aashu

Oh I totally understand your situation. I am facing the same issue. First of all, even if your professor agrees to recommend you, I simply can't trust that it would be a stellar one, for one simple reason of memory. Practically, no professor can remember just one student from so many and that too from 10 years ago. So what do we do? I don't know whether that is a right approach but I took professional recommendations. Fortunately one of my MBA classmates did his PhD. So, I took his recommendation. How effective was this? I can't say. I have no basis to attribute my applications' success or failure to this one factor. Another issue is the age - I think that there is a big bias against older candidates. My sample size is small, but I have really seen this happening. I know 3 other PhD applicants, excluding me, with 10 or more years of experience. The admissions all four of us received was just 4 out of 50+ applications. All four of us have 700+ GMATs, MBAs from top b-schools globally, and average 3.5 / 4.0 GPAs. And we were very careful in our school selection approach (no lofty, 'top' ranked criteria). All the best!

Notification Type: Rejection email Institution Name: Imperial College London Concentration Applying to: Management Date of Notification: 2/28/19 Method of Notification: Email

Hi everyone! Is there any news from Schulich? It has been such a long time (more than 3 months) since their last date.

Notification Type: Rejection email Institution Name: Northwestern University (Kellogg) Concentration Applying to: Management Date of Notification: 2/14/19 Method of Notification: Email Notification Type: Rejection email Institution Name: Yale University (GSAS) Concentration Applying to: Management Date of Notification: 2/21/19 Method of Notification: Email