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Umm...not very sure about the protocol to be followed. Looked around a bit, gonna ape it.
@ moderators: Plz let me know if there's any other way to do this.

Hope to get some opinions, and any associated advice, about my profile:

GMAT:

Quant: 50
Verbal: 42
Overall: 760
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Nationality: Indian .... n part of the Indian IT Male tribe
Age: ~29
Field of Interest: Finance
B-schools I'm considering applying to: ANY help would be appreciated. Very unclear about my prospects. Considering Stern, Columbia, Booth, Haas, Yale. Also, wanna know bout my chances of getting decent scholarships.
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School:
Topper with 90%
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Diploma in Electronics Engg:
4 year course at Mumbai University's top Engg college. Includes a year of internship in the marketing dept. with L&T Automation
90%. Gold Medallist (for highest aggregate across all 6 departments, over 8 semesters)
Department topper for 2 years

Class Rep for 4 years [class strength ~60]
Managed the department library for about 3 years: functions included purchase, cataloging and issuing of books

Class captain for cricket and football.
Won a runners-up trophy for the intra-collegiate Kabaddi tournament.
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Under-grad:
Post-diploma direct admission to the 2nd year of a 4 year Bachelor of Engg in Electronics & Telecomm.
Top 3 / Top5 college in Mumbai University
63.7% [Ist class as per Uni rules]

- Led a team of 4 that won the first prize at the national-level student exhibition section of an international industrial exhibition for the Electrical & Electronics industries. Were approached, thru the college, to develop a similar system for the local plant of a manufacturing major.
- Won prizes [1st/2nd/3rd] in intra-collegiate competitions like quizzes, business simulations
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Work Experience:

A. 4 years with Tata Consultancy Services [IT] [for a Enterprise Telecom vertical client]:

@ Work:
Application development, system and architecture design, requirement analysis, effort estimation, training & mentoring of new recruits etc
Techno-functional lead for a team of 10+ application developers across multiple technologies.

- ILP Top Performer Award for performance during the training program for new recruits [batch of 350+ recruits]
- Star of the Quarter Award in an account of around 300 people.
- 1st year Confirmation rating of 5. 2nd year appraisal band of A.
- Certificates of Appreciation from clients
- On-The-Spot Award for time-critical work done to head of considerable impact on client business

B. 1 year full-time internship with the marketing dept. of L&T Automation [for the Power vertical], as part of the Diploma course [sem 6 & 7]
@ Work:
- Client tender analysis
- Part of the bid-drafting team
- Cost estimation
- Negotiation with sub-vendors

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Other stuff:

Crazy bout football. Played during diploma. Then got tubby Still play when I can get ppl together.
Metal music: headbanging for about 12 years now. Play a bit of electric guitar.

Currently:
Scored 99.1%ile in CAT 2011
1st year MBA @ a Top 10/ Top 12 B-school in India.
CFA L1 candidate [awaiting Dec 2012 results]
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Thanks