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by tanmay21 » Tue Oct 04, 2011 11:59 am
I am an avid follower of this website and its forum
Here is my GMAT story .I gave GMAT on 15th sept after 3 months of Prep.

GMAT score:700
Verbal :36
Quant:49
AWA:3.5.(I messed up in first half hour :(!)

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Indian male 26 yrs
IT Work experience 3yrs
Undergraduate score:71%(We had a percent grading system )
EC.University level Quizzer,cultural head,Working with an environment NGO, startup Networking Website

I have an interest in Consulting Domain esp IT consulting .Being in Core technical and performance monitoring Team I am involved in strategic planning and decision making process for my client.Now as a next step , I want to understand the business part of this industry.

Following points I have considered for shortlisting the college list
a)Strategic Location of college
b)Career options for International students in the coll
c)Scholarship
d)Good Consulting and IT management Program

my list (I plan to apply in the first round itself)

a)USC MArshall
b) Univ of Washington Foster
c)UC Irvine
d)UIUC illinios Urbana Champagne
e)UCLA
f)Rotman
h)Arizona State University carey


Pls evaluate my profile and help me out .I didnt have enough time to research other colleges since I am currently very busy in the application Process for the first round .Plz Suggest some good colleges which i might have missed out in the list as per my priorities listed above.should I go for higher rank colleges? what are the chances for my average profile ? what are the scholarship chances there?


Pls help me out
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by throughmba » Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:12 pm
Your profile is quite good but with a small chink which has become preposterous. Your Verbal score with the AWA score.

You need to pull your socks up very high to create a very good application.

About adding a few colleges, well, I would add a few from top 15. Stern is definite yes, Haas, Tuck and Duke and Sloan.

For a bit down, CMU and Purdue.

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by tanmay21 » Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:31 pm
Hi Alex,

thank you very much for your reply .Do you suggest to retake GMAT again . I am confident that I will rectify this mismatch atleast by (1.5 to 2 points),But then I will lose my early application advantage.

Also Regarding Top 15 colls,I m bit concerned about the Return on Investment part since scholarship chances are minimal in these colls and due to looming global recession , career oppurtunities (esp for international students) is also shrinking !

I will still prefer to do my MBA in US since I like the case study techniques followed there
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by Color Me One » Tue Oct 04, 2011 7:42 pm
Your GMAT score is fine, just that the 3.5 seems a little too low. Yes, there is a trade-off between another GMAT & R1 deadlines.

Sure, you have a higher chance of scholarship in slightly lower ranked schools. That, however does not necessarily mean a higher ROI. Top schools give you much better career options & better salaries.

Also, don't worry too much about the case study method. Almost any International B-school will be using this for some/all of its curriculum.

I would definitely add a couple of schools like Ross/Duke in your apply list. You are being very conservative.

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by GMAT_1986_subha » Tue Oct 04, 2011 8:02 pm
If you can put down a good essay, all the top colleges are crackable.
About low AWA score, try to build a defense in optional essay
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by tanmay21 » Tue Oct 04, 2011 8:04 pm
Thank you very much for your advice .Let me know about colleges in top 20 rankings having good consulting and IT management Programs.As you can see Till now I have targetting primarily california colleges due to their good exposure to IT consulting market

In Addition ,I am planning to apply for following colls.But I am running out of time to research thoroughly about the programs there due to the approaching deadlines .Pls help me out

Michigan State University Broad
Duke Fuqua
Kenan Flager
SMU cox
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by throughmba » Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:28 pm
Hi

Subha is perfectly right in suggesting the way to handle.

I belong to a different school when talking about ROI. I would say its in your right to think so but then its the best thing money would get you in recession or no-recession. Getting a scholarship is the main thing you should concentrate on. For that apply in more colleges. Take many $200 plunge.

Your main criteria should be which top colleges will certainly give me scholarship. I would not concern myself with a particular trade, and when IT is my first choice its even more easier to decide.

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