Hi,
Thats quite crisp and clear reply
definetly got some direction to work on; specialy about the list other than HBS or Stanford
Thanks again for your direction and effort and time.
HarryIITD
bryantmichaels wrote:
Harry--
thanks for your post. You will be in a very large pool of dozens of thousands of applicants to HBS and Stanford, all with great profile characteristics like yourself. This means your odds of getting in are slim, just like everyone else's. You seem to have the right stuff to make it through, but again, with the numbers game that goes on with these two schools, it unfortunately comes down in the end to a bit of luck in standing out, even with a well crafted application. Certainly you should package yourself in the best way possible, cross all the t's and dot all the i's but there is very little you can do from here to improve your profile much more. You have leadership, innovation, maturity, job experience and academic credentials soundly in place. If I were you, I'd be taking a look at West Coast schools, where innovation and entrepreneurship thrives, and possibly begin to explore a few of the schools which have fewer applications sent to them yet still have world class offerings. Haas comes to mind, and USC and UCLA have good programs. Don't get caught up in the trap of thinking only HBS and Stanford can get you what you need to succeed. Particularly if you want to be an entrepreneur---the most successful entrepreneurs never even went to business school, much less to HBS or Stanford. Consulting is perhaps the most common job after b-school, so it shouldn't be any problem for you to get a good job after if you go to a top 25 school. Think about things like geography--where you want to work, where you want your network to be and whether you can get the H1B visa classification. These are much more practical concerns when choosing a business school. And get some help preparing applications--whether from us or someone else, because you hail from a very crowded pool where most are using good qualiity consulting just like someone preparing a legal case uses a good quality lawyer. Let us know if we can help.