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Jun 23, 2015
jj2718 wrote:Dr. Watts,
I would love to hear your thoughts about my profile and my chances at any of the top 10 US business schools:
- American, white male
- 770 GMAT
- 3.7 GPA in engineering from top 10 school
- Magna cum laude graduate from top 25 law school (full tuition scholarship)
- 3 years experience at headquarters of top law firm
- Some volunteer work--mostly pro bono legal advice
- Ideally hope to transition into banking/finance
Planning to apply round 1 to all schools. Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated!
Jun 23, 2015
steffi15berlin wrote:hi Dr. Watts,
25 years Female from India living in Germany
GMAT: 560 (41Q/25V)
UG: Aerospace Engineering 3.4/4.0 GPA
Grad: Engineering Management 3.6/4.0 GPA form Duke
Extra curriculum activities: Women's Network hub leader and voluntary work
Fluent in German
5.5 years of work experience
WE 1: Leadership Program in operation management across Middle East & Europe (2.5 year) large multinational
WE 2: Logistics Manager with 15 direct reports (3 years) large multinational. ERP implementation and large cost savings.
Goal
Get MBA to pursue career in business strategy.
Schools:
Harvard
Yale
Columbia
Dartmouth
Stanford
Wharton
MIT: Sloan
Berkley
Duke
University of Chicago
What are my chances? What are my areas of improvement?
Jun 23, 2015
gmataroram wrote:Good Day Dr. Shel
I would like to ask you for the Profile Evaluation for Fall Intake 2016 in Kellogg, Tuck, Haas, Fuqua & INSEAD.
Details :
1. Personal :
Indian Male 29 years at the age of matriculation
2. Academics :
Graduated in 2009 from a Premier Marine Engineering Institute (Entry through IIT-JEE) in India with 72%(Top 10% of the class).
Won 1st Prize in All India Marine Engineering innovation Meet
In charge for Sports activities and responsible for the organizing and management of various Sports meet. Managing budget of USD 20K for purchase of sports equipment.
Secretary of Mess Committee managing a budget of USD 160K. Introduced vendor management scheme and distribution system.
3. Professional :
6.5 years of WorkEx as the time of matriculation as Senior Operations Manager in Merchant Ships in a Japanese Company (the biggest shipping company in terms of revenue)
Led a multinational team of 12 for :
Engineering Operations and maintenance of the plant
Cargo Operations and supervision to avoid heavy penalties in case of breach of regulations
Inventory Tracking & Management to forecast annual budget for purchase at proper time and place to make savings
Condition Monitoring and assessment to better utilize the resources
Environmental Compliance by making internal inspection
Restructuring of Inspection Plans for Quality Assurance Audits and bringing more business for clients
Liaising with manufacturers to implement model to increase profit of the client by & decreasing downtime.
Draft training curriculum for new entrants
Extra Curricular :
Participated in Business development by conducting awareness meet to collect funds for an alumni run NGO
Teamed up with a team of 3 to plan and introduce a Shipping Employment Portal.
Kindly suggest how can I make the application compelling and impressive.
Jun 25, 2015
ShellyLWatts wrote:The best thing you can do to improve your odds is get your GMAT score up. Are you planning to take it again? A score of 730 or so would serve you much better.
Best wishes,
Dr. Shelramalo wrote:Hi,
I would love to get your perspective on where I stand.
-27 y/o Indian Male (will turn 28 in may)
-GMAT 710 (49Q, 39V)
-Graduated in 2008 from a business school in UK with a degree in accounting and finance. Topped my degree in year one. Ended up with an upper 2.1 degree.
-planned on working in UK itself in order to get some international work ex but had to move back to India because of my fathers death (3 weeks after final term). Had to take care of family affairs, both financial and emotional, so moved back.
-Over 6.5 years of experience working in the business development and strategy implementation division of a firm with interests across hydropower, textiles and education and annual revenues of over $100m. Have worked across all 3 sectors. Currently leading a team in implementing the expansion/diversification of the education vertical. The project is at an advanced stage of implementation and the financial rewards from the project have already started flowing in. The idea for diversification was my brainchild and thus I was made the team leader of the project. The financial rewards from this project have already started flowing in. I'm also the youngest at the firm at a senior managerial role. I've held leadership roles across all the 3 verticals.
-short term goal is to make a transition to a top tier management consulting firm and work in new geographies (outside of India). Long term goal is to take up a senior management role at a fortune 500 firm. In my current role I'm coming up with and executing ideas that lead to improvement in business process and create value for the firm. I think a career in consulting will be a reasonable sell as my STG.
-Extra curricular: work with one of the most prominent environmental NGO in the country. Have been closely associated with environmental research over the last 4 years. Having lost my father to blood cancer I started a cancer foundation in his name and have raised over INR 1.5m which in turn was used to help underprivileged patients in their treatment. Also organize an annual blood donation camp. Also redrafted and implemented the corporate social responsibility charter at the firm with a focus on sanitation for the poor and improving female financial literacy. I've also worked for a member of parliament from 2009-2013 on devising a plan for development in the members parliamentary constituency.
I would appreciate if you could evaluate my profile at the following schools.
