ECA, your chess achievements are excellent. Toastmasters/CSR may not count for much. The personal investment part is interesting too - what size of corpus have you managed? The ECA part of your candidature will require some more thinking.
- On your goals, a move directly from banking to strategy consulting will be challenging. You have some excellent fin services experience - why move away post MBA?
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Hi rajatvermaenator

- Excellent Merchant Navy engineer profile. Kudos on your achievements.
- The key areas to focus on for you will be:
a) Positioning your goal realistically to B-schools (including Rotman, which have very little space to explain on the goals part). You are from the engineering side of the Merchant Navy, not the navigation side. This means that your goal and relevance of current skill-set will be questioned a bit. Yes, you do have global experience, and have seen global supply chains at play, but your core skill-set was less administrative/navigational and more technical. Choose schools carefully.
b) Showcasing enough depth in extra-curriculars. While you have done some things, owing to the nature of your role, you cannot take out that much time for ECA as other people can. Making the most of what you have done will be important.
- Other than this, GMAT is fine. The GPA is a bit low though.
- Also go through this link as it might be relevant to you.

Hope this helps. Feel free to come back with more queries as needed or to get in touch directly for a chat.
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Hello All !

Please evaluate my profile and let me know the chances of getting in

Nationality : Indian
Gender : Female
Age : 26 years
Class X : 93%
CLass 12 : 98%
Btech in Mechanical engineering( JNTU university hyderabad) : 86%
Mtech in BITS Pilani (WILP) : 97.5%
GMAT Score : 710

Overall 6 years of experience in Aerospace manufacturing company " Tata Advanced systems Limited"
3 years in Operations ( Production, Engineering, Tooling)
3 years in Supply chain ( Strategic sourcing team)

Extra curriculars : Participated in indoor sports and atheltics at school, college and comapny level.
Participated in CSR initiatives from company side.

Please let me know.

Thanks !

Hi SharanyaReddy3006

Professionally and academically, all looks good. Please provide more details on your ECA.
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Looking for profile evaluation for Rotman Full time MBA, 2020 intake:

Indian, 25 years, female

GMAT Score: 670 (V34, Q47, AWA - 5)
Under graduation: B.Sc (H) Statistics from University of Delhi with an aggregate of 81%

Work experience: ~4 years (research and analytics profile at Willis Towers Watson and currently at Evalueserve)

Career goals: short term goal is to enter into a corporate strategy role/ strategic consulting

Why MBA - to fill gaps in understanding related to organic and inorganic growth

Joined as a Market research assistant at WTW in Sep 2015 - liaising with the firm's consultants and business leaders and leaders of the partner companies worldwide)
Handled responsibilities as a Deputy Manager, Research. Co-managed team members in Delhi, Mumbai, Montevideo and White Plains offices.
Achievement: Managed a project involving members and team leaders of various sub-teams of the broader research team. Liaised with the director of global strategy and various MD's based out of New York and London offices.

Joined Evalueserve as a Senior Business Analyst, supporting a global management consulting firm on M&A research and analysis, turnaround and restructuring, org development, business strategy etc. Short term project management involving team members in India, Romania and Chile offices - won a you make a difference award within 4 months of joining EVS (for providing innovative solutions) - various achievements in terms of projects worked on and client exposure.


Co-curricular activities and community involvement: Active in co curricular during the under grad time - active member of the Stats department organizing committee. Co-organized various events such as plays on women empowerment, blood donation camps, participated in All Women Bike Rally.
As a part of community involvement - I have been associated with NGOs - Helpage India, WeForPeople, AmarJyoti, Feeding India and counselled 150-200 school students and helped them with career planning during my internship with Les Transformation in Jun-Jul 2014

Other courses: R programming (coursera), Technical analysis (NIFM), Six Sigma, Online course on Statistics from Stanford.

Request to please evaluate profile, based on current and prospective candidates for Rotman Full time MBA

Appreciate any help!

Best
Soumya

Hi it would be great if someone could evaluate my Rotman profile

Age : 27

Gender : Male

GMAT score : 650 (Q47 V33)

Undergraduate : Bachelors in Business Management majored in Finance from Christ University Bangalore

GPA : 3.0

Other info : Cleared two levels of the CFA program

Work experience : 5 years of diverse work experience in one of the biggest and most reputed bulge bracket investment banks. I started my career with financial operations and soon transitioned into the world of data analytics. Currently I am working as a business intelligence specialist specializing in report automation via ETL tools and robotic process automation.

CSR : I am helping NGO understand their function better via helping them with data analytics

Leadership : I successfully led the toastmasters program in my company and expanded the same. For the same I have received a leadership award.

USP : Even though I am a commerce graduate, I am into one the functions that is traditionally held by STEM graduates or people who have a computer science background. I thrive to break the stereotype and push boundaries in my work place and my academics.

Query 1: I know my GPA is not the best and neither is my GMAT, however, given the work experience I have and my CFA journey (cleared 2 levels, I am planning to leverage the same for admission into Rotman.

Query 2 : Do you think I should apply after clearing my level 3 so as to get the GMAT waiver?

Query 3 : I am planning to apply for fall 2020 so that I wouldn't waste much time if I get through. My level 3 exam is in June 2020. Do you think this makes sense? I am doing this so even if I get a ding, I would still be familiar with the admission process and would improve upon any short comings that I faced earlier.

What do you think about my profile!

