Profile evaluation for Harvard/Stanford/Kellogg

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Hi,

Please help evaluate my profile. My target schools are Stanford, Harvard and Kellogg
Age: 26
Nationality - Indian
GMAT score: 680 (V36,M47)
GPA - 3.5
Education:

- B.COM, Bharathiyar University, India
- PGDM, Marketing, Insead Business school, Singapore (part time)
- Advanced project management degree, Stanford University (part time)

Work Experience:

- 6 years with one of the top internet companies in the world
- One of the fastest growing employees with 4 promotions in 6 years
- Currently managing sales teams across multiple locations in APAC
- One of the youngest ever people managers at my company
- Won the prestigious founder's award
- Consistently rated in top 5% percentile of performers

Extra curricular:

- Captain the school, college and district cricket team
- Represented the state and south zone (best cricketers from 6 states) cricket team at the junior level
- 4 time district badminton champion

Community work

- Vice-chairman of the board for a charity trust in india which runs two non-profit schools for nearly 2000 students

International experience:

- Currently in singapore but my job requires managing people across different geographies and I have team members from 5 different nationalities reporting to me

Reccos:

- I can manage recommendations from senior executives from my company who are alumni's from stanford/Harvard

The other thing I want to mention is that my salary right now is higher than the median salaries at any of the top b-schools. Will this affect my chances considering b-schools tend to look at % increase in salaries quite a lot?

Overall, I want to know whether my profile will make up for the low gmat score. I really want to be sure whether I will get a call with this gmat score. Please let me know.
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by Stacy Blackman » Wed May 30, 2012 8:33 am
Hi galaxynexus,

You should not be worried about your current salary and how it would impact your acceptance.

Regarding your GMAT score, if you believe you can improve your score by 40+ points, I do recommend you take the exam again. Remember that your GMAT score is self-reported on your application, so admissions teams will focus on your highest score. Right now your score is a fair amount lower than the averages of the programs you are considering.

If you decide to take the GMAT again, here is a free resource: https://www.stacyblackman.com/gmat-overview

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