The London Business School 2011 Thread

Hi srjaidev, to your question, I check GMATclub a few times a week, so not the most active user here probably. But do let us know if you have questions about LBS! Will gladly answer as much as I can. Great to also have BSD around to help as well.

vspradeep2002,

You are right that your academics may be your weak spot in your application. With no offense, but the majority of successful Indian applicants probably score above 700 on the GMAT. Many also come from IIT or were close to the top of their class. Your accounting degrees may help offset this, though I'm not familiar with their scoring. Another weakness may be during your work ex from 2005-2008, where it appears that you may not have progressed that much (at least from what you write in your post).

Having said that, please don't be discouraged at all from applying. Your work ex in the past 2 years is very solid and you also have good extracurricular activities! Great that you founded Virutcham, sounds like an interesting organisation!

Best of luck, rid82! You're applying to all of the 3 schools I am applying in R2

MBA (Full-time) Status Submitted

I just submitted my application .

However, be careful guys. With this new online application system you application is submitted before it asks you to pay. In fact, I thought I could review everything before clicking in "pay" and it was already submitted.

Then I verified it, found a mistake and it was too late. In fact I started a job in December 2009 and I put December 2008...

Do you think I should email them right away?

MBA (Full-time) Status Submitted

I just submitted my application .

However, be careful guys. With this new online application system you application is submitted before it asks you to pay. In fact, I thought I could review everything before clicking in "pay" and it was already submitted.

Then I verified it, found a mistake and it was too late. In fact I started a job in December 2009 and I put December 2008...

Do you think I should email them right away?

I'm in a similar situation to you in the sense that I too have a low undergrad GPA. Thinking as an adcom, I would see a 750 and know you have the brains, but seeing a low undergrad GPA I might wonder about your level of discipline and endurance. Since your work experience is not yet long enough to show good career progression (discipline and endurance) then I would want to see a good reason for a low-undergrad GPA that is limited to undergrad and wont be with you going forward.

In my case I have a 7 year career progression with good forward movement, so I'm concerned about the opposite of you. I'm concerned they may be unconvinced of my brains aspect, so I took some graduate extension courses to augment my GMAT and GPA.

I think you'll need a good optional essay more than a 750 GMAT, though the 750 certainly wont hurt.

MBA (Full-time) Status Submitted

I just submitted my application .

need help!

1) are there word limits for the questions in the data form? based on the online template, there does not seem to be a limit.

2) is going over the essay word limits by 5% or so, or even 5-10 words allowed?

thanks....

2) Why risk it? I'm sure you can trim 5-10 words without compromising the quality of your essay.

I'm curious to know how people responded to the following two questions:

Have you told your employer that you're applying?
Can we contact you at your business address?

Is it ok to say no!?