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kkrish: Newbie | Next Rank: 10 Posts; Posts: 8; Joined: Mon Mar 15, 2010 7:49 am; Location: NYC; Thanked: 1 times

I am tired of Stereo types!

by kkrish » Sun Nov 21, 2010 10:45 pm

I am tired of Stereo types!

I don't mean to offend anyone, but I am really tired of repeat posts from Indian Engineers. It's the same thing, again and again and again!

Few variations I have seen, include but are not limited to
I am a Indian Male in IT, what do you think of my chances?
I am an Indian engineer working with Software, can I get into top 20 programs!

Ladies and Men, do you see Investment bankers from NY posing such questions?
As many of us know they (Investment bankers ) constitute a key proportion of MBA applicants.

If you cant believe in yourself I doubt the admissions council will! Please refrain from creating a trend and focus on your application. Good luck

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by uwhusky » Sun Nov 21, 2010 11:04 pm

which type of stereo, Sony or Magnavox?

Yep.

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by kkrish » Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:21 am

Ha Ha, Good one!

But Sony is Japanese and Magnavox is American, you should have thought of something Indian!
Jokes aside, sorry if I came across harsh, certainly not my intention.

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by SoCalMBA » Mon Nov 22, 2010 12:34 pm

Very common background indeed.

But also understand that many Indian professionals (engineers, IT, software, etc) will be your cohorts, co-workers, competitors for the rest of your career.

The faster you come to grips with that, the better you will adapt to future marketplace.

Sincerely,

White, American Guy.

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by GoBlue » Mon Nov 22, 2010 2:20 pm

I actually agree with SoCalMBA. Instead of getting frustrated think of this in terms of what biz school want / prefer. They want a diverse group of people. The class interaction and what the class brings to the table is different. That what makes the MBA well rounded.

An Indian IT Male is a very common group. However, we all bring EXACTLY the same ( or similar ) experience to the school. Hence, to get into schools it becomes a little more competetive. So say , instead of GMAT or 700 to get into Booth, they need 730 just to break away from the group. Instead of 4 years of Work Exp, they need Extra Cir's along with WE.
Getting into MBA is already pretty tough and then trying to get with an IT background and Indian ethinicity makes it a little more challenging.

If someone asks the question starting out with "Indian IT Male.....what are my chances..." its because they need some sort of guidance or direction or even some support from the peers and/or the experts. Nothing wrong with it. The comparision with Investment Bankers from NY is flawed. ( Critical Reasoning - The Number of Investment bankers is a really small subset which is not representative of The Number of Indian IT Males applying for top MBA programs ).

Sometimes, its not only LUCK or BELIEF in yourself, its the support of the community or a group. So instead of getting annoyed and tired, just either ignore or understand their situation. I am in a similar situation and I know when the time comes I will probably ask the same question.

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by humblebee » Mon Nov 29, 2010 3:34 pm

Having trawled through nearly 90% of the profiles on this forum, I can see that the Indian IT male segment is indeed very large.

Guess the poster is just frustrated at turning up to a Q&A session and everyone is asking essentially the same question with subtle variations. To be fair, there's probably enough data points on here to understand what your chances are and what schools you should be applying to as an Indian IT Male. I'm sure if someone can be bothered, they can create a tool which aggregates all these points/posts and spits out which schools you can get into or what scores/experience you need...it'd look mighty good on your resume too! developed tool to assist Male Indian IT segment pick business school - you'd porbably get like hundreds of thousands of hits in a year....good impact number. So the achievement would be developed tool to assist Male Indian IT segment pick business school, over 200,000 hits registered (big impact)

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by MBACrystalBall » Fri Dec 10, 2010 11:06 pm

Humblebee,

Great concept. You were probably proposing this in a lighter vein, but just to play along with your line of thought, here's some food for thought.

A subjective topic topic like this (i.e. evaluating chances of getting into a specific b-school) can't be packaged into a formula or we'd have had a market standard that could be adopted by all the top GMAT companies and admissions consulting firms.

There are bound to be objective, subjective and intuitive factors involved in the decision making. And the biggest challenge in the multi-dimensional multi-parameter driven process would be to ensure that the recommendations that come out are also aligned to common sense.

Btw, if I'm not mistaken there's already a team out there that has come up with a tool that's based on a variation of that concept. Their site has been getting a lot of hits, but not yet in the range that you've estimated