I am back to MBA track

After my first poster, I didn't even can find it back. Then I have been busy with all the preparation for MBA entering in 2007. Starting from GMAT preparation, essay drafting, filling application form, get recommendation letters and submit the application, it has been almost half an year already. Time is so fast. Now I am back. I want to record my MBA preparation Journey. I have visited many others and found a lot of useful information. I figure that I should write mine too. It might be benefit to someone else who start to think about MBA. I also wish I can remeber this experience.

People said applying MBA is time cosuming. It is 100% true. I started early so I decided to catch all the round one from each school I want to apply. Initially, I only apppy Harvard, Columbia, Wharton and MIT. But then I suddenly lost confidence. Since I have told my boss I will leave anyway, I have to get in to some school that is not too bad. So two weeks ago after submitting these key top schools, I decided to apply 5 more schools. It is much easier to just copy and paste to prepare the new schools. The difficult part to prepare essay stories was past. So I just submit the other 3 already this week: Carnege Mellon Tepper School, Yale and Kellog Northwestern University. The whole process is just like the other full time job. Since everyone knows my determination for MBA, I didn't get too much work to do during the day. I spent at least half of a day to prepare and research for my MBA. Since July, it has been more than 3 months full time job. Each day, I spent at least 4 to 5 hours to edit my essay. It was a nightmare. I read my first version of essay at least 50 times. Is it bored. The friend I asked to edit for me also complained about my bad grammer and read the same story again and again. What can I say? This is what supposed to be with my Chinese background, bad writing skills. But I did write every thing myself.

I start to fill my schedule with school visiting and interviews. I feel so busy. This weekend, I will drive to Tepper at Pisburgg for interviewing on Monday. 5 hours one way drive, not too bad at all. Then next weekend, I need drive to Boston to visit MIT and Harvard, althought the chance I can get in is very small. But I always think if I decide to do it, I need put 100% into it, so that later, I won't feel regreted. Luckly, my boss understood all these processing since his sons and daughters all graduated from Harvard, MIT and princeton. He definately has a high brand education family and himself graduated from MIT back to 70s. He doubted my ability and asked me to apply some local school like Drexel and Villinova. I won't go any school ranking lower than 20, that is my determination. I spent so much time and energy on this and even put my family into this, I cannot quit at all. I need more blessing on this since I have almost done my part. I keep praying for the admission or an interview from Wharton.

Waiting period is nervous too. I kept check my email box every other hour. I checked Wharton S2S student admission blog, many of them are crazy too and cannot wait for a interview. I wish I can get one at least passing the half of ratio.

I have to prepare for interview for Tepper this weekend. Never ending!