GMAT score of 610 with work experience of 5+years. List of colleges to

Question

I'm an IT professional with 5+ years. I recently attempted the GMAT exams and could only score 610 with score of 40 in Quant and 34 in Verbal. Could someone help with the list of colleges that i can apply for in either Europe or the US.

EMPOWERgmatRichC · Answer

Hi sunit_sushil,

The process of apply to (and ultimately attending) Business School requires a significant investment of time, money and energy on your part, so you really want to make sure that the Schools that you apply to 'line up' with your goals. There are a variety of questions that YOU have to answer about what you want out of an MBA and the parameters that are important:

1) Is there a particular company that you want to work for or industry that you want to work in? Certain degrees are more appropriate than others if you have a specific career goal. 
2) What do you want your MBA to do for you? 
3) Do you want to go to School full-time or part-time? 
4) Are you willing to relocate? Are you comfortable with working through a program that is primarily online? 
5) Are you going to be applying for scholarships? 
Etc.

Once you've determined what type of Program you want to attend (as well as the other variables involved), then you can start to research and narrow down the possibilities. You might also end up wanting to retake the GMAT, but we can wait to talk about that until you have a better sense of your overall plans.

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

OptimusPrepJanielle · Answer

Hi sunit_sushil, If only the process was so simple

I see that you are an Indian with the IT work experience. Sadly this is the most common profile and schools get loads of applicants with this profile. So you need to differentiate yourself either on the basis of your work ex, your extracurricular or your GMAT. I would suggest you to think about retaking the GMAT. As for the school selection, you need to keep the following questions in mind while selecting a School: 1. Your long term and short term goals 2. The geography in which you want to be 3. The company that you want to work for 4. Any particular specialized courses that you are looking for You will be able to get a profile evaluation by posting your profile here: ask-admission-consultants-124/?fl=menu

sunit_sushil · Answer

Thanks for the suggestions. My preferred and my only choice for the course would be Sales and marketing. Although i am working as a technology person in IT, recently my interest has been diverting to marketing. I have been for the past six months assisting my friend in his green tea business. My friend is located in a rural area where he grows tea and sells it to the manufacturer. But recently he opened a factory to manufacture green tea. I am currently staying in a metropolitan city where he is planning to grow his business, and out of just self interest and no profit, i have been speaking to possible clients and trying to sell his product. This experience has given me a lot to learn with every failure and little success, but i want to enhance my knowledge and would like to try my hand at sales and marketing with proper knowledge. My short term goal is to learn as much as i can about this field from different industries and apply that knowledge to open my own business. Now sales and marketing also matches my long term goal, which has been in my mind for a very long time. It's just that i was taking the wrong path to achieve it. I come from a place where tourism is the main source of income for many people, but i have seen many resources that are not being utilized to its maximum potential, because the people either lack the knowledge of how to sell it or they are too scared to enter a business that hasn't been tried before. Agriculture and infrastructure are some prime examples. So to say, my long term goal is to apply my knowledge to open businesses in my place to utilize these resources. In turn, i would like to throw some light on the possibilities of different businesses, and hope that others follow.

EMPOWERgmatRichC · Answer

Hi Hi sunit_sushil,

Since you've provided a really specific answer to what you want out of your career (and by extension, your MBA), you might want to try speaking with an Admissions Expert about your overall profile. There's a Forum full of them here:

ask-admission-consultants-124/

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

shoaib16166 · Answer

Hi Sunit,

I have gone through your detailed query and just want to post some news for you.
Suggest you to re-take you GMAT and get at least 700 and above, only then you can target for really B-Schools.

Good to hear that you want to do MBA in Marketing.
ESADE (Europe), IE (Europe), IMD (Europe) schools you can consider for Marketing. And US is the big market, you have to consultant to the B-Schools alumnus and short-list the schools depending on your profile.

Let me know if you wants to connect with any of the top B-Schools alumnus.

BR,
Shoaib
www.genedmba.com

GMATinsight · Answer

Being an Indian and once a technical student myself, I know the potential of Indian IT graduates in Quant so here I can strongly say that you seem to have bright chances of improving your score in Quant from 40 to 47 (on the safe side)

Your score of 34 in Verbal is already decent however if you could push it to th elevel of around 38 (which is not veryyy difficult) then you will end up getting a score Q-47, V-38 Total - 690 which can get you much better schools that you may not get in list at the moment.

I suggest that you should reconsider taking GMAT again and improve your chances in many better universities.

all the best!!!

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