One…Two… Three

Morning: Ding from HBS (so now its official)
Evening: Ding from ChiGSB (how come???)
Night: Ding from Wharton (huh…)
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Over & Out !

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4 ‘dings aint no funeral

3/3 dings from my R1 apps!
1/5 (ie. HBS) in R2… but I’m still optimistic
ChiGSB calls have started, and though I’ve yet to receive one, I’d rather wait for 9am CST tomorrow before jumping to conclusions!
Next are Wharton (27th) and LBS (28th) – whatta week this is going to be
And Columbia is still to [...]

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I’m Back :-p

Some word-associations for the last fortnight…
Wait, Travel, Hectic, Wait, Friends, Tension, Wait, Beer, Campus-visits, Wait!
Almost 20 days since my last post, and one of my least-blogging months since I started this blog. I am now back in India after 2 weeks of hectic traveling, work and partying!
A quick update (before some more detailed posts later):

Completed my LBS interview [...]

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So irritated

So many things troubling me over the last few day… I’m becoming an angry young (old?) man now!
First my LBS interview schedule finalization. Its just not getting finalized. LBS took more than 3 weeks to assign me an alum, and you know what – he’s from a competing consulting firm! So that gives rise to two [...]

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Wharton, Jackie & me

Had the Wharton Hub interview yesterday, so another quick recap :
WHO: I interviewed with Jackie Zavitz – yes, the adcom’s face on s2s, she’s conducting all interviews for the India Hubs
WHAT: Again, a ‘typical’ admissions interview, with the usual suspects

Walk me through your resume (ok… press the ‘play’ button)
Career goals – this was explored a bit with [...]

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Keeping track (Part II)

Dates on my radar…
Wharton final decision: 27th Mar (anytime after 7th Mar?)
ChiGSB final decision: 26th Mar (anytime after 7th Mar?)
HBS interview decision: 26th Mar (expected Ding!)
LBS final decision: 28th Mar
Columbia interview decision: anytime (hope dies in a week!)
On another note, I have finally crossed 100 posts (this one is the 101st) – surprising bcoz I wasnt sure initially whether this attempt at blogging would [...]

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This should be a write-off

A $ 250 write-off for my personal P&L! Thats how HBS is turning out to be – with no interview invite on 21st Feb!
Not that I’m complaining much… I sorta knew this from the start – I did NOT have a decent shot at HBS (given age/ok-to-hi GPA/etc), but could not resist applying! I don’t want [...]

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Invited again!!!

A slightly belated Valentine’s day present from Wharton, here it is!
Dear Oops,The status of your application has been updated and you have been invited to interview with the Wharton MBA Admissions Office. (Please look for the link to the letter inviting you to interview located at the bottom of the main page of your online [...]

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Dear Wharton application,

I am very happy you finally convinced TC & team to make it to Round Two. But I hope you are not resting on your laurels now. You have a lot of work to do - you need to tell them what a great guy I am, and why they should admit me.
But where are you? I hope [...]

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Keeping track

Some dates that matter a lot, nowadays…
Tuck final decision: 8th Feb
LBS interview decision: 12th Feb
ChiGSB interview decision: 20th Feb
Wharton interview decision: 21st Feb
HBS interview decision: 24th Mar (hope dies 15th Feb?)
Columbia interview decision: 12weeks =  2 April (hope dies 29th Feb?)

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