On Schedule

Panic!!! 4 weeks left before my vacation and still 4 applications left to be submitted. So, I broke it down today and came up with a temporary schedule. It goes like this – Berkeley, submit it in a day or two. Try to submit Kellogg after I come back from the school visit, which would be around the beginning of December. Wharton – I am planning to finish before I go for the vacation and HBS, I would probably work on it during the vacation.

Today we were discussing how my profile has changed in the last 2 years. My professional experience has enormously diversified; I have some insightful probing stories to write in my essays and I have matured immensely. Most important of all, she particularly complemented on my writing style, which according to her has substantially improved. I agree – I have worked on my writing style voraciously to make it perfect – especially the flow and vocabulary. We feel pretty comfortable with my essays this year, particularly the content and the overall profile. So, we were discussing what is my probability of getting into a Top 5 School this year – it is absolutely impossible to predict, as I have no idea about my competition. After all as we know this entire process is a crapshoot – Nostradamus would stagger in his grave if asked to prophesize the outcome.

I almost finished the final drafts of my Berkeley essays and she is exceedingly content with the end product. I have to agree that Berkeley also gives you the opportunity to explore and expose all facets of your application. I need to sit tomorrow with the drafts and get done with it.
Need to brush up here and there and do some editing to create that flow which she always craves. I discovered that I very much rely on her opinions. Sometimes she gives some magical touches, which completely changes the composition. This leads to her incessant gloating that her writing style is more potent than mine. I have to put an end to this. [This year I have done it partially by only taking “editing” help from her.]

I have only 4 weeks and I have to work relentlessly to finish Wharton and Kellogg before I go. End of November is almost here and can hardly wait for the MIT interview invite [Wishful Thinking!!].

“Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle all the way….” Christmas is not far away…
and then comes January :)