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Profile Evaluation Request
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30 Nov 2022, 04:16
30 Nov 2022, 04:16
Hi bb or rx10 or anyone who can come forward to help me - Initially, thank you so much for taking your time to evaluate our profiles!
Background:
Country: India
Gender: Male
Course: MBA
Potential Admit: Fall 2024
Work Experience: 5 years by Fall 2024
Undergraduate: Bachelor of Technology (Engineering) in SRM University, Chennai, India
Undergraduate score: 80.96%
Expected GRE score: 160V 166Q-168Q (326-328 in total)
Work experience history:
1. Joined as an intern in an Edtech startup that focussed on imparting Entrepreneurship skills to children (company size: 1-25 employees). Since it was a very small company, I had to dip my hands into any and every possible tasks - Pitching about the company to investors to universities and schools, creating basic Entrepreneurship curriculum for school children, and also tutoring them the same. Duration: 6 months.
2. Joined as a Business Analyst in a Consulting firm in India (company size: 250-500 employees). Worked in calibrating the SalesForce team of Fortune 100 Pharmaceutical Companies. Major clientele I worked with: AstraZeneca, Amgen. Quit the company in a very brief period as I realized consulting wasn't my cup of tea back then. Duration: 3 months.
3. Joined as a Travel Consultant (Business Development) in a Travel Tech startup based out of India (company size: 100-250 employees). Was one of the most successful consultants ever in the history of company, and was instrumental in opening up a lot of markets for the company. Managed a team of 3 people. Won a couple of awards for being the best performer. Handled high-profile individuals as my clients, including sportspersons, Influencers and cinema stars of India. Duration: 14 months.
4. Joined as an Account Manager in a large MNC SaaS company headquartered in the USA, also an IPO listed company (company size: 5,000-10,000 employees). I managed SMB and Midmarket accounts predominantly based out of US and Europe. Handled over 450+ accounts in my capacity, with a book value of over $1.5 MN. Was instrumental in setting up the protocols and cadences on reaching out to potential digital customers for my team. My nature of work is always in collaboration with international teams, mainly the US and Europe. Team size was close to 150, and I was in the top 5%ile of performers. Overall achievement over 100% throughout my stint at this company. Managed a team of 4 people. Won an award for being the Rising Star of the team. Major clients: Ryan Air Alaska, Joe Biden's Helpdesk, Utah State Board of Education, Aioi Nissay Dowa, Tubi TV, Factor Law, etc. Duration: 18 months
5. Current: Joined as a Customer Success Manager (CSM) in a midsized MNC SaaS company headquartered in the USA (company size: 1000-2000 employees). Promoted via a job change - from SMB/MM to Enterprise. I am now handling Enterprise companies as my customers, with my customers present all over the globe, right from USA to Australia. I am the youngest CSM in my entire org to handle Enterprise customers. My nature of work is always in collaboration with international teams, mainly the North America, Europe, UK, and Australia. Joined this company just 4 months back, and this is the company I am currently working at, and will hopefully continue until Fall 2024. So I will be able to add more of my credentials about this in some more time.
Extra/Co-Curriculars:
1. Winner of National Level Essay Writing competition in India while I was in my grade 11
2. Active sportsperson - have professionally played cricket and represented my district in inter-state/inter-district tournaments.
3. Completed 4 marathons - 5 km, 12 km, 12 km, 21 km.
4. Volunteered as a teacher to teach Math, Science, and English for underprivileged kids for 1 year (2016-2017)
5. Led a group of 15 volunteers to help supply food and basic necessities to 1000s of victims affected by a catastrophic flood in my city.
Profile strengths (in my opinion): 3.5x salary hike in 3 years, worked in Education, Consulting, Travel and Hospitality, and SaaS. Worked in companies ranging from very small startups with less than 25 employees, to midsized companies, to enterprise sized IPO listed companies. Clientele wide ranged from sportspersons to celebrities to influencers to CXOs of SMBs-MMs-Enterprises across the globe. Managed to grow significantly in position with every job shift.
Expected colleges: The key part for me is affordability. I come from a very mediocre financial background, and even getting a loan for an exorbitant sum of money might be difficult for me. I am looking at a tuition fee of something between 60k-70k USD. So scholarship is of paramount importance to me. Open to both 1-year and 2-years MBA.