Hi Soumya94,

Thank you for your post and for sharing your profile. You have a compelling profile with a strong GMAT for Rotman. You also have clear goals in understanding (i) why you require an MBA, and (ii) a clear post-MBA direction. The third component that is missing from your post is why Rotman.

As to your work experience, did you receive promotions while at WTW, or did you remain a Market Research Assistant? As to Evalueserve, I like that you have been awarded for your contributions. Have you received any promotions since you started your role at Evalueserve?

I would welcome speaking further about your profile offline. If interested, please reach out.

Good luck!

Susan




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Hi,

Would really appreciate someone to go through my profile and give me some pointers.

Educational background:
Xth - 92.2%
XIIth - 10 CGPA
Undergraduate- B.Com(Hons) from University of Delhi (university with A+ ranking from NAAC)
15 years of education
Graduated in 2015
GMAT - 720 (Q48, V41, IR8, AWA5)

Professional Work-ex:
May ’19-Now - Sr. account executive handling a key national account in a globally known agency. I assist the client in planning their digital marketing spends, create dynamic functioning environment for the media (SEO, SEM, digital marketing, analytics, and social media marketing) teams, plan the creative strategies for upcoming briefs and work with the creative team to ensure a smooth execution and preservation for the brand identity throughout. Also organised a one day digital training day for the client’s category teams, to help them plan their budgets better in the future.

Mar’18-Mar’19 - Brand Strategist - created (from an existing larger marketing agency) and ran(responsible for the set up and the end-to-end operations) a 5 member Branding team working with upcoming restaurants or current ones looking for a rebranding in developing their brand identities (visual and verbal identities, packaging and in-store branding), ran lead gen activities & third party activities which led to a 3x increment in revenue, successfully created 5 new brands from scratch and rebranding 7 restaurants.

Mar’17-Mar’18 - content strategist - worked on effective social media campaigns for restaurants, worked on atleast 7 at-risk clients and brought them back to good terms with the agency. Helped in hiring activities, and inducted and trained 5 new resources on the team.
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Took a break here to help my mum who was then undergoing cancer treatment
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Aug-15-Aug’16 - Assurance Associate - in one of the Big-4, worked with American teams and assisted them in primary & substantive test of procedures. Was recognised for my efforts during a busy season and got a cash reward
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Internship 1 - A startup that organised TED-X like events, helped organise 3 events, managed the a team of 20 interns to assist execution of 3 events; ensured smooth and timely execution of events, worked in PR (got us a 2 page cover for an event), worked with outreach and partnership and was responsible for at least 10% of the turnout
Internship 2 - worked in a realty firm, managed and redirected inbound leads and inquiries. Maintained weekly trackers and records

Extra-curriculars:
Volunteering for an environmental protection group working to rehabilitate the fauna on stretches of hills, destroyed by callous and illegal mining activity
Was a member of the finance society
Organized 3 events over 2 years for College Fest
Covered a fest for the college magazine
School Magazine editor
Scholarship Holder, MUN participant
As a child taught 2 of our maid’s children till they could join regular schools, ran in marathons for autism awareness

Short Term Goal:
Current role has been a more execution on larger accounts and strategy on smaller accounts/campaigns. Would like to further my career in brand strategy by gaining skills that would assist me in planning and managing a brand’s strategy and marketing strategies for national/international accounts. Maybe work with the new business’ division of an advertising firm.

Long Term Goal:
Build my own niche agency

Any help/recommedations for more such suitable courses for my profile would be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!
- Akshita

Hi,

I'm an indian with an engineering background. I'm 25 and 26 by the time I start the course.
I have a GMAT score of 630.
And undergrad Gpa of 6.5/10
10th - 9 GPA
12th - 89%

Experience:
I have a work experience of 3 years as software developer in an MNC and almost 4 by the time I apply.

Extracurricular:
I have been part of the board of a student organisation in college in which I was an incharge for about 30 people. I have gone for a management internship in a food service management company in Dubai after my 3rd year.
I am a guitariat and a singer and have performed a couple of times in college and after.

I'm planing to pursue MBA in general management or consulting. What are my chances of getting into Rotman? Please help

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Hi all, please evaluate my profile.

Hi, please evaluate my profile.

Female, 25 years old, India

Secondary education : 9.4 gpa
Senior Secondary : 81.9%

Graduation :
Bachelors of Architecture
(5 years course including 6 months internship)

College : NIT

CGPA : 7.67

GMAT : 710 (Q49, V 36)

Work Experience : 25 months at Larsen and Toubro
(as on august 2019)
Role : Senior architect

Have taken up more responsibility than is usually awarded at my cadre. Have handled one project in last year and am handling another project on my own as of now.(project values upwards of 100 crores)

Co Curriculars :
1. Regularly volunteer for ngo camps ( elderdly health camps etc)
2. Was part of organizing committees of college fests, department functions, functions in school
3. Was involved in dramatics and debating in school


Why mba ?

I know the technical aspects of a building, from the floor plans to the ventilation system, from the effect it can have on a person to the how livable and sustenable it can be .
I want to able to look at the same built environment from a business/financial/economic point of view also, to be able to have a more cohesive bigger picture.

Thanks !

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Your profile looks strong, what's your AWA score?

You should focus on writing the essay (spike factor) and focus on your extra curricular/interesting work experiences beyond the casual job responsibilities. For rotman, the spike factor always is make or break.
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