Columbia - 06-30-2023 | Clear Admit ApplyWire

June 30, 2023 12:12pm ET

Applying: Columbia, Harvard Business School, INSEAD, London Business School, MIT Sloan, Stanford GSB, UPenn / Wharton, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2024

Pre-MBA Career: Consumer technology

Post-MBA Target Industry: Technology Companies: Apple , Facebook , Google , IBM , Microsoft , Twitter

GRE: 324

GPA: 4.0

Years of Work Experience: 5

Post MBA Location: Agnostic

Notes:

Chance me (please)

F/28. Non-STEM.

Education:

1. Undergrad in history (university of delhi)- first division
2. Postgrad in public policy (3.2/4)
3. MSc from Tsinghua University (Schwarzman Scholar) (3.8/4)

GRE: 324. Tired, don’t think I want to give it again.

Work ex:

1. Founding team- web3 x creator economy startup. 8 mil seed. Ex GSB founder (7 months-present)
2. New initiatives, one of the largest food delivery services in India. Founding team of new, business diversifying biz line (2 years, 1 month)
3. Pre-Schwarzman analyst at T-1 Indian VC fund
4. Sanitation analyst, biggest strategic philanthropy orgs in India (2 years)

ECs:

1. Published author- 2 collections of poetry
2. Run a 4K+ subscriber newsletter for Indian startups
3. Represented india at a bunch of international conferences
4. Won Gold at UNLEASH
5. Scout for 2 SEA and India focused VC funds. ~7 mil in investments scouted
6. Mild involvement with global shapers
7. (Hopefully coming through)- global steering committee and board member at international NGO

LORs:

- current founder/direct boss is ex GSB and is willing to write me a glowing letter
- ex boss from previous org

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alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1587 What is the balance in the GRE score? Do you think there’s any room to improve it a couple of points? Make sure you target the first rounds, if you can. Sounds like a lot to like here in terms of your professional experiences. And being a published author etc will also help. Be good to know a little more about your post MBA goals, etc. (0)

hk95 Likes Earned: 0 1. 155q 162v. Giving again to try and pull my q to 160! 2. short term- consumer tech mid - starting up myself, ideally at the intersection of gig economy and AI- specifically, helping gig workers find lost cost, aligned benefits for themselves using AI. long term- raising my own consumer tech VC fund in south aisa. (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1587 Retaking the GRE and boosting that quant score will have a big impact on your overall profile, so best of luck! (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1587 more details on this candidacy in this episode of Wire Taps: https://www.clearadmit.com/2023/07/mba-wire-taps-299/ (0)