MBA and GMAT forums are filled with GMAT success stories of how Indians cracked the GMAT exam and got into the best MBA abroad universities. What happens to those who have decent profiles but aren’t able to get into the 700+ GMAT club?
Ravi Shah (name changed) has some perspectives for those are looking at ways to be head and shoulders above the rest, in the business world. It includes seemingly crazy-sounding decisions like rejecting a $40,000 scholarship offer from Wharton MBA. For Indian students that’s a lot of money to turn down.
The green lady you see in the background has been trying hard to woo Abinesh. She made multiple offers he couldn’t resist. One was worth $40,000 and another that was over $100,000 (70 lakh rupees) in the form of MBA scholarships to come and attend a leading MBA program, virtually gifting him a free MBA … Read more
Would an MBA in USA make sense when you have twice the amount of work experience? The average pre-MBA experience generally hovers between 4-5 years in American MBA colleges. Though the lure of job opportunities in the U.S. is tough to ignore, most MBA applicants from India who have spent a considerably higher amount of … Read more
Not everyone can chuck their job and head off to business school. There are personal and professional reasons when Part-time MBA programs are a better option compared to regular full-time MBA courses. Almost all the top universities offer part-time MBA degrees. The admissions process for some these can be pretty tough. Consider folks working in … Read more
It’s a brand that gets instant respect no matter where you are in the world – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It already had a formidable presence in the technology world, and with the MIT Sloan School of Management, it ventured into management education. Its flagship proram, the MIT Sloan MBA, enjoys a high ranking … Read more
MBA applicants think it’s worth every dollar spent hiring the best MBA consultants even if improves their chances of getting into the elite schools. And the general perception is a flamboyant international consultant is better than the modest Indian MBA consultant in delivering the goods. Canada-based Arindam Mukherjee hired a high-profile and well-known MBA consultant … Read more
You’ve read many stories on our blog about success after failed attempts. You haven’t? Well, here are some reapplicant success stories. But, the one that we are covering below is unique. It is a ‘successful’ success story that happened after multiple ‘failed successes’. Confusing? INSEAD MBA student ‘MBA Juggernaut‘ (her parents gave her a much … Read more
Nisha Shukla faced a dilemma that’s not-so-uncommon among professionals who’ve been working for quite a while and are now looking for some serious career rejuvenation. The options at that stage seem pretty limited. With an experience of 10+ years and a 6XX GMAT score, Nisha didn’t want to target the traditional MBA programs where the … Read more
If you take out Accenture and Vanderbilt University from his resume, and look beneath the layers, Bhaskar Purohit (name changed) comes across as a creative person. His passion for music goes beyond being a passive listener. He sings, and writes poems & songs. He won a song writing competition at Accenture. But given the timing … Read more
While the battle of the giants in the MBA world – Harvard Business School (HBS) and Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) – has raged on for a long time, very few Indians have been in the envious position to have got admits from both. That number shrinks further if you consider Indians who’ve got … Read more
Chances are you’ve taken the CAT exam much before you started thinking about its international brother-from-another-mother – GMAT (GMAT vs CAT). Chances are you’ve taken the CAT exam twice. Rarely will you come across someone as persistent as Mukund (name changed) who made 4 attempts at the CAT exam, and failed despite cracking the 99 … Read more