Comments on: End of a dream::Am not a Reliance Dhirubhai finalist :-(

By: Vishal Pandya

Vishal Pandya — Sat, 02 May 2009 11:31:02 +0000

Hi Shobhit, DJ, Shushant and all,

I am Vishal Pandya and presently I’m planning to apply for RDAF at Stanford.

I assume all of you would have applied for the same. Could you guys throw some light on what are the basic skill sets RDAF selection comittee looks for? How a person’s financial background, his/her resume and essay can influence a person’s selection? According to you which is the most influencing thing among these three?

I would also like to talk/chat with you guys if you give me your mail ids. My mail id is: vishalhpandya@gmail.com

Thank you in advance

By: missionmba

missionmba — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:10:42 +0000

Thanks everybody for your support!!
DJ, your post in particular was very reassuring.. Thanks dear!!

@Apoo and Sushant::
You’re right, Stan n Reliance hav diff criteria, but I need to drop Stan at least temporarily from my list and focus on relatively achievable schools.. But yes, I’ll try to gear up for Stan in R2, maybe..

By: DJ

DJ — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:05:24 +0000

Hey Shobhit,
Hard luck buddy… U would for sure land up in top notch B-School ya… Your blog have been an inspiration to me and am sure many people must have also benefited from it…
Best of luck… Sab kuch thik ho jayega bhai…

Regards,
DJ.

By: vani

vani — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:45:04 +0000

Best of Luck !!

By: Sushant

Sushant — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:16:13 +0000

Dude!

Absolutely DO NOT drop Stanford from you list just because of the Reliance thingie. Reliance, from what I hear, had a set of criteria to decide within – academic performance, essay and FINANCIAL NEED. A lot of people I have spoken with have glossed over the financial aspect of the equation. If you are minting money right now, Reliance apparently didnt want to enable you to mint more! But that doesn’t mean that Stan will not like your application as well. Absolutely not!

By: Apoo

Apoo — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:55:57 +0000

Hey you! Dont drop Standford from your list. Ask yourself – if Stanford offered you an admit right now, would you take it up? Am sure you would. Banks can fund your education, you can take loans, kill, steal, beg…. its your dream school.

Tomorrow if Ross, Duke, Darden and all your other apps accept you, you are gonna feel “damn, I was good. I should have app’d Stanford as well”. Its your dream school. You might never get in, but you wont look back in your life and feel you never tried.

I sure hope you apply, and I sure hope you get in! Good luck!

By: missionmba

missionmba — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:13:40 +0000

@Juggler and Nik:
Sad to know that you two too are in the same (sunken )boat..
@Ajay:
Hav added you on GTalk. Looking fwd to having a chat wth u soon…
@SR:
Right on!! I too feel that it’s the financial need that played the most critical role..
(But I’m not at all satisfied with the way Reliance chose to guage financial need!!)

@Battle for MBA
AFAIK,There’s no way that you can get that list mate!! Reliance needs to protect the confidentiality of the candidates.

By: battle for mba

battle for mba — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:27:41 +0000

hey Shobhit
how r u?

Do u have a list of all these 50 finalist or let me know the way to view it

please reply.
or mail me at manish_bhandari23@yahoo.co.in

By: SR

SR — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:01:37 +0000

mission:

I think one of the criteria’s that a lot of applicants glossed over was ‘financial need’. I think this was the clincher for many….either ways.

By: Nik

Nik — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:17:00 +0000

Bro,

I didnt get accepted as well. But the difference is, I knew that decision from before.

Reliance Dhirubhai says that it is for people who are Indian, but fails to explicitly state that they should be also studying or working in India.

I think this is sad. Strictly speaking, they are distinguishing Indians from India and Indians from abroad. Not cool, Does not make sense.