Adcom to note!

"Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird" - Atticus to his children (To Kill a mocking bird, 1960)

In the bschool admissions game/society, the equivalent quote to the one above is this:

"Deny all the bankers/consultants you want, but remember it's a sin to deny a young & ambitious engineer" :-)

For the sake of closure..

Denied at Chicago.. :(

Stop posting your admit calls!!

The draining wait, the incessant posts in the forums by admits who received calls from Chicago have practically killed all the excitement in me. The nail in coffin was the post by some Singapore-based guy(Hama, Forrest - is that you??) who got the call a few minutes ago from Esther Choy.

This might very well be the end. Now, I'll have to pass the whole damn day to find out the possibly ugly news. Sucks!

Running on Chicago time

34h:43m:11s to go..

As an aside, here is an interesting pic. Guess the name of the movie.

Plan B

With the Chicago decision less than two weeks away, now would be a good time to prepare myself for the worst. What if no Chicago? I see two options

(1) Put in one more year of face-time at my current job & re-apply next year to a wider gamut of schools.

(2) Look for a new job; more in-line with my post-MBA career interest. Analyst level position dealing with financial modeling/risk management/quantitative analysis n such. In this case, re-apply after at least two yrs in new job.

Option (1) is status-quo. Need not move my ass one bit. Just continue the same routine.

Pluses
* Assured great recommendation from boss. Yeah, my boss loves me and is totally with me on this MBA game ;) Also, if I should decide to give INSEAD a try, my boss can write my recommendation in french :)

* The atypical industry (from bschool perspective) that I am in. Bschools dig applicants with non-traditional work experience (I think so, yes?) and I can play up my current experience from this angle.

* Possibility of a promotion later this year.

Minuses
* Total irrelevance to post-MBA goal.

* Lack of cranial indulgence. :(

I have more but I don't want to get fired just as yet :P

Option (2) is more interesting and is one of the reasons I applied only to a few schools. (The other reason, of course, is that I'm plain lazy. But I guess you already know that from the frequency of my blog update) If things don't work out this time around, I can afford to wait longer than to comprise on quality of the school I will attend. Age is on my side.

This option, however, is more difficult to execute. The kind of companies I'm interested in are very elitist and far more risk-averse in their candidates selection than bschools are. Not sure how successful I'll be.