“Will I be able to
get into this school?” This is a common question that most candidates ask
themselves, their friends, their admission counselors, when they’re applying
for their MBA. For the most part, they’re mainly trying to maximize their
chances of getting in.
This is definitely an important question to ask. After all,
if you’re sure you want to do an MBA and are spending so much time making your
applications perfect, you may as well ensure that you’ll see the light of
success.
However, just as you ask yourself “Will I get into this
school?”, have you ever asked yourself, “Does
this school deserve me?”
Think about this for a moment. You are going to be spending
2 years of your life at this school. This time is going to come from the prime
years of your life. You’ll be spending a great deal of money in getting this
education. You’ll be living far far away from your loved ones. You could be
doing other things with this time – a great job, starting a company, getting
married, traveling, anything. Instead, you’ll be giving 2 years of your time to
this school. That’s a lot of stuff.
It only makes sense
then that as much as the schools are selective about which students get in, you
should be selective about which schools deserve you. Does the school have
the right resources? Does it attract the kind of students you’d like to hang
out with? What professors does the school have and what research have they
done? What teaching model does the school follow? What values does the school
and its student body espouse? What’s the culture at the school like?
These are hard questions to answer and it is easy to ignore
them. Yet, the answers to these questions can make all the difference between a
good and a life transforming experience in these 2 years at Business School. As
Indians, it is easy to get sucked in the mentality of “I need to get XYZ
education”. You are now old enough. You are making a conscious choice. Make sure it’s a choice you will be proud
of for the rest of your life.
Nice!!
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