What is academic preparedness for MBA and how to demonstrate it?
B-schools take a holistic approach to evaluating applicants for MBA admissions. Your academic grades, career progression, leadership skills, and personal and professional achievements are all critical aspects that make you competitive. That said, the most significant criterion remains your academic preparedness for handling an MBA program’s rigorous curriculum. To measure this, b-schools closely look at […]
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 […]
B-schools Accepting GMAT/GRE Waivers in 2022-23
You may have to first request for a waiver at some b-schools by filling up a test waiver application. At other b-schools, you can directly submit your application. In both cases you will need to write a short essay on why you qualify for a waiver. Here are the details of what every b-school wants: […]
Applying for an MBA with a GMAT/GRE Test Waiver
One of the major changes Covid-19 brought to the MBA application process is that many b-schools waived off the standardized test scores requirement. With the onset of Covid-19 and its associated lockdowns, it became a health hazard across the world for applicants to take the GMAT/GRE at the test centres. While both tests quickly went […]
FIVE steps to overcome low GPA
“Your past mistakes are supposed to guide you, not define you” For a person deeply ingrained in the MBA application process, the first thing that hit me about this quote was a common MBA profile weakness- the low GPA. Every year, we work with applicants who have low undergrad grades. The reasons are several- they […]
GMAT and GRE Scores for top MBA programs
The GMAT and GRE scores are the most important evaluation metric used by business schools to assess applicants. While b-schools have always asked for GMAT scores, the GRE is gaining increasing acceptance among b-schools not just in the USA, but in Canada, Europe and Asia as well. As part of our series to make the […]
Factors to Consider When Selecting Business Schools
We recently wrote a blog on ways to research business schools. But before that, you need to know which factors should you take to account when selecting your perfect list of b-schools. Here are some criteria that can bring method to your research: Job related Factors: 1. Employment opportunities: The main reason why people do […]
What GMAT Score Should I Have?
“How much GMAT score should I get for XYZ school?” I have heard this question being asked consistently over the past six years, since MBA Decoder came into being. Now that b-schools have started accepting GRE, applicants have added GRE to that same question. For the “cent percent” marks obsessed Indians, the answer could not […]
Ready for an MBA!!! Next what?
So your cousin, who graduated from Anna University and worked for an IT major for 5 years is heading abroad for his MBA and you think, why don’t I give it a shot as well? Well, if you are confused, don’t know how to go about it, what to study, how to prepare, which university […]