I'm holding out for more decisions. Manchester, is one of my targets, and i've been admitted there, so its a case of waiting for those stretch goals.
First choice is Stanford, second Kellogg (Had to apply to find out if i could make it or not), then probably Cornell (Stretch target). HKUST, NUS and Manchester are the realistic schools. Hult was my back up, which i can now dismiss
I started the MBA application process quite late, school selection took a couple of weeks, started studying for GMAT at the end of October sat the GMAT in mid November, and then focused on applications for 4 weeks.
Managed to apply to 7 schools in those 4 weeks, and the first school came up sweet
. Manchester's deadline was November 23rd, so i applied there first and managed to get in. A lot of pestering of recommenders needed
. Even though we had a tight project schedule (Product launched Nov 14th, now in maintenance phase).
All the other schools either have later R1 deadlines ( HKUST, Hult - Dec 15th, NUS - 31st Dec)
R2 Schools ( Kellog - 21st Dec, Stanford 7th Jan)
R2 Schools Cornell 9th Jan.
All had to be done in advance because I had already booked a holiday with the family for December before i decided to apply for an MBA. Off to Singapore and Vietnam to relax over Xmas and New Year.
Just hope i get some earlier decisions from Cornell, Kellogg, Stanford (ding or otherwise) because deadline for deposit for Manchester is Feb 28th. If i get dinged from those 3, i'll be fine, because those 3 schools are stretch targets due to my GMAT of 610, and paying a deposit just to get dinged wouldn't feel good. But in the offchance i do get accepted. It would be worth it.