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Why do you deserve the Beat The GMAT! Scholarship?

I guess anyone dealing with the grueling GMAT challenge deserves not only this scholarship, but also support and attention. However, I think that there are many aspects which make me an unusual aspirant.

We all know how demanding and time consuming the GMAT preparation is. Speaking personally, I am international applicant from a non-English speaking country, which makes the effort even greater. If mastering he verbal sections is painful for English natives, just imagine if your mother tongue where Spanish, and you had to study after working ten hours daily as an IT consultant. For example, the Sentence Correction part always makes me sweat. And sometimes swear too!

To obtain this scholarship by writing an essay, would definitely boost my self-confidence with English, and it would really help me beating the GMAT. That increased self-confidence would be the best prize, well beyond the material help. The GMAT is very important for me because I aspire to enroll in a top 20 B-school.

Although sometimes it is really hard, I always find time to dedicate to my hobby, the stock markets. I have my own blog about stocks and technology: buyorsell.es, which receives almost one hundred visits per day. I am also the founder of blogsdebolsa.com, an automatic aggregator of more than 15 small stocks-related blogs. Blogsdebolsa.com adds value both to the aggregated blogs –increases its visibility- and to the visitor's experience –groups in just one place lots of sources. While I was developing blogsdebolsa.com, I got involved on the open-source project behind a software component I was using. I contributed to the project with many new features. I am planning to do something similar to blogsdebolsa.com with GMAT-related blogs and return to the community part of the benefits I have obtained visiting sites such as BeatTheGMAT! and many others.