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anantarora
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Hi Stacey,
I am a prospective applicant for MBA full-time for fall'09 session. I am in a situation where I have a low gmat score (660, 49-quant, 31-verbal) and am evaluating whether it would make more sense to re-take the exam or apply to the institues of my choice and put all the weight on the applications. If you would kindly take some time out and read my email further and respond accordingly, I'd be highly obliged.
LBS is on the top of my list. Other institutes on my mind are Oxford, Cambridge, Berkeley, Insead and ISB-India. I am an Indian engineer with IT background, have 3+ years of work experience (by the time I start the course, it would be 4+ years), last 1-1/2 yrs of which have been spent as a Professional Services Consultant (Integration Solutions Consultant) in Software Integration space in the Bay Area, California. I currently work on myriad of technical applications and my role entails about 50% travel in the US for work, communicating and meeting with my company's customers on a regular basis, work with them to understand their business scenarios/ environment and develop integration applications for them. I have been rated 1 for the past 3 yr's performance appraisals at work and have received a customer recognition award from my company at the end of the 2nd yr.
I have a B Tech in IT from a reputed engg institute in India with a CGPA of 2.9 and have had decent exposure in extra curriculars. For instance, I did my summers, when in college, at an R&D institute of high repute in India which resulted in a publication in the proceedings of IEEE Computer Society, Gaithersburg, Maryland(https://lttf.ieee.org/learn_tech/issues/ ... oc98675004) and for which I was also invited by NIST, Maryland to present my paper. I have worked in various cultural committees while in college, chiefly as the Guest Relations Coordinator in my 3rd yr (for which I invited guests from different academic fraternities and knowledge societics and hosted conferences at my institute's annual techno-cultural fest), and as the Sponsorship Committee Chairman that helped raise Rs 1.5 million at that festival. I had business management, finance and design courses in my undergrad as electives beside the usual technical courses and have presented papers at undergrad level on the same.
My idea behind leaving my current job and doing an MBA is to learn different facets of business and management practices focusing mainly on finance and technology, make global contacts, gain credibility and venture out on my own.
It would be helpful if you can help me determine what's in my best interest at this point, mainly evaluating whether I stand a chance in any of the above mentioned institutes or should I take the GMAT one more time (aiming for 700+) and then apply maybe next yr in which case how would my odds improve.
Thanks and I appreciate your help!
Anant
I am a prospective applicant for MBA full-time for fall'09 session. I am in a situation where I have a low gmat score (660, 49-quant, 31-verbal) and am evaluating whether it would make more sense to re-take the exam or apply to the institues of my choice and put all the weight on the applications. If you would kindly take some time out and read my email further and respond accordingly, I'd be highly obliged.
LBS is on the top of my list. Other institutes on my mind are Oxford, Cambridge, Berkeley, Insead and ISB-India. I am an Indian engineer with IT background, have 3+ years of work experience (by the time I start the course, it would be 4+ years), last 1-1/2 yrs of which have been spent as a Professional Services Consultant (Integration Solutions Consultant) in Software Integration space in the Bay Area, California. I currently work on myriad of technical applications and my role entails about 50% travel in the US for work, communicating and meeting with my company's customers on a regular basis, work with them to understand their business scenarios/ environment and develop integration applications for them. I have been rated 1 for the past 3 yr's performance appraisals at work and have received a customer recognition award from my company at the end of the 2nd yr.
I have a B Tech in IT from a reputed engg institute in India with a CGPA of 2.9 and have had decent exposure in extra curriculars. For instance, I did my summers, when in college, at an R&D institute of high repute in India which resulted in a publication in the proceedings of IEEE Computer Society, Gaithersburg, Maryland(https://lttf.ieee.org/learn_tech/issues/ ... oc98675004) and for which I was also invited by NIST, Maryland to present my paper. I have worked in various cultural committees while in college, chiefly as the Guest Relations Coordinator in my 3rd yr (for which I invited guests from different academic fraternities and knowledge societics and hosted conferences at my institute's annual techno-cultural fest), and as the Sponsorship Committee Chairman that helped raise Rs 1.5 million at that festival. I had business management, finance and design courses in my undergrad as electives beside the usual technical courses and have presented papers at undergrad level on the same.
My idea behind leaving my current job and doing an MBA is to learn different facets of business and management practices focusing mainly on finance and technology, make global contacts, gain credibility and venture out on my own.
It would be helpful if you can help me determine what's in my best interest at this point, mainly evaluating whether I stand a chance in any of the above mentioned institutes or should I take the GMAT one more time (aiming for 700+) and then apply maybe next yr in which case how would my odds improve.
Thanks and I appreciate your help!
Anant
. The trouble is I have used all my vacations from work for studies for the yr already and studying alongside work + travel is taking quite a toll on me (and hence I thought maybe I should carm my nerves and take it early next yr or see where I stand with this kind of score by applying to schools). 
