You’ve read a lot about ISB placements. But what’s the truth about international placements at ISB? How does it work? Does the ISB exchange program experience help in getting a job abroad after PGP? More ISB Placement success stories here. ISB PGP grad, Ritesh Jaiswal, would be the best person to answer these questions. He ... Read more| MBA Crystal Ball
Here's what happens during the recruitment process at Mohali before those impressive salary statistics are printed in the ISB recruitment report| MBA Crystal Ball
Here’s a philosophical question: Consider someone who has cleared all 3 levels of the Chartered Accountancy course (hailed by many as the toughest exam in the world) in the first attempt and done well in the professional world. When such a person fails to get a competitive score on the GMAT, is that a reflection ... Read more| MBA Crystal Ball
Getting into the Indian School of Business (ISB) is no child’s play. Just look at a few numbers to see the school’s impressive haul in the following series of charts. For the purpose of this article, we have taken the hallowed M7 business schools and INSEAD / London Business School (LBS) as the comparison set. ... Read more| MBA Crystal Ball
ISB admissions director explains how the ISB admissions process works and where / how GMAT, interviews, profiles fit in.| MBA Crystal Ball
At MBA Crystal Ball, our business school admissions consultants have worked with many chartered accountants (CA) who applied to (and got into) the top business schools in India and abroad. You’ll find some of their success stories towards the end of this post. But we never got down to write the response to a common ... Read more| MBA Crystal Ball
Does ISB accept GRE scores? What’s the average GRE score for ISB? Do they prefer GMAT over GRE? Will it affect my recruitment process? These are common questions we get from aspirants who fall in one of these categories: They already have a valid GRE score, from their MS application days. They’ve tried GMAT several ... Read more| MBA Crystal Ball
Are the ISB Round 3 deadline chances really low? To answer the question, we’ll turn to a little analysis that we had done years back that reveals a phenomenon that repeats every year. Read this analysis: ISB Admissions Round 1 vs Round 2 deadlines. And ISB didn’t even have a round 3 deadline then. Extrapolating ... Read more| MBA Crystal Ball
It seems like chartered accountants (CA) have a special quality about them that fascinates MBA admission officers (Benefits of MBA abroad after CA). We published this story about a CA who overcame a 580 GMAT to get admits and scholarships. And others where a CA got into ISB with a full scholarship and a CA ... Read more| MBA Crystal Ball
An increasing number of chartered accountants aspiring for an international MBA ask us if their articleship experience will be counted. Read more.| MBA Crystal Ball
A high GMAT score of 760 wasn't good enough for ISB Hyderabad to admit Ritesh. But he persisted & got in with a scholarship after 3 attempts.| MBA Crystal Ball
The maximum number of attempts for the GMAT is 8. In a year, the maximum times you can take the test is 5. Between 2 GMAT attempts, you need to have a gap of at least 16 days. How many times on average do people take the GMAT? We don’t know if GMAC publishes this ... Read more| MBA Crystal Ball