Australia: Melbourne Business School
Singapore: NUS
Europe: INSEAD, HEC Paris
UK: LBS, Imperial, Said, Judge
US: Tuition fee is beyond my reach as its 2-years. Georgia Tech, Simon BS, Indiana Kelley, Foster BS, etc seem within my reach provided I get about 50% scholarship.
Canada: Rotman
1. How is the overall strength of my profile? I have some time before I apply for R1 and R2 for 2024 admit. Where should I enhance my profile?
2. Like I mentioned, scholarship is important for my profile to fit my budget. Which colleges do I stand a realistic chance of scholarship to make it easy for me to afford?
3. Can I aspire for colleges higher in ranking than my above given list and also stand a chance for scholarship?
4. I have 80.96% in my UG Engineering in India. What is the equivalent of this in 4.0 GPA?
I once again thank you so much for your time in evaluating this profile!
Background:
Country: India
Gender: Male
Course: MBA
Potential Admit: Fall 2024
Work Experience: 5 years by Fall 2024
Undergraduate: Bachelor of Technology (Engineering) in SRM University, Chennai, India
Undergraduate score: 80.96%
Expected GRE score: 160V 166Q-168Q (326-328 in total)
Work experience history:
1. Joined as an intern in an Edtech startup that focussed on imparting Entrepreneurship skills to children (company size: 1-25 employees). Since it was a very small company, I had to dip my hands into any and every possible tasks - Pitching about the company to investors to universities and schools, creating basic Entrepreneurship curriculum for school children, and also tutoring them the same. Duration: 6 months.
2. Joined as a Business Analyst in a Consulting firm in India (company size: 250-500 employees). Worked in calibrating the SalesForce team of Fortune 100 Pharmaceutical Companies. Major clientele I worked with: AstraZeneca, Amgen. Quit the company in a very brief period as I realized consulting wasn't my cup of tea back then. Duration: 3 months.
3. Joined as a Travel Consultant (Business Development) in a Travel Tech startup based out of India (company size: 100-250 employees). Was one of the most successful consultants ever in the history of company, and was instrumental in opening up a lot of markets for the company. Managed a team of 3 people. Won a couple of awards for being the best performer. Handled high-profile individuals as my clients, including sportspersons, Influencers and cinema stars of India. Duration: 14 months.
4. Joined as an Account Manager in a large MNC SaaS company headquartered in the USA, also an IPO listed company (company size: 5,000-10,000 employees). I managed SMB and Midmarket accounts predominantly based out of US and Europe. Handled over 450+ accounts in my capacity, with a book value of over $1.5 MN. Was instrumental in setting up the protocols and cadences on reaching out to potential digital customers for my team. My nature of work is always in collaboration with international teams, mainly the US and Europe. Team size was close to 150, and I was in the top 5%ile of performers. Overall achievement over 100% throughout my stint at this company. Managed a team of 4 people. Won an award for being the Rising Star of the team. Major clients: Ryan Air Alaska, Joe Biden's Helpdesk, Utah State Board of Education, Aioi Nissay Dowa, Tubi TV, Factor Law, etc. Duration: 18 months
5. Current: Joined as a Customer Success Manager (CSM) in a midsized MNC SaaS company headquartered in the USA (company size: 1000-2000 employees). Promoted via a job change - from SMB/MM to Enterprise. I am now handling Enterprise companies as my customers, with my customers present all over the globe, right from USA to Australia. I am the youngest CSM in my entire org to handle Enterprise customers. My nature of work is always in collaboration with international teams, mainly the North America, Europe, UK, and Australia. Joined this company just 4 months back, and this is the company I am currently working at, and will hopefully continue until Fall 2024. So I will be able to add more of my credentials about this in some more time.
Extra/Co-Curriculars:
1. Winner of National Level Essay Writing competition in India while I was in my grade 11
2. Active sportsperson - have professionally played cricket and represented my district in inter-state/inter-district tournaments.
3. Completed 4 marathons - 5 km, 12 km, 12 km, 21 km.
4. Volunteered as a teacher to teach Math, Science, and English for underprivileged kids for 1 year (2016-2017)
5. Led a group of 15 volunteers to help supply food and basic necessities to 1000s of victims affected by a catastrophic flood in my city.
Profile strengths (in my opinion): 3.5x salary hike in 3 years, worked in Education, Consulting, Travel and Hospitality, and SaaS. Worked in companies ranging from very small startups with less than 25 employees, to midsized companies, to enterprise sized IPO listed companies. Clientele wide ranged from sportspersons to celebrities to influencers to CXOs of SMBs-MMs-Enterprises across the globe. Managed to grow significantly in position with every job shift.
