Congratulations to the 2011 Beat The GMAT Scholarship Winners!
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Thank you all for applying to this year’s Beat The GMAT Scholarship! We read so many awesome stories! It was really hard to narrow it down from close to 300 applications to just 7 winners. Without further ado, here are our seven winners and their prizes:
- Stephanie Puentes, Sacramento, CA, USA – Veritas Prep GMAT Course with $250 GMAT Voucher
- Jekaterina Gapleskaja, Crawley, Australia – Master GMAT Course with $250 GMAT Voucher
- Bhavin Padhiar, San Carlos, CA, USA – Manhattan GMAT Course with $250 GMAT Voucher
- Margeret Mutheu Mutua, Nairobi, Kenya – Kaplan GMAT Advantage Anywhere Course with $250 GMAT Voucher
- Rohit Saxena, India – Princeton Review GMAT Course with $250 GMAT Voucher
- Samuel Mwangi, Nairobi, Kenya – Grockit GMAT Video Course and Premium Membership with $250 GMAT Voucher
- Courtney Biggs, Honolulu, HI, USA – Knewton GMAT Course with $250 GMAT Voucher
Congratulations to all of you!
We’re especially grateful to our sponsors: Grockit, Kaplan, Knewton, Manhattan GMAT, Master GMAT, The Princeton Review and Veritas Prep. Their generous donations make this one of the largest GMAT scholarship programs out there. You rock for helping out so many applicants!
We’re also happy to continue our tradition of having past winners judge this year’s applications. Thank you Ganesh Kumar, Iliana Estevez, Katie Brennan and Uyen Hoang for taking the time to select our winners.
Every year, we run this competition with the hopes that in the end, all participants get something out of crafting their applications. We were particularly pleased to see the awesome feedback from our community members! So even if you did not win, congrats for taking on the task of writing an application. Our sponsors will be reaching out to you shortly.
And a huge thanks to our super supportive community!
21 comments
Balpreet Kaur on June 8th, 2011 at 5:39 am
Hi Eric..First of all Congrats to all the winners..i was wonderng if it will be possible for you to share the winners essay just in case this does not amts to much botheration.
It will really help people out here in terms of giving an understanding how things should be written n stuff
Suresh on June 8th, 2011 at 11:13 am
Eric/Dana,
This is surely that BTG should be doing this time !!
We would like to know what these members wrote that made them winners..
We might be able to use these things in our essay also !!
Jekaterina Gaplevskaja on June 8th, 2011 at 7:45 am
Wow!!! Honestly didn't expect this!!! For the past 30 mins I was running around screaming! I didn't think I could do it, but this is really empowering me to aim higher and do better
Thank you so much guys!
wayofjungle on June 8th, 2011 at 9:02 am
Congrats! There was some tough competition I'm sure, so this means you are truly special in your achievements. Use your success to help others one day in return.
Rahul Kadian on June 8th, 2011 at 10:01 am
I think it will be a good idea to put in some honorable mentions.
Since there were only 7 top slots and a lot of good apps.Just putting their name will e a great motivation factor for them and their app process later.
Suresh on June 8th, 2011 at 11:11 am
Cant agree more !!
Dishank on June 8th, 2011 at 1:47 pm
Congratulations! It is definitely gonna be a huge confidence booster if BTG releases a list of those who were good enough but didn't make it to the final 7. How about releasing a short profile of the winners also?
Ggetafix on June 9th, 2011 at 1:39 am
Yes, I agree. It will be great if you can mention the names of those who were close enough. Also if possible can you give some pointers from the essays written by the winners.
Stephanie Puentes on June 8th, 2011 at 10:04 am
Thank you so much! This is truly empowering! I was definitely not expecting it. Coming from a non-traditional business background it has given me the confidence to pursue a competitive MBA program. I am speechless and extremely grateful! Thank you again.
Courtney Biggs on June 8th, 2011 at 10:12 am
Wow! I'm honored and thrilled to have been awarded this scholarship.
Thank you so much Beat The GMAT and Knewton. I appreciate all the thought and hard work that went into making this contest happen, and I can't wait to put my scholarship to good use!
Suresh on June 8th, 2011 at 11:10 am
Congrats to all those who won the scholarship..It is appreciated that BTG allowing its users to participate n giving them such nice prizes but I would also like to point out that with 300 users submitting the application and ONLY 7 winning the prizes..Very poor ratio and something needs to be done..If applications are increasing that means BTG is being accessed by more people n BTG is spreading the word for all the GMAT teaching classes which is the one of the main motives of all the prep institutes over here !!
DanaJ on June 8th, 2011 at 12:29 pm
Hey guys,
I also wanted to say congrats to the winners! I was one of the judges this year and I perfectly agree with what Eric said about how tough it was to narrow it down to just 7 winners.
I'm not entirely sure we can publish the essays, though. It's up to the winners to decide if they wish to make their essays public, because some of the essays were quite personal. We did not announce that we'd be publishing winning essays, so some people might feel that their privacy was not respected if we publish the essays now.
Bhavinp on June 8th, 2011 at 2:54 pm
Wow! I am thrilled to have won this scholarship and truly grateful to BEATtheGMAT and Manhattan GMAT for such a wonderful opportunity. I will do my best to pay it forward.
Sam Mwangi on June 8th, 2011 at 10:46 pm
I really do not know how to Thank You guys @Beat the GMAT,......I'm a Guy so I've not hollered ....I'm just sitting back and thinking....Thanks be To God!!!
Thank U on my own behalf, on behalf of my country (.....you have chosen two winners from Kenya! !!!), I hope & trust we will not disappoint U.....we will give you the Best Value for Money from this part of the World in Due Time.
Thanks again,
Kind regards,
Sam
Adare A. on June 25th, 2011 at 7:21 am
congratulation once again! yes u deserve it and made it happen!...i was one of the competitor but failed for there are seven special like u..kkkk....ummm... may you please share me your essay provided that i is not too personal...or if you do not really mind if someone who don't know u shares?
Thank You
Adare Assefa(Ethiopia)
Balpreet Kaur on June 8th, 2011 at 11:29 pm
In that case..may I plz request the winners to share their essays.
It will be very helpful for rest of us.
morshed on June 9th, 2011 at 2:04 am
Breathtaking. The news goes breathtakingly nice for those who win the prize for this year. I thought I would win this prize from Bangladesh, but luck did not extend his blessing hands to me. However, I expect all the best for the winners........GO..GO...and beat the GMAT.
Kind regards
Morshed.
Adare A. on June 9th, 2011 at 3:45 am
Eric, I was one of the applicant's but couldn't make it happen. May you please, release through ur BTG website or send me some of the present winners essay?
ThanK U!
Shweta on June 15th, 2011 at 10:33 am
Awesome initiative yet again.. way to go BTG.. I love the fact that I was able to embark my journey from this site and now will soon be attending school.. best of luck to all the winners
Mehrnaz on June 24th, 2011 at 8:09 am
Congrats to the winners
Surely you deserve it and wish you luck in MBA progress...
Sharing winning essays even from the past competitions will be grateful, please do share if it is not that much personal...
Mccayde on July 15th, 2011 at 7:25 am
This is the perfect way to break down this inofrmtioan.