Pulkit Kashyap’s first MBA application journey was disastrous – it started with a 570 GMAT score and ended with 4 rejections. He knew it wouldn’t get worse than that. So he picked himself up and did what any dejected, heart-broken Bollywood hero would do. He moved to Europe to rediscover and reinvent himself. He worked … Read more
NIT graduate and analytics professional, Sayoni Chakrabarti, got into an ivy league university for her MBA. She explains the research work she did to find out more about her target school. She used her creativity to her advantage and chose to include a slideshow in her Cornell Johnson MBA application. [Edit: After this article was … Read more
Working on MBA applications can be highly stressful for the applicant and the MBA consultant. That in turn increases the likelihood of mistakes. For Dinesh Kumar, it was very important to get an admit with scholarship. He was already worried about working in a non-feeder industry (i.e. retail) and not having big company brands that … Read more
With all the buzz around Canada being friendly towards international students, you’d expect Canadian visa officers to welcome prospective students with a smile and a bouquet. Despite getting admission offers from 2 leading MBA programs in Canada, Srivallabh’s student visa experience left him heart-broken. But he didn’t give up on his aspirations.
After completing his MS from USA, Siddhesh made his first attempt to get into a top business school in 2016. After getting rejected from all the programs, he launched his cryptocurrency startup. As an entrepreneur comfortable with technology, but struggling with the business skills, he felt the need to try for an MBA again.
Unlike film-maker Ashutosh Gowariker’s script-writers, Sindhu Keshavamurthy was courteous enough to ask us if her story was getting too long and needed to be edited. But we had already ordered extra pop-corn while reviewing it, and weren’t willing to settle for a shorter version. More so, because this fashion ecommerce marketing consultant covers a lot … Read more
What do you do when you come from an under-represented industry (non-profit), your GMAT score doesn’t make jaws drop and you’re not sure which degree is right for you? With a tick mark on all of the above, development sector professional, Mridhula Sridharan, knew what she was up against. Rather than getting flustered and discouraged, … Read more
Rohit Kabra left his job in USA to return to India so he could focus on his GMAT preparation. But he wasn’t able to score as much as he expected. He explains how he was still able to get into a Top 40 ranking program with a $40,000 (approximately INR 29 Lakhs) scholarship, without having … Read more
We regularly interact with the admission officers of the top bschools (here’s an interview with the UCLA admissions director). This gives us a pretty good idea of not only what the top MBA programs look for in applicants, but also what’s acceptable and what’s not when candidates take professional help. Ratan Mehra (name changed) got … Read more
Payal Kapoor (name changed) narrates her application story, and highlights the differences between working with alumni vs professional admission consultants.
Oil and Gas professional Divya Kumar Sharma was clear about his career goals after MBA (a career change from offshore job in the fossil fuel industry to the renewable energy sector) and his target MBA schools. He was hoping to score a 730 on the GMAT, but ended up with a disappointing 660. Here’s what … Read more
The Columbia Business School Indian alumni list will have another name added to it soon – Ramachandran Kasiraman. But this won’t be the first Ivy League university alumni list he’ll be on. He already has an MS from the University of Pennsylvania (yup, the same one that hosts the Wharton School). But despite his successful … Read more