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Background: 26 year old white American
Education: 3.56 at a top 20 American University with a semester spent abroad in London
GMAT: 720 with a skew towards verbal
Work Experience: After college I worked 2 years with a leading market research firm doing research and evaluation on new product launches for CPG companies. I then made a shift and spent two years doing brand marketing at a top food company with budget management and P&L exposure.
Community: Volunteer at a local children's hospital once a week

Hello,

I would like to seek an evaluation of my profile for applying to Tuck Business School.

Age: 25
Gender: Male
Nationality: Indian
Job Role: Digital Marketing

Education:
Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from a state funded university in India
Graduated with GPA of 9.3 on a scale of 10 and a gold medal for securing the first rank in the batch

GMAT:
Total Score: 720 (Q 49, V 40, IR 8)

Work Experience:
36 months of Marketing experience in a multinational corporation in the manufacturing industry (manufacturers of building materials), of which 12 months is in a managerial role (1 direct reportee). Some of the activities that I have done are:

- Planning and executing digital marketing campaigns
- Social media management
- Content generation
- Driving engagement on social media and mobile applications
- Analyzing digital campaigns
- Identifying market trends and insights
- Working with creative agencies
- Marketing communications
- Segment development activities
- Developing sales argumentaries

Extra-curricular:
Headed three clubs during undergrad college. Was involved in literary events and community service during undergrad.

Post MBA goals:
Management Consulting (ideally – MBB)

Please evaluate my profile.

10th - 88
12th - 82
Btech Marine Engineering - 8.44 (BITS, Pilani)

Work experience - 3 years with 2 promotions
Presently sailing as 4th Engineer ( Merchant Navy)
Maersk Line study scholarship for good performance during internship

Extra Curricular :
1. TMISAT all India topper
2. Scholarship in all semesters spent in my Institute
3. Cultural Head for various events
4. INMUN, Delhi
5. Committee Member for All India Level festival
Various certification courses

Post MBA Goals : To work in Shipping company / Oil gas major with specialisation in Strategy Management.


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Hello everyone - thanks in advance

Hello everyone - thanks in advance for any insight!

Age - 31 (2005 college grad)
Gender - Male
Nationality – Indian

Education – Engineering graduate from an Indian university
GPA - 3.1 or 3.2
GMAT2 - 670 (Q47, V35)
GMAT1 610(Q49, V26)

Work experience –
Working in corporate office of government owned utility Company.
Part of team drafting renewable energy policies and Electricity tariff related matter.
Worked with regulator in energy sector.
Worked for the company in rural India serving the rural consumer.
well aware with socioeconomic condition of rural India. Handled a team of 8 people (only for six months)
Recs/stories -
Created a model for solar pump based utility service in for Agricultural supply. (Model was appreciated but not approved by management).
After completion of MBA, want to bring many such models into practice.

Extracurricular-
- worked for 2 different volunteer organizations
- worked (6 years) extensively during collage days, managing daily gathering/camps of the organization, managed similar activates when migrated to a different city.
-Motivated other people to join the organization.
Played a flute in band of the organization.
Part of many actives requiring organizational skill and interpersonal skill
While working with other organization, I carried out voter enrollment drive at workplace and at residential colony.
Conducted traffic awareness initiative

Plans for after school-
start a Social enterprise
Want to bring the solar pump franchisee model, discussed earlier, into reality with the help of similarly inspired fellow MBA student.
Want to bring many such models into reality.

Help other people to be social entrepreneur, if they have good ideas

Want to join the tuck because -
it has strong emphasis on community.
Want to nurture leadership to start a social enterprise
( Met with tuck alumni who started community based travel service. )
Tuck is only one of the few institutes who has focus on India

Please find below my profile for evaluation. Highly appreciate for this great help.
Nationality: Indian; Male 27 yrs

Undergrad: Btech Civil, from 5th ranking National institute of Technology, with CGPA 9.15/10

Work experience: Employed in India's premium Oil &Gas Consultancy (a Public sector undertaking) since 2012 (work exp of 5 yrs)

The entire work exp can be broken down into 2 parts :
1. Construction site experience
a. Posted for 1 year at the esteemed site for Strategic storage of Crude oil (at Mangalore India) wherein facilities were being constructed to store crude in underground caverns. Job responsibilities included contract handling, site inspection (including inspection in underground rock caverns) , quality control, implementation of safety at site.
b. Posted for 1.5 years at a refinery expansion project ( Kochi, India) wherein entrusted with the civil structural works for the important Crude distillation unit of refinery. Job responsibilities included preparation of a green field site, handling of a contract amounting to 35 million USD which involved leading a team of 15 persons, site inspection, progress monitoring & expediting, material inspection within & outside site, billing ( completed billing of the value of 14 million USD) quality control.
2.Design office experience ( work exp 2.5 yrs , continued till date)
a. Leading a team of 6 persons ( for the civil portion) to provide EPCM services for the upcoming Refinery & Petrochemical project in Nigeria ( largest project in entire Africa) Job responsibilities include designing of underground facilities & utilities, preparation of drawings , imparting training to the Nigerian counterparts , progress monitoring, providing assistance to site construction engineers, constant interaction with client.
I don't have any on site International job experience.

