Please evaluate: 650-GMAT,~5 years of work-ex in IT

[neetigupta.86]

[size=85][size=85]Background
Indian female, 27 years of age with 4 years 8months of IT experience. Currently not working as on H4 visa, US based.

GPA, major, school
1. 67.73/100, Bachelor of Engineering(Information Technology), University of Pune (as per the university, 66% and above is considered as Distinction)
2. Working towards my goal of pursuing MBA by enrolling in online courses such as basics of Financial Accounting and Marketing.

GMAT : 650(77%)
Q(48 - 76%) V(31 - 60%) AWA(5 - 60 % ) IR (5-52%)

Resume highlights

Companies:
1. Tata Consultancy Services, India : 4 years : SAP ABAP Developer
2. HCL AXON,HCL Technologies, India : 8 months: SAP ABAP Consultant

Main Responsibility:
1.Regular interaction with clients for understanding their requirements and implementing them in SAP (Enterprise Resource Planning Tool).
2. Creating and updating technical specification documents.
3.Exposure to different business sectors such as Product Development, Retail, Warehouse management and manufacturing.

Management Experience:
1. Responsible for weekly and monthly status report of project’s deliverables under development and testing.
2. Mentored college recruits to help them learn and implement ABAP concepts in real time.
3. Interviewed prospective hires for the project.
4. Worked at client location in France for SAP implementation, deployment and post deployment activities.
5. Time-sheet Management for revenue recognition of the project.

Extra-curricular Activities:
1. Responsible for organizing and budgeting team building activities for project members.
2. Responsible for budgeting and arranging recreational trips for project members.
3. Helped organize Inter-division Cricket Tournament on state level at TCS.
4. Participated and won Inter-ISU Cricket Tournament for Women.
5. Was a Member of TCS Maitri club, the organization in-charge of extra-curricular activities in TCS.
6. Organized dance classes for the associates at my office location.
7. Have recently started volunteering to teach Mathematics to under-privileged students in Seattle with a Non-Profit Organization. I previously volunteered to teach kids in India.
8. Was an active member of the organizing team for technical and cultural fests in college. This involved marketing, selling tickets and raising revenue for college events, attracting corporate sponsors and participants from other institutes.
9. Actively participated in various quizzes, presentations, seminars and competitions.

Awards, patents, publications, etc...
1. Awarded coder of the month in TCS
2. Member of SAP implementation team when it was awarded the Best Supplier of the Year from the client (Owens Corning) in 2011.
3. Won 2nd prize in national level inter-college technical presentation.

Interesting personal facts - countries lived in, challenges faced, unusual interests
1. Recently started sponsoring and tracking a child’s education.
Future Plans:
1. Plan to start awareness campaign in India to encourage women to learn self-defense and to provide a medium for them to learn such techniques.


Please evaluate my profile for Full-time 2-year MBA programs in UW Foster School of MBA, Boston University School of Management, The Paul Merage School of Business,University of California,Irvine.
I see that for all the aforementioned B-schools I fall in the range of GMAT Score but below the Average score required.
Also please suggest the range of colleges that I should aim for in the US .

Could you please suggest if I should take GMAT again. I feel I will be able to improve my GMAT score from 650 to 670-680.[/size][/size]

[happypices]

Hello, I was waiting for an Admission Expert's advice and ran into your message. I hope I'm not imposing... but I wanted to share some of my thoughts.

If you are planning to take online courses and BU is one of your top choices, I would take a look at BU's online courses (see link below). I recently earned an MS from Columbia through "CVN" and Columbia MBA's admissions office reacted very positively. Despite my dismal undergrad GPA, they responded very positively regarding my "academic stats." Similarly, if you are adamant about taking online courses, I would take courses from the school you want to apply to.

All in all, if I were in your shoes I would focus on (order of importance):

1. Why MBA - shortterm and longterm goals that demonstrates how the MBA will help you get there and what you can contribute to your peers.
2. GMAT 700+
3. More focused extracurricular activity that you feel passionate about - You have scattered "activities" but no "responsibilities" or "ownership." I'm no expert, but I would personally scratch my head if this person simply listed extracurricular activities that are scattered around. To me, an extracurricular activity is an opportunity to demonstrate your characters and how you own it to the adcoms.
4. Recommendation letters
5. Extra online classes - It's a plus if you get A's to demonstrate your capacity as a student, but it will be better if the grades are from your target schools. It would be even better if you can demonstrate the purpose of WHY your taking these courses by doing projects/conferences related to the courses that you are taking.


Online BU courses (expensive... but extensive)
http://www.bu.edu/online/programs/gradu ... rses.shtml

[mbamissionjenK]

Hi Neeti,

I responded to this same post in GMATClub, response below, thanks. ;) PS-- fyi happypices is not affiliated with mbaMission, just in case there was any question! ;)

Hi there,

Thanks for your post. Schools are certainly always looking for qualified female applicants, though there is also generally a very large applicant pool of Indian IT applicants so it's important to work to differentiate for the average applicant in that group (for example, focusing on leadership and communication skills that may be less common among IT/engineers).

The schools you mentioned would likely be within reach, though the closer you are to the average GMAT the better. I would suggest considering taking it again if possible.. schools take the highest score, and if you think you can increase that score (which is usually easier to do with a 650 than a 680/700), then you can improve your acceptance chances greatly. For more on choosing your target schools, check out our free download at: http://info.mbamission.com/Selecting-Yo ... ram-E-Book.

Good luck and keep us posted!