You want me to tell you a story that’s known by everyone and yet somebody needs to just write it out.
All of us have faced those sleepless nights during college admissions – and B-school college admissions are a whole different league. It’s an unsaid truth that if you get into a college where the acceptance rate lower than 20%, you’re somehow less of a person.
Those admission requirements are totally not required – an essay, letters of recommendations, study plan etc. the irony of it all we try to sell ourselves as someone we are not. You need to have a perfect balance between personal life and work life, but not too much balance, otherwise, you’d seem impractical. You need to be a straight-A student, but spend more time in university activities than studies. Always be good at something which is in trend with the industry.
These universities always want students who are different, who are accomplished and who can act like a mature robot. I was just a teenage girl when I started to apply to B-schools for my MBA. I didn’t have anything extraordinary in my resume. I didn’t have those great bits of knowledge about the industry or knew what terms like IoT and machine learning meant. I was an imperfect human being and I had my own set of qualities too. Sometimes I cry tears of joy when people around me are doing well, I’m proud of them. I always bring extra pens to exam halls just in case anyone needs them. I ask people how their day has been so far and genuinely waited for an answer. I never forget to greet or smile at anyone passing by me. I don’t think twice before asking for help and saying thank you.
But the essays these universities want us to write doesn’t have a place for all these kinds of stuff. They've got a particular set of norms and evaluating criteria that I feel somehow demeans us as an individual.
But let me tell you the truth, no matter how demotivated I am through this entire ordeal, I won’t give up. Next year again, when the admission session of different universities would begin, I would be there submitting my application again, because there’s this new Masters degree that caught my attention and I’ll make it to that course, like just as I made it into an MBA course even with all my pitfalls.
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