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August 4, 2020 3:45am ET

Applying: Columbia, Harvard Business School, Stanford GSB, UPenn / Wharton, Yale SOM

Intake Year: 2021

Pre-MBA Career: News Media, Education

Post-MBA Target Industry: Media

GRE: 329

GPA: 3.36

Years of Work Experience: 3

Location: India

Notes:

LGBTQA member currently serving as the Director of a leading Tamil newspaper, a television news channel, and radio station. Also serve as the Chairman of eight rural colleges. Committed to sustainable, socially equitable policies in the corporate sphere.

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alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1677 You have some interesting sets of work experience, for someone with only 3 years of experience. Did I understand that correctly? Is you undergrad degree from India (curious, because it appears to be on a 4.0 scale). You do sound like an interesting candidate. Stern and Anderson might be worth looking at, too. (1)

anon10301 Likes Earned: 17 Thanks for your response, Alex! I did my undergrad at UPenn, so I would love to be back at Wharton for my MBA. As for my work experience, it's a family business and after initially training with the companies for two years, I took the reins this past year. I am quite concerned about my GPA but my low grades were from my first two years and trend positive (Dean's List junior and senior year), so hopefully that helps demonstrate that I'm not an academic liability. Will check out Stern and Anderson too! (1)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1677 A positive trend with your GPA will help. Are you planning to return to your family business? (0)

anon10301 Likes Earned: 17 Eventually, yes, but I do want to work for a couple of years at a top entertainment media company in the US prior to returning. I've laid the groundwork to launch an OTT platform and entertainment channel back home so I'm looking to garner more insight from similar companies. Is returning to a family business considered a drawback by AdComs? (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1677 No, not a drawback at all. Sounds like you have an ambitious plan, that’s also realistic, a very good combination. (1)

anon10301 Likes Earned: 17 Thanks Alex! Should I also be looking to retake the GRE? Bit concerned about my score for the colleges I am targeting. (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1677 Is it well balanced? It’s a very good score. Do you think you can increase it significantly? (0)

anon10301 Likes Earned: 17 It was a 165 on Verbal and 164 on Quant. I should be able to push it to the 331+ mark, unsure if that is significant enough an increase. (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1677 That’s well balanced. I think your current GRE is good. The effort to prep to increase marginally might be better spent in other areas. (1)

anon10301 Likes Earned: 17 Thanks Alex! By other areas do you mean the essays/the application or is there something else I could be working on? (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1677 Yes, essays, application. Outside of work activities, etc (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1677 More details on this candidacy in this episode of Wire Taps: https://www.clearadmit.com/2020/08/episode-115-wire-taps-does-this-hobby-make-me-look-crazy/ (0)