Name:Sai Kiran N

School Short-listing Detailed GMAT Score:

690 v35 q48 (retaking in July)

Questionnaire Work Exp (At the time of entering

the MBA program): 3 years

Think Carefully – It’s About Your Career What?

1. Apart from the credentials mentioned in your Resume, is there any significant This questionnaire will help us
information that you believe we must know? understand your motivations to pursue
MBA at this point in time. We would
No, I will cover it in the resume like to know your viewpoint and career
aspirations.

2. Are there any extenuating circumstances in your profile? Examples: gap in Why?
work experience or education, low GPA, backlogs, currently not employed,
any cases of academic misconduct, lawsuits etc. We will be able to make specific
school recommendations for you.
No These will be aligned to your profile,
expectations and future aspirations.
 
Accordingly, your school portfolio
3. What are your post-MBA plans? comprising of Dream, Practical and
Back-up schools, will be finalized.
To pursue product management in tech industry

  How?
Think More. Be specific in your
4. Do you have some preference/constraint in terms of location for your MBA?
responses. Do some bit of research on
Preferably in US ,UK or Singapore the internet to help shape up your
expectations.
5. What duration of MBA do you prefer? Why?

I’m interested in 1-year programs, the only reason being it is financially more
affordable. Again, if I could get into good programs, I wouldn’t mind doing a 2
year program as well

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6. Do you have special preference for a strong brand? Are you bent on doing it
from the world's top few only? Please answer this question after an honest
introspection of your profile and scores.

Yes, I honestly feel having a strong brand in resume would definitely help few
years down the line. I’m looking at doing my course in one of the top 30
colleges

7. How do you plan to manage funds for your MBA? Please give a precise break-
up in terms of savings/family support/loans-domestic or international/hope for
scholarship. Avoid writing % and try to give tentative numerical values.

I’m planning to take up a domestic loan. Anything close to 40 lakhs post

scholarship should be a good deal. But again it depends on the college as well.
I wouldn’t mind putting 10L-20L more for a better college

8. Please name universities that you are interested in, on the basis of your own
research. Again, please conduct a thorough introspection and come up with a
viable list.

After a bit of research ,I have come up with the following list in the order of
preference

1) Tepper MBA with Product management specialization -Dream

2) NUS/NTU - Dream
3) Texas Mccombs MBA - Dream

4) NYU Stern TECH MBA – Realistic -1 year

5) Cornell Johnson Tech MBA -Realistic- 1 year
6) Oxford Said – Realistic- 1 year
7) Cambridge Judge – Realistic – 1 year
8) Foster – Realistic
9) WP Carey -Realistic