Thursday, June 09, 2011

List of scholarships

I just got done with my interview at Narotam Sekhsaria Foundation yesterday and realised that I could do with some more sharing.
Funding one's education can be BIG pain, especially you've been selected at an awesome university abroad (speaking from within India's borders:)) and the university doesn't have a tie-up with a local bank to assist students with bank loans. Even in places where tie-ups exist, higher education costs a lot. Enter scholarships.
With my usual love for Microsoft Excel, I started to look up scholarships that I could apply to. This was followed by the research on the net and cold calling scholarships' admin offices as
king them about the value of scholarships, eligibility, etc. The image (its a pain to create tables on blogger.com, hence, the easier fix of uploading an image:)) on the right is the summary of the scholarships I researched on. The first section has all the scholarships I applied to (so good for anyone applying for an MBA abroad). The second section has scholarships I couldn't/didn't apply to. Hope this information will be useful to another scholarship seeker (click the pic to get a higher resolution image)!

Friday, June 03, 2011

Pre MBA internship at a consulting firm

If people are interested in a pre-MBA internship opportunity with a consutling firm, you could check out the program at Deloitte :

http://careers.deloitte.com/united-states/students/csc_general.aspx?CountryContentID=16296

Its the most organised program that I've seen in my limited research on the web for Pre-MBA internship opportunities in a consulting firm. It should help people with no prior consulting background get a feel for what consulting is (and whether post MBA they'd like to take it up as a career option) and obviously a great PR initiative on Deloitte's part too (competition differentiator, I say!)

Shame that I just found out about it. Had I known about it earlier, would have definitely applied!

Just posting this for posterity and hoping that people in the coming batch(es) don't miss out on this great opportunity.