Carnegie Mellon / Tepper - 11-06-2023

November 6, 2023 10:53am ET

Applying: Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, Indian School of Business, Michigan / Ross, NYU Stern, SMU Cox, UNC Kenan-Flagler, UVA / Darden

Intake Year: 2024

Pre-MBA Career: Software Engineer

Post-MBA Target Industry: Consulting, Technology Companies: McKinsey , PWC , Amazon , Apple , Google , Microsoft

GRE: 326

GPA: 3.93

Years of Work Experience: 5.4

Location: India

Post MBA Location: US, India

Notes:

GRE scores: Q165, V161 ( Not sure if the scores will be enough but I feel I am done with GRE now and want to work on other aspects of the profile)

Undergrad Details:
Rank 1 in my program
Merit Certificate for each year.
Held Program Representative post for 3 years.

Co-Curriculur:
Participated in art competitions with certificates.
An NGO visit to teach young kids.

Want to keep ISB as one option for India. Is ISB reachable?

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alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1587 Strong GPA helps. GRE will be fairly competitive at this point, for these programs. Showing impact and growth at work will be very important. Not sure how active you are now, outside of work? What are your long term goals? (0)

abbaslarji53 Likes Earned: 1 I will go ahead for the R2 round with this GRE score and hoping the GPA helps in compensating a bit. My father fell ill in 2021 and lost him in 2022, therefore since then had not been able to stay very active outside of my work. For the last year, had to move back to another city due to return to office mandate and then concentrated majorly on my GRE only. However, I did actively pursue my painting hobby until 2021 and have spent fair amount of time on few art pieces I worked on from 2018 to 2020. Not sure if I can leverage this in my application as out of work activities.Moreover, I have many certificates in fine arts competitions (mainly painting competitions) from high school days. I am looking at using that as well to show highlight my knack for fine arts. On long term goals, my inclination is towards technology consulting and product management. (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1587 Have you exhibited your art work, etc? There’s likely a good way to include it, as it is a point of differentiation. (0)

abbaslarji53 Likes Earned: 1 Haven't exhibited my work. What way should I be presenting my art work as a differentiating factor? (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1587 It should help differentiate you, a little, from the over represented group of India-based software engineers, who are generally very smart. Any awards or prizes for your artwork? (0)

abbaslarji53 Likes Earned: 1 Yes I do have several from my high school days. Also had participated in the Creativity club of my university and have prizes for a few art competitions held by the club. (1)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1587 More details on this candidacy in this episode of Wire Taps: https://www.clearadmit.com/2023/11/mba-wire-taps-322-3-93-gpa-software-engineer-760-gmat-round-2-strategy/ (0)