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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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Masters in Analytics or Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) is a graduate-level degree program that focuses on developing students’ analytical and technical skills for analyzing data to solve business problems. Most MSBA programs on offer blend technical coursework with business courses to prepare students for making data-backed business decisions. Students learn to…