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Hello hopefullmoshe

Your GMAT, though good, is not enough to help you stand out from other Indian applicants at the likes of Stanford.
In that case you will need to highlight other strengths, most of which are missing in the information shared. For example, achievements at work, real business impact, contribution in extracurricular activities. You may want to read here to know the factors that matter in written applications.
Most importantly, what are your long term/short term goals and how does an MBA from Stanford tie in? This is the most vital piece of the admissions puzzle. Add to your research by reading here

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Hi,

Id be really grateful if you guys can do a quick profile evaluation. thanks in advance.

Male Indian Engineer
Undegrad-VIT (Top 10-15 Indian Engineering) Energy Engineering CGPA 7.3/10 (top 10%)
Postgrad- University of Sheffield Energy Engineering 2:1 High Merit with distinction on thesis
1 Year work ex in prominent non-profit in renewable energy sector in India, 1 promotion within the the year from technical to managerial profile
2.5 years-Founded my own startup in the renewable energy field working with clients in developmental sector and industrial sector (3.5 years-time till sept2019)

Annual Turnover USD500,000 EMPLOYEES 25, ties for implementation with prominent CSR funds such as TATA, Godrej, USAID etc.

GMAT: 720 (94th Percentile)

Any helpful last minute pointers would be great. All the best to everyone who's applying :)
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Hi,

Id be really grateful if you guys can do a quick profile evaluation. thanks in advance.

Male Indian Engineer
Undegrad-VIT (Top 10-15 Indian Engineering) Energy Engineering CGPA 7.3/10 (top 10%)
Postgrad- University of Sheffield Energy Engineering 2:1 High Merit with distinction on thesis
1 Year work ex in prominent non-profit in renewable energy sector in India, 1 promotion within the the year from technical to managerial profile
2.5 years-Founded my own startup in the renewable energy field working with clients in developmental sector and industrial sector (3.5 years-time till sept2019)

Annual Turnover USD500,000 EMPLOYEES 25, ties for implementation with prominent CSR funds such as TATA, Godrej, USAID etc.

GMAT: 720 (94th Percentile)

Any helpful last minute pointers would be great. All the best to everyone who's applying :)

Hopefullmoshe,

I love your profile.
Although both your GMAT and GPA are quite average, I would like to know more about your work experience. Building a profitable business in 2.5 years in sustainable development sounds very, very challenging - and this could be your real differentiator.
Scaling up a company to 25+ employees is not bad at all. That and you interaction with the top companies should give you a lot of leadership skills to boast in the application. Do reach out with your resume and share your MBA plans...quite excited to know more about your profile.
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Hey all, maybe overly detailed profile below, but I appreciate any feedback!

Background and nationality
English, based in UK - recently turned 30

Undergrad Information
BSc Economics - University of Bath - Second Class Honors First Division (roughly converts to 3.4 GPA I think)

GMAT: 740 (Q49, V41, IR 8, AWA 6.0)

Work experience and leadership:
(I have removed organisation names for sake of anonymity, but they are all internationally recognised)

Associate at Segregated Hedge Fund within top tier Investment Bank/Asset Manager (London, UK), 1.5 years, will be 2.5 by the time I start MBA:
• Running monthly meetings with the CIO and COO on portfolio optimisation
• Implementing and monitoring controls to meet the latest industry regulatory standards
• Trade support specialist to portfolio managers covering a wide range of financial instruments
• Achieved the highest possible grade on latest year end evaluation

Analyst at Middle Office in top tier Investment Bank X (London, UK), 3yrs:
• Primary support contact for the department’s highest revenue-generating clients – received top service rankings from two of the world’s largest institutional investors
• Unofficially supervised/mentored junior members of the team
• Escalation point for off-shore teams regarding trade matching, trade confirmations, and cash settlements
• Worked with our trading desk, sales desk and clients to resolve post-trade disputes

Contractor at top tier Investment Bank Y (London, UK), 1yr - this was only ever a short term role while I was looking for good permanent opportunities:
• Daily trade reports and reconciliations
• Manual entry of trades into risk capture and cash payment systems
• Communicated daily with the trading desk in order to ensure my team were meeting their needs.

