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Hello! I have a bit of an unorthodox profile, so would love an expert's perspective on my Sloan chances.

Background and nationality: Filipino woman, multi-national experience in Philippines, Singapore and US
Educational Background:
- Undergrad: Behavioral Sciences from top 3 Philippine university; GPA: 3.6 (top 1% of graduating class)
- Masters: Industrial/Organizational Psychology from top 40 US university; GPA: 3.7
GMAT: 710 (46 Q/41 V)
Work experience and leadership:
- 4 years full time experience
- Currently Big 4 Consulting - Human Capital, focus on life sciences & healthcare industry
- Previous: health benefits consulting, organizational development (training/change management/org design), marketing & communications
Community involvement:
- Leadership role in Filipino poverty alleviation nonprofit in the Boston area
- Various student government roles in college; led training, policy reform, and scholarship programs
Post MBA goals: Long term, I want to prove that Strategic HR/People Management is a path to C-suite beyond CHRO. Short term, I'll be seeking a role in a strategic Talent Management/Org Development/People Analytics capacity.

Thanks!

Background and nationality: Indian

Undergrad Information: Tier 1.5 College. Engineering. Information Technology. GPA: 3.8. Graduated in 2014. In top 10%.

GMAT: 730 (Q50, V39)

Work experience and leadership: a) Two years Developer (with product responsibilites) for Samsung with 4 months of international experience at South Korea and Spain. Received all possible awards including double promotions in two years. b) Chief Product and Technology Officer (current) of a well-known media startup (in India) for 2 years - more than 2 lakhs downloads, 230 part time employees, 2500 interns, highest rating among all news and media apps, highest session duration and I played an impactful part in achieving that c) Product Manager (current) at a tech-marketing startup for 1 year - 50 employees, funded, sees the best click-through rates for notifications. d) Failed startup in gaming domain. The shift from Samsung to startups has been mainly to show that I am much more than an "IT engineer".

Industry: Fintech, Media, Marketing, and Gaming.

Post MBA goals: PM Roles in the top technology firms followed by VP-level executive positions at mid-sized firms.

Extra-curricular: a) Founded summer camp programme for underprivileged kids; teaching them about robotics, maths, physics. b) Increased social engagement and click-through rates for the notifications sent for my startups (5x the market average), c) Recruitment head during college placements, d) Into marathons, cycling, trekking, athletics, and sports (state-level)

Targeting Haas, Kellogg and NYU Stern. Want to know which are the other schools I should target. Go for Sloan?

Any insights on profile and on target schools will be appreciated.

Interesting profile, definitely with a lot of potential I think as you have several things going for you. However, I am missing some information here. Have you been promoted at all during the 4 years you have been working, for example? Any leadership roles at all? (Even for projects works!)

As for your leadership role in that nonprofit, I would want to hear more about that as well in order to figure out how impressive and relevant that is.
Therefore, I want to ask you to either elaborate on that here, or contact ARINGO directly with some more information about that (you can link to this post if you want to, while doing so, if you don’t want to describe your entire profile again). You can do that here: https://aringo.com/mba-process-registration/

JL
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Looks good, your work experience and GMAT score, as well as those extra curriculars, if described properly make up for your weakness with is your under grad of course, as I see it. So given that you are able to tell your story (which might include addressing that under grad GPA in some way for example) in a great way I would rate your chances as good.

Feel free to be in touch if you’d want to know how ARINGO can help you tell your story in the best possible way! https://aringo.com/mba-process-registration/

JL
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Hi all! I would really like some insights about my profile:

- Male, brazilian, 32 yo
- Undergraduate in Business at a Top 3 brazilian school (plenty of alumni accepted by Top Business Schools)
- GPA: 2.6 (horrible, and no good reason)
- GMAT: 740
- CFA Level I

Work Experience:

- Capital Markets (Structured Finance) at a top local boutique (Real Estate focused)
* 4 years
* 3 promotions (from intern to Senior Analyst)
* Leading analyst in 8 projects (3 of them were really big ones)

- Capital Markets (Structured Finance) at a Start-Up (as a junior associate)
* 1 year
* Didn´t go well specially because of brazilian economic conditions at the time

- Capital Markets (Structured Finance) at a new boutique (Agribusiness focused)
* Junior Associate
* 2 years (until now)
* Company growing very fast
* Leading analyst of 4 projects

Extracurriculars:
* Writer at a blog focused on Political Education (8 articles published)
* 1 year working at a NGO focused on children education (led 2 new projects)

International Experience:
* 4 months working as a Sales Person at a clothing store in Las Vegas, US (during college vacation)
* 3 weeks studying spanish in Buenos Aires, Argentina
* 2 weeks working ad a NGO (a organic farm) in Cape Town,South Africa

Other:
* Fluent spanish
* Short Course (graduate level) in Applied Statitics (at a top local college) - Final Grade: A
* HBx Core: Pass with High Honours

Post MBA objective:
* Investment Banking

Hey,

So
GMAT : 710
GPA : 3.0 (Graduate in Commerce)
I am a Chartered Accountant & a CFA Charterholder
Location : India
Experience
3 Years Internship in a top international audit firm (Audit)
3 Years Experience in a top US Investment bank (Product Controller for Structured Products)
Currently employed with a top US bank (Treasury Risk - Structural Interest Rate Risk Management)

I am planning to apply for 2021, by the time will have 2 years experience in my current role

Extra Curricular :
NGO Activities
1 Year in a Rotaract Club
Currently part of an NGO that engages in Education for the underprivileged kids (working as a teacher & Center head)

Can someone give me an evaluation and whether I should do something more to better my profile.

