[jbanoop]

Subscribing to the thread. Hope it would provide useful info in the coming days.
My profile:

IT with 4 years exp as of now (by next year applying time 5 years). Have worked in MNCs in India as well as currenly doing consulting (consulting assigments in New Zealand and currently the mid east (Saudi Arabia) ). Academics are pretty ok with very good 10th n 12th grades (90%) and 76% for Btech Comp Sci (univ of kerala).

Looking at GMAT early next year.

Regards,
Anoop

[AbhinandanShah]

Guys,
Just to revamp this thread a bit, I would like to tell you that my perception about preparations for a MBA abroad has changed a lot. I now believe (after going through a lot of posts on PG and reading a lot of articles on the web and also speaking personally to many people) that one needs good deal of self realization. If you think you are good enough, you need to know WHY you are good enough. And you need to find the right SPOT perhaps the MBA journey can be something like discovery of your very secret strengths and weaknesses which will help u go long way in your career. Personally having 1.5 years of MNC IT experience, and having descent academics, even though people think I might be successful, I humbly think that Im worthless for the fact that the demographics work so much against my favor. Though, I mean STILL!! I think I can do it... you know what people I'm hopelessly positive that my strong will will take me where I want to go... In search of people who share the same passion, maybe we can come up with ideas which help us all the way...

Any takers????

[aim-wsc]

oh! lots of gyaan squriting there:robot:
good spirit, shah!

& good start... starting early is always better, not if you just day dream and implement nothing
yea but i m positive you d certainly acheive what you want...
and yes you have long way to go...still have lots of stuff to kno/learn.
all the best.

I like the idea of starting the thread for 2008 admission students.
well, personally i am not applying for 2010 class (i mean for fall 2008 admission) ........though Dave (of daveformba) has listed me with 2008 people.. i am not applying now.


i am taking GMAT on early 2007 so i ll be seeing you guys...around.
good work there mumbai-dude. ( Are you that famous blogger mumbai-dude do you?)
am not an IT guy btw....so that surely gonna help me a bit....

Dear Abhinandan,
what makes the case tough is "Indian IT male" is too common and hence more competitive.
more can share
& we can have healthy argument.

[sui generis]

I am also planning to appear in GMAT in 2007 n apply for admissions in 2008 to b-schools.Before going further with queries,let me introduce myself:-
-software Engineer with 2.3 yrs of work exp. at Top MNC in telecom.
-BTech(I.T) 3.61/4.0
-XII 84%
-X 85%
-Not much extra-curricular activities

Now,i would like to know:-
1.How is my profile for getting in top b-schools (if i managed to get a GMAT score of 700+)?

2.What all B-schools needs needs to be targetted taking the value of money & relatively financial cost of study in account?

3.Heard the stanford GSB has an option of working in home country/NGO after MBA and which leads to loan forgiveness.Is there any other B-School with similar options?

4.How much time (on avg) it takes to prepare for GMAT for getting 700+ score(i mean when to start prep if target is MBA 2008?

[aim-wsc]

Originally Posted by sui generis

4.How much time (on avg) it takes to prepare for GMAT for getting 700+ score(i mean when to start prep if target is MBA 2008?

50-100 days.
you are engineer so i believe you can get it done in less than average prep time.

[AbhinandanShah]

Originally Posted by aim-wsc

Dear Abhinandan,
what makes the case tough is "Indian IT male" is too common and hence more competitive.
more can share
& we can have healthy argument.

Sorry about replyin to the post so late, but I think, Most Common is what makes it most interesting! One more Point I want to bring to notice of PG members is that, though its IT stands for Information Tech. the domain in which they work is entirely different. Even if its largely Finance there are so many subdomains and verticals.... I believe, IT experience is one of the most valuable, so everyone can project their profile differently, based on their domain expertise, and even people who work in IT, shud realize n tk their domain knowledge seriously! Thats jst a thought now. I know I am streching a bit too long. However, I like your thoughts Aim-wsc. Thanks If you hav a solid argument, jst put it on table n v ll hav a skirmish!!

[AbhinandanShah]

Originally Posted by sui generis

-Not much extra-curricular activities

I think you gotta take care of this buddy!!
They wud look for LOTS of these, its how well you actually are, and how well you actually present yourself infront of people.


Regards,
Abhin.