Full-time Internship (post-university) at top tier Investment Bank Z (New York, USA), 1yr:
• Played a key role in a revenue reconciliation and recovery project, resulting in the firm recouping over $350,000 in missed revenue over a six-month period.
• Created detailed reports for sales teams enabling them to monitor revenue streams, and identify new business opportunities.
• Produced a daily Profit & Loss report and developed it into an easy to read snapshot for sales and trading teams, and senior management.

Full-time Internship (third year of degree was year long industry placement before returning for final year) at top tier Investment Bank W (London, UK), 1yr:
• Managed clients with the assistance of senior colleagues
• Created and delivered informative monthly presentations on key topics to senior management and peers.
• Supported senior colleagues to provide high level service to our focus clients

Community and others:
Amateur soccer player, fitness training, tennis, skiing, athletics, and stock market investing.
Severe lack of volunteering, although have previously done very minor fundraising for charity

Post MBA goals:
I aspire to work in a Product Management role at a large and innovative technology company based on the West Coast, such as Amazon, Microsoft or Google. My ultimate goal is to use my experience to launch a consumer focused financial technology company.
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Hi,
Sharing my profile

High school/intermediate- 90+ percentage, merit scholar, top 0.1% in India

UG- Btech, NIT W( among top 10 in India)GP- 8.1/10
Merit Scholar, Founded a startup for ecommerce in campus,
Designed and Developed a product as a part of a two year minors program at Indian School of Business


WE- Amazon Operations - Area manager (will be 2 years till application)
Leading a team 1000+ reportees, handling day2 day operations, working on data analysis simultaneously.

GMAT- yet to give (expected 720+ basis CAT)

Pl suggest about my profile's match with Stanford and/or other business schools in top 20.
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- 28 year old Pakistani female with almost 5 years of experience with Corporate Banking
- My portfolio consists of 25 - 30 companies (varied in different banks and at different times)
- As a relationship manager, my job needs a high dose of interpersonal skills
- Got promoted in April 2018
- Studied 4 years undergrad on scholarship
- During undergrad was part of Rotaract (Rotary sponsored clubs for people under 30)
- Attended a Youth Leadership Conference in 2011
- Was part of the Student Council during undergrad
- Undergrad CGPA: 3.4 (My major was Finance)
- Considered an influencer in my social circle
- GMAT test is round the corner and I am aiming for at least a 750
- Was head of the female wing of my community's education society for year 2016
- Post MBA, I plan to switch to Investment Banking (plan B is to stick to Corporate Banking)
- With a little more work experience under my belt, I plan to take professorship for courses relevant to my field
- Because I write stories and poems, I was invited as a guest speaker to a school to motivate their students in the art of writing
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WE: 7.5 years at enrollment
GMAT: 720
Undergrad: IIT (CGPA 6.5/10)
Nationality: Indian Male
Age: 32
Work Ex:

2 years at India's top 3 prop trading organisations - Fixed income trader and derivatives analyst

2.25 years founded, conceptualised, launched and scaled my company to more than 100,000 users globally and grew the team to 16 people.

1.5 years as product manager at India's 2nd largest e-commerce firms in the kids category, with more than a million users. Worked in India and China.

0.5 years as Senior product lead at India's largest retail firm (Reliance)

Extra curriculars: Captain of hostel soccer team at IIT Delhi, established an NGO focused on rehabilitating encephalitis affected families in UP and raised funds, passively manage family investment fund of corpus > INR 50 lakhs

Short-term goal: Product Management at a large technology company such as Amazon/Microsoft/Google.

Long term goal: Equity investing in startups (VC).
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Hello Pillarsofcreation

With 7 years of work ex at the age of 32, the numbers don't add up- do you have a masters degree or dropped a couple of years?
Coming to the profile, yours is a mixed bag- the good is brands on your CV (Acads plus work), entrepreneurial experience, extracurricular (setting up an NGO can be a plus). These will surely make for some good stories in the essays.
The not so good is low acad scores and below average GMAT (for Stanford). Not exactly a show stopper, but definitely a concern considering your Indian IT Male background. Lastly, the PM role looks organic, but why the need of an MBA since you are already on that path and why now is something you will have to address in your written application. Not sure how the long term goal of VC ties in with the short term goals. Might want to throw more light on it.

