Pavaneesh Reddy

GMAT Preparation Community 3w ago Profile Review👤

10th 82
12th 58
Graduation (final year current )-72
targeting for mim and in mocks i am getting 625,645,695and 715 is the highest i got on mba. com site and i am targeting hec , lbs, insead,dukes and nus
i also have my own startup and have good amount of clients as my startup is a health tech so we have almost 400+ doctors and 45+ hospitals collabration and customers around 7000+ life time and it has been registered in 2025 april

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Prakhar JainFaculty 3w ago

Hey Pavaneesh,

Your GMAT performance looks promising, especially with a 715 mock score. However, for top schools like HEC Paris, LBS, INSEAD, Duke Fuqua, and NUS, admissions are not based on GMAT alone.
Your academics (82% in 10th, 58% in 12th, and 72% in graduation) may be a weaker area compared to many applicants, but they are not an automatic rejection. You will need to compensate through good essays, SOPs, impactful achievements, leadership examples, and a very well-crafted application.
Try to push your actual GMAT score as high as possible (ideally 700+), and focus on building a strong overall profile narrative. Also consider adding some schools where your profile has a better probability while still maintaining your target schools as ambitious options.
Now all that being said, you seem to have a lot of stories to write about. Focus your essays on filtering out the most impactful ones wherein you can display the qualities that the schools are looking for. Each school will require different essays, but having a skeleton format ready will be helpful. For this, use the stories wherein you can display ownership of the problem at hand from the the beginning to the end, especially when you can back it up with numbers.

Basically, someone who goes over your application before an interview is bound to build an expectation of you beforehand. A well-crafted application is about building that narrative in a manner that sets the tone for the interview.

Hope this helps!

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