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Hi ,

I just came back from the GMAT exam. The provisional says that I have a 730(V41 Q49 IR6) score in the first attempt.

I am an Indian male , with around 90% marks in secondary school and a CGPA of 8.1 in Information Technology from Nirma Institute of Technology.

I have a work ex of 38 months as of now in the Financial Technology sector.
I started off at Cognizant for the first 22 months, then moved to one among the two largest i-bank's as a consultant and was hired full time 10 months later as a Manager,one of the youngest in the firm in India, all in the Information Technology space

I am looking for applying to schools in R2 for 2015. I would like to know if I stand a chance at any of the ultra elite schools and if yes what are the ones I should be applying to. Also please help me with what other schools I can be looking at.

I still have a TOEFL to give, please let me know if there is any particular score I should take care of there as well

It depends what you consider "ultra-elite" universities.

Am I correct that Nirma Institute of Technology is roughly on par with the National Institute of Technologies? If so, you have stellar grades from a strong, but not ultra-elite, Indian university with a good, but not great GMAT score (for Indian applicants applying to ultra-elite schools).

That puts you roughly at the top 8 - 15 U.S. schools depending on your goal.

A TOEFL score of 100 usually is the bare minimum for most top MBA schools, but schools like Booth have a 104 minimum. Coming from India, though, where English is one of the official languages you should not have a problem. If the language of instruction at Nirma Institute of Technology was English you should be able to place out of the test.

Good luck,

Hi,

Your GMAT and academics are quite strong, with 3+ yrs of work experience you are at the right stage of your career when most of the B-school applicants plan to apply for top MBA programs. You should ideally target B-schools based on your post MBA career goals, which sector you want to get into. You can try our B-School Selector tool to shortlist few B-schools by clicking here https://goo.gl/LVWTay

Regards,
Manish
www.genedmba.com

shat90 wrote:Hi ,

I just came back from the GMAT exam. The provisional says that I have a 730(V41 Q49 IR6) score in the first attempt.

I am an Indian male , with around 90% marks in secondary school and a CGPA of 8.1 in Information Technology from Nirma Institute of Technology.

I have a work ex of 38 months as of now in the Financial Technology sector.
I started off at Cognizant for the first 22 months, then moved to one among the two largest i-bank's as a consultant and was hired full time 10 months later as a Manager,one of the youngest in the firm in India, all in the Information Technology space

I am looking for applying to schools in R2 for 2015. I would like to know if I stand a chance at any of the ultra elite schools and if yes what are the ones I should be applying to. Also please help me with what other schools I can be looking at.

I still have a TOEFL to give, please let me know if there is any particular score I should take care of there as well