Here’s the first bad news of the season.. (I sincerely pray tha it’s the last one too) Reliance Dhirubhai fellowship results are out.. And I’m not through to the next round.  There were more than 1400 applications for the 50 spots and I guess at least 50 of them were more competitive than I am..

WHat could have gone wrong?
First of all, it may have been the essay.. In essay, I wrote about my actual social impact goals, which were in education sector. However, this was different from my professional goals and I intended to pick these up as non-work activity. I guess the schol-committee didn’t like the idea. Further regarding the quality of essay. Even I myself was not that happy with the final product. EVen before I had started an idea, I had to move to the next one, thanks to the stingy word-limit. I was hoping that may be they’ll get impressed with the honesty of the ideas, but that didn’t happen.

So what next??
Stan is put of my list.. It pinches to drop your dream school out of your list. But I don’t think that I can make it to Stan when I couldn’t make it to top 50 from India. (I agree that the criteria maybe different, but still..)Also Stan and California are far too expensive for me to afford without a schol..

That creates a spot in my final list.. Which school will take that spot? Or wil i use it to burden myself a bit lesser and app to one less school..  Not really sure about it.. Will decide in two days time and update the blog accodingly.

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