Hi Neha, thanks for replying. I understand Stanford is a stretch and I actually wasn't looking to apply to it either, I'm aware of the stellar profiles they take in. Would you suggest any other deferred programs that I may have a decent shot at?
Hi
ad2001,
Thanks for your post!
Starting with your stats you have a relatively high GPA of around nine and several internships that would provide an all-over boost to your profile. I suggest you to improve your GRE for stanford.
Now since Stanford deferred MBA program looks for critical qualities like Impeccable academic records, Leadership qualities, Communication skills, and Strong analytical & quantitative abilities, you must align your profile accordingly! In this case, your Journals, ECAs, and Internships play a vital role since you lack any professional experience; work experience gained during ECAs or internships provides an opportunity to shine and demonstrate your professional promise. Moreover, your ECAs help demonstrates an aspect of your personality, creativity, and cognitive aptitude while drafting research paper and journals enhance your soft skills. So what I would say is add all the relevant experiences and skill-set developed through your ECAs and internships to make your profile more robust! You can take a look at
top deferred MBA programs to include some safety schools in your list.
Overall your profile is good, but Stanford can be a stretch. I suggest adding more schools to your list. 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 the b-schools. Feel free to
book a free session with us as per your convenience.
Cheers!
Neha Hadke
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Can someone help me evaluate if a deferred MBA application is a good option for me? Since many applications have no fee, I was thinking of giving it a shot. I've given the GRE and confirmed from most schools that they evaluate it on the same level as the GMAT.
Nationality: Indian
Gender: Female
Major: Economics, Minor in Computer science. My college is currently ranked at number 1 by the official Government of India rankings consistently. It's the best undergraduate, non-tech college in the country.
My coursework includes macroecon, microecon, stats, econometrics, data analysis (R software), financial econ, Python, DBMS (MySQL), HTML & Computer networks.
GPA: 9
GRE: 325 (160V, 165Q)
Internships: Intern at Indian Oil (PSU, Fortune 500 company), McCann Worldgroup (World's largest advertising agency), Daniel J. Edelman Holdings & Observer Research Foundation
Extra-curriculars: Vice President of my department, organized over 20 over sessions and generated revenue streams, created an alumnae committee from scratch and reached out to over 700 till date.
I have 3 research papers, a pending journal publication, 2 published research commentaries on economics and business and two podcast episodes under mental health & economics.
Achievements: Standing placement offer from one of the world's largest banks.
This is a general outlay, any help or advice is appreciated! Thanks!