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WE: 7.5 years at enrollment
GMAT: 720
Undergrad: IIT (CGPA 6.5/10)
Nationality: Indian Male
Age: 32
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2 years at India's top 3 prop trading organisations - Fixed income trader and derivatives analyst

2.25 years founded, conceptualised, launched and scaled my company to more than 100,000 users globally and grew the team to 16 people.

1.5 years as product manager at India's 2nd largest e-commerce firms in the kids category, with more than a million users. Worked in India and China.

0.5 years as Senior product lead at India's largest retail firm (Reliance)

Extra curriculars: Captain of hostel soccer team at IIT Delhi, established an NGO focused on rehabilitating encephalitis affected families in UP and raised funds, passively manage family investment fund of corpus > INR 50 lakhs

Short-term goal: Product Management at a large technology company such as Amazon/Microsoft/Google.

Long term goal: Equity investing in startups (VC).
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Did fairly poor in undergrad. While in college, was a caretaker to an ailing single parent battling cancer who unfortunately did end up passing away. The death of my parent really did impact me emotionally and physically and as a result my grades suffered.


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Cumulative GPA - 2.7

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Work Experience
Summer Marketing Intern at well-known consumer media company (think Disney, HBO, Spotify)
Associate Product Manager at high-growth, stealth start-up (think ZocDoc, Lyft, Airbnb) for 1.5 years
Associate Product Marketing Manager at top consumer tech company (think Google or Facebook) for 2.0 years (at time of matriculation)

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Name: Misbah Nationality: Pakistani

Gmat: 740 GPA 3.59/4.00 BE Mechanical from NUST

Final Year Project: Design and development of depressurization system for launch vehicle fairing, a project with Pakistani space agency.

Conference paper: Related to my FYP.

Experience: 2 years by July 2019 at leading petroleum E&P company. Been in a commissioning team for one plant and a takeover team for another plant where I am currently leading the maintenance team.
Also started learning business management in a medium sized business owned by a family friend.

Future Goal: Strategic Consultancy
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am applying to stanford in the next few months (R2). please let me know what you guys think!

Background and nationality: Singaporean Male, age 29 (will be 30 when I join the MBA)
Undergrad Information: Singapore Management University (majored in Quantitative Finance, GPA 3.0, my class only had 30 people out of the 2k+ that were in my school, so the average GPA was between 2.9-3.1)

GMAT: 650

Work experience and leadership (total 4 years now, will be 5 by the time i join):
1) worked as an algo-trader at a tier 1 investment bank in singapore
2) currently working at a mexican startup (in mexico), where i'm head of all securitizations and strategic planning. have raised USD 90 mm so far for the company (making us the most well funded startup in mexico). led one of the first asset purchase programs in Latin American history between an international bank and a start up. work constantly with top tier VCs for funding + day to day operations. only finance person in the company that programs

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- spent 2 years in the singapore army (was a 1st lieutenant in the army). ran local and overseas missions, had a platoon of 50 men under me.
- am a semi-professional standup comedian. have performed in 3 different countries. have opened for several top comedians in mexico. one of the few to do standup in both spanish and english


Post MBA goals
- want to shift to consulting/IBD. relates closely with my current job of solving problems/helping w funding. with the MBA, I'd want to scale these responsibilities.

Anything else?
I'm trilingual. English, Hindi and Spanish all at professional working capacity/native fluency
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Hi, Can someone please analyse my profile for Stanford. Im not too familiar with US schools' requirements and would like to know if I stand a chance on applying.
Thanks in advance!

Background and nationality: Pakistani Female, 29, grew up in the UK and KSA
Undergrad Information: Medical Doctor, from leading national university.
GMAT: 680 (Q42, V40, IR 8)
Work experience and leadership:
2 years in clinical training (fellowship) Pakistan
1 year in clinical training Saudia Arabia
1 year as a hospital administrator/ general manager of 20 bedded semi-urban hospital
2 years at Swiss MNC (working here currently), launched the first nationwide tele-medicine network in
Pakistan.
Manage a team of 12 doctors. The network provides medical services to over a million patients,
Went to Indonesia and Cambodia to launch markets there.

