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30 May 2015, 06:48
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Hello, hope you all are doing well. Need some advice.I intend to apply to b-school for 2016-2017 class.
Below is a snapshot of my profile-
Undergrad: B.Tech from National Institute of Technology ,Allahabad (India)
GPA - 7.3/10 ( Was awarded scholarship in my first year for having the best admit rank in the class. Grading was pretty strict. Ended up in the top 30% of my class)
GMAT: 760 ( Quant-51 , Verbal-42 , AWA-5.5 , IR-8)
Work-ex - Currently working as a senior Integration engineer in Sony. Have a work-ex of 4 years currently, will have 5 yrs when I join a b-school. Roles and responsibilities are marked as below-
Sony Pictures Entertainment(SPE)( 2years)-
1. As an Integration engineer have the responsibility of integrating different business divisions and applications within SPE to different business enterprises SPE deals with.
2. During the course of my work have stepped up and taken up the responsibility of training and handling a team of 5 to facilitate the successful delivery of projects and mitigate any integration related issues.
3. Have developed efficient business models and applications to facilitate glitch free business integration process.
4. Have build a good reputation with clients of various business and have helped in facilitating efficient communication with them to know their requirements and issues articulately.
4. Being a part of a middleware team have gained end-to-end business and domain knowledge of SPE.
Sony Electronics division (1year)-
1. To diversify my business and domain knowledge , I took initiative and moved to Sony electronics division.
2. Faced different type of challenges here and learned a lot from the hands-on experience of the same.
3. Got to have a good business and domain knowledge of Sony electronics as well.
Sony Pictures Entertainment ( SPE) (1 year)-
1. After the Sony Pictures Hack incident last year , I took initiative and moved back to SPE to handle the disaster management and recovery process. Was also appreciated for the same.
2. Used my previous experience and expertise of the business to help facilitate speedy recovery of the business and application processes and also made it a good learning experience of risk management and disaster recovery.
3. From here I got introduced to various risk models and risk profiles the company takes into account to face such unforeseeable risks and incidents.
Awards and recognition- total 5 ( 3 personal awards , 2 team awards )
Recommendation - Sure to get good strong recommendations ( Already have backing of my superiors)
Certifications-
1. CFA Level 1 cleared and FRM Level 1 cleared
2. Have taken quite a few long distance courses in fields such as Micro , Macro economics, Financial accounting , corporate finance etc. with top grades under institutes such as Wharton, University of Illinois etc.
Extra curricula-rs-
1. Was the organizing head of my undergrad institute's cultural fest managing a team of 50 members. Was also part of the core organizing committee of my institute's technical fest. Have also actively handled marketing , sponsorship and financial aspects of the festivals.
2. Have 3 years diploma in hindustani classical music(vocals). Also play guitar, syth, harmonium, tabla and drums. Part of an active rock band currently and was also the chief secretary of the music club of my undergrad institute.Have learnt salsa level 1 as well and have won several awards in music and dance competitions
3.Have also run lot of half-marathons , 10ks and 5 ks for charity and have performed well in them. Part of my company's official running team. Was also part of my undergrad institute's badminton team. Have played inter-NIT as well.
4. Part of my company's csr team and also have recently joined Make a difference (NGO) in their Fund raising team leveraging my prior experience in organizing events.
Short term goals - I have gained exposure to the risk management and disaster recovery though my current project in my company and have gained interest in the same. So want to leverage my technical and financial knowledge and expertise gained from an MBA ,to have a role of a risk manager in a reputed company.
Long term goal - Want to open my own venture specializing in creating improved , efficient and unique risk management models ( still a long shot though).
Target schools - Columbia, Cornell, Stern , Ross, Tepper.
My question is given my profile and less than stellar acads are the above schools realistic?
Below is a snapshot of my profile-
Undergrad: B.Tech from National Institute of Technology ,Allahabad (India)
GPA - 7.3/10 ( Was awarded scholarship in my first year for having the best admit rank in the class. Grading was pretty strict. Ended up in the top 30% of my class)
GMAT: 760 ( Quant-51 , Verbal-42 , AWA-5.5 , IR-8)
Work-ex - Currently working as a senior Integration engineer in Sony. Have a work-ex of 4 years currently, will have 5 yrs when I join a b-school. Roles and responsibilities are marked as below-
Sony Pictures Entertainment(SPE)( 2years)-
1. As an Integration engineer have the responsibility of integrating different business divisions and applications within SPE to different business enterprises SPE deals with.
2. During the course of my work have stepped up and taken up the responsibility of training and handling a team of 5 to facilitate the successful delivery of projects and mitigate any integration related issues.
3. Have developed efficient business models and applications to facilitate glitch free business integration process.
4. Have build a good reputation with clients of various business and have helped in facilitating efficient communication with them to know their requirements and issues articulately.
4. Being a part of a middleware team have gained end-to-end business and domain knowledge of SPE.
Sony Electronics division (1year)-
1. To diversify my business and domain knowledge , I took initiative and moved to Sony electronics division.
2. Faced different type of challenges here and learned a lot from the hands-on experience of the same.
3. Got to have a good business and domain knowledge of Sony electronics as well.
Sony Pictures Entertainment ( SPE) (1 year)-
1. After the Sony Pictures Hack incident last year , I took initiative and moved back to SPE to handle the disaster management and recovery process. Was also appreciated for the same.
