I am applying…

I am applying with my pathetic 650.. and here is the list;

Stretch

1. ISB – R2

2. INSEAD – R2

Fit

1. HEC-Paris – Will try for R1, but seems it will go in R2

2. Said, Oxford – R1

Backup

1. NUS – R1

2. Queens – R1

ding!

Got 650 and a ding !

That closes lot many doors i aspired to cross… definitely Darden, ISB are gone… not sure with Johnson and Said..

NUS?? SP jain?? no ideas.. (or may be another try)?? don’t know … my mind is just not responding…

1 day to go…

1 day to go… and the D-day arrives…

How am I doing?? Ummm… actually… let say… I am … leave it… can’t say… actually don’t know.. there is so much that tries to come out whenever I pose this question to myself… a hoch-poch of feelings.. rises with a swirl and I need to push it back, coz I can’t puke it …

Lets see what D day has in store for me.. hope its all good and rosy… I am keeping my fingers crossed.. It a real big day… whether I’ll go to my most cherished path (the mgmt side) or will keep breaking my head with the same age-old code, all depends upon the score.. Hope this is ‘the’ day of my life when i have the grace from lady luck bestowed upon me…

All… its time… pray, pray and give a small part of it to me.. i’ll definately need it..

The probable list

So I finally have the first probable list of colleges I plan to apply to. Direct to the list;

Fit

• Darden (Univ. of Virginia)
• Johnson (Cornell University)
• RSM (Amsterdam, NL)

Stretch

• ISB (the sole reason for GMAT, but yes its a stretch, considering that the profiles of majority of applicants unfortunately matches too much with mine)
• Anderson (UCLA) — R2
• Duke

Backup

• Said (Oxford)
• Kenan – Flagler (UNC)
• NUS/HKUST/Manchester B school

But again, all depends upon the score… I am so eagerly waiting for this phase to get over….

battered, burnt and then… reincarnated

SC.. they’ll kill you, squash you against the hardest available surface, corner you to the end of a steep creek and poke your ego till you voluntarily decide to end it up and jump into that creek… and I am undergoing something similar like this..

Manhattan SC is good… but even if I try the best possible.. I still end up with mistakes… that too in OG .. they say “level of questions in OG is relatively easy as compared to those in real test”, if so.. I know who is to be doomed… I should place the order for a plate which should read “Here lies allboutgyan.. another victim of inspirations.. fought bravely against GMAT, but alas, was brutally brought down by ruthless SCs”

Ok, enough of ranting… it will never end…  so update: I am about to finish the SCs (Manhattan SC + OG 10) and next on plan are couple of days for AWA and then full length tests (may 4, 3 MGMAT and 1 GMAT prep 2) and a whirl trough all that i’ve done… seems so planned isn’t it??

Hope I can break that 700-720 mark with all this… hope !

the constant fear….

Its time since I updated my travelogue de journey2bschool… but to me it seems as if days just passed by in a flutter.. gone before i realised that they were… maybe its just the schedule or may be its a plot of fate against me…

ok, enough of ranting.. I’ll do it for days and still not be satisfied.. there is a lot of dark hidden in me…

I am done with approximately 6 weeks of so called prep…. done with Quant (Geometry is still left!!!), DS (need to do the 1000 DS sections!!!), CR (tough I am not at par with my pre-defined standards in any way), RC (I am at solace with this section, at last something positive) and now need to do the most dreaded one… SC. I am left with exactly 16 days (27th sept being the D-day)… no clue how am I going to achieve things I had planned earlier. Need to do SC and at least 10 test (full length) and then touch upon all the sections once more…. any you know what!! office comes up with a new jargon.. “scramble week”… where we’ll be “stretching a bit more” and “standing up to the call”… Wow!!! God!! what a perfect timing… no chance that I’ll get my leaves sanctioned…. so no run aways…

To add to the beauty of situation… I got drenched while returning home, after a day long stretch on last Saturday @ office… now I suffer from cough-cold-fever and what not… God must be very happy with me…

Don’t know if I’ll make it or not… I wanted to break that 700 mark… but now i am haunted by the constant fear of not making up to it… sometimes i do think of post-poning the D- day… but then.. this can continue as long as I run away from it… to heck with it.. I am going to give it on this 27th and that’s final. period.

All out there… my well wishers, friends and even my foes… for one last time… please .. please pray for me…. I need all of them…

Booked the D-Day!

27th Sept 2008… the D-Day is finally booked…

Need lots and lots of luck.. coz i’ve always failed pathetically in term of that..

All, need you wishes