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25 Jul 2012, 21:09
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If the adcoms love you, you're the kind of person who ends up on the waitlist. What I suggest is to shoot for R1/2 while building an alternate transcript so that in the event of a waitlist, you have something to show them, since I think if there's a reason to waitlist you, it'll be concerns about your ability to handle the academics at b-school (even if you had a strong GMAT; if your GMAT is weak, then there's a greater chance you'd be dinged outright).
Worst case is you don't get in, and try again next year. In short, apply this year rather than just waiting it out for the sake of waiting it out.
25 Jul 2012, 21:17
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str1der
As you probably know, what certainly helps is that you are *not* an engineer like your Indian compatriots. Hard to say what happened last year, but it looks like you've had a solid career thus far, and as such I think that schools in the top 8 are stretches (but worth applying to 2-3: Columbia, Kellogg, Tuck, Sloan, Booth, Haas), and top 16 are more likely your sweet spots (choose 3-4: Ross, Darden, Duke, Yale, Cornell, NYU, UCLA). INSEAD and LBS are in between - I guess call them slight stretches. H/S/W are likely long shots to be honest (you're up against too many people with more pedigree than you and who can claim to be just as accomplished in their careers as you - and they aren't exactly shoe-ins for these three schools either simply because there are more folks of a similar caliber than there are spots).
In short, try again - which it sounds like you're doing. Your essays could've been an issue - but I would guess that it's not that they were bad, but that they were simply "okay" or even "good" - but that you just simply fell through the cracks or got lost in the shuffle (which may sound strange since you're not an Indian engineer - but strip away your nationality, and your work profile is that of a corporate professional - which isn't totally unusual).
25 Jul 2012, 21:25
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To be honest, I think you will be a long shot for top b-schools at this point in the US or Europe, even with a 700+ GMAT. You're up against a lot of other Indian guys who have had more experience than you, and who have worked/lived abroad for years before applying to b-school (a lot tend to do an MS in Engineering in the US, then work in the US for a tech company for a few years before applying).
You should either work for a few more years and see if you can find a way to get work experience abroad -- not sure how you can do that through a small IT startup. You may want to look into working at a global firm that has offices in India, and build experience there as well. With Indian applicants who aren't living full-time in the US or Europe, the biggest concern adcoms have is your ability to fit into a predominantly western culture that is b-school (in spite of it being "international" -- again the US schools are still very Americanized in terms of social norms and values, as are the European schools with more western norms).
What you may be able to do is to look at b-schools in India or other parts of Asia with a strong GMAT. That could be your best bet.
