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Shyam Nambiar didn’t exactly fit the definition of the typical MBA applicant. However, what his profile lacked in terms of conventional attributes, he more than made up for it with his razor sharp career planning and dollops of confidence. Shyam not only got into several top MBA programs in USA, Canada and India after 40, … Read more
As if GMAT, good GPA, solid team lead experience and what not weren’t enough, now that you’ve decided to take the plunge, you hear of this new beast – international work experience. MBA forums are abuzz with presumptuous and incorrect views about how programs such as INSEAD will reject applicants for not having international experience … Read more
A distance MBA puts many professionals in a dicey situation. More often than not, the distance / correspondence degree doesn’t provide the expected career boost and it makes it tougher to apply for a second MBA from a more prestigious college at a later stage. Dhruv Cairae had the patience to wait for the right … Read more
Differentiation can be a big problem for many MBA applicants from over-represented countries like India. However, being too different from the crowd can actually be a bigger challenge to overcome, as Kashmira (name changed) discovered in her first year of applying independently. She got rejections from 10 business schools. As a freelance marketing professional who … Read more
Ask any international MBA consultant how to get into Stanford University from India for the most selective MBA degree in the world that pays the highest MBA salaries, and you’ll probably hear some similar sound bytes. Score a 770 on the GMAT, work for 4- 5 years (in a top tier consulting, investment banking or … Read more
GMAC says that a 700 GMAT score would put you in the 90 percentile (ok, 89 to be specific). But sadly, for certain candidates (like the far-from-endangered Indian IT Male Engineer MBA applicant species), it is still considered an average GMAT score by the top 25 business schools. After getting rejected by 3 top business … Read more
One of the more important aspects of the MBA application (I guess second only to the essays) is the letter of recommendations submitted by recommenders on behalf of applicants. I’d like to take the opportunity to emphasize a few things I haven’t really discussed until now, since they are worth reinforcing.
Let’s start with a quirky factoid that many of us may have thought of at certain points in time. Is a CV the same as a Resume? Short answer – No. Long answer – well it depends, depends on how much of a purist you are. In modern English, the two are being frequently used … Read more
This blog post comes after quite a hiatus – a couple of months at the very least. The intervening time saw me travel around Asia, meeting with prospective applicants from the Middle East to Beijing and everywhere in between. The innumerable conversations I’ve had, the opportunity to look applicants in the eye and share with … Read more
It’s a tough road to become a Chartered Accountant. Ranked among the most difficult exams in the world, the passing percentage for all 3 CA exams is in the low single digits. If you considered folks clearing all three exams in the first attempt it drops to a shocking 1%. That explains why many drop … Read more
It’s common knowledge that the average GMAT scores for Indians in the top programs are higher than the averages listed by MBA colleges on their websites. You may also know that the MBA admission chances in Round 2 are lesser than in Round 1. And as an icing on the cake, Indians are more likely … Read more
So you’ve put your heart and soul into your applications. But you aren’t sure still cause of the unknowns in the admission equation – who knows who else applied to the same set of schools you did and who knows if they were better than you on more than one profile parameters?