Axolotl: Putting the Pieces Together, One at a Time
July 17, 2013 :: Admissionado Team
The last few weeks have been a coalescence of disparate activities surrounding b-school apps:
- Making moves on the extracurricular front and establishing a strong narrative around my activities volunteering
- Ideation around essays
- Beginning to think about recommenders, something I’m planning to lock down by mid-August for round 1
- Kyn and I are remaining very objectives-focused, building the story around previously mentioned long-term and short-term goals.
So far I’ve decided to apply to just one target school for round 1, and it’s a doozy, so we’re in a careful balancing act between overfitting to one school (thus not creating sufficient leverage for potential other applications), and not being specific enough to my round 1 target.
It’s tougher than I thought. But so is this entire process. It’ll be easier once we get IN, right?
Anyway, still plenty of work to do (something I feel like I say every time I write this post), but it’s been helpful to see thoughts on paper and feel concrete progress!
Baby steps…
Axolotl’s a Finance guy looking for an MBA to make some moves in the Private Equity/Venture Capital world. He’s documenting his MBA application experience every other week – the ups, the downs, the life lessons. Follow his journey here.
