Watch: How Sumedha got into M7 & T20 with scholarship + other applicant stories
Pursuing an MBA is challenging enough, but doing it as a married couple takes it to another level. Meet Shruthi and Gautam, a dynamic duo navigating global careers, GMAT struggles, and top B-school admits together. While Shruthi is completing her MBA at IESE Business School in Barcelona, Gautam recently secured admits from London Business School … Read more
Ameya has had quite an eventful career journey. He has been in touch with us since 2017 and took a very planned, methodical approach that started with our MBA Profile Builder and landed him in places like INSEAD and BCG. Let’s find out how he did that. How MBA profile building helped me get into … Read more
For MBA aspirants, the choice of programs is mind-boggling and the factors they need to consider can be equally confusing. Among the hundreds of parameters a prospective candidate could consider, a few tend to come up more frequently than the others. Let’s look at some of those. How important is accreditation? For years, international accreditation … Read more
Today we have with us, Anamika Jha, an ISB Executive MBA (PGPMAX) admit with an interesting mix of armed forces and corporate experience. Let’s hear her story. Executive MBA from ISB (PGPMAX) after Air Force Tips for military veterans for corporate transition by Anamika Jha MG: Welcome, Anamika. Can you share a little about yourself? … Read more
After being written off by a reputed ‘M7 specialist’ admissions consultant, a VIT engineer ignored the demotivating advice, worked with MBA Crystal Ball and earned admits from Chicago Booth and UVA Darden with a $70,000 scholarship. Sumedha Updhyay approached us while preparing for her GMAT. The computer engineering graduate from Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) … Read more
Siddharth Panikath has had a unique application journey. He saw many rejections before smartly achieving success. During our initial profile evaluation discussions itself, we had discussed the risk of going ahead with his MBA plans and had suggested an alternative too. Acknowledging these, he chose to give MBA applications a shot and worked with us. … Read more
Artificial intelligence has permeated into every aspect of the economy and is reshaping global businesses at mind-boggling pace. This transformation has influenced everything from market research to financial analysis, and is powering decision-making across industries. AI has now evolved into a strategic partner rather than just being a specialist’s tool. AI is revolutionizing how companies … Read more
DEI has been in the news for a while after the U.S. announced policy changes. Here’s a primer on what it means for international students aiming for American universities. What is DEI? A term once thriving in the folders of HR offices has been pushed to the storage, with people, it is relevant to, scrambling … Read more
AI tools will kill the MBA admissions consulting business, people predicted after ChatGPT made a big splash. Years later, we have a much larger palette of AI tools for every possible niche including admissions consulting. But professional MBA admissions consultants haven’t gone anywhere. If anything, the number of new consultants popping up indicates that the … Read more
Nihitha’s professional journey has taken her places – from Netherlands to Italy to India and more – but her MBA journey was not without its hiccups. She trumped them all to achieve impressive results. She got into 2 IIMs after a Bachelors in Arts degree in Journalism and Mass Communication. This is the transcript of … Read more
One of the many ways business schools assess the “readiness” of an applicant is through standardised test scores. The rest – GPA, recommendations, essays, and even interviews – either rely on evaluations from different sources and systems, or, subjective estimations. These test scores are the only exams that see no colour, race, or region. They … Read more
Aditya Vaze is a successful professional with over a decade of work experience who worked with MBA Crystal Ball to define his career path and made it happen with an admit to ISB PGPMAX – the executive MBA from ISB for senior professionals. This is the transcript of our our video Q&A with Aditya. Watch … Read more