“Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata has gifted $50 million to Cornell University , his alma mater here, an endowment considered one of the most generous ever received from an international benefactor by an American university.. The gift announced by Cornell president David Skorton during his State of the University address on Friday will help recruit [...]
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Finally managed to submit my first B-school application of the season.. Recommendations submitted too.. Had to some some major changes in the essays and resume over last 2 days.. Content was mostly frozen for both. Editted for language in the essays and formatting for resume. I am overall quite satisfied with the final effort and I [...]
Last week has been a week of confusion for me.. I was forced to drop Darden off my list due to uncertainty surrounding the availbility of a no-cosigner loan. I had some insightful inputs from Touch, ahembeea and Achyu , which forced me to rethink my decision. Touch brought forward a very valid point of requesting a [...]
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The financial downturns have started taking a toll on my MBA plans too. Schools have started dropping the no-cosigner loan option for the international students. Darden used to offer loans upto cost of attendance till last season. I had confirmed this from the school-website as well as current students. So Darden was on my list, [...]
A big update from my side:: I’m pushing Ross to R2. For the last few days, I had been swamped with work at office, some events on the extra-curricular front and then, of course, MBA apps. I was finding it tough to manage Ross and Tuck together. For Tuck,I am relatively in quite advanced stage and I’m [...]
As I said in the last post, I had sent my essays to my reviewers: a couple of friends, a senior from college-days and one of my recommenders. The reviews have started coming in and they vary greatly in response. Reviewer 1 really liked my essays.. He has reviewed a number of essays in last [...]
FInally, my first set of drafts for my first school are ready.. Exceeded the personal deadline set by myself by a day, but still I’m happy that at last, I’ve some thing ready.. I’ve sent these essays to my reviewers:: two of my close college-friends and one of my recommenders. Have also written to a [...]
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/* Changing the title of the post in an attempt to make more Fuqua aspirants aware of the situation and hoping for some knowlegable guy to clear the confusion ASAP */ Speed of time == 5 seconds/second!! Now this is what I’m feeling these days!! Time is running out so fast.. It feels like yesterday, when I was [...]
Recently, I had a chance to visit Hyderabad. Though the schedule was mostly packed, but I knew I had to find time for the only class-visit I could afford. So I decided to scedule a class at ISB and extended my stay at Hyderabad by one more day. I had requested to arrange a class on [...]
Now this seems to be a weird title. At least nothing to be proud of, particularly when many fellow-bloggers are already in the phase of “Columbia submitted” and “Kellogg is almost done, working on Columbia“ But in any case, it’s a big achievement for a procrastinator like me. So thought of celebrating with a post on the [...]
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