My application to HBS 2+2 program meant for the college seniors started about a year back. Ever since I started it, I started going through a variety of websites, blog, contacting alumni etc. I started to draft my essays only around april this year. During the same time, my classmate and I co-founded "The Entrepreneurship Development Club" in our college. I am the President of that club and my friend/classmate Jeremiah (a.k.a Jerry) is the CEO.
Before assuming the post of the President of Entrepreneurship Development Club, I was the student executive member of SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) for a period of one year and one of the two college representatives to the National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN). Entrepreneurship has always interested me and Im have a strong passion for it which led me to lead a 5 member team to participate in the Youth Business Development competition conducted by Oxford Said Business School. I have also done 4 internships in a few countries.
I thought I had a good shot at getting in HBS due to my high GPA around 3.7/4 (I am ranked first in my department) and my reasonable extra curricular activities. The reason why I got rejected to the HBS was probably because I didn't analyse myself thoroughly. However, the entire application to the HBS was a self realising process through which I learnt a lot about myself in terms of who I am, where do I want to go, what do I want to do in life and so forth. My internship in the US made me realise my strengths and weakness and also how much and why I wanted to do an MBA. My strong analytical skills combined with my desire to learn new things and my excitement to make substantial and lasting change to a business client makes me an ideal candidate for management consulting. Applying to HBS was the best decision of my life as I would have not known why and how strongly I wanted to be a management consultant. So to every candidate for an MBA program who happens to come across my blog my advise to you is to apply as early as possible to the MBA program so that you will know what you want to do in the future and be focussed in achieving that task.
Having said that, I am off to edit my essays for the stanford application.
yale and stanford are in the same league as harvard, regardless of the selectivity of harvard; it seems like you have only applied to top ivy-worthy schools, you probably should have some backups; also, it seems like you don't have any thing outside of academics as currics-that can make or break you
ReplyDeleteSayu, I am applying to only a few b schools and those are ranked at the very top as you have rightfully noticed. I am not having any backups as I think I can get into those bschools at least after a few years if not now (I am just 20, so age is definitely there on my side). Apart from academics like high GMAT and high GPA, I have exhibited some leadership skills and I have done a little bit of social service activities (though not much compared to the likes of the students from Harvard). However, I have had a good entrepreneurial experience right from the age of 11 when I started working as a real estate broker for my dad.
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