Profile Evaluation for School Selection

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Would be really thankful if you can help evaluate my profile.

Background: 24 year old male from India.

GMAT: 730 (Q50,V38). Gave it yesterday so still waiting for the AWA+IR scores.

College: Bachelor of Engineering(Computers) from University of Pune, India. Graduated in 2010 with an aggregate of 62.6%. This may seem low but considering our university gave a distinction at 66% (as compared to 75% in other Indian universities) it is an average score.

Work Experience: 24 months as on today. Working as a Consultant in one of the Big 4 professional services firms. My work is mostly related to Identity and Access management. We assess and implement Identity Management solutions. In my two years, I have worked on Fortune 500 clients from the US. Implemented almost one half of a multi milion dollar project(for which I was given an award.) Led a team of 2 people(both Consultants themselves) in the project mentioned above. Apart from client work, I have participated in practice development activities as well

Extracurricular
1. I have participated in quite a few extra curricular events in college related to Dramatics, Music, Improv and Quiz.
2. I was the vocalist of the college band.
3. Formed the official office band in my new office location.
4. In charge of managing a few events in the intra college cultural festival.
5. Organized the music segment of our annual office function.

Target Schools: ISB(Hyderabad, India), Ross, Tepper, Kellogg, National University of Singapore, Nanyang Business School, UCLA Anderson

Post MBA Goal: After an MBA I want to get into strategy consulting.

Questions:
1. I need to know if my school selection is appropriate considering my profile (and the fact that my work experience is a bit low). Also, please suggest any other schools in the US that I can aim for.
2. Is it true that maximum scholarships are awarded in the first round of applications. Scholarships are very important to me and they would be a very important factor in my decision.

Your help would truly be appreciated!!

[Jon@Admissionado]

Questions:
1. I need to know if my school selection is appropriate considering my profile (and the fact that my work experience is a bit low). Also, please suggest any other schools in the US that I can aim for.
2. Is it true that maximum scholarships are awarded in the first round of applications. Scholarships are very important to me and they would be a very important factor in my decision.

Your help would truly be appreciated!!

Hello there good sir. Nice job on the GMAT!!! congrats! That will help you out a lot!


So let's attack your questions: First of all your school list. I think it's a good one and if you apply to the above schools you can have good hopes for coming back with an admit or more. As for other school to suggest, essentially with your score, you are good to go in any of the Top 20 programs. It's important that you have a good mix of some that are a bit tougher to get into and those that area bit less, (which you do)... but otherwise you could reasonably attempt any program. (Gotta have a great app, though!)

As for your second question, I'm afraid it is true. But it's not aaaall that big of a difference. In Round two, schools still do give out plenty of money,, so it's not as if you are totally cut off.

Hope this helps!