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by dart2gmat » Fri Sep 17, 2010 2:10 pm
Hi Sir/Ma'm,

Would be really helpful if you please evaluate my profile as below.
I am looking for US schools mainly.I would like to apply majorly to
Tier 1 schools,and few Tier 2 schools as safe bet.

GMAT Score : 700 (first attempt last year : 550)
TOEFL : 111
Work exp : 3.5 years with world's largest enterprise software company.
Domain : IT Consulting (ERP Supply Chain and Financials) as Consultant / Module Lead
Milestones : Certified domain consultant,represented school in extempore/
elocution competitions,represented college at Enterpreneurship Development
Camp held at university campus,NSE (Indian stock exchange) certified in capital markets.
Negatives : No international experience,though have multi-ethnic client group
exposure since into a global consulting project ,bad GPA..pretty low..in percentage
=68..:(..(however,my university does not produce high-scoring toppers either..Indian
university where 70 is considered distinction and pretty tough to achieve..the GMAC
asked me to input my % during the exam and they had converted it to a meagre 1.8..:(..
will the school adcoms convert it in the same way?)
Anyhow,so now I am in a cross how to convince the adcoms..:(

->Co-founder of a social venture in the education domain - conceptualizing
self study solutions through library setup through public (literary) donations.
->Exposure in Operations working with a leading democratic
organization with a mission to enhance civic awareness,as a part of
the lead team in 2 projects devising tools and methodologies towards
better informed citizens in voting rights and electing leaders.
->Worked as a mentor to an underprivileged adolescent for a NGO,thus
infusing within mentee life survival skills.
->Worked as a lead volunteer for an NGO spearheading workshops towards
education system integration among challenged and normal children.
->Freelance advisor (business development and marketing) for a startup
distributorship firm in the FMCG domain.
->Freelance columnist to a couple of online magazines for social cause.
->On a different note,I also am the vocalist for a music band group at my
workplace..:)..and we have performed in commercial fests and performances
towards social causes.

Short Term Goal : My STG and 'why MBA now?' is because I want to use this
point in my career to move towards a career in Marketing Consulting/Strategy
where I would be able to make use of both my skills learnt at work and my
experiences away from work.

Long Term Goal : My LTG would be to work into my passion arena,i.e,Cause
Marketing,using my industry exposure from STG and my work with social ventures
till now and help build a bridge between corporates and social causes,one step
ahead of CSR.Finally,I would like to provide consulting solutions to them
to help them grow in funds,strengthen in Operations and create
a bigger social brand through industry to the public domain.

Please suggest Tier-1 and Tier-2 schools in US that match my profile and the work
I want to do in life.

Thanks a lot for your assistance.

Regds
Last edited by dart2gmat on Sun Sep 26, 2010 7:14 am, edited 2 times in total.
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by dart2gmat » Sun Sep 19, 2010 7:54 pm
Hi Sir/Ma'm,

I just happened to go through a GPA conversion table provided by Penn State Smeal
on their website for reference to int'l applicants and I see few tables in the sheet,
which converts various marking systems into GPA on a scale 4..Among all those,it has
a table which converts percentage into 4,and division into 4.

e.g in my case,my degree certificate shows I have secured a first class division which
converts into a 3.5 as per Smeal GPA sheet(first class+distinction = 4 as per their sheet)
whereas, a 68 percentage converts it into 1 (based on another table).How am I/or they
are supposed to know which table to follow in such a case?

Please help.

Regds
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by dart2gmat » Wed Sep 29, 2010 11:55 am
Hi Sir/Ma'm,

Please find below the GPA query to which I got a response from Penn State.

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Tanmoy,

Based on the information you have provided that your university has issued, you would be classified as the First Class . Therefore you would mark your GPA in our application as 3.5/4.0. Sorry again for the delay in our response and please email anytime should you have any other questions.

Scott R. Sylves
MBA Admissions Representative
Pennsylvania State University/Smeal College of Business
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However,I am not sure if this would be the same way other schools would weigh a 68% (corresponding to first class,>70 to a first class+distinction as per my univ standards).


Thanks and Regards,
dart2gmat
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by dart2gmat » Thu Sep 30, 2010 7:37 pm
Hi Sir/Ma'm,

Please review my profile and suggest Tier-1 and Tier-2 US schools for me..

Thanks and Regards,
dart2gmat
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by dart2gmat » Sat Oct 02, 2010 2:35 pm
Hi,

Just got some information..can this be considered as the general yardstick?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_grading_in_India

Thanks and Regds,
dart2gmat
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by Cindy Tokumitsu » Sun Oct 31, 2010 1:32 pm
Hello,

The adcoms are very familiar with the grade scale of Indian colleges/universities, so they will understand your score in context.

Your profile is a mix, with some challenges and some strengths. Among the latter your extracurriculars and their relevance to your long-term goals stands out. I'd consider some reasonable reach schools to be Yale, Duke, NYU, Michigan. On-par schools to look at would be Cornell, UCLA.

Best regards,
Cindy Tokumitsu
Senior Editor, Accepted.com
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by dart2gmat » Mon Nov 01, 2010 11:35 pm
Hi Cindy,

Thanks a lot for your inputs.Based on them,I will start research on the schools
and work on the essays.

Regds,
dart2gmat
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