Please evaluate my profile

[kapilagrawal123]

Please let me know if my profile is competitive for top B Schools. I am looking for the school that is a very good brand. No location preference.

Nationality: Indian
Gender: Male
Age: 25

Academic
1) B.E. (Hons) Electronics & Instrumentation - Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India (2006-2011)
2) Msc. (Hons) Chemistry - Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India (2006-2011)
3) Overall CGPA - 7.2/10
4) GMAT Attempt 2 => 680 (V48, V34) (August 2013)
5) GMAT Attempt 1 => 610 (V49, V25) (March 2013)
6) 88.40% 10th Std
7) 86% 12th Std

Certifications/TAships
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer
Technical Assistant to Prof. JP Mishra for Computer Programming Course for 1 semester in BITS, Pilani

Extra-Curricular
8) School: Debate : Best Speaker
School: Round Table: 1st Prize
9) School: National Level Computer Festival : Halo 2003 : Best Special Category Software Award
10) First Prize in All India Small Start up Competition with limited budget and time: Nano

Internships/Conference/Forums
11) 2 Months Internship in Birla Century Rayons (May-June 2008)
12) Moscow, Russia: Seliger 2010 (July 2010)
13) 6 Months Internship Apex Decisions, Bangalore (July - December 2010)
14) 6 Months Internship Tata CMC, Mumbai (January - June 2011)
Professional Experience (2 Years 1 month till Aug ’13 @ Intel, Bangalore)
15) Campus recruitment in Intel, Mobile & Communications Group as Software Engineer 2 (July 2011)
16) Munich, Germany: Office travel in February 2012, May-June2013 (Total duration 2-3 months of stay)
17) Stockholm, Sweden: Onsite for Samsung support June-July 2013 for bringup of 7160, Intel’s first LTE modem. Single on-site representative for Tools project for 1.5-2weeks.

Startup
18) Founded tinyMOUSE in September 2011. An Independent Films Screening Club/Company. The Club & the Events Featured in Hindustan Times, Indian Express, Deccan Herald and Time Out Magazine. (http://www.facebook.com/tinymouse911)

Hobbies/Interests
19) Active FilmMaker & Active Member of CCTV (Film & Animation Club) in Bits, Pilani.
i. Key Member of the curtain raiser animation video team for the Oasis 2007, Cultural Festival.
ii. Key Member of the team for the Apogee 2008 Curtain raiser video.
iii. Lead the Razmatazz Curtain Raiser video team 2009.
iv. 10+ Short/Independent films directed & produced so far.

20) Active member of the Couchsurfing Project (http://www.couchsurfing.org) . Contributed to the Moscow, St. Petersberg, Bangalore, Munich & Stockholm couchsurfing communities by participating in the events and couch surfing. Also hosted the members of the community. Testimonials present on the website.

21) Jointly directed the Documentary for NGO Dream a Dream in September 2011. The Documentary explains the work the NGO has done over the years for the schools in Bangalore. Further, the school administration and the children who benefited from the work of the NGO are interviewed.

22) Freelance Video Editing project for an Israel Client. The project was to embed the best possible Fractals which syncs with a particular meditation music. I researched on the graphs of equations of various Fractals. It was found that when they are zoomed in continuously at a particular rate, a relaxing effect is produced on the viewer. For the project, an equation was finalized in consent with the client, and using a particular simulator software, the continuous zoom in video was generated. It was overlapped on the music and the speech. The zoom in rate was varied and parameters of the equations were changed till a desired effect was reached. Finally the video was subtitled for the speech. The client Roy has left a testimony on freelancer.in. Also I was paid 60$, the bid amount, for the project.

24) Participated in Russian Government Sponsored Youth Forum, International Seliger 2010 in July 2010. It’s an initiative by Russian Govt. to facilitate young people around the world to visit Russia and network with young people from Russia and exchange thoughts and views. The selection process was highly rigorous spread over a month and after tough competition few people were selected from India. I met people from around 80 countries around the world. I was a part of Mass Media Camp. I had a chance to meet top journalists and media personalities in Russia and Eastern Europe one-one. Also, there were many group activities and workshops that facilitated communication and learning. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visited us at our camps and had a chance to listen to him speak to us!

[mbamissionjenK]

Hi there,

Thanks for posting. It certainly sounds like you have a lot of interesting experiences in your profile, which is always a plus. You have a lot of international experiences, some being more in-depth than average; you have startup experience; you come from a slightly less common academic background; you have extensive interests and extracurricular involvements and interesting project work.

What I'm not fully understanding based upon what you've listed, is do you have much if any continuous full time work experience?? Is the startup full time? I realize you haven't been out of school too long, but schools ideally would look for some established work experience if possible.

With the 680 and your profile based on my limited understanding of your timeline and experience etc, I would say the top 10 schools would be pretty difficult (if you REALLY wanted you could add 1 from 6-10 or so as a dream/reach school); you may want to look for schools in the 15-25 for the best chances.

No matter what you'll want to be sure you have a clear answer to the question of, 'why do you want an MBA' ;) and a clear vision of your goals, and how you'll relate your past experiences to the MBA and to your future goals.

Wishing you the best!