nvad5955 wrote:
Can you please evaluate my profile :
Indian Male
Grades :
Xth - 89.5%
XIIth - 89.9%
Undergrad ( DVR college ) - 7.4/10
GMAT 3 - 750 (Q50, V41, IR3)
GMAT 2- 680, GMAT 1- 610, both IR 6
Work experience - Total 6 yrs at the time of admission
Business co-owner at a chain of retail marts. directly responsible for over 150 employees
deeply involved in the managerial decisions of a fast growing Real estate company. Involvement includes but not limited to viability calculations, direct marketing to customers, etc
Extra curricula:
-won several debates and school
-consistently awarded for academics throughout school life
-One of the two co-ordinators of a national level technical symposium at college; during this stint i was involved with securing the funds, marketing the event and developing a more convenient and practical web portal along with setting guidelines and placing regulations. The event was covered widely by TV news.
Social responsibility
was member of a social team SNEHAM, through which i taught in remote villages, raised funds as part of secret santa to underprivileged, at Infosys.
many a times worked as a fund raiser for charity, collecting funds from the business community i am closely acquainted with ( both retail and real estate). These funds were donated to IT colleges, merit candidates who have no funds to further their education or any person who is deserving.
pro-bono management consulting to small and medium scale enterprises. i worked with several establishments ranging from hair saloons to restaurants to construction. The thought of directly of indirectly making a difference to several employees under these companies is what propels me to continue doing so.
Failed Startup:
Immediately after quitting my job, i came up with an idea when i found a clear security flaw through which a test prep company’s material could be hacked. Invited 2 other colleagues/ friends of mine to assist me technically. The idea was security/encryption on flash drive. Worked on it for 6 months from having an idea to creating a market to finally coming up with a beta product. Developed the beta product. The business plan was solid. Direct marketing was also elaborate. I was able to get two test prep companies on board with the idea to secure their data that they deliver via USB.I also networked with a scientist in Indian defense organization (DRDO) and garnered immense. We were able to address the security flaw too. It encrypted the data very quickly,But it took lot of time to decrypt. To get real time decryption and to compete with companies who actually provide this software we needed to use secure pendrives, not normal pendrives. And those pendrives are very cheap to manufacture but very costly to buy. We cannot manufacture them and so we could not reduce our prices, because our material landing cost itself was significantly more than the cost of both software and secure drives sold by our competitors . we eventually shred the idea.
Future Goal:
i want to establish a tech startup serving the health care industry. I always think big no matter how i start, big or small. I wish to create an app that will eventually predict health issues before to it can happen, help governments to assess which sections in health care to improve, connect patients to other patients with similar medical history, provide more insights to doctor,remind patients of when to take what medicines( very helpful in rural areas), digitize medical records and generate reports in laymen words and help junior doctor gain an insight with the vast range of cases that are digitally aggregated. In other words, i wish to revolutionize health care industry. I have already planned a revenue stream through this app too.
During MBA i would like to be connected to like minded people who are especially enthusiastic toward entrepreneurship. I wish to have access to Venture Capitalists who would be interested in the idea. I wish to apply for a business school who would only prepare me for this kind of venture. Also, i wish to intern as a management consultant during summer, a job that will eventually make me better and more structured at management consulting. I want to do so because pro-bono consulting to SME will always be a part of me.
B-school requirements:
Strong responsive alumni.
passionate professors who are reachable and research latest trends or influence new trends.
Entrepreneurship minded batch mates.
I believe that for true and accurate assessment of my skills i need to be as transparent and detailed as possible. Hence, the long post.
thanks for reading thus far.
I would like to know my chances of joining the below b school i deem fit for me.
Harvard
Stanford
Columbia (CBS)
Darden, Cornell ( for the small class size,in both, which i hope helps in knowing my to be work partners more and case study method of teaching,at Darden)
Also, kindly suggest the schools that you deem fit for me.
Dear Sir,
Allrighty, you got some good stuff here. Not least of which is your management of your current business and of so many people. That is already a great achievement and skill, and combined with your other entrepreneurial efforts there is a lot of good stuff here.
Congrats on your fantastic retake too! Well done. That alone can greatly help....
The one major weakness in your profile is that you graduated from a no-name school. Anyhow nothing to do about that now....
Other than that, what can I say? I think with your profile, you can stick to Top 15 schools or so, thanks to your vast leadership.
The one thing that totally makes no sense, is that your goals have nothing to do with what you have actually done, and this proposition might not please the AdCom.
Instead, consider maybe a goal which would propose expanding and streamlining your current business. I'm sure there's lots t do there too!
Best,
JF
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08 Oct 2015, 23:15