GMAT: yet to be taken but targeting a score of 740 to 750

Extracurricular: Not much to show. Have received professional training in Harmonium ( completed 4 professional exams), actively performed in various cultural activities during schooling, during college my team was one among the top 3 teams of west India in the INSDAG competition( an all India competition for steel design)

Post MBA goal : I want to shift from Oil & gas industry ( as all countries are moving from oil towards more environmental friendly options) and enter into strategy consulting and have an inclination to enter into M&A roles ( would explain more efficiently while writing my essays)

Havard & Stanford I believe are too high an expectation given my normal profile. Whether I would be fit for Columbia, Kellog, Yale or Ross?

Once again thank you for your help.

Hello,

Do I stand a realistic chance of getting in? My profile:

1.) Indian Female, 24, Muslim
2.) GMAT: 730 (q50, v39, IR-3( I know it's bad!), AWA-6.0)
3.) Undergrad: Engineering , GPA: 4.0 (according to MBA.com conversion table)
4.) Currently working at Dell Technologies, 2 years of work experience after graduating. (Will be 3 yrs before joining the school)

International work experience: YES (was one of the select few to attend the Dell Annual IT Summit at Austin and learnt a lot from the experience)

I joined my team as a software analyst but my manager seeing good management and communication skills in me, encouraged me to take up project management and thus I became a project coordinator for my team within 6 months of joining the company. I worked with my team to do anything possible to help them perform at their highest level. This involves removing any impediments to progress, communicating with other teams for requirements, etc. So, you might say I have managing experience as well. I was a Scrum Master for my team and I have a certification of Certified Scrum Master as well.

5.) Extra-curricular: Vocalist in college band and still sing sometimes at clubs,worked with NGOs to help educate poor muslim girls, blogging, modelling, travelling

I was also the networking lead in the IT Development Program in Dell. I have organised numerous events and led all the members(in numbers of 50-60) of the ITDP program on various occasions.

Post MBA goals: Product Marketing Manager in a company I believe in.
Long term goals: Chief Marketing officer , again in a company I believe in.

Please give an honest feedback if I have a shot at getting in. And if not, which schools do you suggest me to apply to?

Thanks a bunch!!
Tasneem

First of all thank you for taking the time to read our profiles, it really means a lot to us!

My profile is definitely on the more unconventional side when it comes to applicants, but I hope that doesn't make it impossible for you to evaluate it. I'm especially keen to hear your thoughts on my master's education (more information below). With my work experience I'm intentionally pedantic to provide a full picture so you can understand my path and my motivation better. Of course not going to this much detail in my resume

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Age: Turning 29

Race: Caucasian

Gender: Male

Nationality: Finland - There is less than 5 Finnish Tuck Alumni. Finns VERY rarely leave their country for education due to it being free and high quality and usually when they do they go to other European countries. I'm not sure if this works to my benefit or to my disadvantage, but thought I'd bring it up that I am almost certainly the only Finn applying to Tuck this year.

Living in: Central Europe (I'm an expat with years of international experience)

Education:

- Bachelor of Military Science from Finnish National Defense University (Equivalent of Westpoint) (2010-2013). Majored in Strategy, minored in Leadership studies. GPA is impossible to translate to American GPA, but I was above average (top 40%)

- ALMOST completed Master of Business Intelligence and Information Management (International Business) at a well known Central European University. I've completed all my course work back in 2016, but never defended my thesis and therefore have NOT officially graduated. GPA from the classes I took are slightly above average once again. Also took some courses at Harvard during the summer, they are all graded as A's.

NOTE: I have a VERY good reason for not finishing my master's studies, but it is too personal to write here. I will explain it to the adcoms of course.

GMAT: 740 with very strong verbal

Work experience: (from oldest to current)

- 6 years in the Finnish military, which off approximately 2 years can be counted as work experience (rest was training). Specialized in Logistics. Retired in 2014 with the rank of Lieuetenant. In my last role I

•Lead, trained and supervised a group of 25-35 men. During boot­camp periods (4 months per year) the number was 100 men.
•Responsible for training the Logistics company's leadership and mission control as well as other supporting components. Also trained troops going into Afghanistan and Chad.
•Was in charge of training the logistics battalion's personnel to use the newly implemented logistic management system. I was the only one in the brigade trained to operate the new logistics HQ at the time.

