pmenon wrote:
Thanks for your advice, gmatmba.
Funny you mention how the essays should focus on how youre different from all the others; I was actually talking to my Dad about this very subject today !
I think Ive got some ideas, but at the same time Im also afraid that they wont be "significant" enough to be considered something special by anyone else. I mean, what happens to the applicants who have NOTHING special to say and share ?
The ideas that you have, are they significant to you? Thats what matters, why they are significant to you and how you can paint a clear picture in your essays and communicate that to the adcoms.
If I tell you that I drove in India when I was 15 years old - and thats significant, you may not feel the same about my achievement. Now if I tell you that I did that the year after I had a bad accident where I lost 1 leg and 1 hand and had to overcome my fear of cars and roads, now we're talking. So you have to explain why things that have happened to you are significant, it doesn't matter if they are significant compared to other applicants.
To think of it a bit differently, if you are applying to HBS, or CMU, or Hult, why are you applying there? Obviously you think that you are good enough to study there and compete with others there. Then go out and prove it. If you think that you have nothing to offer, no significant experiences and nothing to talk about, nothing to prove to this world, nothing to achieve - then why MBA???