For the past 2-3 weeks, I've been surfing through the blogosphere of prospective MBA students and current MBA students and its has been a huge learning curve so far as I'm trying to explore interesting blogs ( getting fascinated sometimes at some of the things these guys have to say and at the experiences they had through their application process) and understand the application process simultaneously. As I am already done with GMAT, I think I have a little more time ( starting from now ) than a typical 1st time b-school applicant at my disposal to work on things that I might want to improve in my resume. As the plan as of now is to get all my applications submitted in Round1, I figured I needed to stick to a time intensive schedule for the next few months. This is partly due to the face that during my GMAT preparation, I read somewhere that its good to look at time in chunk of days at a time so that we feel the sense of urgency and end up getting things done more efficiently. Henceforth, here's a quick peek at my schedule that I developed (working backwords) from the R1 admission timeframe for the set of schools I intend to apply to:
October 2nd week+
Submit applications ( 4 schools as of now and counting ( I let the counter loose as I still need to get in grips with the part of my which keeps saying 4 is too small a number :) ))
July1st-Aug-Sep 30th ( 90 days )
July, Notify all my recommenders ( previous workplace, grad school ) that the applications are due in a few months and start working with them.
August, September Start working on the blueprint for essays and focus on setting up a date for final draft ( I know this effort would be on-going until the day I submit my applications..but this is just for planning sake! :D )
Apr1st-May-June 30th ( 90 days )
Get used to reading through the blogosphere and be able to sift all the important stuff ( man, there are a gazillion mba applicant/student blogs out there ( no offense! ) and I understand most of them are filled with good stuff ( no offense for the rest either :) ) but do I really have the time/perseverence to go through so much content !?
Okay. so much for planning. Now lets see how badly I stay away from this schedule ( just kidding! I wish I could get this devil (called procrastination) off my shoulders and adhere to the above plan! )
27.3.10
21.3.10
Student Ambassadors
During my casual browsing of b-school admission related blogs today, I stumbled upon mbamission's exclusive interview with Soojin Kwon Kon ( Director of admissions, Ross ) and it was interesting in a way. For sometime now, I've been hearing about student ambassadors and have spoken to a few of them during my last few info. session visits to Chicago Booth ( Incidentally, Booth happens to be the only school yours-truly managed to visit until now ) but I never really knew that these people volunteer to answer questions and can be really good at providing a student's perspective. I guess one of the big TODOs on my plate right now is to get in touch with some of these students at my prospective schools.
Moving on, one other interesting thing that caught my attention in Soojin's interview is that Ross will be increasing its class size from 440 to 500 ( yaay! ) starting from academic year 2010-11, owing to the new-building/additional space created. And considering Ross typically fills 30% of its class with international students, this means close to 20 more international admits...!! Should I feel elated..? :)
Moving on, one other interesting thing that caught my attention in Soojin's interview is that Ross will be increasing its class size from 440 to 500 ( yaay! ) starting from academic year 2010-11, owing to the new-building/additional space created. And considering Ross typically fills 30% of its class with international students, this means close to 20 more international admits...!! Should I feel elated..? :)
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