2. Used my previous experience and expertise of the business to help facilitate speedy recovery of the business and application processes and also made it a good learning experience of risk management and disaster recovery.
3. From here I got introduced to various risk models and risk profiles the company takes into account to face such unforeseeable risks and incidents.
Awards and recognition- total 5 ( 3 personal awards , 2 team awards )
Recommendation - Sure to get good strong recommendations ( Already have backing of my superiors)
Certifications-
1. CFA Level 1 cleared and FRM Level 1 cleared
2. Have taken quite a few long distance courses in fields such as Micro , Macro economics, Financial accounting , corporate finance etc. with top grades under institutes such as Wharton, University of Illinois etc.
Extra curricula-rs-
1. Was the organizing head of my undergrad institute's cultural fest managing a team of 50 members. Was also part of the core organizing committee of my institute's technical fest. Have also actively handled marketing , sponsorship and financial aspects of the festivals.
2. Have 3 years diploma in hindustani classical music(vocals). Also play guitar, syth, harmonium, tabla and drums. Part of an active rock band currently and was also the chief secretary of the music club of my undergrad institute.Have learnt salsa level 1 as well and have won several awards in music and dance competitions
3.Have also run lot of half-marathons , 10ks and 5 ks for charity and have performed well in them. Part of my company's official running team. Was also part of my undergrad institute's badminton team. Have played inter-NIT as well.
4. Part of my company's csr team and also have recently joined Make a difference (NGO) in their Fund raising team leveraging my prior experience in organizing events.
Short term goals - I have gained exposure to the risk management and disaster recovery though my current project in my company and have gained interest in the same. So want to leverage my technical and financial knowledge and expertise gained from an MBA ,to have a role of a risk manager in a reputed company.
Long term goal - Want to open my own venture specializing in creating improved , efficient and unique risk management models ( still a long shot though).
Target schools - Columbia, Cornell, Stern , Ross, Tepper.
My question is given my profile and less than stellar acads are the above schools realistic?
02 Jun 2015, 23:17
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sourabhsur123
Hi Sourabh,
I see some neat stuff happening there at Sony- you have demonstrated many leadership instances and showed a personal capacity to take risks and try out new things. You also seem to be the go-to-guy, moving around division to fix things up! These experiences are going to hold you in good stead in the applications.
To top the work experience, you have a great GMAT score, followed by an ok-ish undergrad grade.
To answer your question, yes, you can take a shot at these b-schools and possibly also add one school each on both the ends of the spectrum.
03 Jun 2015, 07:41
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Hi Sourabh,
You have a solid set of extracurricular activities. It seems you did a lot during your uni days (now 3 years in the past) and have also pursued some solo activities on an on going basis (running, music, salsa etc.). In terms of current volunteer activities you have the NGO. For a non-US applicant you are doing well - a lot of times internationals don't have much in the way of activities outside work because culturally it just isn't as common to be involved in NGOs and the like.
I like your work experience at Sony - my overall impression is that you are involved in strategy/implementation (maybe we could call it operations?) for middle wear. Is that fair?
Having short-term goals that the school can help you achieve is important. I'm a little fuzzy on where you would actually work as a 'risk management and disaster recovery' consultant. Have you seen roles at specific companies that you would be able to reference in an app or interview? If so then we would need to evaluate whether that goal is a NATURAL or believable extension of your past experience + MBA. Without more details I'm going to stay on the fence for now.
Target schools - Columbia, Cornell, Stern , Ross, Tepper.
At Columbia & Stern you'll need to make a compelling case for the school + why NYC. Is there one?, if so an app at these schools would be a possibility to explore. With your GMAT and work experience I feel that Cornell, Ross and Tepper would be reasonable schools to apply to.
My question is given my profile and less than stellar acads are the above schools realistic?
A compelling app (essays, resume, reccos, goals...the works) can help mitigate what you call a 'less than stellar academic record'.
Feel free to reach out if you'd like to chat.
You have a solid set of extracurricular activities. It seems you did a lot during your uni days (now 3 years in the past) and have also pursued some solo activities on an on going basis (running, music, salsa etc.). In terms of current volunteer activities you have the NGO. For a non-US applicant you are doing well - a lot of times internationals don't have much in the way of activities outside work because culturally it just isn't as common to be involved in NGOs and the like.
I like your work experience at Sony - my overall impression is that you are involved in strategy/implementation (maybe we could call it operations?) for middle wear. Is that fair?
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Having short-term goals that the school can help you achieve is important. I'm a little fuzzy on where you would actually work as a 'risk management and disaster recovery' consultant. Have you seen roles at specific companies that you would be able to reference in an app or interview? If so then we would need to evaluate whether that goal is a NATURAL or believable extension of your past experience + MBA. Without more details I'm going to stay on the fence for now.
Target schools - Columbia, Cornell, Stern , Ross, Tepper.
At Columbia & Stern you'll need to make a compelling case for the school + why NYC. Is there one?, if so an app at these schools would be a possibility to explore. With your GMAT and work experience I feel that Cornell, Ross and Tepper would be reasonable schools to apply to.
My question is given my profile and less than stellar acads are the above schools realistic?
A compelling app (essays, resume, reccos, goals...the works) can help mitigate what you call a 'less than stellar academic record'.
Feel free to reach out if you'd like to chat.