Thanks

Hi All

Is the thread still active. Can I post my profile for evaluation and feedback?

I'm curious

Background/Nationality: 27M, White, Dual citizen (US and EU Nation), born in the US.

Undergrad school/major: Georgetown SFS, International Economics, 3.185 GPA

Professional Qualifications: 5 years running my own Soccer Website Startup - we're now the second largest website devoted entirely to soccer in Latin America with 12 million likes across our Spanish and Portuguese Facebook Pages. Run a farm and general store in Upstate NY with family as well, with significant income generation.

Leadership: Run my own business of 25 people (based in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru), reaching over 200 million people cumulatively per month. Honorary Captain of college football team for a practice.

GMAT: 750, 48Q/46V

Extra Curriculars: Powerlifter (going to qualify for nationals in 2018), SCUBA/Free Diver, Marksman, Community Development (helped in building a clinic and running community events), Wildlife Reintroduction (funded and managed wildlife reintroduction and preservation efforts near farm)

Goal of MBA: Want to enter Media/Entertainment Consulting and build up corporate experience I lack


Thanks for taking time to read this and providing your insight!

Looks very impressive, although I do think your goal needs some polishing and I don’t think all extracurriculars are really relevant. But that’s just two very minor comments that I can think of, as for the rest I would say you are in great shape so I would rate your chances as really good. And of course I would suggest you apply to other schools as well, not just one.

Good luck!
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Sure, what do you have to lose?
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Hi!

Can you review me

Background and nationality: white female, born in the USA. but parents are from Israel and Morocco
Undergrad Information: 3.85 math and psychology major from top liberal arts college
GMAT: 740
Work experience and leadership: 4 years at IBM in marketing. Also have been marketing director of Chinese street food startup based in NYC for 1 year
Community: mentor in two different programs where I work with NYC high school students on college admissions, job applications. Also part of a jewish youth movement
Post MBA goals: brand management/ start my own start up.

I feel like you're not only perf for Sloan, but literally any program!

Female STEMer with awesome numbers, really good work experience, and a cohesive narrative about what's next. You are what adcoms are looking for.

But alas, this is obvs a non-profesh opinion hahaha, I think if you have good execution on cover letter and video, then you'll be very likely to get an interview! Plus, if are you are a dual citizen or an URM - unclear from your post above - I think you'd be borderline irresistible.

Cheers,

mango

Hi Aringo
Thanks for taking time to evaluate the profile

Background/Nationality: 31M, Indian

Professional Qualifications: 7+ years of experience (India and the USA(4 years)), Have worked with Infosys, Bank of America and Vmware. Was instrumental in doing PoC(Proof of concept) document, leading to multimillion dollars. built a cross-functional QA team to assist with implementation. Was one of the top performers(Employee of the quarter). Have worked in different capacities within VMware such as Consultant, Product Manager, and QA Analyst. I was awarded for going above and beyond to find an error with software that potentially saved $400k.

GMAT:660 51Q, 27V. This was my second attempt. I plan to take the test again

Extra Curriculars: Use Dramatics to educate and spread awareness. I usually perform. NGO experience-Teach for India, Founder an environment club at college, the club is now run by the current students, Various activities such as plantation drive, seminars, guest lectures, interactive sessions were done. Was State level Boxer- help kids with equipment and basic training. Class Representative for all 4 years

Can you please review my profile and let me know the colleges where I have a realistic chance of getting an admission.

GMAT - 760 (Q50, V41, AWA-5, IR-8)
B.Tech. in computer science and engineering (68.78 on a scale of 100)
7 years of experience as an SAP Sales and Distribution consultant
- Worked in a global support project in Wipro (Sep 2010 - Sep 2013)
- Worked in multiple support projects and Watson Implementation project in IBM (Oct 2013 - Apr 2016).
- Have been working in Tata Steel since May 2016. Biggest projects worked on are GST Implementation and HANA Implementation at Tata Steel. Also worked on multiple small projects at Tata Steel.

Extra Curricular
- Finished the draft of my first book and it is in final review phase. I hope to get it published in a few weeks but for that to happen, I need to again concentrate on my writing. Unfortunately, I have grown very anxious after submitting my application. I really can't concentrate on anything.
- I am also working on two other fiction stories.
- I have worked as a social activist as a member of a pan India NGO. I have organized small scale community services like health and eye check up camps for the impoverished areas in and around Kolkata. I have interacted with local businessmen and organizations to raise funds for our community services. We bear the cost of cataract operations for all the people identified with cataract in our eye check up camps. We do some other affordable community services as well.
- I have worked as a political activist as a ground worker for the BJP for 2+ years. I have managed political campaigns, organized rallies and protests and run social media campaigns as a political activist.
- Twice, I tried to start my own eCommerce business. My first attempt never kicked off. On the second attempt I got bankrupt and in debt.

