PGSEM

 I set out on journey to aim at MBA couple of years back. I wanted to do it in one of the top 100 programs in the world and I was looking for one year MBA. I was almost ready with acceptance for Bradford one year MBA in UK. Had to cancel the decision to bail out one of my elder brothers who lost heavy money in finance business.

 I looked for alternatives without quitting the work. I wanted the best as I was not looking just for adding MBA tag. PGSEM(http://pgsem.iimb.ernet.in/) fit the bill. Went through admission test, interviews. Finally results are out and I have been accepted as one of the 75 students for the 09 PGSEM batch:)

  Let me outline the selection process:

1) I took PGSEM test as I did not have CAT score and didn't want to risk mentioning GMAT score:). The test was mostly CAT type with two essays at the end.

2) Alumni interview(informal)...which does carry lots of weight.

3) Faculty Interview(one of my previous posts speaks of it)

My second brother(Dr.Mahadeva Prasanna Sompura Rajashekaraiah, an IIT PhD and associate professor at IITGuwahati(http://www.iitg.ernet.in/ece/) was very proud of me(which is a rare thing:)...). He shunned my ways of spending too much time in Gym/Martial Arts/Philosophy and so on from my college days. Somehow I always felt that its OK to score some threshold marks in studies. This put my family especially my brother in to concern. My aggregate in BE is not that great as I always looked forward to score cut off that industry required:) . This time in PGSEM I have made a determination to put 100 percent. Still I want to balance swimming/gym/Philosophy activities:)...they are part of me now just like eyes and so on.

Pic1. IIMB where I will spend next 2.5 years(900-1050 hours of classroom session) for PGSEM
pic2. My Kannada medium school up to 5th standard in my native village Sompura