Readers,
The ISB Info session in Bangalore was supposed to be held in the first week of July in 2006. I was looking forward to the meet. I wanted to get a first hand feel of what the guys at ISB had to say. There was a big crowd at the Taj Gateway. I was surprised !! Are there really so many people out there who were interested in the MBA route via ISB ? As is usual with these gatherings the crowd was hep ! The session started with some videos about the ISB Life(all about ISB). There was this picture of the guy who was the the GMAT topper in the last batch.I suddenly asked myself - am I making a realistic attempt with my GMAT score. The person from adcom told us that ISB does want people with good GMAT and good acads but that is not the only criteria. Being from IT & a male with a sub 700 GMAT all my friends had already advised me to forget ISB and other top schools. The big gathering at the Taj asked some good questions and some stupid ones . I did not wait for the tea and snacks and i did not ask any doubts either. One thing was clear in my mind after the presentation. I had to be in ISB in the class of 2008. With my mind made up i came out of the session and promised myself that what I lost in the GMAT I would make up in my application essays and the interview. It would be my maiden and only (complete) application to any B-School ever. I had filled up a preliminary evaluation on the websites of HEC Paris and IMD Switzerland. The former gave a strong recommendation to me to proceed with the application which i never did and the latter advised me to gain more international experience and then apply - that also i never did. I had ruled out all the foreign MBA schools due to one or the other reason.
The US Schools - because i really did not find a good 1 yr program there.
The European schools - bleak job prospects and IMD did not want me.
I will make one golden attempt - Only ISB. If is going to be it will be ISB otherwise i continue as i am today.
Then dear readers in my next blog i present my dilemma whether to use an application assistance service or not.
Till then,
Cheers from the Omnibus Blogger.
The ISB Info session in Bangalore was supposed to be held in the first week of July in 2006. I was looking forward to the meet. I wanted to get a first hand feel of what the guys at ISB had to say. There was a big crowd at the Taj Gateway. I was surprised !! Are there really so many people out there who were interested in the MBA route via ISB ? As is usual with these gatherings the crowd was hep ! The session started with some videos about the ISB Life(all about ISB). There was this picture of the guy who was the the GMAT topper in the last batch.I suddenly asked myself - am I making a realistic attempt with my GMAT score. The person from adcom told us that ISB does want people with good GMAT and good acads but that is not the only criteria. Being from IT & a male with a sub 700 GMAT all my friends had already advised me to forget ISB and other top schools. The big gathering at the Taj asked some good questions and some stupid ones . I did not wait for the tea and snacks and i did not ask any doubts either. One thing was clear in my mind after the presentation. I had to be in ISB in the class of 2008. With my mind made up i came out of the session and promised myself that what I lost in the GMAT I would make up in my application essays and the interview. It would be my maiden and only (complete) application to any B-School ever. I had filled up a preliminary evaluation on the websites of HEC Paris and IMD Switzerland. The former gave a strong recommendation to me to proceed with the application which i never did and the latter advised me to gain more international experience and then apply - that also i never did. I had ruled out all the foreign MBA schools due to one or the other reason.
The US Schools - because i really did not find a good 1 yr program there.
The European schools - bleak job prospects and IMD did not want me.
I will make one golden attempt - Only ISB. If is going to be it will be ISB otherwise i continue as i am today.
Then dear readers in my next blog i present my dilemma whether to use an application assistance service or not.
Till then,
Cheers from the Omnibus Blogger.
3 comments:
Hi,
I was just reading some ISB Blogs. Just saw urs also. BEST WISHES.
Rgds
Sreekanth
1) out of curiosity, what was your score?
2) did u take gmat again?
3) you hsouldn't have stopped blogging!
a nice way of writing experiences in bits and pieces made me navigate easily from one post to the other without a stressful lengthy reading...
if am not wrong..u could have joined ur classes at ISB and are too busy with ur assignments to post a blog here..
wish u all the best
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