Could you please let me know my chances in ISB with Gmat score of 650 (Q48 V31). Below is my profile, please suggest if I should go ahead with this score or retake the gmat and apply in second cycle.
-Personal details:
Nationality: Indian
Age: 24 years
-Qualifications:
B.Tech from UPTech University: 61.64
12th: 57.6
10th: 58.66
-GMAT: 650 ( Q48 V31)
-Geographical preference: INDIA or others if you suggest, considering I would prefer settled in India.
-Post MBA goals: Technical consulting
-Work profile
-Total exp: 4 yrs and 6 months as of now
-Current Job: Sr Engineer in Leading Telecom MNC (2yrs, 4 months)
- -Working as Senior Engineer in in R&D.
-work includes s/w development including learning and performing POC's (proof of concepts) on new frameworks and implementing them.
-Joined it in may 2010 as Engineer and got promoted after 1 yr, 7 months. Following are the achievements
-Demonstrated capabilities as learning anything new very quickly - though, don't have any awards but it can be reflected, apart from leadership, presentation and other skills, in my recommendation letters from my manager and senior CTO of our group.
-Performing additional role of security expert for 3 of the sub products which involves analyzing performing security analysis and tests on these products, analyzing test reports and providing recommendations and taggging them as pass/fail.
-Recived Award for good performance and excellence - though it's a bit common here.
-Selected as a member of technical and journal group (started by manager): The goal was to arranging technical sessions and shairing techical articles etc. I was selected because I keep shairing new articles and technical things with teams i.e. keeps on increasing my technical knowledge. Only 4 members, including me, were selected for this group of which 3 were of project lead level.
-Current CSR spoc of my location and my name has been suggested for CSR spoc for whole NCR which includes 3 sites in Gurgaon and 1 in NOIDA - result expected soon.
-Started (founder) a book shairing club in the company.
-Past Job: A leading VAS provider company (2 yrs, 2 months)
- -Joined it as Technical trainee and got promoted to Associate s/w engineer within 5 months for excellent performance.
-Implemented the Reporting tool with a framework - I handled this project myself and I was the main guy responsible for this module. This demonstrated my quick learner attitude.
-Got involved in Fast Track programme which was for star employees. The program included studying the business and providing new idea and business. Though I left the company after 3 months and joined the telecom MNC.
-I can get good recommendation from here as well.
-Extra curriculars and Achievements:
Not as interesting in school and college
- -Won many intra school competitions such as swimming and cricket (got a few certificates for swimming from school but don't know if they will be valid)
-As a team arranged cricket and volley ball tournaments but no certificates to prove.
-Involved with one NGO: Involved not so frequent visits and funding them and made efforts to fund them in company.