16 February 2007

No luck at Wharton

Denied without Interview.

Without pondering on the reasons, I must say I enjoyed the challenge.

Labels:

Posted by Inblue at 12:59 PM | | Comments

13 February 2007

...

Don't know what to name this post :)

Anyway, from S2S I hear that the Indian Interview hubs are full and with only 3 more days to go, I am losing hope on a Wharton Interview Invite. Not matter how much I want to be positive and hang in, its difficult.

Labels:

Posted by Inblue at 8:02 PM | | Comments

05 January 2007

Submitted Wharton

I do feel free now. A lot of last minute mishaps crashed laptop, work in office, recommender missing later I did put the application in.

On the other end, I did not submit LBS.I just wasn't motivated enough to put it in.

So begins 2007 for me now !

Labels:

Posted by Inblue at 10:56 AM | | Comments

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.

Labels: , ,

Posted by Inblue at 8:48 PM | | Comments

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.

Labels: , ,

Posted by Inblue at 9:42 AM | | Comments

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.

Labels:

Posted by Inblue at 8:48 AM | | Comments