Manish Gupta

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Unbalanced GMAT (low quantitative, high verbal) score? Kellogg MBA admit shares tips

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What’s a good GMAT score for M7, ivy league MBA, Top10 programs? The average GMAT score for M7 MBA programs is around 730. That’s just the global average. If you do a little demographic drilling (for countries, industries & roles), this average varies. Underrepresented candidates can get away with low GMAT scores. For Indian applicants, … Read more


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My view on affordable MBA consultants in India changed after getting $100,000 in scholarships

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There are many affordable MBA admission consultants in India who charge very low fees. And then there are premium players who aren’t competing to be the cheapest in the business. When MBA applicants who’ve seen the charges of cheaper MBA consultants learn about MBA Crystal Ball pricing, the contrast is apparent. How much do MBA … Read more


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Sample Harvard Stanford MBA essays: Written by ChatGPT, reviewed by humans

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Partly out of curiosity and largely to evaluate its impact on our own future, we asked ChatGPT to do what many have already started asking – write sample MBA essays for Harvard Business School, Stanford GSB and other top business schools. In an earlier post, we covered how to (and not to) write an MBA … Read more


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Is a 323 GRE score good? Second MBA abroad with scholarship for happy IIT IIM grad

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Are IIT IIM graduates happy, rich and successful? If they are happy with what they’ve got from their degrees, then why would any IIT IIM graduate need a second MBA? Well, other than having the most respected degrees in India, IITians and IIM grads are also among the most intelligent, hard-working and ambitious. Which is … Read more


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MBA after 13 years of work experience: How I got into India’s top MBA for executives

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The number 13 isn’t everyone’s favourite. And when we’re talking about MBA applicants, 13 years of experience isn’t very attractive to most business schools either. But Gaurav had made up his decision. He wanted an MBA and he was going to get it, no matter what his quantum of experience implied. He shares his desire … Read more


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MBA after Marine Engineering from BITS Pilani with 650 GMAT score

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You’ll hear many applicants saying they want to use the MBA to broaden their horizon. However, there are a few who want to go back to school to narrow down their horizon. Sahil Chawla, a marine engineer from BITS Pilani, was one of them not too long ago. After a productive and lucrative career in … Read more


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MBA application tips for investment banking applicants

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In the past, we have analyzed what steps you can undertake if you come from management consulting background pre-MBA. If we extend the table from that article, we see this: School % Consultants in class % Finance in class HBS 17% 27% Stanford 19% 20% Wharton 23% 30% Data for class of 2023 | Source: … Read more


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How I got a Product Management job after MBA

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How much can you earn in a Product Management job? The average product manager annual salary in different countries is as follows: Country Salary ($=USD) USA $111,551 UK $65,134 Canada $90,907 India ₹10,05,367 Remember that these are just averages. The salary can increase substantially when you target the right company and have the right degree … Read more


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This mom’s going back to school with scholarships: MBA abroad after Bank PO

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Sushrita Dutta’s journey has come a full circle – from reading MBA Crystal Ball blogs of mothers going back to school, to writing her own success story. After cracking the competitive entrance exams for public sector banks (PSB), the IT engineer got into the Bank of India as a probationary officer (PO) – a dream … Read more


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MBA after physiotherapy: Doctors declared him unfit for education, but he proved them wrong

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For medical professionals (doctors, dentists) who wish to transition to the corporate side, we’ve published several articles. But we haven’t covered anything on getting an MBA after physiotherapy. Dr Robert Sandeep Madduri’s success story is a special one to add to our repository. That’s because his academic capabilities were written off by doctors when he … Read more


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From Sales & Trading to a top M7 MBA (Chicago Booth): Admissions consulting review

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In the investment banking field, Sales and Trading (S&T) is a highly lucrative career option for many graduates, including engineers who don’t have any finance background. Mechanical engineer, Anshuman Anand, managed to move into sales and trading at a top investment bank. And he did that without an MBA. But he felt the need to … Read more


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Former McKinsey consultant shares MBA application tips for management consulting applicants

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For the world outside admiring your career as a management consultant, you’ve already arrived in life. You hobnob with the CxOs, pile on air miles, live in 5-star hotels, have all the bells and whistles such as a TUMI case and more. That can be an outsider’s view of what life as a management consultant … Read more