U. To(o) ??

Today I got this mail from University of Toronto

Thank you for starting your University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management MBA application. Members of the Rotman Recruitment and Admissions team will be visiting India between November 29th and December 5th to attend the World MBA Tour and conduct admissions interviews. Due to the volume of applications that we get from India, we are only able to schedule interviews with individuals who have submitted their application.
If you submit your application by November 15th we will book an interview with you in Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore or Mumbai. Note however, that your supporting documents (i.e., GMAT scores, transcripts and references) can be sent after November 15th.
I am also pleased to announce that we have a 50% tuition scholarship for the top Indian student and I'll be happy to discuss your candidacy for this scholarship in the interview.

What the..? How come I get to know so late about this? If I had known earlier I would have put you'll on the Top. Oh did i mention that U of T is also hiking its app fees by $25 for R2? So that leaves me with approximately 20days to write the essays, get them polished and have my recommnders submit their stuff.

Am wondering whether its worth it to rush it?

Boston University

Just got this in the mail from them

Dear Ryan,

Congratulations! Through the Graduate Management Admission Search Service (GMASS), you have been identified as a preferred candidate for Boston University’s management programs.

International Diversity is an integral component of the Boston University educational experience, so we are actively looking for students from India to join our Full-time MBA programs. Last year, more than 75% of students with a similar GMAT score were admitted and received a Dean's Prize Scholarship – now valued up to $35,000 per year.

They were anyway on my app list this only makes it sweeter :-)

Essays!

Its been so hard writing essays :-(

I had one essay torn apart by 3 different reviewers. All of them were unanimous in their verdict "Redo" :'(

Whole lot of shit happening at work and at home and it hasnt been easy focussing on anything. Have been tired and frustrated.

Colleges

Research!

Research!

Research some more!! Research your colleges!! I'm not applying to two colleges that I sent my scores to. For the simple reason that its way toooo expensive, I dont fancy my chances at getting aid and honestly I didnt do any(meaning a lot. i did a little but not enough) background work on them!

So that's an additional $50 to send scores elsewhere. What a waste!!

Books for Sale!

All those books I studied from and scored a 710 are now up for grabs. Well, they were up for grabs lnog before I just never got around to posting it :-D

Anyway books being offered are

OG11
Manhattan Cr/RC Guide with 6tests (i've registered this one but you still get 6tests and about 11months of access)
The complete 4GMAT set (1600 value that I didnt touch )its only Quant btw.
Kaplan 800 (2005-06)
Kaplan Higher Score (2003)
PR (2005)
Plus a lot of printed material, and i'll burn you a CD with a lot of stuff+tests too.

Make me a good offer people :-)

It's a 6!!

Yeah the Official Score came yesterday and i was a little stunned to see a 6 considering I only studied for it the evening before the test, and didnt practice a single essay :-D

All's well that ends Well :-)