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Pls critique my profile and chances for top 7 schools 12 Jul 2006, 11:03
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Paul et all,
Thanks for helping others here! Pls assess my chances.

Here are my stats:
• 680 then 720 in GMAT (98% quant 80% verbal/5 AWA)
• 3.18 GPA, PURDUE UNIVERSITY, BS Engineering & Minor in Economics, all completed in just 3 years! (no summers!)
• 27 year old Indian, working at Intel, California for 6 years as Senior Engineer, being lead in many projects with $$$+

Work Experience
• 7 years by fall ‘07 (now at 6 years) in Intel (inclusive of + 1 yr in a start up company in Bay area 2000-2001)
• Senior Validaiton Engineer
• I have been promoted 2 times last year, 5 divisional awards.
• For the last year and a half, I have had 4 people officially report to me.
• Recommendations should be very good.

• I also own my MATH tutoring business, taight more than 130 students last year, many GMAT Quant students. This is big and has been my passion. I also teach Math to blind using my methods.
• Highest Math chievement at High School! Outstanding student of the year, Outstanding Allrounder of the year, Best sportsman of the year, Games Captain in High School.


Extracurricular/community:
• Soccer captain of Intel Team
• Founder and Cricket captain of Intel team.
• Speak 6 languages, lived in 4 continents.
• Founded and captained Soccer Team in Purdue UNiversity for IndiaN students association.
• Meditiation and Yoga



Interested in doing entrepeneurship that ties in with my current math business.

My choices in order:
1. Stanford (early application deadline)
2. Harvard
3. Berkeley
4. Wharton
5. Chicago
6. MIT
7. Yale

Thanks in advance…
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Pls critique my profile and chances for top 7 schools 12 Jul 2006, 11:33
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I forgot to add:

8. Kellogs (Northwestern)
9. Univ Michigan Ann Arbor
10. Columbia

By the way, My essays should be very strong. Should the focus be on my business or work exp at Intel?
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Pls critique my profile and chances for top 7 schools 13 Jul 2006, 20:34
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I forgot to add:

8. Kellogs (Northwestern)
9. Univ Michigan Ann Arbor
10. Columbia

By the way, My essays should be very strong. Should the focus be on my business or work exp at Intel?
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indiansoccer007,

Though you have an impressive profile, your chances at Stanford and HBS will be slim because your background is not sufficiently distinctive or unusual. You have a better shot at Wharton, Kellogg, Columbia, and MIT, but I would guess that not more than 1 or 2 would admit you, if that, with MIT being the more likely in this group. Your odds at Haas, Chicago, Michigan, and Yale are the best of all. I could see 2, perhaps 3, of these schools admitting you. I don't mean to be discouraging, but you belong to a fiercely competitive applicant pool, and though you seem to be fall on the upper end of this pool, you have a significant challenge in making yourself stand out.

For the essays, I think you should consider your software work to be your main professional experience, but tell the entrepreneurial story too--both in the goals essay and perhaps in one other 'accomplishment' type essay.

Good luck,
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Paul,
Thanks for the feedback.

So here is the difference between me and typical software applicant pool from India.

1. --I am hardware engineer, unlike typical 'software' engineers from India.
2. --I received my undergrad degree from PURDUE, unlike most ppl from india who have degrees from India.
3. --I have 6+ yr exp at Intel.
4. --I spk 6 languages as opposed to the typical candidate from India.

Do you think I still fit in that pool? If I do, then I am in for trouble, but honestly I don't think so.... Please give me your second opinion on this.

Thanks!
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Paul,
Thanks for the feedback.

So here is the difference between me and typical software applicant pool from India.

1. --I am hardware engineer, unlike typical 'software' engineers from India.
2. --I received my undergrad degree from PURDUE, unlike most ppl from india who have degrees from India.
3. --I have 6+ yr exp at Intel.
4. --I spk 6 languages as opposed to the typical candidate from India.

Do you think I still fit in that pool? If I do, then I am in for trouble, but honestly I don't think so.... Please give me your second opinion on this.

Thanks!
-Soccer007
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Soccer007,

You do a good job of identifying your uniqueness factors. You must hammer away at all of these in your essays and also look for a few *more*, such as in your personal life or community experiences. Don't let them put you in a box. I think you can convince them not to. It's a question of self-understanding (which you seem to have) and then execution.

Good luck,