Thanks a lot Graham, that clears up things. I would like to ask whether I can make out something positive that the adcom might be interested in hearing about from my experiences managing a micro-financing project in tribal areas ? Once again; thank you for taking the time out to answer my silly doub...

Parore, I am glad you bought the topic of ISB up. The salary as reported by FT is way off mark. For one thing, they took the PPP value of the actual salaries that people graduating from ISB reported, as may be read from the footnotes of the survey. So you could probably divide the given figure by 3 ...

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@auzbee Best of luck man, I hope you get through. I appreciate your sincerity

Well, then the high costs of Schools in the US may effectively be a deal breaker for many people from my country (Alas! I am Indian) Getting back to India with a debt of 50K-80K $ will take forever to pay off. Maybe, I could pass the debt on to my grandkids if any. Any suggestions anyone ? :( Thanks...

So, jelt, did you talk about your interest in dance during any of the interviews that you have given ?

phew!
Thanks jelt, thanks so much for replying. It takes a huge load off of my back. Would it be a bad thing if I were to stress the importance of music in my life, during the interview ? for after all, I am a mechanical engineering graduate.

Thanks once again.

Hi JK: I think your NGO experience is great! It's certainly unique, and as you said you wanted something more challenging--I think b-school committees would eat that up. So yes, I think you're being a bit paranoid about your work experience. :) You should instead be selling this unique background h...