29 December 2006

Phew ! Tuck, Wharton LBS..

Yep, finally I have managed to complete my Wharton Story ! Essays and Application questions and other details. Wharton has been way tougher than what I imagined.Nevertheless, I have a complete application in hand but will still wait to revise my esssays one more time before I hit the submit.


Not hearing from Tuck has been motivating rather than debilitating. It has given me opportunity to revisit the application and find out what went wrong. I guess, it was the discrepancy in my goals and the recos and my story.I found a loose end and probably that's what killed my tuck app. Anyway, it rests there.


Right now I am in a to-be-or-not-to-be about LBS. I like the school, its international nature but I am not so keen on living in London. With the Chiacgo admit in hand, the confusion is growing stronger. Though I have my story ready, I am kinda stuck in the in-between.

Happy New Year.

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22 December 2006

Thinking about Tuck

The Chicago admit has sunk in - possibly completely for me- and between preparing hard for Wharton and LBS, I just stumbled upon some Tuck thoughts.

Umm ! So what's been happening there ? I have known a couple of Tuck interview invites (ad-com initiated) extended to international students. I am wondering what is happening with mine. If the process is totally random and if they still have interviews left to be sent, then I have some hope. If the quota is already exhausted, I am already thinking what went wrong there - Essays, Recos, Fit ?

Nevertheless, I will hop on to BW forums today and find out what is happening or possibly find some other leads. Since holiday season begins in US tomorrow, I dont hope to hear from Tuck in the next 1 week or so.

Until then, its Wharton and LBS - the prep, the deconstruction, discussion and rebuilding.

Latest Update : 2.20 PM IST
Read on BW of a Tuck adcom saying all the interivew invites for the Novermber round have been sent already. So as much as I am hoping , (in the absence of an official word) reality is the that i am probably dinged without interivew at Tuck.

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20 December 2006

And I have news...

Inblue is admitted to the Red School ( in the most yellow, green way )

19th dec 8.42 am while I was at work I missed a call from a +1733-* number

19th dec 9.00 am when I was going for breakfast I picked up my cell and realised what I had missed

After some tracing ( thank you Internet ), I found out that the number resolved to Chicago Ad-com. Kicked myself all day for missing that call and freaked out on the Chicago forum and that's when things got clearer. Another applicant had been delivered the good news and 8.30 am IST.

The night passed, and this morning and when I checked my Hotmail I got this email from the Ad com member saying that they could not reach me and that I have been admitted.

Finally, at the end of the drama, I've known that I have been admitted to the GSB, Chicago class of 2009. Congratulations to all you guys who made it . Mr Anonymous- thanks for the early wishes.

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19 December 2006

I can't describe

what i have been going through since yesterday evening and now and every moment. The feeling of logging into my Hotmail, refreshing the pages.. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!Every moment my heart seems to skip a beat. The anxiety does not reduce if I switch to the Messenger.

Yea Yea.. that happens when you are eagerly waiting to hear from a school and you know that the Chicago Adcom has started to send out Admit calls.
Neverthelesss, my Wharton essays are done and sent - just in time before any good/bad news pours in. I am pretty much happy with the way they have come out and I am hoping that in the next few days, I will replenish my creative juices and shade the essays well.

For all who are waiting, I know I know its difficult.. I hope there is somewhere to for every one to go and freak out.

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14 December 2006

In the middle of nowhere

I thought I'd re-do my Wharton essays but I just couldn't get myself to do anything productive at all, though I had all the office hours and the day thereafter to my disposal. All I did was ponder over my Chicago and Tuck applications. I hear that Tuck R1 interviews( post- application review) going out for international students and I couldn't help but think and then think and then think about what was happening with my Tuck application. On BW, I read some days ago that Tuck doesn't user the 'apply yourself' for Status update notifications, so ended up refreshing my mail twice every hour until 11 to see if Tuck sent anything. ( I really don't know how true this is)

I wanted to go home and read something different but to my sheer disappointment ,I just could neither watch TV nor chat with my roomie. Just to kill this dis-orientation,I opened my box of origami papers and made some things out of it, fixed my blog feed( that was screwed after I switched to Beta.The template still needs to be fixed) and went to sleep. It wasn't a good day yesterday :( (Call it a waste of 8 hours). Occasionally, I guess, the system of applying itself forces an impasse on you.

On Tuesday, critically analyzed my Wharton essays and I found out so many things that I could add. My Candidature has changed a lot in the last 2 months with significant happenings at work place and in my responsibilities, which have brought a lot of ethics substance , dilemmas and failures. A large part of my essays need to change and I am hoping I would do some of it today. The idea is to get this done before I go back home for a day on Sunday.
Now I am going to tune the chords again and not waste today.

Disclaimer:
This is not meant to be a rant post, rather a one that reflects the emptiness and mind block of an applicant during a long application process.

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12 December 2006

Brooding over Wharton

I am officially into R2 now, which keeps me away from the R1 anxiety and which brings me back to breaking my own essasys.Between the R's I did pull some fun, books and home making but am back to gazing outside of my windows thiking about E-S-S-A-Y-S. It feels riding the 'Tour de France' - climb, break and ride again. Slow- steady-long. But sometimes , a part of me is eagerly awaitng the end of R2 without bothering about the decisions.


As I sat to review the whole Wharton application, I noticed that there is a lot different in wharton from a standard B-School application -a. no resume ,b. a seperate section to list hobbies, activites and why you love them?Given this and the essays, wharton demands a very well crafted application. I am done with version 1 of the essays and the app, took a days break and started reworking them last night and I found all my essays look lifeless( Or do they look so after writing a lot ?)I also feel some redundany and loose ends and so am going to work them over this week.



Amongst other things, I completed my Tuck Financial aid application and sent it over to Hanover and work has been peaceful discounting the bureaucracy and competition for Projects.

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08 December 2006

Miracle..

Last afternoon like every other bored B School applicant, I took to surfing the BW boards.
I panicked twice - seeing people talk out there and realizing that I had absolutely forgotten to turn in my financial aid application for Tuck which was due with the application. I decided to never return to the BW boards and also to call Tuck and inquire if I can still turn in a application .But look what I get..

Today morning I had official communication from Tuck that the deadline for the Financial is extended until 18th of this month. Now that's grace for people like me who forget !

Hmm !! Everyday life Miracles !
PS:
All of you thinking Tuck in R2 , please note that financial aid application from Tuck is not a part of the admission application. It has to be separately turned in via post. Plan for this. Probably Tuck is the only school that has a separate process for this. All other schools I am applying to include financial aid in the their online application.

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01 December 2006

Submitted Tuck

Some 4-5 hour before the deadline I put in that app.

Tuck had not specified any strict word limits on the essay . 500 words were a guideline and though I tried best to stick to 500-600, my goals essay did not fall anywhere there. It went quite long but I did ensure that I wasn't ranting using more words, rather was conveying substantial reasons and matter.

Tuck is coming to India but doesn't look like they have space in the Mumbai Information session ( am on the waitlist though), where I could have caught up with a admissions representative - a thing Tuck encourages so much- Interviewing every candidate.

December is in and so will be good/bad news !

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