GMAT 740. Low Work-Ex. National level football player

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B.Tech. in Computer Science from IP University, Delhi with an aggregate score of 72.6% (First Class)

GMAT: 740

WORK-EX:
Working with Samvardhana Motherson Group (SMG) (World's 5th largest group) for past 2 years as a Software Engineer. Involved in different roles for 2 years. Was a JAVA developer for the first 12 months and worked on a project related to automobile industry wherein we tracked all the activities of major automobile players (like Mercedes, Audi, Volkswagen etc.) and their manufacturing plants. In this project I proposed a module which involved scanning of invoices, of which I proposed the algorithm, to potentially reduce the effort at customer's side. This brought a business of 60.2 Million INR to organization. Received Star Performer of the Year award for the initiative taken.
In lieu to this initiative taken, after 1 year in the organization, I was shifted to Business Intelligence Team to use the critical data like revenue; budget etc. of the organization to track down the lacuna's to suggest possible changes to be made for organization's benefit. Working under this team, I proposed the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) which shall mitigate the re-work done in few teams in the organization. Upon review it was implemented in the organization. I inked down the proposed SDLC and got it converted in form of a research paper, published in a prestigious journal.

Total Work-Ex at the time of ISB 2016-17 application will be 2 years 8 months.

OVERSEAS EXPERIENCE
Went with project leader and other team members for installation and demo of the project to the client for duration of 3 months in Hungry during my tenure as a JAVA developer in initial 12 months

EXTRA-CURRICULAR
I have categorized extra-curricular into following categories.
Scholastic Achievements:
"¢ Have 5 research papers being the 1st author published in prestigious journals with a high impact factor. For one of the research paper published, was selected as a reviewer at the same journal (Science Alert) where mostly doctorate and post-doctorate professors are selected.
"¢ Was selected to represent my school in a competition of Mathematics and English conducted by University of New South Wales.
"¢ Winner of 3 state awards in technical events conducted at Delhi College of Engineering (DCE). Runner-Up in 4 technical events conducted at Delhi College of Engineering.
Dramatics
"¢ Winner in 1 competition and runner up in other organized in IGIT.
"¢ Played Football at National Level. Represented Delhi and scored a hat trick and helped team to reach semi-finals. Was also adjudicated Man-of-the-tournament by sports head of IIT during an intra-college football tournament in my college.
"¢ Organized literary events during college fests in the year 2011-2012-2013. Recoded higher participation with each successive year.
Debating and Literacy
"¢ Winner of 3 State level debate competitions organized at Delhi College of Engineering.
"¢ Winner of 3 State level extempore competitions organized at Delhi College of Engineering.
"¢ Winner of 3 State level essay competitions organized at Delhi College of Engineering and 1 essay event organized in my college.
"¢ Contributed to college and school magazines and remained an active blooger in my organization monthly newsletter.
Social Initiative
"¢ Involved with an NGO for past 3 years. Working as a treasurer now. During my time I organized events to raise fund for the NGO and used the same money to prevent cow smuggling and prevent slaughtering of cows in the small villages of Haryana.
"¢ A short 3 months internship at AIESEC under the program Iccha, to help slum children identify the basic cause of malaise. Helped them identify major pollutants and areas acting as a breeding ground of mosquitoes. Drafted a survey on the area visited and was adopted as a blue print by the local residents to palliate the waste.
"¢ Worked for 5 months at Children Home, Delhi Government foster home to orphan kids. Provided pedagogy to students and was involved in various teaching drives organized at foster home during those 5 moths.
"¢ Active member of CSR committee of my organization. Awarded for an active role in donation and social drives.


Is the GMAT score enough to compensate for low GPA and low work-ex while applying to ISB 2016-17 batch ? Or do I need to retake GMAT and try to score > 750 to offset the low GPA and work-ex ?

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by Jon@Admissionado » Wed May 13, 2015 3:27 am
Hey dude,
I think I may have gotten to your answer elsewhere, but just to make sure you get it:

Hey there,
So overall you have great profile! You have done a lot of really unique and interesting stuff, which will strengthen your story significantly as you compete against other Indian candidates.

So far I see no major weaknesses and only a minor one - that you are non-IIT and that your GPA could be a touch higher. But still Delhi is a well-know university and 72% is not bad for your school. (still, they will see some people with 80+%).

And as far as strengths, I see many:
- Your awesome GMAT!
- Your precocious publications!
- Your entrepreneurial venture
- Your NGO involvement
- Your itnernational experience
- and of course, playing football at a national level.

You can leverage all of this towards building a quite impressive profile, and I think you can apply to top schools. I'll list roughly how tough I think it will be for you to get into the schools ranking them from toughest to easier:

Stanford
Tuck
LBS
Booth
Haas
Yale
Kellogg
Stern
Ross
ISB
Anderson
Johnson

I hope this helps, and wish you luck. Let me know if you have any other questions,

Best,
JF
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by vipulaggarwal » Wed Jun 24, 2015 12:30 am
Thanks for your valuable inputs. I really appreciate you scanning through my profile to provide the feedback.
I had a promotion from Engineer trainee to Software Engineer in a span of 4 months which usually takes 14 months in my organization and then had a change of role based on performance and my willingness (expressed explicitly by me to the management). Also, it was counted as the promotion as the pay scale was lifted because of the same.

I have shortlisted

HKUST Business School
Duke University: Fuqua
Ceibs
Esade Business School
University of Michigan: Ross
University of Virginia: Darden
Carnegie Mellon: Tepper
Indian School of Business
Emory University: Goizueta

What are your inputs on the above universities ? Do you think top 3 are ambitious, next 4 are moderate and last 3 are safe ?

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by Jon@Admissionado » Tue Jun 30, 2015 8:25 am
Hello again,
Well I think the toughest two schools on your list are Duke and ISB. But let me do as I did above and rerank them for you, from what I believe to be the toughest to the easiest:

Tough

Duke University: Fuqua
Indian School of Business

Competitive
University of Michigan: Ross
University of Virginia: Darden
Carnegie Mellon: Tepper
Ceibs
HKUST Business School

Safe

Esade Business School

Hope this helps!

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Best,
Jon


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