Haffun
I am going to apply for 2025 MBA intake. Since there is some time, can someone tell me how I can use this time to maximise my chances by doing something more? I have 12years of total work experience, 2 yrs experience as a co-founder of an early stage startup, avg gpa, I have done good amount of co-curricular activities both during my undergrad years and at work. I also write and have published a couple of short fiction pieces.
I am an Indian female.
Haffun hope this finds you well. In my humble opinion, you can maximize your chances by carefully strategizing your application at this point. With more than a decade long career behind you, the incremental benefit of most things that you will invest your time in will not be much (except for one that I will list later). Therefore, really break down and reconstruct your stories in a way that it establishes how working in a variety of roles has given you the ability to contextualize business problems better than others who will apply to LBS.
What's the one thing you could do that will maximize your chances? The one thing that impresses adcoms the most is an applicant's ability to take risks and quickly switch gears to improve their ability to fulfill future objectives. So think about what your post-MBA goals are, and if you are planning not to continue in entrepreneurship, take up new internships with well-known startups in areas that will help you to successfully find suitable opportunities post MBA. It is not uncommon for admits to top B-schools to pursue internships just before applying or joining a B-school. If you can showcase to the adcom that you are prepared for anything that you will face in the future and you are strategically taking steps in the right direction, that will drastically improve your chances of an LBS admit. Needless to say, your employability post MBA is a key criterion in the admissions process.
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