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manu 2014 Just gettin' started!
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profile eval please gmat 740 Post Sun Dec 18, 2011 10:12 am
Hi,

i have a be degree from comp sci from RVCE(15th in INDIA)
gpa is 8.14,gmat score 740 awa 5

work experience

currently working for Bosch (1 year)responsible for airbags development
for Japanese and north American car manufacturers

internship

6-months,final year of college
developed a software to decrypt vopi calls ,sms send over net(for cisco)
first such software ever developed
3-months summer break 3rd year college-computerized and made online revenue records of a state government
3-months-2nd year summer break worked for buddha international circuit indias first f1 rcing track

extra ciricular
play
1)cricket,ping pong,squash,table tennis,lawn tennis,badminton,swimming

2)won 3rd prize in swimming
3)presented a paper in a national conference held in Bangalore

help many social organisations(ngo)to organize events and raise money for their work

entrepreneurship

founding director of a company which trains people as security guards
and deploy them as private security all over INDIA,

target school

wharton,chicago,nyu,harvard,stanford,ucla,mit,duke,tuck

which school should i add as safe school

regards
Shivaankar

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Post Mon Dec 19, 2011 6:30 pm
Manu,
I'm not sure why you are pushing to go to b-school right now. You could use another year or two of work experience to show the admissions committee that you can really deliver in the commercial world. At least one promotion with some managerial/leadership exposure would be ideal. Also, it would be ideal if you had a few more developed extracurricular activities. If you are stuck on going this year, it really depends what you want to do going forward. Can you give me some additional color on ST/LT goals?

Btw, if you are going to mention 3rd place in swimming, I hope it was in the Olympics, otherwise, I probably wouldn't mention it! In all seriousness, make sure that it was overcoming a barrier or a very competitive situation.

I hope that helps and I look forward to hearing back.

manu 2014 Just gettin' started!
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Post Tue Dec 20, 2011 7:58 am
If i was an Olympics bronze medalist my country would have given me so much money that no MBA was required, jokes aside it was a state level competition if u say so i will not mention it

1)sorry for not mentioning this but want to apply for 2013 by then will have 2 years experience and will get 1 promotion surely

2)can u elaborate on how do develop extracurricular, because i still support non profit organizations and playing competitive sport is not possible



3) i want to apply as i don't get job satisfaction in Technical line/programming,but i find business line more interesting,as i am in technical line it will take at least 5years to get into
administration,and before that same programming has to be done it is becoming quite monotonous

4)it may sound childish but after hearing Steve jobs Stanford speech that you are gonna die ,follow ur heart i don't wanna waste my time doing things i am not interested in

5)i was diagnosed with a serious illness (not life threatening,but will stay with me)when i was in 1st year of college doctors advised me to take that year off but i continued and it did not affect my gpa, i dont want to mention this

6)short term goal is to get into consulting firm and apply my skills there,long term goal is to be a adviser to companies/govt on various subjects relating to projects done in (ppp model)public private partnership model,so will go for a phd in business administration also in future

7)family background Father-Indian Administrative service in Delhi India

Mother-Housewife
Brother - he is in Indian Foreign service,currently in Israel
Sister-MBA from Wharton 05 class currently working with JP Morgan India

my current age 23
hope this data is sufficent

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Post Fri Dec 23, 2011 4:58 am
Manu, love the profile picture and thanks for the information.

In terms of extracurriculars, it's about time and impact. Continue your involvement and take leadership roles whenever possible. AdComs will look at how long you've been involved and what you've done with your involvement

Seems like a good reason to apply (interested in business and pursuing your dreams). Just make sure you make that clear in your essays.

I think writing about your serious illness should be part of your application. You can talk about coping with the disease and how you've persevered through it all. As a cancer survivor myself, I found it important to talk about my disease and how it affected my life.

Your ST/LT goal makes sense.

I hope that helps.

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