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Would be great if can get insight over my profile:

Indian Male Engineer

High school -89%
12th school -87%
BTech (Electronics and communication) - 69%

GMAT1- 610 Q47 V27 IR8
GMAT2- 660 Q49 V31 IR7

69 months Work experience in IT company TCS, working as quality assurance on banking domain 
2 years onsite experience in Bern, Switzerland, working for biggest Swiss bank, transaction wise 
Received multiple appreciations and awards, individual and team wise
Working as Quality assurance Lead for Indian and overseas banks IT product

Organised college Tech festival in graduation
Working for NGO- teaching under privileged children from last 1 year
Head of e-sport Team for college and won National level college competition

· Post-MBA goals:
Looking to advance in current domain of Banking & Finance

· Target schools:
Top 50 programs in India, US, Europe or Canada

· Any specific questions you would like answered by our team:
Should I give 1 more attempt for better score or start working on applications?

Regards
Thanks in advance

Businessconquerer · Answer

There is a what are my chances school in the forum. You can have your profle judged there
However, personal advice, you belong to a highly overrepresented pool of applicants with a low GMAT score of 660. Even if you touch a 700 the chances are still less,.
Check out top 30-50 universities and apply according to your post-MBA goal

huskar · Answer

Thanks Businessconquerer
I used 'What are my chances', and have listed the average-above average colleges. But I don't think I should apply in those.

Businessconquerer · Answer

huskar  What are the colleges that you received the names of?
Aringo has a similar tool
Also, just check the class profiles
If you're in the mid 80% range and above the average of all the categoric requirements, you'll be good

huskar · Answer

Colleges are as:

Above average :
Emory Goizueta 
Kelley 
Foster 
Marshall 
Rotman

Average:
NUS Singapore 
IESE 
Said Oxford 
NYU Stern 
ISB 
Tepper 
McCombs 
UNC Kenan-Flagler

Businessconquerer · Answer

Make sure you mark Highly over represented as your pool 
I think you can go for the usnews beyond Top 25 (don't fill warrington, it's very new)
Give Emory a shot
Rotman might consider you too
Sauder UBC is another good option
And you're certainly not getting Foster, so I think tool is faulty
I tried putting in your details myself, everything is either average or below average

Please try to increase you GMAT if you still have official material left at disposal

huskar · Answer

Yes I am marking Highly over represented
I guess due to details filled in advanced tab, its assigning these colleges
You are right if I just fill score-age-highly represented, no above average college is shown

Beginning the exam (today), I have filled Rotman as 1 of 5 colleges, others are
NUS singapore
Anderson
Yale
Foster

But I guess its useless now due to the low score. I'll try my chances with some Indian colleges now.

I have used 1,2,5,6 mocks of GMAC , nothing else. I can buy the additional questions & mocks and may give GMAT again in coming month.

Thanks for your answers BusinessConquerer

Businessconquerer · Answer

huskar 
If I have helped you in any way, I would really appreciate kudos on the comments that did indeed help you. Such comments remain high on thread and can help others such as you.
3&4 are still left. Take 4-5 months, climb to atleast a 720. Then you may try again
In Canada most students are Indian, they are very India friendly

Don't fill any of the universities other than Rotman in the list you mentioned
I am sure you can get a 720
Get mocks from Manhattan and Veritas
Before going to official tests, always finish other mocks
The score discrepancy between your actual GMAT score and Manhattan score will be about 40 points
Meaning Manhattan gives you less score than your actual strength

Please give a smile on my comments if my comments helped

huskar · Answer

Sure, I have added Kudos for your helpful comments. I'll go ahead with Rotman and see. If it doesn't work out, I'll retake and will score 720+. Again thanks for your advice.

mbaMissionJenK · Answer

Hi huskar,
While using online tools for chances or school selection can be ok just for curiosity's sake, do remember that there are always flaws in that approach so take it with a grain of salt... because MBA admissions is a holistic process, not based solely on say one formula or algorithm where you can plug in inputs and receive chances or schools as outputs. There are many things we do not know about you, such as leadership experiences and accomplishments at work, and other interesting life stories and influences. It IS ideal to be at or better yet above school averages in terms of test score and academics if possible, so yes at present I'd agree with looking outside the top 25 US News Schools. But a) you COULD still work on improving that GMAT to make an impact, or trying the GRE instead, and b) you also need to spend time considering and researching what YOU want in a program to narrow down further.
Check out our Selecting Schools Guide which is a free download you may enjoy at:
https://shop.mbamission.com/products/se ... ba-program
And feel free to sign up for a free 30 minute session with one of our consultants at any point if interested:
www.mbamission.com/consult.

Good luck in any case!

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