Written by Sameer Kamat

You thought it was fair game and your chances of getting into a top MBA program had nothing to do with your nationality? Not true, says John Byrne, former executive editor of BusinessWeek and founder of Poets & Quants. According to him the rejection rates for Indian candidates are ‘dramatically higher’ than any other nationality.

An Indian applicant is 3 to 5 times less likely to get an offer compared to domestic candidates from the US. In fact, European and Latin American candidates would also fare better than Indians. What makes the P&Q survey results extremely credible is the fact that the data has been supplied officially by

Written by Sameer Kamat

Yo peeps, wassup! If the rap-worthy title of this post sounds poetic, Mukul’s journey was far from it. Despite a huge GMAT score of 770, there was still a big white ‘Gap’ in his story (yeah my friend…more T-shirt wisdom comin’ your way). In the race to get into the b-school of his choice he stumbled and fell – not once but twice. But he got up, dusted himself and got back into the race…more determined than ever to get what he wanted. We can’t compete with the massage parlours in Bangkok, but many of our stories do tend to be therapeutic and they also have a happy ending. Mukul’s inpiring story is one of those.

Written by Sameer Kamat

Babson’s MBA program may not be rubbing shoulders with Harvard/Stanford/Wharton in the general rankings. But it is very much at the top when it comes to specialised rankings (Top honours for Entrepreneurship). Strange, naa?

Written by Pranjali

We’ve got a new contributor for the MCB MBA Blog. Her hobbies do NOT include knitting cat sweaters and judging vada-pav eating contests. And that saves her time that she can productively use to work on several more interesting topics.

Written by Sameer Kamat

Remember the MBA Star List we are building? The list has been growing slowly and steadily. We went out there in blogosphere and pulled out a few interesting blogs by Indian bloggers. We need your help in identifying which of these could move to our star list. Most bloggers have some association with the MBA as applicants, current students and alumni. Some have MBA focussed blogs, some don’t. Some blogs are ancient, some have just been born. Some have written about the GMAT, some have blogged about writing business school essays, others have shared their MBA interview experiences. Some have already gained some exposure and recognition, others have been waiting in the wings.

If you are the owner of any of these blogs, let us know if you’d be interested in being considered for the Star List. For the other MBA bloggers, if your blog doesn’t figure on this list, boss, you gotta take some effort in getting noticed or maybe we need to sharpen our Google skills. Either ways, take the first step and post a comment here with details of your blog. We’ll add it to this list. Awright, nuff said, here’s the superlist of Indian MBA blogs.

Written by Sameer Kamat

You are Indian. You’ve been fighting for your MBA seat in the toughest applicant pool. Your dedicated efforts have borne fruit (you have a great GMAT score or a seat at one of the top MBA programs or just an interesting story to narrate). You are articulate (and considerate) and believe in sharing your wisdom with the rest of your brethren. We think you are an MBA Star!

We’ve been sharing our experience and knowledge on various discussion forums like Businessweek, GMAT Club, Beat The GMAT and Pagalguy. We also know there are many Indian MBA bloggers out there who have been doing the same albeit on a different scale.

Written by Sameer Kamat

We resisted this for a while. And then for a while more. But we guess it was more about ‘when’ rather than ‘if’. So here we are with our own chota-sa nanha-sa MBA blog for applicants in India.

What are we going to do with it? Whatever you tell us to (now stop getting ideas). For now, it’s a place for us to host all the great stuff that cannot be accomodated on our main site but is worthy of being mentioned.