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Request for Profile Evaluation

by manojkt » Thu Sep 16, 2010 11:25 pm
Hi,

Can you please help me in selecting b-schools. My details are mentioned below:

Name: Manoj Kumar Tripathi
DOB: 01/07/1987
10th Percentage: 83.5%(UP board- 6th rank in state merit list)
12th Percentage: 82.8%(UP board- 20th rank in state merit list)

JEE-2004 All India Rank: 190
AIEEE-2004 All India Rank: 98
B.tech. CGPA: 7.1/10
Branch: Electrical engineering
College: IIT Kanpur

Total Work Experience: 27 month till date
Designation: Manager
Emplyer: Reliance Industries Limited

GMAT score:
Test Date Verbal Quantitative Total Analytical Writing
09 August 2010 29 / 52% 50 / 93% 670 / 84% 4.0 / 19%

TOEFL: yet to take

Universities I want to apply for MBA:
Yale university
Carnegie Mellon Tepper
Cornell Johnson school

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by Lisa Anderson » Sat Sep 18, 2010 2:06 pm
Dear Manoj,

Yale, Tepper and Cornell are good choices for your profile, but these would all be reach schools for you. Your GMAT is below average and raises concerns on your verbal abilities in English. You will need to show through your essays and interviews that you have the communication skills, both written and verbal, to succeed in the program and be an asset to your teams. Also, since your profile is very common in the applicant pool, you must find a way to distinguish yourself in a positive, memorable way as there will be many other engineers from India with higher GMAT scores. I encourage you to look at some schools with GMAT averages below 660 as you need to have some reasonable and safety options on your school list.

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