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01 May 2007, 14:43
I have read the essays of some students that have got through both Oxford and Cambridge this year - they are, in my humble opinion, cheesy to say the least.
Most with an IT background wanting to gain MC experience go back to India and be entrepreneurs. I read somewhere on this forum this was typical for most Indian IT applicants.
Plus all have really ambitious social service aspirations - if I were to spend 50000 pounds on an MBA, I would be more concerned with ROI than charity. Again IMHO, if all Indian applicants who claim to have charitable inclinations, were to really go back to India and do what they proclaim in their essays, India would be a different place.
I am not sure if adcoms are looking for cliched responses but I would imagine reading through hundreds of applications they would be able to read between the lines.
In addition to retaking the GMAT, if I do not get through a business school of choice, I would probably redo my essays to sound like I want to get an MBA degree and return to India to devote my life to social service :-)