-Target schools- INSEAD, Columbia, Kellogg, Tuck, Duke, Darden, Emory, McCombs, etc
Feel free to suggest other business schools.
Thanks for taking time out and helping people out here. Really appreciate it.
Regards
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Sep 15, 2015
ShellyLWatts wrote:The best thing you can do to improve your odds is get your GMAT score up. Are you planning to take it again? A score of 730 or so would serve you much better.
Best wishes,
Dr. Shelramalo wrote:Hi,
I would love to get your perspective on where I stand.
-27 y/o Indian Male (will turn 28 in may)
-GMAT 710 (49Q, 39V)
-Graduated in 2008 from a business school in UK with a degree in accounting and finance. Topped my degree in year one. Ended up with an upper 2.1 degree.
-planned on working in UK itself in order to get some international work ex but had to move back to India because of my fathers death (3 weeks after final term). Had to take care of family affairs, both financial and emotional, so moved back.
-Over 6.5 years of experience working in the business development and strategy implementation division of a firm with interests across hydropower, textiles and education and annual revenues of over $100m. Have worked across all 3 sectors. Currently leading a team in implementing the expansion/diversification of the education vertical. The project is at an advanced stage of implementation and the financial rewards from the project have already started flowing in. The idea for diversification was my brainchild and thus I was made the team leader of the project. The financial rewards from this project have already started flowing in. I'm also the youngest at the firm at a senior managerial role. I've held leadership roles across all the 3 verticals.
-short term goal is to make a transition to a top tier management consulting firm and work in new geographies (outside of India). Long term goal is to take up a senior management role at a fortune 500 firm. In my current role I'm coming up with and executing ideas that lead to improvement in business process and create value for the firm. I think a career in consulting will be a reasonable sell as my STG.
-Extra curricular: work with one of the most prominent environmental NGO in the country. Have been closely associated with environmental research over the last 4 years. Having lost my father to blood cancer I started a cancer foundation in his name and have raised over INR 1.5m which in turn was used to help underprivileged patients in their treatment. Also organize an annual blood donation camp. Also redrafted and implemented the corporate social responsibility charter at the firm with a focus on sanitation for the poor and improving female financial literacy. I've also worked for a member of parliament from 2009-2013 on devising a plan for development in the members parliamentary constituency.
I would appreciate if you could evaluate my profile at the following schools.
-Target schools- INSEAD, Columbia, Kellogg, Tuck, Duke, Darden, Emory, McCombs, etc
Feel free to suggest other business schools.
Thanks for taking time out and helping people out here. Really appreciate it.
Regards
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Dec 19, 2015
mohnishzaveri wrote:Hi Dr Shelly,
My question is a bit unconventional. I applied to CBS, Wharton, Tuck, LBS , Booth and Stern for R1. After securing interview from all the schools except CBS. My results were:
Wharton - waitlist after interview
Booth - ding after interview
LBS - waitlist
Tuck - waitlist
CBS - ding without interview
Stern - admitted
My profile is given below.
4 years when I join-2 years in a niche Financial Consultancy, worked with Bank Front Office teams in India and Singapore on valuation post global financial crisis
2 years - Thomson Reuters (Singapore) - in a pre- sales role, involved in revenue generation and interacting with business stake holders focusing more on buy-side clients.Managing client expectations, proposing and designing solutions. Geographic mandate includes South Asia and have travelled to 8 different countries within region for client meetings.
2) GMAT - 760 (99 percentile, Q-51 (97) , V- 41 (94), AWA -5)
3) Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay, GPA -7.8/10, Bachelors in Chemical Engineering
4) Managing investments for friends and relatives (140 K USD) in Indian debt and equity markets for last 3 years
Part of Foundation at current organization and have participated and led multiple drives for raising funds and creating awareness against human trafficking
Part of Debating club, co-founder first-ever National Debate in the institute.Led a team of 25 co-ordinators to organize the event
Won prizes in debating at college and national tournaments
Volunteered as a teacher and content planner for NGO which helps in child education for almost a year
5) CFA and FRM charters
6)Make a long term career in investment management.
Currently, I am very close to securing a role as risk analyst at a leading sovereign wealth fund(SWF). Given my current results and the offer from SWF, would it make sense to pursue Stern or gain an additional year of experience and re-try again next year at schools like CBS, Booth. How do these schools view re-applicants?
Looking forward to your reply.
Dec 19, 2015
arihant123 wrote:GMAT - 650
Under graduation - Delhi College Of Engineering, 64%
Work Ex - 4years, in core construction as Planning engineer
at Mega construction projects like Delhi Metro, Jaipur Metro,
Major skills include - costing, budgeting, cash flow, cost flow, scheduling, project management, PMG, Resource optimization and tendering
Entrepreneurial experience - started 2 online ventures - failed; now in progress with my 3rd starup
NGO- active team member (corporate relations and coordinator) at Happy Horizons since 2013 - NGO education underprivileged children
Family Business - Have past experience at my family business too, sales monitoring, claims preparation, mobile distribution business in a district. Controlled region of more than 20 Million Rupees.
Additional Experiences - Doing additional courses like Six Sigma certification, Etc
Extracurriculars - Creative writing - Blog writing, college newspaper editor, Magazine editor of my company, Content developer at NGo-happy horizons
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