Profile Review

Question

Please evaluate my profile.

1. Academics
- B.Tech, top NIT (graduated in top 15%).
- IIT-JEE 99.35 percentile.
- CGPA 7.71/10
- GMAT Focus 655 (Q: 100th %ile; DI: 96th %ile).
- Professional Experience (~6 years, startups - Launches & Scaling)
— Scaled digital learning category market share from 6% → 40% in 3 years; built a network with 2B+ views, 3M+ subs.
— Grew organic leads from 20K → 50K+/month, designed playbook achieving which is followed by company; launched premium GTM Campaigns. (With great ROI)
- Turned around a city’s profitability in 4 months; led a team of 30+ people.
- Launched a new city from scratch. - Made it profitable within an year.

Leadership & Extras
- Known for calm, people-first leadership; attrition consistently <10%.
- Early ventures: profitable merchandise business (₹2L+ profit), plus 2 failed startups(Not registered but had started working on it)
- NCC cadet: B Certificate; school Kho-Kho captain → led team to first-ever state-level.
- ⁠Was very active in college & schools : Awards & recognition. 
- ⁠Got 5 times best employee award on performance.

Goals

- Short-term: Consulting (Growth/GTM/Digital/Management).
- Long-term: Build scalable platforms/IPs.

warlock1210 · Answer

If you have this quant and DI score, then your verbal must be around or below the 50th percentile. The overall gmat is also pretty low for the demographic. (Indian male engineer)

ExpertsGlobal · Answer

Hi  Nimbuzzz ,

The score is under par for Kellogg considering you belong to an over-represented pool of applicants.

If you are looking to improve your score, we encourage you to take  7-day free trial to our GMAT course .

Thanks and all the best!

Experts' Global

SheaRai · Answer

Hi   Nimbuzzz

Your professional experience seems strong and extra-curriculars are also interesting.

Test score should be improved. That can be done. 
But what you have done and achieved till now in your life - that matters more.

I'd like to know more about leadership experience, communication skills, and international exposure. 
These are the things Kellogg cares about beyond professional accolades.

I have helped many Indian students get admitted to Kellogg, as well as Darden, CBS - your other target schools.
Happy to talk more.

You can reach out to me on LinkedIn.
 My Linkedin profile

You might find these helpful: 
 10-point checklist for your MBA applications

Shea Rai
CEO  Vibranture.com 
MBA, Univ. of Michigan 2010

GyanOne · Answer

Hi, did you apply finally? How did it go? The 655 GMAT below was a point of concern.

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