Post MBA - Want a job for financial security. Thereafter, want to pursue my ideas and start a new business.

I have currently applied to Wharton, INSEAD, SLOAN and Stanford. All first round applications. I am not sure whether to apply to more schools or not. Any suggestions are welcome.

Thank you for the review Mango!

I am not a dual citizen or URM (I'm white / middle eastern... not sure how that works), and i was a bit considered that I am too young at 25... but you made me feel hopeful! good luck

Hi all, could you please evaluate my profile?

Applying to Wharton, Booth and Sloan

Background and nationality: white male, French and Belgian national
Undergrad Information: 97/110 (not exceptional, think 3.0-3.2) in a BSc Finance at Bocconi Uni (best Italian business school) - exchange term at a mid-level US School with 3.7 GPA and Dean's List
GMAT: 730 (49Q, 40V), AWA 6.0, IR 8
Work experience and leadership: 2 years in M&A in London in one of the top boutique investment banks. Working for a large Private Equity firm in London for the past 8 months.
Extra-curriculars: national tennis player (top 15 in France, top 2 in Paris), manager of an amateur football team, mentor roles
Post MBA goals: Back in Private Equity

Hi hugco94!

I think overall your profile looks great for Sloan. Your experience in different European countries will definitely be a plus. Your GMAT is excellent too. Bocconi is well known, and the experience studying in the US is great too, of course your overall GPA will be on the lower end but I don't think it's so low that it will be a huge concern. The fact that you made the switch from IB to PE already is great. I particularly love your extracurricular activities and I'm sure those will lead to some great examples of perseverance and leadership. In your Sloan cover letter, I would focus on a few past examples of your impact and leadership on the job, and explaining why Sloan is a top choice for you. I don't think you need to explain much, if anything, about your post-MBA goals since you're not changing fields. Use the video intro to show a more personal side and talk about your extracurriculars.

Best of luck! I'm also a Booth alum so feel free to PM me if you have any questions re. Booth!

Kate


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Hi all, was hoping to get some feedback on my profile. Any input is appreciated!

GMAT: 750 (Q49, V42, 8 IR, 6 AWA)
GPA: 3.5/4 in Materials Science & Engineering at a Southern Ivy (Rice/Vanderbilt/Duke), awarded MSCI department's award for leadership as a senior.
Passed levels CFA levels 1 and 2

Extracurriculars during undergrad:
- Organizer of largest on-campus event, responsible for coordinating a week's worth of activities for a group of 300+ students. Worked with local businesses to sponsor the event, had 5-figure budget to work with, led team of 5 organizers
- Founder and president of club sports team
- Orientation advisor junior and senior years (highly competitive, ~10% of applicants are chosen to advise)
- Worked ~20 hours per week in nanotech research lab for 2.5 years on campus

Extracurriculars after graduation:
- Mentor for an inner-city youth baseball program
- Alumni admissions interviewer for alma mater
- Organizer of alumni affairs for the largest on-campus event mentioned above
- Play in amateur baseball league
- Occasionally foster for animal shelter (work hours permitting)

Work experience at time of application: (most recent first):

-1.5 years at boutique RIA in Texas ($6B AUM). Not much history of sending people to B-school, though almost all of senior mangement/C-Suite has MBA from top-10 schools. Started as an analyst on fixed income desk, after 9 months was promoted to associate and given PM-like responsibility for management of a $300M strategy (though no official PM or junior PM title). Expect to have responsibility for another strategy by the time I apply, bringing total AUM I am responsible for to ~$400M. Still have large analytical role with other fixed income strategies, use engineering background for coding & data analysis.

- 6 months as financial advisor with F100 insurance firm. Started here because I wanted to transition into investment management, left because role was more focused on sales than making investment decisions. Concerned this is a very weak part of my application.

- 1.5 years as management consultant in energy department for bronze-tier consulting firm with tech focus (think Quorum, Infosys, etc). Had projects on O&G supermajor & international government client, led offshore teams of 5-10 people on each project.

- Internship with NASA in R&D group as an undergrad. Worked with materials engineers to develop a prototype which was approved for further testing by management.

MBA goal: want to get MBA from top finance program to gain a formal finance education. Currently have very strong analytical skills stemming from engineering background but lack understanding of what makes a successful business tick, which I believe is of utmost importance for investment management. CFA curriculum has filled some of this gap, but is mainly focused on valuation. Also believe I need to improve soft skills to one day lead a team of analysts.

Post MBA goal: Junior PM or similar type role at major asset management firm, preferably one with fixed income focus (PIMCO/DoubleLine/TCW). Long-term goal is to become Chief Investment Officer of an AM firm.

Hi nsimonetti! I see you posted on our Ask mbaMission board too, and that my wonderful colleague Nisha already responded. So I won't post a profile review here, but wanted to wish you good luck!


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