Profile evaluation Request with help on target schools

Hello mrunank,

Thanks for writing in.

While your undergrad degree from a Tier 1 institution as well as your career progression (with the promotion and hopefully leadership experience as well) will add value to your candidature, your current GMAT score, though good, works out to be around the average for an Indian male candidate from an engineering background (an extremely over-represented pool). In our opinion, your shortlist, last season, did not completely factor in the same, or even if it did, you possibly wanted to go very aggressive.

While you have not added extensive details pertaining to your work, we are assuming you will have decent leadership exposure and a number of talking points in terms of your achievements at work. The short-term goals look in line; however, we would want to see better sync between your short-term and long-term goals. For instance, if the idea is to eventually end up in the e-commerce domain, why are you not pursuing a position in the same domain in the short term itself. Of course, this is only our opinion, but we do think you need to re-think your career goals.

If you are looking at retaining a school from the previous shortlist, something like a Darden could stay. However, with your existing profile, you might need to consider schools ranked between US top ~15 and US top ~20. The UK anyway does not have a large number of options.

Should you wish to have a detailed discussion, you could get in touch with us for a free profile evaluation session.

All the best!