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Gender: Female
Age: 26 ( Will be 27 when i join B School)
Nationality: Indian
GPA: 9.78/10
Degree: Electronics and Communication Engineering. (From a decent college, but not any of the IITs or NITs)
Years of Professional Experience: a little over 4 years. Hoping to complete 5 years by the time i start my MBA.

Official Score: 700 (Q50, V34, IR3, AWA5.0)

Work Profile: Research Engineer in the R&D Division of one of the largest Consumer electronics Company in the world (One of the renowned brands in the world). 2 promotions in 4 years. Several awards and technical publications. I have mentored several interns and have couple of engineers working for me.

Extra Curricular: I am a trained musician in Indian Classical and folk music. I have been a keyboard player for a professional music group and have a certificate in Indian Music.

Goals:
Short Term: I want to work in technology commercialization, project management and project lifecycle management in the field of consumer electronics or communications technology.
Long term: PMO roles for tech projects in government organizations.

Target schools: Rice Jones, Kelley, Tepper, Nanyang, UIUC.

I am looking for schools in USA, Singapore and Canada. Could you suggest some other schools considering my profile and chance for scholarship?
I am little worried about my IR score. I am willing to retake GMAT if it is necessary.
Scholarship is one of the most important factors for me.


Hey there!
Great to hear from you!
So first of all, amazing GPA there! It's one of the highest I've seen coming from an Indian school. It may not be IIT/NIT, but if its a good school it still helps a lot.

R.e. the GMAT - Dont retake the GMAT juuuuust for the IR, whoever if you do think you can go better on the main sections, then it might be worth your while to retake. For some thoughts on this look here: https://admissionado.com/mba/to-retake-o ... n=mba_blog

As for the rest, I feel like being a female with your GPA and your GMAT, your school list is quite reasonable.

Best,
Jon

Hi Jon,

I took the GMAT again, and I think it was a good decision. I improved my score this time.

New scores:
730, Q49, V39, IR8

Now, I want to apply to some schools in top 10-20 range.

Could you suggest some schools that are suitable for my profile? I'm considering McCombs as one.

woohoo!!!
Congratulations!!!
that is some perseverance there! And yes, that totally changes your school list range. You are now solidly 10-20, and as "Stretch schools" could even choose 1-2 schools from the top ten.

As far as choosing school: In the Top20 they are ALL good. I can suggest schools of course, but first I'd need to know what you WANT - this can be in a professional or personal sense. And if you define some criteria, I can try and lead you in the right direction.

McCombs is an excellent school
btw,
:)

Best,
Jon