Expected colleges: The key part for me is affordability. I come from a very mediocre financial background, and even getting a loan for an exorbitant sum of money might be difficult for me. I am looking at a tuition fee of something between 60k-70k USD. So scholarship is of paramount importance to me. Open to both 1-year and 2-years MBA.
Australia: Melbourne Business School
Singapore: NUS
Europe: INSEAD, HEC Paris
UK: LBS, Imperial, Said, Judge
US: Tuition fee is beyond my reach as its 2-years. Georgia Tech, Simon BS, Indiana Kelley, Foster BS, etc seem within my reach provided I get about 50% scholarship.
Canada: Rotman
1. How is the overall strength of my profile? I have some time before I apply for R1 and R2 for 2024 admit. Where should I enhance my profile?
2. Like I mentioned, scholarship is important for my profile to fit my budget. Which colleges do I stand a realistic chance of scholarship to make it easy for me to afford?
3. Can I aspire for colleges higher in ranking than my above given list and also stand a chance for scholarship?
4. I have 80.96% in my UG Engineering in India. What is the equivalent of this in 4.0 GPA?
I once again thank you so much for your time in evaluating this profile!
Re: Profile Evaluation Request
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30 Nov 2022, 11:16
30 Nov 2022, 11:16
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Hey shrini
Let me try to answer:
1) Your profile looks good tbh. It has a nice blend of work as well as extracurricular. Some more leadership projects on the work will definitely augment your profile.
2) Look, scholarship is definitely important but before that score is necessary. Since you do not have a score available, it is quite hard to gauge. Try to get a score of 328+ and it will put you on the higher side of the pile.
3) Always aspire to higher colleges. See, if you get admitted to a top college, they will try every way that you can attend the program. Tuck has recently changed its policy regarding scholarships and I believe that the finances should not be thought of in the first go. Get admission to the best program and a way will be there. I was in the same situation, with the lower financial strength I had. And I am attending the program paying full fees. Have taken a loan but it all got worked out. So, don't worry about financing as of now.
4) Yeah - GPA works in a diff sense in foreign but yours is good so no worries on that front.
Let me know if you need help! Wishing you all the best for GRE.
R
Let me try to answer:
1) Your profile looks good tbh. It has a nice blend of work as well as extracurricular. Some more leadership projects on the work will definitely augment your profile.
2) Look, scholarship is definitely important but before that score is necessary. Since you do not have a score available, it is quite hard to gauge. Try to get a score of 328+ and it will put you on the higher side of the pile.
3) Always aspire to higher colleges. See, if you get admitted to a top college, they will try every way that you can attend the program. Tuck has recently changed its policy regarding scholarships and I believe that the finances should not be thought of in the first go. Get admission to the best program and a way will be there. I was in the same situation, with the lower financial strength I had. And I am attending the program paying full fees. Have taken a loan but it all got worked out. So, don't worry about financing as of now.
4) Yeah - GPA works in a diff sense in foreign but yours is good so no worries on that front.
Let me know if you need help! Wishing you all the best for GRE.
R
Re: Profile Evaluation Request
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30 Nov 2022, 11:52
30 Nov 2022, 11:52
Hi rx10
Thank you so much for this detailed response. Quite helpful to me.
And totally agree with your point on keeping the admit over financing part. But I am concerned about scholarships right from square 1 because I have 0 collateral or wealth to even pledge for a bank loan. And if in case I get to some good unis but they can't give me the scholarship I need, I might have to apply for a bunch of other colleges that'd provide me with one, and that'd mean more application fees which I can't afford.
But for now, let me focus on crushing 328+ in GRE. I will talk to you soon - once again, thank you so much! Grateful to you!
Thank you so much for this detailed response. Quite helpful to me.
And totally agree with your point on keeping the admit over financing part. But I am concerned about scholarships right from square 1 because I have 0 collateral or wealth to even pledge for a bank loan. And if in case I get to some good unis but they can't give me the scholarship I need, I might have to apply for a bunch of other colleges that'd provide me with one, and that'd mean more application fees which I can't afford.
But for now, let me focus on crushing 328+ in GRE. I will talk to you soon - once again, thank you so much! Grateful to you!
