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16 Mar 2014, 19:48
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After 3 dings, I am one week away from my last expected result and its difficult to not be on the less-hopeful side rather than the hopeful one. However, in thinking about my re-application strategy, I was wondering what changes to my profile I can make. As background, I have taken the GMAT thrice, twice with disastrous results before I finally managed a 680 (Q44 V40), which I believe does reflect my abilities accurately. And to spell my abilities out - I have never been great with Math but always done well in English, right through school and then all the way out of engineering college. That said, I don't believe I have no quant abilities because my job is quantitative in nature (think - number crunching and data analysis for survey data for a consulting company).
GMAT was a tough process emotionally and my final score came pretty late ( in early February) by which time, I had submitted my application to all my target schools and I feel that despite my updated score, they had already made their decision based on the score I originally submitted with my apps . I don't really think giving GMAT again can help me improve my score. My nightmare will be the score going below 680!
Professionally - I was promoted last year and don't see a promotion again this year before the application cycle ends. I will however be a part of an integration process for a new company which was acquired by my employer in the last few weeks and taking on people management responsibilities. These are likely the only changes to my current profile. I will be trying to improve my leadership profile further by applying to lead a pro-bono consulting project for a prestigious local non-profit consulting organization(think Taproot). I have been working then with since 2011.
Now for my question - I feel my profile can be presented in a more competitive way by better essays. However, my low Quant score in GMAT and in my undergrad may still raise flags despite my quant work experience. Does anyone have any recommendation about what else I can do too make my profile more competitive? MATH X402 - 001 Math for Management by UC Berkeley Extension is something that came up in my research. But, any other suggestions, anything other people have done and feel that it has added to their application when they applied the second time around?
Look forward to hearing from you!
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Profile: Indian, non-IT female, will have 7 years of Product Mgmt/Consulting experience (in India and US) in Aug 2014. GPA (from Top 20 college in India - NIT) ~ 3.5+, Community Service: about 4 years of non profit consulting work experience in helping with global non-profits on strategic alignment, funding strategies, network expansion & mgmt strategies. Target schools - Ross, Kellogg, UNC, Duke, Kelley, McCombs. Target career - General Mgmt - RLDP programs leading to Corp Strategy or direct Corp Strategy jobs.
GMAT was a tough process emotionally and my final score came pretty late ( in early February) by which time, I had submitted my application to all my target schools and I feel that despite my updated score, they had already made their decision based on the score I originally submitted with my apps . I don't really think giving GMAT again can help me improve my score. My nightmare will be the score going below 680!
Professionally - I was promoted last year and don't see a promotion again this year before the application cycle ends. I will however be a part of an integration process for a new company which was acquired by my employer in the last few weeks and taking on people management responsibilities. These are likely the only changes to my current profile. I will be trying to improve my leadership profile further by applying to lead a pro-bono consulting project for a prestigious local non-profit consulting organization(think Taproot). I have been working then with since 2011.
Now for my question - I feel my profile can be presented in a more competitive way by better essays. However, my low Quant score in GMAT and in my undergrad may still raise flags despite my quant work experience. Does anyone have any recommendation about what else I can do too make my profile more competitive? MATH X402 - 001 Math for Management by UC Berkeley Extension is something that came up in my research. But, any other suggestions, anything other people have done and feel that it has added to their application when they applied the second time around?
Look forward to hearing from you!
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Profile: Indian, non-IT female, will have 7 years of Product Mgmt/Consulting experience (in India and US) in Aug 2014. GPA (from Top 20 college in India - NIT) ~ 3.5+, Community Service: about 4 years of non profit consulting work experience in helping with global non-profits on strategic alignment, funding strategies, network expansion & mgmt strategies. Target schools - Ross, Kellogg, UNC, Duke, Kelley, McCombs. Target career - General Mgmt - RLDP programs leading to Corp Strategy or direct Corp Strategy jobs.
Updated on: 18 Mar 2014, 04:54
Originally posted by Admissionado on 17 Mar 2014, 05:02.
Last edited by Admissionado on 18 Mar 2014, 04:54, edited 1 time in total.
Last edited by Admissionado on 18 Mar 2014, 04:54, edited 1 time in total.
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Hey there, great that you are already thinking about what you will do next year. It's hard to say exactly what you should do for next year, without yet more detail, but reading what you have written here, I would say first of all it's probably not a bad idea to have someone look through your applications from the dinged schools. You know, see if they can find out what went wrong, what could be done better, and so on. Secondly, it's probably not a good idea to reapply to ALL the same schools but to mix new and old ones. Thirdly, since you weren't that successful with your current application, it might also be a good time to consider whether or not you have been over-ambitious in your application strategy. I don't really have enough info from you to know whether this is the case, but it's definitely something to consider.
17 Mar 2014, 07:28
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With a 680 GMAT, I think all but Kellogg are feasible. In general Indian applicants need a higher than average GMAT to get in (which I'm sure you're aware of). Being a female helps, but not enough to get you into Kellogg based on what I've seen. I'd apply to mostly new schools - I think you're probably correct decisions were made before the new scores came in, but if you re-apply you're expected to write a "What's changed in the last year" essay....which doesn't seem like you'll be able to build very well due to no new expected promotions.
