Candidate:

Mr. Indian Student

About Me:

I am an Indian student and intend to apply in the 2020-21. I am passlionate about tech in business and its potential to give smaller businesses a fighting chance. In order to expose myself to the ground realities of businesses I have worked as an independent consultant with private companies in the manufacturing, construction and hospitality spaces, helping them in areas such as cost efficiency, proposal analysis, business development, tax law compliance, etc. Further, to acquaint myself with problems faced by people in lower social strata and to help them, I have worked with an NGO for the past 3 years.

Schools:

Target School: Wharton

Considering: Stanford GSB, Harvard, Kellogg SOM, MIT Sloan, Columbia, Chicago Booth

See More Profiles For: Wharton

Application Status: Open

Details:

Undergrad School: University of Mumbai

Undergrad Major: Business

GPA: 8.8/10 (4.0 USA)

GMAT: 760

Age: 20, Ethnicity: Asian or Indian

Other Degree/Certification: CFA Level 1, CA Intermediate

School Name: CFA Institute, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Extracurriculars: Volunteering, Founding Treasurer of Intercollege Festival, Case Competitions

Work History:

Title: Staff Accountant

Industry: Accounting

Company: Fortune 100

Length of Employment: 9 mos

Title: Consultant

Industry: Consulting

Company: Freelance

Length of Employment: 1 yr, 7 mos

Big Life Wins:

Recently, I took an initiative where I contacted local shop owners and got in touch with maids, drivers and the like and helped them with their tax returns and informed them about the kind of relief packages the government is offering them.
I am the founding treasurer of an inter-college festival, focused on math and stats and their growing business use cases. The fest saw 1000+ people attend in its first year. I was part of a volunteer team, that raised 500,000 rupees via crowdfunding to provide dry rations to over 80,000 underprivileged households in remote areas. I am also the campus ambassador of a well know national NGO.

Post MBA Goal:

I want to leverage my experience of working with FS companies and use the MBA to pivot to entrepreneurship in the fintech space in India. I want to build ventures that promote social and economic equity in developing countries with high degrees of disparity, starting with India.

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Stratus Admissions Counseling Odds Assessment: 30%

Hi Mr. Indian Student, This is Donna Bauman with Stratus Admissions. First off, you should come up with a bit more descriptive title for yourself. How about Mr. Using Tech to fight for the Little Guy? Something that gives admissions a sense of what drives you! You are going to be competing in a crowded pool so you need to share something unique about yourself and what I am seeing here is that you want to leverage tech to help make life better for the many small businesses in India. You have a strong business and finance background. Wharton’s India Business Club could be one resource for you and the fintech resources at Wharton also will be very useful. I can also see Booth, CBS, …

Hi Mr. Indian Student, This is Donna Bauman with Stratus Admissions. First off, you should come up with a bit more descriptive title for yourself. How about Mr. Using Tech to fight for the Little Guy? Something that gives admissions a sense of what drives you! You are going to be competing in a crowded pool so you need to share something unique about yourself and what I am seeing here is that you want to leverage tech to help make life better for the many small businesses in India. You have a strong business and finance background. Wharton’s India Business Club could be one resource for you and the fintech resources at Wharton also will be very useful. I can also see Booth, CBS, Kellogg and Sloan as some other places where I see your best chances. I assume you are looking at the deferred admit programs so anything you can do now to secure a great job post college so that you can apply to deferred admit programs with the trilogy of strong GMAT, grades and leadership with also a great job to be heading into—all these things will be helpful to you!

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