Have done an executive education course (Healthcare and Innovation) at INSEAD
I'm an Acumen Regional Fellow for Pakistan. Acumen is a leading impact investment fund.
I was previously a World Bank Fellow (a program focused on developing women in business)


Community and others:
Im founding member of an NGO that provides vocational training to illiterate low income women so they can become micro-entrepreneurs. We have trained over 200 women in remote areas.


Post MBA goals: Consulting for some time. Then industry job that merges insurance and healthcare
Anything else?
Speak 3 languages. Been living in about 5 countries.
Published articles in leading national journals
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Do I stand a chance? Or is r/MBA right and I should stick with lower tier schools. I'm aware my GPA/academics and community experience will likely be my weakest points.

Background and nationality: Chinese American Male with 4 years of WE (5 by matriculation)

Undergrad Information:
- University of Washington
- Business/Accounting major with 3.4 GPA

GMAT:
- GRE: 167Q 163V ~730 equivalent
- Took GRE because I applied to another Master's program (was accepted), but ended up dropping program for current role.

Work experience and leadership:
- 1 year KPMG Advisory
- 3 years managing compliance program at late-stage startup that IPOed 2 years after joining. Experience working on S-1 Filing/IPO and 1 promotion
- 5 months (current) program manager at Google

Community and others:
- Founded a business fraternity chapter in undergrad, serving as president and treasurer
- Currently mentoring 3 undergraduate students in said business fraternity
- Multiple case competition wins at national/international level in undergrad, invited to judge/coach quarterly
- Monthly speaker/panelist for business clubs at San Jose State and Berkeley

Post MBA goals:
- Break out of back-end role and into product. I want a holistic view of a company and am currently missing an understanding of how a product is created and brought to market

Anything else?
- As mentioned earlier, was accepted into a graduate program but ditched it to move for my current role
- Prior to moving, had accepted a Product Management internship with my previous company and was prepared to transition into PM after completing school
- Have CISA certification
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Hi Everyone,
Below is my profile to date. I am presently scheduled to take the GMAT again on 12/10 (so a bit of time to improve my score)

Age: 31, American, low-income background
Undergrad: Double major/double minor (History of Math & Science, Western Philosophy/Classics & Comparative Lit)
Small but well regarded Liberal Arts school
Grad Masters in Teaching (Regional college)
GPA: 3.7 for both
Work: 9 years work experience, with clear progression in scope. Accepted into Teach for America, taught middle and high school. Joined non-profit/research project at top US university in coordination with large public school district to identify risks and solve them real time for students. Started LLC and provided consulting services. Recently joined another ed non-profit org. Have had several promotions and managed a team of 4.
Goal: Long term to transition into corporate philanthropy, specifically a program like the GE Foundation or BMO Harris (as both have strong education connections). Short-term is to consult (Deloitte, etc.) to gain corporate experience.
Extracurriculars: Member of several community groups (neighborhood preservation group, committee on niche education issue, direct support for community center), active in education lobby organization, have run (both successfully and unsuccessfully) for local office, run half-marathons
GMAT: In the prep process. Current highest score is a 680 with a goal of 720.
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Background and nationality: I am an Indian female Product Manager with 3.5 years of work ex (4+ at the time of admission)
Undergrad Information: Engineering Graduate from Delhi Technological University, India in Polymer Science and Chemical Technology. 71.96%
GMAT: 720 (verbal: 35, Quant: 51)
Work experience and leadership: Product Manager at Rakuten in Tokyo since August 2018. Product Manager and similar roles at startups for past 3 years in Bangalore, India.
Community and others: Top Google Local Guide in the world.
Post MBA goals: Have my own technology startup in India. Want to build network at Stanford.
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If you're not a female and/or a URM I'd say your odds are close to zero given your low GMAT and low GPA. I'd aim for 730+ but even then I think it will be extremely tough. I think non H/S M7 is doable if you get the GMAT up significantly.
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Hi,

What programs are you considering applying to? This will be important in determining if you have a chance or not.

I would say that if 650 is within the mid 80% range of the program you are applying for then go for it this round! The GMAT is only one aspect of the application. Your other stats look good and if you can craft a few really good Essays you would have a decent chance. I don't think it could hurt you trying.

The only thing is you probably wont get any $$$ in terms of a scholarship. If you applied next year with a 700+ it could save you maybe around 30k in fees.
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