Profile Evaluation for MBA ( top 10 )

[anshulkamra]

Hi Jon,

I'm looking to apply at top 10 US B-Schools(specifically looking at Wharton, Stanford, Columbia, Booth and Sloan) in Round 1 and it'd be great if I could get a fair idea of my chances

Profile :
Indian Male, Degree - Integrated Masters of Science in Statistics and informatics( not Engineering technically ) from IIT. Rank ( 10/55 ) in class. GPA - 7.8/10
Age : 27
Work Exp -
Associate- Working for 3 years in Global Markets arm of a top European Investment Bank at Mumbai, London, New York.
Involved in deals with an approx combined AUM of USD 5 Billion over the last 3 years. Manage a portion of the business independently, which involves complete end to end management of processes from Designing the portfolios, to managing their day to day calculations to producing legal / marketing material, managing internal and external client expectations and coordinating with different desks across the globe for the same

I'm Managing a team of 10 off shore employees currently to assist in portfolio calcs and development.

I'm also building up a 4 member team from scratch with a target AUM of 1 Bill USD by year end and moving to US permanently in a couple of months for the same.

Extra Acads -
Co-founded a first of its kind,consulting / marketing Group in IIT to market in-house technologies to the industry, and was successful in selling 2 techs to the industry. Organised road shows in different cities in India for the same.
Initiated TED Talks in campus, which later became an annual event.
Organised patent drives at IIT, leading to highest filing of patents in the history of the institute.
I've been an active member of Social Responsibility activities at the bank, have mentored an intern
A debater ( won a couple of awards for the same ) and an avid reader. I'm an Amateur photographer with a photograph put up in a gallery.

I've given GMAT and my score is 710. I understand it's quite low compared to my peers, so I intend to give it a 2nd shot.

Please let me know if any further details would be required as these are couple of key points that I thought were worth mentioning and any sort of suggestions would be welcome !!
Thanks !

[Jon@Admissionado]

Hey there good sir,
Thanks for dropping by. First of all you have a really great profile. You have a fantastic GMAT (if you ask me, it's unnecessary for you to retake, unless you are sure you can get 30 points higher). Yes, you are an Indian Male candidate, but really not an ordinary one!

You come from a great industry and the best school, and you have real international experience on three continents. Not bad for starters...Y
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ur work experience seems to be very good, and the fact that they have chosen to send you to NY and asked you to build a team is a strong proof of this. So LET them know!!!! (I mean the leadership).

But besides all these good "normal" strengths, you have a lot of good extras. Like managing a team of 10 offshore, founding groups on Campus, the TED talks and the patent drives. All these things are really great because they point to the most important quality for Top schools - impactful leadership. And I'd say that with all this great stuff in your profile, I think you can stick to Top 10 programs.

Wahoo!

If you have any other questions, juuuust let me know.

Best,