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June 2, 2022 3:21pm ET

Applying: Columbia, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Northwestern / Kellogg, NYU Stern, Stanford GSB

Intake Year: 2024

Pre-MBA Career: Strategy consulting

Post-MBA Target Industry: Family Business, Entrepreneurship

GMAT: 720

GPA: 3.21

Years of Work Experience: 4

Location: Nyc

Post MBA Location: India

Notes:

Working for an MBB firm for the past year as a consultant.
Prior to this, worked in family business in India which is into manufacturing.
Worked for 1.5 years in one of the biggest Hedge find out of college.

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alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1577 Make sure you apply in the first rounds, early decision rounds. Showing impact at work, will be really important. Be good to know more about your goals, post MBA? Are you involved in activities outside of work? GMAT is ok, not outstanding for your demographic. What is your class rank? (0)

grichmond Verified User. Likes Earned: 1150 Just to clarify here, are you an Indian male? US-educated? I'm trying to understand the 'current location' NYC part, as well as your overall path since undergraduate. As Alex points out, if you are an Indian national, your numbers will be somewhat average/below average for the schools on your target list. It would be good to know what you studied and how that 3.21 placed you in your class/rank. ECs will matter too... Feel free to share some additional details. Best of luck!
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dandannoodle Likes Earned: 7 Hi yes, I am an indian male. Post mba goals - To return to India and grow family business as well as diversify. Education - CS major in Purdue University. WE locations - Worked in a large HF in Connecticut. Worked in family business in India. MBB strategy consulting in NYC. (1)

grichmond Verified User. Likes Earned: 1150 US undergraduate education will help differentiate you somewhat from the Indian-from-India crowd, although as stated above, your 3.21/720 combination will still sit below the average at every school on your list. Career path to date sounds promising. Have you thought about a push to retake the GMAT and get yourself above average (to provide a counter to the 3.21 GPA)? In that instance you could make a great case for the fact that a 3.21 in CS at Purdue was really very challenging and should translate to something slightly higher...as evidenced by your ability to hit the GMAT out of the park, etc. Best of luck!
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alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1577 More details on this candidacy in this episode of Wire Taps: https://www.clearadmit.com/2022/06/wire-taps-237/ (0)