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darthsethius
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- Joined: Sun Aug 07, 2011 6:39 am
Hi,
This is my first time posting here, though I have been here for the past one month soaking up on some great advice regarding the GMAT. Now that I'm through with the test (Aug 24), I have decided to concentrate on the R1 applications. Here's my brief profile,
Nationality: Indian
Education background:
1) B.E. (Hons) - Instrumentation & Control Engg: First Class with Distinction (76.2%, 7th position in class size of 110) from Top 10 institute in India
2) P.G.D.B.M. - Finance & IT (CQPI: 5.17/8.0) from Top 5 b-school in India
(Also note that I was 2nd in my school in the Class 12th Central Board examinations)
Work Exp - 42 months/3.5 Yrs (Will be 54/4.5 yrs if joining the Fall 2012 program)
1) 22 months - Goldman Sachs (Equity Research Analyst)
2) 6 months sabbatical post layoff (Recession 2009)
3) Currently 20 months - Top Financial KPO (Investment Banking Consultant for a bulge bracket IB, working on live deals with my client. Also lead a team of 10 members)
GMAT - 690 (49Q / 34V) Studied for only 15 days, still awaiting my official/AWA score. Mostly likely will score above 5.5 and hence will most likely not reconsider giving the test again, since I want to concentrate on working on my applications)
Intended MBA Specialization - Finance / Strategy / Entrepreneurship
Goals: Since I already have a perspective of Investment Research/Banking area, I would like to get some more exposure in the industry hopefully PE/Hedge Funds (to make my experience more diverse) post MBA and then open my own financial services firm soon thereafter.
Targeted B-schools: Harvard, Wharton, Stanford, Sloan, Booth and Stern
An opinion/advice on my profile will be much appreciated. Also, if someone wishes to give me some pointers to keep in mind while writing my essays for these schools, I'll be highly obliged.
Also, I have a query. I must admit one area I didn't bother to research about during the past year was the self reporting of GPAs in the application stage. I always believed that GPA were calculated on relative basis rather than absolute terms, so when GMAC asked for my undergrad GPA while registering for GMAT (I assumed 90 to 100 percentile represented 4.0 on their table) I entered 4.0 since topper had 84% percent ~ 91 percentile. Now that I have gone through some of the schools' conversion tables and some forum threads here, I'm not sure anymore. Was I right in my prior assumption? I will be addressing my academic accomplishments, absolute score and rankings, in my essays anyways, what should I do for the GPA report part of my applications?
Thanks for your help in advance and also for taking the time to read this. (I just realized that I might have been verbose)
This is my first time posting here, though I have been here for the past one month soaking up on some great advice regarding the GMAT. Now that I'm through with the test (Aug 24), I have decided to concentrate on the R1 applications. Here's my brief profile,
Nationality: Indian
Education background:
1) B.E. (Hons) - Instrumentation & Control Engg: First Class with Distinction (76.2%, 7th position in class size of 110) from Top 10 institute in India
2) P.G.D.B.M. - Finance & IT (CQPI: 5.17/8.0) from Top 5 b-school in India
(Also note that I was 2nd in my school in the Class 12th Central Board examinations)
Work Exp - 42 months/3.5 Yrs (Will be 54/4.5 yrs if joining the Fall 2012 program)
1) 22 months - Goldman Sachs (Equity Research Analyst)
2) 6 months sabbatical post layoff (Recession 2009)
3) Currently 20 months - Top Financial KPO (Investment Banking Consultant for a bulge bracket IB, working on live deals with my client. Also lead a team of 10 members)
GMAT - 690 (49Q / 34V) Studied for only 15 days, still awaiting my official/AWA score. Mostly likely will score above 5.5 and hence will most likely not reconsider giving the test again, since I want to concentrate on working on my applications)
Intended MBA Specialization - Finance / Strategy / Entrepreneurship
Goals: Since I already have a perspective of Investment Research/Banking area, I would like to get some more exposure in the industry hopefully PE/Hedge Funds (to make my experience more diverse) post MBA and then open my own financial services firm soon thereafter.
Targeted B-schools: Harvard, Wharton, Stanford, Sloan, Booth and Stern
An opinion/advice on my profile will be much appreciated. Also, if someone wishes to give me some pointers to keep in mind while writing my essays for these schools, I'll be highly obliged.
Also, I have a query. I must admit one area I didn't bother to research about during the past year was the self reporting of GPAs in the application stage. I always believed that GPA were calculated on relative basis rather than absolute terms, so when GMAC asked for my undergrad GPA while registering for GMAT (I assumed 90 to 100 percentile represented 4.0 on their table) I entered 4.0 since topper had 84% percent ~ 91 percentile. Now that I have gone through some of the schools' conversion tables and some forum threads here, I'm not sure anymore. Was I right in my prior assumption? I will be addressing my academic accomplishments, absolute score and rankings, in my essays anyways, what should I do for the GPA report part of my applications?
Thanks for your help in advance and also for taking the time to read this. (I just realized that I might have been verbose)
