UP UP & AWAY!

So, last tuesday (at 2 o'clock in the morning!) I submitted my application packet to INSEAD. Wow that was tough!

Obtaining my recommendations was fairly easy and my recommenders were more than happy to help me acheive my goal. I made sure to prepare them a "Recommender's Packet" which I'm sure helped them out a bit.

For my essays though it was quite a bit harder than I expected. To answer the essays in the best way possible you really need to examine yourself and your motives so deeply! It was so difficult. Additionally, INSEAD's application limits your answers to short paragraphs that leave room for just the bare bones of your life. There is hardly any room for flourishing vocabulary. Its like, "Explain your whole reason for being, with examples, in 250 words."

I think my application was good. Lord knows I spent so much time on it... I also had a chance to talk with each of my recommenders and I think they submitted really good recommendations.

Now, the hard part about the application was my undergrad grades. That seems like a sad pathetic thing that everyone talks about. Well, I guess, add me to those multitudes. I don't know what I was thinking in college. I mean, duh, people look at your grades and assume all kinds of weird things about you, I knew this already. I mean, I knew some really stupid people who got great internships and jobs purely on the merit of their grades. I should have focused more on that, but at the time, I was working and living, and I don't know what else. The worst one is my 'D' in Finance. It's probably the worst grade possible when going into a rigorous MBA program.

It's hard when it seems that people place so much emphasis on something which doesn't describe you well. All I can do now is hope for the best, and wish that they don't try to describe me by my grades...

posted by Jason @ 6:18 PM 0 comments