Essay 2: Enrolling in a Business School is an important career decision. Critically look at your career to date, the choices you have made, the key influences behind those choices, your goals for the future and how do you think ISB's PGP can help you in achieving your goals? (300 words max)

As the question suggests, the answer should follow a simple four-step narrative structure:

1) Critically look at your career (choices you have made)
2) Influences behind the choices

Placement for the Class of 2014 has shown a positive trend, after a small slump in 2013. The stabilization of the economy, and student’s willingness to consider sectors beyond the traditional – consulting, banking and IT, has influenced this trend.

Here is the detailed analysis

ISB (Indian School of Business) has published the placement report for 2013. We have seen some interesting placement trends over the years. 1.07 offers per student in 2013 against 1.09 offers per student in 2012. Although the number of offers has increased by 29%, the offer per student has dropped this year.

Here is the summary of the ISB PGP Placement report

ISB (Indian School of Business) Hyderabad is one of the most sought after school for most Indian and International MBA Applicants.In addition to world class faculty & partnerships with top universities (including Wharton, Kellogg,LBS, Stern & Haas), ISB PGP offers two key programs : Leadership Development Programme (or LDP) and Experiential Learning Programme. The two programs are the foundation on which participants develop their leadership and consulting skills.

Let us look at the Admission procedure, processes, and eligibility criteria for ISB

If you are a strong candidate, you will get through in R1 or R2 regardless of when you apply. Sometimes, candidates tend to rush their application (take the GMAT much earlier than when they would be ready for it/ submit the essays before putting in enough thought on them) in a quest to beat the R1 deadline.This is a mistake. Get more tips on ISB MBA Application. 

In the second part of this continued article, we discuss recommendations and scholarships, two aspects of the ISB application that are very important for potential candidates.  

Recommendations – how/who/why/and when?

Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad is one of the most renowned B-schools in the Asian region. While a lot has already been said about ISB’s infrastructure, the quality of its faculty, and its affiliation with other top b-schools, this article seeks to present an insider’s view of some of the other things that make ISB a great school to attend.

Find out what an alumnus has to say about ISB