Hey Lisa,
This is a prospective B-school applicant. I took GMAT recently and scored 720 with AWA score of modest 5.5 (80%ile). The GMAT score break up is Q (50/94%ile) and V (37/81%ile). The low verbal score has sent the alarm bells ringing. Like most Indians I fall in Indian/IT/Male category. I think adcoms expect Indians to have a high score in verbal. The worry: Should I retake the GMAT? Do my academic+GMAT credentials motivate the adcom to read my application?
A brief overview of my profile:
Undergrad from NITK (usually ranked 6~11 among engineering colleges all over India) and have a CGPA of 8.05/10 and apparently was 8th in the class of 53 students (so that puts me in top 15% marginally). The department has absolute grading (only >=90 ensures perfect 10 in any subject). I will put 8.05 as somewhere around 3.6-3.7 on a scale of 4. Selected for fellowship to do Masters from Seoul National University, South Korea. Graduate program in Electrical Engineering with a CGPA of 4.15/4.3 (top 5%) and I have 3 international publications so far. So much for my academic credentials. Work experience of 2 years (by fall of 2011) in Samsung Electronics R&D in Korea as a Research Engineer.
Well I can't really boast about my extra-curricular as I am still not in 'writing essays' state of mind and I have to dig deeply to awe anyone. I know GMAT+CGPA is one of the components, but for my (unfortunately competitive) demography do the credentials seem safe? GMAT+CGPA tell about your academic achievements. My GMAT score for my demography is quite low, as a few blogs and forums say, and I don't know how should I treat my UG academics. Does my GMAT+undergrad say that 'Hey! let's read his application further'? Does my GMAT+undergrad+grad say 'Hey! now his GMAT+GPA are unimportant let's see his application'?
My target schools are: Tuck, Yale, Darden, Ross, and Haas. I am pinning on the first three. Oh, I am aiming for class of 2013. Finally I intend to get a MBA to make a career transition to Media (News & TV).
This is a prospective B-school applicant. I took GMAT recently and scored 720 with AWA score of modest 5.5 (80%ile). The GMAT score break up is Q (50/94%ile) and V (37/81%ile). The low verbal score has sent the alarm bells ringing. Like most Indians I fall in Indian/IT/Male category. I think adcoms expect Indians to have a high score in verbal. The worry: Should I retake the GMAT? Do my academic+GMAT credentials motivate the adcom to read my application?
A brief overview of my profile:
Undergrad from NITK (usually ranked 6~11 among engineering colleges all over India) and have a CGPA of 8.05/10 and apparently was 8th in the class of 53 students (so that puts me in top 15% marginally). The department has absolute grading (only >=90 ensures perfect 10 in any subject). I will put 8.05 as somewhere around 3.6-3.7 on a scale of 4. Selected for fellowship to do Masters from Seoul National University, South Korea. Graduate program in Electrical Engineering with a CGPA of 4.15/4.3 (top 5%) and I have 3 international publications so far. So much for my academic credentials. Work experience of 2 years (by fall of 2011) in Samsung Electronics R&D in Korea as a Research Engineer.
Well I can't really boast about my extra-curricular as I am still not in 'writing essays' state of mind and I have to dig deeply to awe anyone. I know GMAT+CGPA is one of the components, but for my (unfortunately competitive) demography do the credentials seem safe? GMAT+CGPA tell about your academic achievements. My GMAT score for my demography is quite low, as a few blogs and forums say, and I don't know how should I treat my UG academics. Does my GMAT+undergrad say that 'Hey! let's read his application further'? Does my GMAT+undergrad+grad say 'Hey! now his GMAT+GPA are unimportant let's see his application'?
My target schools are: Tuck, Yale, Darden, Ross, and Haas. I am pinning on the first three. Oh, I am aiming for class of 2013. Finally I intend to get a MBA to make a career transition to Media (News & TV).
