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QuabityAssurance
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Joined: 24 Nov 2019
Last visit: 18 Dec 2021
Posts: 693
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Location: India
Schools: McCombs '23 (D) Foster '24 (II) Darden '24 (D) Goizueta '24 (I) Jones Tuck '24 (S) Tepper '24 (S)
GRE 1: Q166 V159
GRE 2: Q165 V156
GRE 3: Q166 V159
GPA: 3.85
Schools: McCombs '23 (D) Foster '24 (II) Darden '24 (D) Goizueta '24 (I) Jones Tuck '24 (S) Tepper '24 (S)
GRE 1: Q166 V159
GRE 2: Q165 V156
GRE 3: Q166 V159
Posts: 693
Updated on: 09 Feb 2021, 10:17
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During my application process, I have had great musings from internet strangers, my own findings, and the fam at the GC.
1.GRE/GMAT score doesn’t matter. Of course, it is needed to prove your bare minimum mettle for the schools but it is not the only criteria.
2.Essays are not make or break
3.Be authentic but don’t shy away from bragging about yourself.
4.Scholarships are a blackbox but that being said a higher GMAT is generally equal to a higher scholarship
5.If you are not rushing to get an admit this year,as an international applicant Early Rounds or R1 should be ideal instead of frivolously rushing your applications in R2 or R3
6. Even if you do get an application fee waiver, doesn’t mean your profile fits automatically. Do research about schools and make sure you fit in.
7. Choice of recommenders is extremely crucial. You can have a recommendation from a CEO. Make sure the recommenders know you well enough
8. While most schools say that they don’t discriminate between GRE/GMAT, this might only be true for US schools. Based on some personal feedback, have seen dings in R1 with a GRE of 320-327 from non-US schools.
9. If you are gonna go into consulting/tech/finance post-MBA, many companies do ask for your GMAT score as a qualifying criterion.
10. GRE to GMAT converter is highly skewed towards Quant. A high quant gives you a higher equivalent GMAT compared to an equal verbal
11. Write minimum in your optional essays as this often opens a door of suspicion. Avoid explaining unnecessary things. The circumstances were extenuating for most if not all of us
12. I would always choose a low ranked profile fit school over a high ranked unfit.
13. There is literally an Indian and the rest of the International applicant pool in Canadian and Asian Schools. If you are an Indian, you are not considered as an international applicant and you really need to be an outlier as you will not be competing against the averages but against your own Indian pool. Also goes without saying, Indians living abroad without a PR/Passport from other countries are also treated in the same pool and no brownie points for being NRI (based on feedback from adcoms and personal anecdote)
14. Keep your original transcripts handy as some of the schools are stringent on this requirement even before an admit. Case in point: McCombs
15. When you start writing your applications you should from the least interested to the most interested school. This helps you put your stories in shape and further improves your style as you proceed with applications.
16. The whole application writing process is a self-discovery journal. While you may not get an admit from your desired school you do get to know a lot about yourself. Don’t be duped by incompleteness of one part of your application, rather think of it as something to work on.
17. Know your why? Do you really need an MBA? Did you just make your long term goals because an application essay asked you to do so? The answers don’t need to come immediately but you really gotta drill down and understand what is that something which drives you.
18. Rush through your applications and apply all or do every application meticulously is your own personal choice.
1.GRE/GMAT score doesn’t matter. Of course, it is needed to prove your bare minimum mettle for the schools but it is not the only criteria.
2.Essays are not make or break
3.Be authentic but don’t shy away from bragging about yourself.
4.Scholarships are a blackbox but that being said a higher GMAT is generally equal to a higher scholarship
5.If you are not rushing to get an admit this year,as an international applicant Early Rounds or R1 should be ideal instead of frivolously rushing your applications in R2 or R3
6. Even if you do get an application fee waiver, doesn’t mean your profile fits automatically. Do research about schools and make sure you fit in.
7. Choice of recommenders is extremely crucial. You can have a recommendation from a CEO. Make sure the recommenders know you well enough
8. While most schools say that they don’t discriminate between GRE/GMAT, this might only be true for US schools. Based on some personal feedback, have seen dings in R1 with a GRE of 320-327 from non-US schools.
9. If you are gonna go into consulting/tech/finance post-MBA, many companies do ask for your GMAT score as a qualifying criterion.
10. GRE to GMAT converter is highly skewed towards Quant. A high quant gives you a higher equivalent GMAT compared to an equal verbal
11. Write minimum in your optional essays as this often opens a door of suspicion. Avoid explaining unnecessary things. The circumstances were extenuating for most if not all of us
12. I would always choose a low ranked profile fit school over a high ranked unfit.
13. There is literally an Indian and the rest of the International applicant pool in Canadian and Asian Schools. If you are an Indian, you are not considered as an international applicant and you really need to be an outlier as you will not be competing against the averages but against your own Indian pool. Also goes without saying, Indians living abroad without a PR/Passport from other countries are also treated in the same pool and no brownie points for being NRI (based on feedback from adcoms and personal anecdote)
14. Keep your original transcripts handy as some of the schools are stringent on this requirement even before an admit. Case in point: McCombs
15. When you start writing your applications you should from the least interested to the most interested school. This helps you put your stories in shape and further improves your style as you proceed with applications.
16. The whole application writing process is a self-discovery journal. While you may not get an admit from your desired school you do get to know a lot about yourself. Don’t be duped by incompleteness of one part of your application, rather think of it as something to work on.
17. Know your why? Do you really need an MBA? Did you just make your long term goals because an application essay asked you to do so? The answers don’t need to come immediately but you really gotta drill down and understand what is that something which drives you.
18. Rush through your applications and apply all or do every application meticulously is your own personal choice.
BabuMoshaaai
11 Jan 2021, 04:33
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I had appeared for the GRE in 2019 from India.
Here is my debrief.
https://bit.ly/2XxIC9S
Please do let me know if I can be of any help.
Here is my debrief.
https://bit.ly/2XxIC9S
Please do let me know if I can be of any help.
16 Feb 2021, 12:03
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I do not agree with point 1. For an Indian IT male applicant, I would say Gmat/Gre is a major part (probably all) of the application.
