Category: MBA Apping

  • Round 1 done!

    Submitted the last of the four apps yesterday (Diwali) morning. The third one was submitted the day before. Now sitting tight and waiting for any updates. Meanwhile, I think I should start work on the couple I am targetting for the second round.

  • Random Post

    Deadlines waiting to be met. Essays waiting to be tackled. Forms waiting to be filled. Meanwhile, I am here, blogging. “Why the f*%k?” one might ask. Because I am stuck at office for some call which wouldn’t get over before some time. The past couple of weeks have been overwhelming. I have acted crazily at…

  • MBA Apping Update

    The stock markets across the world continue to tumble, and I continue to toil with my applications. As the days go by, I get more and more jittery about the impact the slowdown might have on my future plans.  I am done with applying to two of the five places I have finally shortlisted. One…

  • Apping Update

    The schools have been shortlisted, and the real work begins with some 25 odd essays to be written. I am applying at a mix of schools ranked between 10 and 40 by FT – and the ranking was not my criteria. Though required, I am amazed at the kind of questions that schools frame for…

  • It’s like deja vu..

    Some people never learn. Wait I am talking about myself. After the pathetic experience I had with Indiaplaza the last time around, I had virtually decided that I would not be using them for buying books. But then I forgot the lesson learnt, and ordered Montauk’s “How to Get Into the Top MBA Programs” –…