[aim-wsc]

EDITed

Originally Posted by AbhinandanShah

Sorry about replyin to the post so late, but I think, Most Common is what makes it most interesting!

you started your statement with 'but ' at the same time you agree with my point.
yes even i agree with your point. Most common is what makes it most interesting....now 'it' is here the applicant

One more Point I want to bring to notice of PG members is that, though its IT stands for Information Tech. the domain in which they work is entirely different. Even if its largely Finance there are so many subdomains and verticals.... I believe, IT experience is one of the most valuable, so everyone can project their profile differently, based on their domain expertise, and even people who work in IT, shud realize n tk their domain knowledge seriously!

no issues.:neutral:

Thats jst a thought now.

OK heres my thoughts.


Dear Abhinandan,
consider a normal Indian IT male:

you might be working in IT sector.
what matters to me?
your projects might be related to insurance business or to hospitality management. It wont make any difference to the way a lay person would look at you. ( of course i am not comparing Adcomms to lay person) All he knows is you sit in front of a machine for ten hours of your day-drink tea/coffee from vending machine.
you indulge less social life.
Working with the machine called desktop you start living some kindda robotic life...

well! thats the first few reasons why they (adcomms) do not prefer IT males.. apart from being very much common & competitive (of course thats the first reason.)

Adcomms ( asmission Commitee) try to get their schools as diverse crowd as they can.
& in process of that they sometimes may sacrify some people with good GMAT score or good acads/GPA.

Adcomms always eager to see how different (read outstanding) you are.
how unique ( read innovative/ constructive) you are.
how diverse ( read experienced) you are.


So you got to show them the experience you gained all your life /
how innovative you were..... etc...etc///

Disclaimer:
Anyway thats just part of it. so i wont say talking about these points is sufficient. i just say It is part of it.
you can say one of the points.

[aim-wsc]

Edit: i posted the earlier message and then i realised that i made some of contradicting statments which even i do not agree.

check out it again i have edited the post now.
sorry for the confusion folks but the time when i actually posted this message i was bit dazed :confused::crazyeye:

[AbhinandanShah]

Originally Posted by aim-wsc

you started your statement with 'but ' at the same time you agree with my point.
yes even i agree with your point. Most common is what makes it most interesting....now 'it' is here the applicant

:grab: Grab a duck, and tell it you can't swim. Grab a horse and tell it you can't run, its the same thing dude... I have to agree with you coz, ur making a right point here...

Originally Posted by aim-wsc

no issues.:neutral:

I dont knw whether that was intentional, bt this is quite IT language...

Originally Posted by aim-wsc

your projects might be related to insurance business or to hospitality management. It wont make any difference to the way a lay person would look at you. ( of course i am not comparing Adcomms to lay person) All he knows is you sit in front of a machine for ten hours of your day-drink tea/coffee from vending machine.
you indulge less social life.
Working with the machine called desktop you start living some kindda robotic life...

Seriously man you contradict a bit... But FACT after all that robotic life, if they manage to pull of something interesting then isn't it appreciable?Won't a lay man consider, a someone's potential afterall "experience" is just to ensure you are mature enough to relate to whats being tought in School to things you did. Now achieving that diversity in the class is a structured effort. where I think they not only consider where you worked, bt also, they also consider human diversity, coz every man/woman even if he/she works in IT, is sooo different. So bottomline, positive aspect is adcomm will have easy comparison cause there will b lots of similarities, and less striking differences, so if you can present well, I feel you might hav a better edge than others. You can manipulate the adcomms perception taking the focuss away from "IT" you, to a more liberal / different "Human" You...

Yes, adcomms will find a nerd who sits 9 hours infront of his desk, and drinks Vending machine coffee difficult to take, however, I feel because its common to see this Indian IT Male everywhere, they will look KEENLY into his application, so using proper skills, instead of pointing professional YOU, you can point real YOU, to the adcomm, and most likely get their attention, however, those coming from Diverse backgrounds, are already isolated, so they are already different, Adcomm have perhaps little choice to compare.

Originally Posted by aim-wsc

Adcomms ( asmission Commitee) try to get their schools as diverse crowd as they can.
& in process of that they sometimes may sacrify some people with good GMAT score or good acads/GPA.

Adcomms always eager to see how different (read outstanding) you are.
how unique ( read innovative/ constructive) you are.
how diverse ( read experienced) you are.

Thanks Aim-wsc those are handsome tips... BTW wats your real name??

Cheers,
Abhinandan