Profile evaluation Please

[anirudhsangal]

Academics
1) Engineering in Mechanical from a good university in India with 71% ( close to 3.5 i guess)

Work Experience
1) Will have around 7 years of experience as IT consultant for an IT consulting service company ( which is CMM level 5 and one of the global top 10)
a) Have worked in 5 different countries for 4 different clients including gulf, Europe and US - over 4.5 years
b) worked in US for more than 3 years
c) have supported pre-sales activities, participated in due diligence, sales process, responses to RFP
d) worked as project leader for more than 2 years and in another 3 years as team lead
e) worked as IT functional/system consultant for over 4 years
f) Always been a high performer, top ranked during performance ratings amongst 5% of the company best
g) Involved in Client Management for the past two years and managed projects for clients involving multiple vendors ( which includes competitors of my company)
h) managed team sizes of varying size from 2-15 people
i) have been part of multi million projects providing more than billion dollar in revenues for the clients
j) have been part of transformational projects
k) Spearheaded lot of initiatives (beyond regular project works) which involves establishing process or strategies

2) established family business in logistics business before graduation and with an investment of INR 4 million and generated revenues of about INR 10 Million over 3.5 years

3) have been actively involved in family business of logistics, gas supply and farming business

Personality/Passion
I have exhibited strong leadership qualities both in my professional and persona life
1) Founded a group named along with 2 other collegaues to bring together all working professionals to make their voice heard to the government.
2) Have been president of Institute of engineer and photography group in college, active member of music and arts group of college
3) actively take part with local social organisations for enhancement of the local schools.
4) Formed corporate social responsibility teams where in I was responsible for forming the core team and voluteer teams, establishing regular activities and process for fund raising, channelizing corporate funds/helps etc.
5) worked with prison inmates to increase their skillset for long term life living.

GMAT
First Attempt - 680 ( Q47 V36) in 2006
First Attempt - 670 ( Q47 V36) in 2009

Questions -

1) I am low on my GMAT - do you think I should take 3rd attempt? What are the adverse affects
2) what colleges can i target? looking for 2 year college - looking for management/strategic consulting.
3) mainly US colleges - optionally Insead and LBS.
4) what do you think adding in my profile will help

[mbamission]

Hello,

There will be no problem if you take the test a third time. I would probably not advise taking it a fourth or fifth time. I would recommend retaking the test if you think that you can increase your score by 20 points or more. It is very difficult to suggest MBA programs that you might consider since there are hundreds of programs and I am do not know what your criteria includes. If you do not know much about U.S. business schools, I recommend reading the profiles of MBA programs provided by a publication like BusinessWeek or U.S. News & World Report so that you can learn more about the students who are accepted as well as things like curriculum, the alumni community, the teaching methodology and professional specializations.

You have a lot going on including professional achievement, strong undergraduate grades and leadership outside of work, so I am don’t think that you are missing anything that you need to add to your application. As I mentioned earlier, if you think that you can increase your GMAT score significantly, I would take it again. Other than that, I don’t have any other recommendations on how to strengthen your application.

Sincerely,

Akiba Smith-Francis

MBA Mission

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[anirudhsangal]

Thanks a lot Adam. That was helpful.

I guess I forgot to mention the kind of colleges I was looking for. But I will look through your suggestions for Business week and US news reports and then will put a message once I am more informed. But thanks a lot for your reply.