Hi,
My name is Shagun. Im an advertising professional working with JWT (New Delhi office) and im handling their Pepsi business in India. I have a 3 years work ex and I haven't switched any organisations.
I appeared for my GMAT last week and got a score of 700, with a Quant/Verbal split of 48 (83 percentile) and 37 (80 percentile) and an AWA score of 5.
I have very good academic scores (GPA - 3.8) and have topped both my graduate and my post graduate college courses. I graduated in sciences and moved on to do a one year post graduate diploma in Advertising.
My work experience is great, and I have worked on most of the recent best Pepsi projects and campaigns in India. Pepsi is in any case one of the most coveted brands/accounts to work for in India.
Im planning to continue working with JWT for another year (in this while I am going to take up some very important new projects that will add immensely to my apps) and will apply to b-schools in fall 2010.Im looking at some of the top 15 colleges, including the ranks of Kellogg, Columbia, Duke and ISB. I want to pursue a specialisation in marketing.
I'd like to find out if my profile is good enough to go for these colleges? Particularly, do I need to retake the GMAT again? I believe my score is very competitive and my overall package, impressive.
Do guide me on this please. Waiting for your response.
Regards,
Shagun
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Re: profile evaluation for top 15 colleges (GMAT score- 700)
Hi Shagun and thank you for your inquiry.
Everything you have told me about your background is quite solid and I don't see any need to re-take the GMAT. With your high GPA, your GMAT becomes validation of your intelligence, not trying to prove it by offsetting a lower GPA, for example. Your work experience is interesting especially given how many Indians the admissions committees see who are in IT; I think your experience will make you distinctive.
However, you have left out two important parts of your profile. First, your community involvement. The admissions committees like to see leadership, teamwork and initiative outside of work, demonstrating that you make good use of your non-work time. You don't address that aspect at all in your description. And secondly, to give you a more complete assessment, I would want more description of those same attributes (leadership, initiative, teamwork) at work. You state merely that you have great work experience and work on a coveted brand, but I don't have a clear sense of how your responsibilities have increased or what other facets you show.
With that big caveat, I think you will be competitive at the schools you mention. But that is an incomplete assessment.
Regards,
Jessica Shklar
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Everything you have told me about your background is quite solid and I don't see any need to re-take the GMAT. With your high GPA, your GMAT becomes validation of your intelligence, not trying to prove it by offsetting a lower GPA, for example. Your work experience is interesting especially given how many Indians the admissions committees see who are in IT; I think your experience will make you distinctive.
However, you have left out two important parts of your profile. First, your community involvement. The admissions committees like to see leadership, teamwork and initiative outside of work, demonstrating that you make good use of your non-work time. You don't address that aspect at all in your description. And secondly, to give you a more complete assessment, I would want more description of those same attributes (leadership, initiative, teamwork) at work. You state merely that you have great work experience and work on a coveted brand, but I don't have a clear sense of how your responsibilities have increased or what other facets you show.
With that big caveat, I think you will be competitive at the schools you mention. But that is an incomplete assessment.
Regards,
Jessica Shklar
mbaMission
Our blog: www.mbamission.com/blog
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