Watch: How Sumedha got into M7 & T20 with scholarship + other applicant stories
It’s an enviable situation to be in – multiple admits from top schools – some with attractive scholarship offers (including free rides). It can also be confusing and frustrating when you can only choose one from the mouth-watering options. Will you choose your top choice program (with no financial aid) over other offers that including … Read more
You may have read why differentiation is a big problem for Indian MBA applicants. Coneenika Choudhuri chose to tackle the challenge in style. While other applicants grappled with their profiles to show a spike, What helped Coneenika go full-throttle, was inspiration from her bike. With MBA applications focussed on the when, the how and the … Read more
This post was triggered by a recent meeting I had with a school friend. I met him after almost 30 years and he was narrating his story. Like many, he was forced to take up an engineering line (civil engineering) based on his entrance exam marks. He took up a tough field job in a … Read more
Many MBA applicants get so enamoured with the MBA prestige, ranking and brand power that the ultimate objective (i.e. what they want from the MBA) gets pushed down the priority list. Too heavy for an opening statement? Let’s break it down.
While this Bahubali has more peaks to scale, the way he has battled challenges to reach this position is a story in itself. Amit Jathar, an Indian MBA applicant over 35 with a 650 GMAT score, had plenty of baggage to deal with. Forget the fact that there weren’t many to support him with his … Read more
Like many Indian and international students planning to study abroad, if you feel that the university ranking and brand power means everything, you’d be impressed with Anamika Agarwal’s resume. But what’s more intriguing is the journey behind it and the lessons she has picked up from her experiences. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Bombay) … Read more
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
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
We published an article earlier focusing on the dilemma of an MBA after marriage. In it we talked about what might happen if a husband OR a wife decide to take a sabbatical. Towards the end we promised an even more interesting story of an Indian couple who put in (independent) MBA applications together. When … Read more