So now you have tamed the GMAT and are ready for the next step, the admission
process, what do you do?
Here is what will really excite the Admissions Committee at the Top 10 B-Schools:
-You have Great Grades. It is better if these are in an extremely complex subject which you have chosen our of real interest. Of course, you have very good reasons to dump that subject, because of your ‘Calling’ for management, that has nothing to do with more money!
On the other end, if you do not have Great Grades, you have had such an amazing student life that you can explain your low grades with ease, maybe you have studied through an Olympics scholarship, or you have supported a family of four through college, or any such ‘plausible’ reasons.
-You are an extremely accomplished person. A third of your achievements are professional, a third extracurricular and the balance personal. Mediocrity in any of these can put you in the ‘One Dimensional’ or ‘Two dimensional’ bucket. In short, you have a ‘well-rounded’ personality.
-You are unique. You have fought for your country, experienced significant amount of hardships that have moulded your character, or you belong to a Royal family or have famous parents.
-You have had at least one phenomenal failure. This failure has changed your life and given you new insights that have taken you to higher levels of success.
-You have planned the next 15 years of your life. Your goals are simply unachievable without parting with $100K and getting an MBA from this particular school. And of course, you have very valid personal reasons for selecting this particular school, these reasons cannot easily be found on the Schools’s website.
-You have a single minded approach in life and you can attribute your actions, reactions, mistakes, and pretty much everything else to this.
-You are an ethical person. Your ethics have been challenged at least once, but you have
successfully overcome temptation to uphold your values.
These are things that will really get the Adcom (Admissions Committee) excited.
But what do you do if you are a mere Mortal?
You should be reading 'The Ultimate Guide to cracking Top MBA Admissions'!!
Why do you really want an MBA?
It's the dreaded question that you will have to answer several times if you want to go to b-school.
Do you want to make more money, want to get a promotion, you're tired of your current job and want to make a change, or you just don't feel like struggling through the rat race and need a little time off.
These are all valid reasons, but of course these are reasons that you can never mention in
your "Why MBA essay".
This book will help you look deeper within yourself and enable you to answer the ‘Why
MBA’ question with conviction.
So how do you verbalize your reasons for doing an MBA, that the adcom will fall in love with?
How do you write stellar essays? How do you generate ideas? Who is the best person to get a recommendation from.
How personal do you need to get in your Essays?
Is Active Voice better than Passive Voice?
How do you explain/comuflage your less than stellar academic performance?
How to portray your lack of experience in a positive light?
The answers to all these questions require deep introspection.
Despite all the hype of Admission Consultants, the best person to answer these questions is You.
The core stories, the incidents and the examples have to come from you. No one else can do these for you.
And then, you have to use a bit of creative writing and pronto, you are done!!
Well, almost done!!
From idea generation to the final draft of your essays, there are many pitfalls and many ways of presenting yourself.
So what is the best way to navigate the admissions quagmire? How do you make sure you don’t make any ‘schoolboy’ errors? How do you make your application ‘shine’?
And this is where the ‘The Ultimate Guide to cracking Top MBA Admissions' comes in.
process, what do you do?
Here is what will really excite the Admissions Committee at the Top 10 B-Schools:
-You have Great Grades. It is better if these are in an extremely complex subject which you have chosen our of real interest. Of course, you have very good reasons to dump that subject, because of your ‘Calling’ for management, that has nothing to do with more money!
On the other end, if you do not have Great Grades, you have had such an amazing student life that you can explain your low grades with ease, maybe you have studied through an Olympics scholarship, or you have supported a family of four through college, or any such ‘plausible’ reasons.
-You are an extremely accomplished person. A third of your achievements are professional, a third extracurricular and the balance personal. Mediocrity in any of these can put you in the ‘One Dimensional’ or ‘Two dimensional’ bucket. In short, you have a ‘well-rounded’ personality.
-You are unique. You have fought for your country, experienced significant amount of hardships that have moulded your character, or you belong to a Royal family or have famous parents.
-You have had at least one phenomenal failure. This failure has changed your life and given you new insights that have taken you to higher levels of success.
-You have planned the next 15 years of your life. Your goals are simply unachievable without parting with $100K and getting an MBA from this particular school. And of course, you have very valid personal reasons for selecting this particular school, these reasons cannot easily be found on the Schools’s website.
-You have a single minded approach in life and you can attribute your actions, reactions, mistakes, and pretty much everything else to this.
-You are an ethical person. Your ethics have been challenged at least once, but you have
successfully overcome temptation to uphold your values.
These are things that will really get the Adcom (Admissions Committee) excited.
But what do you do if you are a mere Mortal?
You should be reading 'The Ultimate Guide to cracking Top MBA Admissions'!!
Why do you really want an MBA?
It's the dreaded question that you will have to answer several times if you want to go to b-school.
Do you want to make more money, want to get a promotion, you're tired of your current job and want to make a change, or you just don't feel like struggling through the rat race and need a little time off.
These are all valid reasons, but of course these are reasons that you can never mention in
your "Why MBA essay".
This book will help you look deeper within yourself and enable you to answer the ‘Why
MBA’ question with conviction.
So how do you verbalize your reasons for doing an MBA, that the adcom will fall in love with?
How do you write stellar essays? How do you generate ideas? Who is the best person to get a recommendation from.
How personal do you need to get in your Essays?
Is Active Voice better than Passive Voice?
How do you explain/comuflage your less than stellar academic performance?
How to portray your lack of experience in a positive light?
The answers to all these questions require deep introspection.
Despite all the hype of Admission Consultants, the best person to answer these questions is You.
The core stories, the incidents and the examples have to come from you. No one else can do these for you.
And then, you have to use a bit of creative writing and pronto, you are done!!
Well, almost done!!
From idea generation to the final draft of your essays, there are many pitfalls and many ways of presenting yourself.
So what is the best way to navigate the admissions quagmire? How do you make sure you don’t make any ‘schoolboy’ errors? How do you make your application ‘shine’?
And this is where the ‘The Ultimate Guide to cracking Top MBA Admissions' comes in.
