Profile Evaluation: GMAT 760, Q50/V44 GPA 3.9

[abishek.v]

Hello,

First a word of praise for the Manhattan GMAT course and tests. Hats of to your team of experts, who charted out a brilliant evaluation scheme in the GMAT practise tests. At a macro level, I was able to concentrate on my weak areas and work exactly on those to complete my intense short prep-work time of 7 days!

I'm an engineer from India (there goes the stereotype disadvatange), and have been working with a top 4 consulting MNC for the last 6 years. I have luckily been on a tremendous growth curve within the firm, and have been on several leadership positions @ client engagements (mostly Mid-Central and North East, even Puerto-Rico!) on the consulting front and practise building within the firm too. I've been promoted 4 times within the 6 year tenure, and my job profile is more inclined towards IT consulting for a ERP package (second stereotype, IT consulting), though with a specialized industry perspective. My core competencies lie within a certain industry vertical and most of the implementation experience lies within this vertical. I've managed teams of upto 12 in size, across geographies, and across cultures too.

Through my academic career, I've been active within the literary circles, as much as even directing plays, being the editor for the school mag, etc. I also held a key leadership position for my school allumni and paved the way for the allumni to get the net-work for itself, by raising revenue, putting up infrastructure and publishing its first website during the dot com burst. I've also worked consistently for over 2 years with the social responsibility group within my firm to teach poor, financially burdened youngsters in the rural areas language, interview and work skills to help them get regular jobs.

Now comes the key question... How competitive do you find this profile, when it comes to applying to top B schools like Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, INSEAD, London Business School, Booth or UC Berkeley?

[mbamission]

Hi abishek,

Thanks for writing in and for the great compliments -- and congratulations on a great GMAT score!

The key with male Indian engineers is that they need to find points of differentiation outside of typical work experience, and even high GMAT. From what you shared, it seems like you have several points you can write about to achieve this, including:

1) Leadership experience and strong results at work
2) Interest in literary activities, which serves as a nice foil to IT,
and,
3) solid community service work

With those traits in mind I would find your profile to be competitive at the schools you list.

Good luck!
Daniel Richards
http://www.mbamission.com

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[abishek.v]

Thanks Daniel for the good advice!

I'll be on my way with the application process then.

Have a good day!