Hi,
Can you please evaluate my profile and see if my target schools are reachable.
1) Female/Indian/ 27 /IT(Software - Supply Chain consultant)
2) Employed with Top Indian IT company, have 5+ yrs of experience, with 4 years in the US
3) Worked with Top retailing, banking and IT clients
4) GMAT - 710 > 80percentile in Verbal and Quant, AWA 6.0
5) Social work - I founded a Non-profit that connects professionals with NGO's, and Non - profits, for voluntary assignments. Its been 2 years.
6) Undergrad extra curricular - lots of activities
7) Big down side - 69% in undergrad, although it is 1st class per University standards. But taking direct proportion - its 2.75 GPA
I applied to Stanford, MIT and Harvard Last year and got dinged without and interview.
I am thinking of either taking the GMAT again to improve my score further - which is tough.
Or applying to Duke, Cornell and Ross in R1 itself.
Do you think these schools are reachable. Please let me know which other schools are reachable per my profile. I am looking for good schools (In top 15 only)
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Re: Profile evaluatio pleas
Hi mbadreams760,
Thanks for writing in and sharing your information. A 710 should in the competitive range within the top-15 so unless you are confident you can raise the score significantly, I am not sure investing the time to prepare for the GMAT again will give you the pay off you are seeking.
In order to have a good chance at the schools you mention you will want to a) differentiate yourself from your peer group, and b) show that you've overcome your college academic experience. As you know, Indian engineers are an overrepresented group so you will need to find ways to separate yourself from that cluster. Your nonprofit could come in useful here, as could any solid leadership experience at work.
You will also want to show how you have positively matured since your college academic experience, and point to any examples that show you can handle the rigors of top-15 MBA academics.
If you are set on only top-15 schools you may want to check out NYU as well.
Best of luck,
Daniel Richards
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Thanks for writing in and sharing your information. A 710 should in the competitive range within the top-15 so unless you are confident you can raise the score significantly, I am not sure investing the time to prepare for the GMAT again will give you the pay off you are seeking.
In order to have a good chance at the schools you mention you will want to a) differentiate yourself from your peer group, and b) show that you've overcome your college academic experience. As you know, Indian engineers are an overrepresented group so you will need to find ways to separate yourself from that cluster. Your nonprofit could come in useful here, as could any solid leadership experience at work.
You will also want to show how you have positively matured since your college academic experience, and point to any examples that show you can handle the rigors of top-15 MBA academics.
If you are set on only top-15 schools you may want to check out NYU as well.
Best of luck,
Daniel Richards
http://www.mbamission.com
Read the mbaMission Insider's Guides (14 individual school titles)
Visit the mbaMission Blog
Follow mbaMission on Twitter
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