When MBA Admissions Process was Non-Privileged
When you are following undergrad and your major is engineering, you need to learn two basic rules: First that Unless you are studying pharmacy or some other courses of natural science than someone major is exponentially easier than yours and second most important the business majors. After few years, both before and past undergrad, I without intention subscribed to this insidious, novel idea and accepted it as the evangelic without any question. Still, after so many years when it came time for me to look at B-school I was in for quite the into the dilemma like a tricky and sometimes tough math question, I missed a small but critical piece of logic that was out of from my entire equation for this topic. When I first began looking into applying to B-School, I observed to the closest thing that I had experienced to such kind of a process as a reference point ,my call for a spot at a top 10 engineering grad school 10 years ago. I can remember involved for 6 or 7 weeks to studying for the GRE exam during one of my internships and for some reason that I cannot remember, I neither took the exam nor looked at the exam material during the following semester that fall. In reality , I didn’t take the actual test until march of the next year, right before all due date to apply to schools and fellowships and it was like how careless and reckless. Since I was in engineering classes and each day my quantitative aptitude had not fall down that much during meanwhile. And when I was young I had this poor philosophy about standardized exams where I only believed in studying for the math. People should not ask me where I got that idea from because I have not the haziest idea. By the way, I had this unborn superstition that English skills were so inherently cumulative that they were a waste of study time when preparing for standardized exams . And I felt very strongly that your verbal aptitude on tests like the GRE were a strict function of your exposure to classic novels, newspapers and having people around who had strong vocabularies. It was belief and I thought my little self-appointed universal law was brilliant. On final day, I came down with the viral fever and remember going into the test with a running nose , headache and a handful of tissues. Anyhow, I ended up well enough to gain admission to my top 2 choice schools and both top 5 programs at the time. I also was able to land a full ride. Though I never showed up at either institution and I felt that I had learned a lot from the process and finally planned to transfer that learning into the MBA admissions process. I was not ready for what would actually end up happening about 18 months of my life being consumed primarily to looking at a top MBA and that was before matriculation. There will still be completely two years of actual school to go through after my admissions . Now here is where I forgot having one As everyone know engineering is a quite hard working degree program, it is asperity actually do works in your line that should you decide to continue your education. If you think so than question marks ahead and answer is because engineering programs and its design, are constantly removing out students. In the Classroom lectures like circuits, physical chemistry, organic chemistry and thermodynamics usually send the first wave of students running for cover by the end of second year. Then for those candidate who make it through the program, more of them will disperse to other career like sales , marketing batting their wounds, winnowing the flames of very intense battle and glad to be attached with diodes and turbines forever. So you can see as you matriculate through advanced degrees in engineering your pool of competitors thins out more and more the higher you go. Interestingly, when talk about business school they seems to work opposite to that. When MBA time comes the best and brightest students from a multitude of undergrad majors including engineering suddenly become your competition for just a handful of desired admissions slots. This circumstance is then worsen by the fact that of the most capable applicants are all aiming for the same 10-15 schools hence schools like Stanford getting 18 apps for every available seat; madness. Oh and did I mention that just about everyone has thousands of personality, fine communication skills and knows how to present or sell themselves extremely well .Not to mention that it takes 6 months to a year just to be ample prepared to submit a strong application; and that MBA website with hyper sensitive to so many discrete shades about your application beyond your grades and scores. And that test is the damn GMAT test. Its very adaptive, so none of my old tricks from the paper test days apply. I am a night article sitting by a sunlight window. If I speak , I have really no idea how this whole thing will turn out but I know one thing for sure until I get accepted or battered by every school on my target list, I am owned by this heavy process.