Recently, a lot of ink has been spent writing on the bankruptcy proceedings for “Toys R Us”, a US based toys’ retailer, that fueled the fancy of many childrens dreams with its premis...
MBA applications are a hard nut to crack. And with acceptance rates for top schools for highly visible demographics like Indians, Chinese and South Koreans running into very low single digits (like 1-...
Which is the best Time to Apply to a B-School?
Early action, Early Decision, Rolling Admission, Round 1, Round 2, Round 3, next year – the number of options in term...
The concept of self-knowledge has been prevalent in the old Eastern philosophy as an integral part of higher education.
Expertise in any domain at the highest levels was complete only w...
A letter of recommendation (LOR) is an opportunity to strengthen your admission application by providing information not provided elsewhere in the application. It can provide further explanations and ...
Most of my ‘successful’ mentees have worked extremely hard to get into colleges or career paths that they are currently at. While I have constantly talked about the value of persistence an...
Write better - applications, essays for admissions, reports, creative thought
Writing to understand yourself
Writing well is important most of the time, but writing well for admission essays an...
"Papa, can I become a doctor?"
"Well, you will not know until you try!"
And he went on to become a practicing psychiatrist at the top US hospital. Of course, in the process, he worked extremely hard...
A lot of us aspire to do Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the best colleges of the world. The process of application to great B-Schools all over th...