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Indian Male (25 Years Old)

GMAT 600 (V21, Q50) - Will retake.

Professional Experience

Role 1 - BI Analyst and Social Media Head at a Sports based firm: Head of Analytics and liased with other teams to get requirements and improved clients success percentage from 54% to 87%. Handled Social Media for clients and the firm and led a three-member team. Organic reach and followers count increased by 200%.
(Recruited as a Social Media Associate and was promoted to Head position and BI Analyst position)

Role 2 - Worked with NGO mentoring 80 children across the city, teaching life values through football. Handled operations of the city with the Program Manager and City Lead. Worked with fundraising team to raise well over Rs. 1.5 crores from CSR Funds. Won the city level championship across all age categories (Promoted from a Part time Role to a Full time Role with the NGO)

Role 3 - Working now as a BI Analyst. Have worked with three International Clients and two big conglomerates in the country.

Extra Curriculars:
Volunteered with an NGO where we taught kids English to enhance their chances of getting employed in the future. Was promoted to lead a center, led a team of 25 people, raised funds over 20k and was responsible for leading the center to raise over 3 Lakhs. Increased the reach of the organisation from 100 kids to 470 kids, finding different centers. Also headed the recruitment of volunteers.

Since then, we’ve helped 100’s of Indian students get into the world’s best MBA programs including Harvard, Booth, Kellogg, MIT, Columbia, Tuck, Ross, Darden, LBS, INSEAD, HEC, Oxford, Cambridge, ISB, NUS and HKUST.

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replying to shades28

good profile - GMAT is the sore point currently

With a 750, I can see you making a good application to a T10.

With a 720, perhaps a T25

since there are so many ed-tech folks here - here is more self-promotion!

We have worked with folks from several of India’s leading ed-techs in the past. and currently, we are working with 3 folks who work with India’s largest ed-tech.

bratbg has a good profile. Weak GMAT. ASU, Gtech, Carlson would have been stretch programs worthy of consideration with a 680. I would advise him to consider programs across the T35. With a 750, a T12 to T15 might be possilbe
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Hi,
GRE - 308 (Q155 V153) taken without preperation few months back. Next attempt on 24th July. Target score - 318-320.
UG GPA - 7.65/10 (B.Tech in ECE from West Bengal University of Technology)
10th - 81
12th - 71
Work Ex - 3 Yrs 9 months as of today, by 2022 August will have 4years 10months of experience
Company: Cognizant Technology Solutions
Role: Senior Developer
Responsibilities: I work as a Mainframe Developer for an US based Insurance company, in the team whichs aupports their Reinsurance product. It’s a client facing role and basic tasks involve understanding the business requirements and providing them with feasible solutions. Received promotion at the earliest stage possible. And also have multiple recognitions from senior management in the past few years.
Extra Curricular:
1) At college level, I was a Treasurer for Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), which had a club in our college. It’s an international organisation, and under it’s banner, I have hosted multiple seminars on behalf of my college.
2) Was part of a 4 member team whose undergraduate research paper was selected for poster presentation in a SPIE conference at Las Vegas, Nevada. But, only two member went ro present, and I was not one of them.
3) I am part of a small NGO called Oisitic which works for the children and also have a small orphanage.
4) At office also, I have led a team of 25 people during a creative cultural completion which was held throughout all Cognizant offices in Kolkata.

Target Schools: WP Carey, Simon, Foster
Post MBA Goal: To go into Tech, preferably Product Management

P.s. I had applied in 3rd round to Katz and got accepted too for 2021 intake, but scholarship was too less, hence eyeing first round for next intake and probably with a better score.

Query: What are my chances in the above schools and also any othter suggestions? I will be depentding on scholarship to a great extent.

Hey Sajjad, can I post my profile here ?

sandhya94 wrote:Hey Sajjad, can I post my profile here ?

Yes sure

Carey and Simon - you may need a 325. Foster - a 328. Witha. 320, you may need to look at T40. Katz would have been good - maybe they’ll be able to offer a better scholarship this time?
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Female 27, Indian, Engineering background -B.Tech - Electronics and Communication Engineering

10th - 91.2%
12th - 93.6%
GPA - 9.023

GMAT - preparation phase

Years of Experience - 5.5 years if experience throughout in BFSI domain. Working as an Assistant Manager in Digital Product Analytics domain. Currently working in Citi Bank under the Digital product and customer journey analytics vertical. Manage and track the performance of customer journeys with key digital metrics. Conduct deep dives for conversion rate optimization, increase acquisitions, identify funnel abandonments, improve customer experience and address customer pain points. Was previously working for HSBC in a similar role.

Post MBA Goals - Transition into Product Management side of things. Currently into technical side of Product Analytics, but want to kove towards the business end of it qnd manage digital driven solutions for products predominantly in BFSI domain itself.

Target Schools - UK schools like LBS, Oxford, Cambridge, Warwick

Questions -
1. What should be the target GMAT score for these schools fiven the profile and work experience?
2. Need some help in shortlisting other schools apart from UK that might be good for my profile.

