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Hello everyone,

Before i place a request from you guys i would want to appreciate the amount of effort taken by all the members, moderators, consultants and experts of BeattheGmat community. Thank you for your valuable feedforwards and suggestions.


My profile:

24, Business Analyst, Telecom Domain, Experience : 34 months
I have played multiple roles in my organization.


Other Roles played by me :
--> Product Owner: Had complete authority to direct the product and take decisions by convincing stake holders
--> Requirements Lead : Lead the requirements team
--> Usability and user interface designer
--> Research and Market Analyst.

GMAT Score - 670 ( Q-47, V-34)

Note: Am planning to retake the GMAT by Sept-2013.

Bachelors in Electronics and Communication Engineering.
GPA : 7.2/10

High School:
GPA: 9.5/10
Honors: State First in Statistics

Extracurriculars:

Co-founder and Mentor of an ultimate frisbee team: Co-founded an ultimate frisbee team from the scratch and also mentored them. Managed and lead the team of more than 15 players from age group of 19 to 30 and took the team to the top position in various national tournaments held inside the country.
Competent Communicator in Toastmasters international.
International Award for Young People-Bronze Standard,Duke of Edinburgh :For the social work in local communities.

Projects and Research Papers:
Prediction based lossless compression using CFA- IEEE National conference
Detection and Segmentation of Concealed objects in Terahertz images- Presented paper on various colleges
Built remote controlled robots in various workshops including workshops organized by IIT Kharagpur.

Interned at Air India and Huawei Technologies.

Schools which Iam looking for:

Fuqua
Tuck
Tepper
Wharton
Sloan
Smeal

Can someone please evaluate my profile and provide realistic feedbacks about the possibilities of getting into these schools? Also could you suggest me schools for my current profile?

Thank you.

Please go through my profile mentioned below. I have total work experience of 5.5 years(Corporate+My Own Business)

Academics
10th: 83.4%
12th: 67.8%
B.Tech: 68.2%

Work Exp:
Nov2007-Dec2008 (13 Months): Software developer with Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Jan2009-May 2011 (29 Months): Started and worked on my wedding Photography Business
June 2011-Present (25 Months): Business Analyst, Tata Consultancy Services

Actually I started doing my photography business (Part Time) along side TCS as I was not getting enough revenue from my venture.

Extra Curiculars:
I have been actively involved in various School level and college level sports events.
*Won a Interschool Cricket tournament, College level TT tournament & College level basketball tournament
*Represented school in Skating Tournaments


So I need to know Is my profile Gud enough for getting selected in a top international B school with a score of 700+ in GMAT.

Really looking forward to your advise.

Hello Jon,

Thank you for providing your valuable response. Appreciate your straight forwardness. I have got two questions for you:

a. You have mentioned schools in the range 10-30. Since am not clear on what 10-30 implies, am taking it as the school rankings. According to the FT rankings, Fuqua, Tuck, Tepper and Smeal fall within this range. So do you mean i have chances to get inside these schools if i strategically apply for these schools?

b. Getting inside top schools:
--> Get a GMAT score of above 760 ( which as you said i will get hopefully- Thanks for the motivation )
--> I beleive i have diverse experience on various industries: a 3 year professional work experience, have experience leading,hiring, mentoring and coaching sport teams( ultimate Frisbee, soccer), handling multiple roles both in my professional work and in Toasmasters, also i have been working for NGOs for quite a long time.

I know that all the top schools do not encourage monotonicity(IT industry) among the applicants and expect diversity in all the applicants applying to these schools. Could you please tell me what else does it take to get inside the top 10 schools like Harvard or Wharton?

Jon,

Thank you for your realistic and valuable inputs. I belong to the 2nd category(wildcard) though. Actually my ultimate frisbee club is more of an NGO. I would explain it to you in private chat if you want to hear about it. And yes, as mentioned by you a wildcard would want to provide the Adcom with the "Woah factor" in their profile to seek attention. Once again, thank you for your time. If you have any other feedforward/suggestions for me, please do let me know.

Regards
Abhi