Building a profile for M.S. / MBA -101
- Hardik Agarwal
- Dec 27, 2021
- 2 min read
Updated: Jan 22, 2022
Some things I say here will be hard truths to swallow, but it’s good for you to know them as early as possible. Waiting another decade to realize them could cost you your future.
First day of college, a band of seniors came thumping into my class banging benches and screaming “SCCCCC”, “SCCCCCC”. What is SC? Student Committee. They came in to recruit these fresh-faced juniors with the promise of the college’s WiFi password, the ability to spend all-nighters in college preparing for the college festival, getting drunk on Goan beaches on Industrial visits, participating in conferences in IIM Ahmedabad that they swear are “awesome” for profile-building and a bunch of perks that would soon destroy any hopes of you getting your dream school for M.S.
No student at Stanford, Harvard or Berkeley spent their college doing these things. Now, I know - those are dream colleges, but students do get in. You don’t need to be an Einstein to get in. All good schools look for a few common denominators in their admitted students - a stellar work ethic, a hatred for wasted time, fluency in English and an empathy for other people.
If your resume mentions interests like “Cricket, video games and hiking”, you’re done.
If your resume mentions extracurriculars like “Industrial visits and IIM Ahmedabad Fashion Show”, you’re done.
If your resume shows 1 internship in 4 years of college and that too in a field unrelated to your Bachelor’s and Master’s, YOU ARE DONE.
Building a profile is all about putting in the hours. Find some certifications to spend your time on, find internships for your summers (paid or not), spend weekends with a registered Non-Profit Organization, apply for internships and use any and all connections you can, because everyone around you is doing it. That’s just an open secret.
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