- After retiring as an Army Officer, I worked as a COO for a CPG-startup. In the approximately 1,5 years I worked in this capacity I was

• Responsible for the operational integrity of the production facilities.
• Maintaining effective production rates, end-to-end supply chain management
• Negotiating sub-contractor deals, finding new sales channels

- Currently working for a major, global energy company (think Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total....). I have been with the company for a bit over 2 years as I'm writing this. I have been in three roles with all of them having similarities to one another in the sense that each focus on managing innovation. Paired with my studies in Business Intelligence, I have succesfully translated my background in Leadership and operations to a rewarding and challenging career in IT Innovation space.

• In my first role I redesigned our Upstream-businesses Innovation Delivery Funnel, identifying 16 targets for improvement ranging from managing our processes to improving governance and how we replicate success internally across our different lines of business.

• In my second role I worked as a ''bridge'' between the IT innovation and the business - Negotiating a buy-in and then helping the business to implement new IT innovation (specifically Information Management) that would bring them business value. I had many interesting projects, but the biggest impact I had with a project related to SharePoint where a total landscape restructure through a new solution helped the business improve their performance in almost all of their key performance indicators and saved them over 2 million dollars.

• In my current role that I started in June, I am working as an IT Advisor in my company's Downstream Retail business. Specifically I work in a team that manages our Global Payment Solutions portfolio - Any project that has to do with how we manage the payment landscape of our thousands of facilities across the globe will come to our desk. My job is to focus on the strategy; How can we build a future landscape that is sustainable, agile and fully enables us to use our data to the fullest of potential (data analytics).


Extracurriculars:


Plans for after school

Short-term I would like to continue in the Innovation Management space and transition into pure tech (think Google, Microsoft etc.). A logical and realistic path for me given my work experience is in the product management side and work my way up from there.

Long term (in 15-20 years) I would like to found my own non-profit organisation that focuses on localized infrastructural makeovers in poor communities - Reshaping the district education system, road and utility infrastructure, local entrepeneurship etc. I have a very detailed elaborate plan, but I feel I'd probably distract you (and the adcoms) too much if I began to open up about it now.


Want to join the Tuck because

- Ever since I began researching the schools years ago, I have had a very special place in my heart reserved for Tuck. They really seem to emphasize the importance of self-reflection, humility and personal integrity. The community seems extremely collaborative and warm and the access to staff (and very helpful and enthusiastic alumni) only made it easier for me to know it is my dream school. Genuine kindness and selflessness is rare and to me any business school that encourages their students to exhibit such behavior is immediately on my good side.

- I'm also an avid hiker and a nature lover, hiking more than a 1000km a year. Knowing I'd have ample access to beautiful nature is a massive plus. I even have plans to hike the ENTIRE APPALACHIAN TRAIL in 100 days prior to starting the program should I get accepted

Hope I didn't bore you with my profile!

Hi,
Izzy here from Malaysia. Would appreciate an evaluation for my profile to get into Tuck.
I have over 7 years of work experience in Telco, Tech and Media industry.

Background
Born with 14 siblings and a deaf brother.
Challenging upbringing, a rural boy who went against odd received a government scholarship to pursue tertiary education in Australia.
Travelled across South East Asia, Central Asia and Europe across 15 countries.
Have been in the technology domain developing and launching digital services in the country.
Aspire to contribute back & advance South East Asia by spearheading initiatives on digital gov through cohesive policy planning, implementation and effective communication to public citizens.

Age: 30
Degree: Bc of Commerce (Accounting & Finance), The University of Sydney, Distinction (3.58 CGPA equivalent)

Ranked #1 in Management Accounting A and ranked #2 in Audit & Assurance

Professional Qualification: CFA charterholder
GMAT: 720 (Q47, V41)

Work Experience
6 years (including one year secondment in digital commerce co) in a large telecommunication company in Malaysia, presence in over 7 countries and 250 million subscribers
- Launched JVCo for a digital commerce co in Malaysia, become largest locally owned eCommerce site in Malaysia
- Built foundation for digital payment in Malaysia, stake acquisition in remittance co and setup of an emerging digital payment co in Malaysia
- Top 50 of 12,000 employees, youngest recipient for a regional employee award at the age of 26

Currently (1 year) in the largest public listed media company in Malaysia with USD1.5 billion in revenue
- Oversaw USD15 million of core digital transformation across supply chain and customer facing business units
- Conceptualised and developed 2 Center of Excellence (CoE) for business efficiencies, expected long term 3-year savings over USD3 million
- Among youngest Assistant Vice President (AVP) in the company at the age of 29

Extra curricular activities
Mentor and advisor for Peneraju foundation, a government backed set up to spur number of CFA charterholders in Malaysia
Advisor and volunteer for Young CEO Development Programme, an initiative to groom future leaders in the country

Short term goal
Join Mckinsey Center of Government or BCG Center of Public Impacts and work on public sector initiatives globally and across the region

Long term goal
Lead Government Performance Delivery Unit to drive agenda on government transformation

Feedbacks and responses are highly appreciated.