What is the Value of an MBA Education?
During their application journey, MBA aspirants struggle with a fundamental but valid question: Should I leave my well-paying job for a career break and accumulate a significant financial burden to pursue an education that may not yield the career benefits I anticipate? Before you apply, it's necessary to figure out why you need an MBA...
Waitlist Management and What B-schools Require from You
After months of hard work and angst, it's disheartening to be placed on a waitlist. The silver lining is, that you are still in the reckoning and have some power to sway the decision in your favor. It can be an excruciatingly long wait before you can get admission off the waitlist. But if all...
Spicy Storytelling for Writing Successful Essays
MBA essays are about spicy storytelling. The friends of spicy storytelling are drama, vulnerability, challenges, actions, eventual wins and takeaways. Impactful story telling is never linear. Opportunities and challenges go hand in hand and every situation in life goes through its ups and downs. So it is with storytelling, because the MBA essay stories are...
Writing a Killer Career Goals Essay
The Career Goals Essay! Your short-term goals. Long-term goals. Plan B-goals. Why are these your career goals? What in your professional experience so far has led up to these goals? There are several questions about career goals, and with good reason. Students primarily go to business school to fulfil their career aspirations. In this sense,...
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome in MBA Applications
Do you keep second-guessing your application for your favourite B-school? Then you are likely suffering from imposter syndrome. For over a decade, we have mentored thousands of MBA aspirants to get into their dream business schools. The one obstacle that stopped the vast majority of them from applying to certain schools, let alone putting in...
What to do as a Reapplicant?
Building an MBA Application takes months and is excruciating, so it is nerve-wracking if you get dinged and have to redo the process another year as a reapplicant. Applicants fear that the B-schools will no longer be interested in them but, the silver lining is that most B-schools are open to reapplicants, admitting up to...
Five Ways to Network for B-school Admission
Football legend Pele once said, “No individual can win a game by himself.” In the metaphorical game of MBA applications, your team members are the different people you network with, who play a “behind the scenes” role in making you win in the fiercely competitive MBA application process. Networking does not come naturally to most...
How to Research B-schools?
Firstly, why research b-schools? Before we invest in something, we do our due diligence. By joining an MBA program, you will invest your time, money and effort into it. And you will make the best out of it only if you find your MBA experience worthy. This “best” can have a different meaning for every...
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