Congrats to the 2012 Beat The GMAT Scholarship Winners!
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I’m thrilled to announce the winners of the 2012 Beat The GMAT Scholarship! This year we had six scholarship packages to distribute, and nearly 250 people applied. Our team went through a lot of effort to narrow down the field to six winners (very tough considering there were so many great applicants!). The winners are:
- Anne Kasitaza
- Godswill Onuge Eke
- Sunny Webb
- Linh Thuy Nga Nguyen
- Sunil Varun
- Benjamin Gordon
Each scholarship winner will receive a full GMAT course, an MBA admissions consulting package, and a $250 voucher. Note: if you are on this list, we’ll be reaching out to you before the end of the day with instructions on how to receive your prize.
We have a lot of people to thank in making this scholarship possible. Without the generous donations of the following companies, we wouldn’t have any prizes to distribute at all! Thus, a big thank you to:
- Kaplan
- Knewton
- Manhattan GMAT
- Master GMAT
- The Princeton Review
- Veritas Prep
- Admit Advantage
- Clear Admit
- MBAadmit
- mbaMission
- Precision Essay
I also want to recognize the following folks who helped make this competition possible:
- Beatrice Kim & Dana Jinaru - For driving the planning and execution of this year’s campaign
- Stephanie Puentes, Uyen Hoang, Ganesh Kumar – For serving as guest judges
- Howard Soh – For making a huge personal donation to support this scholarship
To those of you whom we couldn’t provide scholarships — I hope you are still proud of your accomplishments. Selecting our scholarship recipients was incredibly difficult because of you and your awesome stories. I’m confident that you all will find a lot of success in your business school admissions and beyond.
Congrats again to our winners and best of luck to everyone,
Eric Bahn
Founder of Beat The GMAT
18 comments
Ravisankar Vemuri on April 30th, 2012 at 1:08 am
it's a great encouragement, kudos
sneha on April 30th, 2012 at 8:01 am
Congrats to the winners ! Quite an encouraging gesture by the beatthegmat! If I may ask ..what is given priority in selecting the winners ? their need for sholorship ? or their potential as a MBA applicant ? the quality of the essays ? .. just curios to know what they look for ..as most mba institutes also tell what they look for in the essays and the class ..hope for some light to be thrown ..
Bea on April 30th, 2012 at 8:37 am
Congratulations to the winners as well as everyone who took the first step by applying to our scholarship! This year's pool of applicants were exceptionally talented and it was extremely difficult to pick this year's winners.
@sneha, we focused on the following factors: compelling story/essays, need, and following the rules (word limit). We did not focus on grammar/spelling mistakes.
Best,
Bea
Daniel Toma on April 30th, 2012 at 8:27 am
Congratulations to all who won!
Sunny Webb on April 30th, 2012 at 9:56 am
THANK YOU BeatTheGMAT.com! This is so encouraging, and I'm honored by your selection. I greatly appreciate your time putting this competition together and helping people like myself accomplish our aspirations. I can't thank you enough; this positive news comes at a time that really means a lot to me professionally and personally. Thank you a thousand times over. Congrats to other winners, and to everyone else aspiring to beat the GMAT!
Ganesh Kumar on April 30th, 2012 at 10:40 am
Congratulations to all those who won!
Best of luck in your GMAT and MBA endeavors! Please do not hesitate to ask me any questions via PM (id is gkumar) about applications, GMAT, or even schools like Michigan's Ross!
sneha on April 30th, 2012 at 11:16 am
@Bea : Thanku for the response
Godswill O. Eke on April 30th, 2012 at 11:59 am
Wow....... Is this real??? Unbelievable !!!....... I am very very happy and thrilled to learn that I am one of the winners. A very big thank you to Eric and the "Beat The GMAT Scholarship" team for this program. I lack words enough to express my gratitude. Now, I feel motivated the more to pursue my goals and aspirations. Sincerely, this scholarship means more than just 'winning' a competition. Everyone in my house is very happy right now. Congratulations to the other winners, and good luck to all.
Anne Kasitaza on April 30th, 2012 at 2:54 pm
Thank you, Beat the GMAT! I just checked my email and this absolutely made my week! I really do appreciate the fact that you have this opportunity for us. I'm so eternally grateful that I was chosen along with the others. I will definitely make sure to track my progress with the forum and share any tips and suggestions that I have in the future to help out others here.
Thanks again and congratulations to all the other winners
tinphan on April 30th, 2012 at 10:13 pm
Congrats to all winner.
Cheers,
Tin
gulrukh on April 30th, 2012 at 10:41 pm
Hi,
I am one of the Beat the GMAT scholarship applicants who did not win.
Can we get some feed back on the scholarship essays we submitted.
It will be nice to know where we lacked.
Thanks.
Benjamin Gordon on April 30th, 2012 at 10:51 pm
Wow!
Im blown away.. This is really encouraging!
Since I joined beatthegmat I can't seem to get off this site.. its really bad for work.. haha.
Thank you beatthegmat I am humble and immensely appreciative. I'll give a proper debrief when my words return.
Congratulations to the other winners!!
Sownthararajan on May 1st, 2012 at 6:10 am
Congratulations to all the winners!!!
Even I have applied for the scholarship but couldn't get it but this is a helpful experience to prepare for our application essays.
It would be even more helpful if we get to see any of the winning essays. Can BTG admins and the winners coordinate to help on this?
Pranay on May 1st, 2012 at 7:44 am
Congratulations to the winners!
I echo Sownthararajan on sharing the essays.
ngalinh on May 4th, 2012 at 6:11 am
Dear all,
I'd like to share my happiness with you all: I'm one of the scholarship winners! When I received Eric Bahn's email saying that “5 days left to win GMAT and MBA prizes”, I thought I should apply for it because I might win and if I don't, I don't lose anything. About one week later, I saw the miracle in my email with "Congratulation...!"
In fact, it has more meaning to me than a prize. I am an international student, so the GMAT is very challenging. I also don't know much about the MBA admission in US universities and don't have many supporters here. After receiving the prize, I got several emails from Beat The GMAT team to handle my prize package. Then I got emails from Jessica Shabin who will take care of my Knewton course; I got emails from Lauren Herskovic, who's very enthusiastic to help me with MBA admission consulting. All of those things give me so much more energy to prepare for my MBA road. The prize comes to me at the right time I need support! I think I won because I really need support this time. So will you the next time Beat The GMAT offers the scholarship!
From my heart, I'd like to say a big thank you to Eric Bahn, Beatrice Kim and the Beat The GMAT team and community! I'll do my best to take advantage of this scholarship. I wish all members of Beat The GMAT success with the GMAT and your MBA road!
Best,
Linh.
Eric Bahn on May 4th, 2012 at 9:15 am
Congrats Linh, we feel privileged to offer this scholarship to you. Best of luck!
Ronnie1985 on May 14th, 2012 at 9:44 am
Heartiest Congratulations winners!!! For all others it is always a good try!!!
somsubhra on May 25th, 2012 at 4:24 am
Guys first of all congtrst to all who have been selected for the prestigeous scholarship.
Can any one put lihgt on the criteria required to get the scolarship.
Your response is welcome.