Replying to Sandhya

Sandhya has an interesting profile. LBS, Oxford, Cambridge, and Warwick should be possible witha. 720. Atleast a 700, and we have a fighting chance. I will need to understand your work experience in a bit more detail though, to understand the links between your current work, and your post-MBA goals. If you are looking at the US, and have a 720, you can target T20 schools.

ISB is always a favourite.
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Indian Male (25 year-old)

10th-98
12th-98.2
Bachelor’s in Economics from Tier 1 College - Top 1% of the batch
Master’s in Economics from Tier 1 College - Top 10% in the Batch of 250

GMAT Target Score - 750+

Work Experience: 3 Years

Role 1 - Analytics Consultant in Wells Fargo - Part of Financial Analytics and Consulting Team.

Role 2 - Management Associate at Boutique Consulting Firm by Ex-McK
Promoted to Senior Consultant within 15 months


Extracurricular:(1) President of the Placement Cell
(2) Organisng Head of E-Cell
(3) President of Dance Society

Member of Multiple Societies as well - Finance, Quiz etc.

Currently involved in multiple Pro Bono Consulting Projects - working towards attaining United Nations sustainability goals

Chances for Insead ? I don’t have any international experience due to Covid, however, my work involves regular interactions with clients in Montreal and South Africa - Majorly Top Banks of the regions.

AugustAcademy wrote:Carey and Simon - you may need a 325. Foster - a 328. Witha. 320, you may need to look at T40. Katz would have been good - maybe they’ll be able to offer a better scholarship this time?

Yes hopefully they will, and how do you rate Katz? And any Candian schools you could suggest with 318-320 GRE?

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AK28 - Insead may be difficult, because the emphasis on international experience is heave. Please see my further thoughts by clicking on the show details, and navigating to the relevant timestamps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH-q5Lf ... y5xWEbCLW_
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Profile Evaluation for MBA 2022 intake:

Chilean/Female/34
GMAT: Aiming 740
Undergrad: GPA 3.0/4.00 in Bachelor of Business Management
Work Exp: 8 years mainly in the Mining and Fertilizer industry.
Did strategic marketing research for the fertilizer industry world wide, had the opportunity to be exposed to international meetings with sales teams around the world and data analysis.

Also I work with customers and understand their needs to be able and participate in market development.

I also have my own business where I have the representation of a US nail polish brand in my country.

ECs:
Worked on un techo para chile in the microcredit department helping people to build their own small business, to be able to pay for their own home. Also worked as a math teacher in a college test study center for underprivileged students.

I help the abroad studies program to get more schools and to get a better connection with the secretary of studies office this way students knew which classes to take that were aligned to their resume..

I blogged for a makeup blog about hair and makeup for 2 years.

Post MBA goals:

Short Term: Accquire professional mng skills that are useful for my own business and implement the same back home. And develop my skills for the retail industry.

Long-Term: Expand the business and manage it from far and be a marketing manager for a fashion retail industry.

Target School:
UNC, Columbia, Harvard, Tuck, Darden.

Everyone, We have 10 more minutes left in this chat session. Ask your questions quickly

replying to Mayukh: Canadian schools are becoming competitive. Witha. 320, you may look outside the top 5 - 7 - that is outside of Rotman, Smith, Ivery, McGill, Schulich and Sauder. You may qualify for Schulich Hyderabad, and complete your degree in Toronto.
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AugustAcademy wrote:AK28 - Insead may be difficult, because the emphasis on international experience is heave. Please see my further thoughts by clicking on the show details, and navigating to the relevant timestamps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH-q5Lf ... y5xWEbCLW_

Also targeting LBS and Columbia - any chances over there ?

fabyaog - your schools may be possible with a 740. You have a good profile. For more details, you may check with my friends from South America: Paulo from Philadelphia Consulting, and Maria Cecilia Pineda
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AugustAcademy wrote:replying to Mayukh: Canadian schools are becoming competitive. Witha. 320, you may look outside the top 5 - 7 - that is outside of Rotman, Smith, Ivery, McGill, Schulich and Sauder. You may qualify for Schulich Hyderabad, and complete your degree in Toronto.

Thanks for information

AK28 - we will need to get into some depth, to understand the strength of your profile. A 750 is definitely sufficient fro LBS and Columbia - but good work experience is necessary as well.

at Mayukh - kudos will be appreciated!



waiting for the next message - come on folks. Where is the energy?
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Indian Female (26 year-old)

10th-89
12th-93.5
Bachelor’s in GITAM UNIVERSITY(ECE)

GRE Score - 325

Work Experience: 4 years

Role 1 - Application development Analyst in Accenture

Extracurricular:(1) Organised blood donations camps in National Service Scheme
(2) Worked for Teach for Change (NGO)

Chances for Imperial, ISB, UCL London ? 09:40 am ✓✓