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International students planning to come to US for Graduate school might be wondering with questions like “How would my professors treat me in US? Will they be friendly? Do they hold any grudge against me if I ask them lot of questions? How should I behave with professors in class?” This article will address some …
Many professionals like to expand their knowledge by auditing classes at a local university. Some of you may want audit classes from Stanford or Berkeley, just to have an experience of what those classes look like. Some of you may not know what I am talking about…I have audited so many classes in MBA—In fact, …
One day, during my MBA first semester, I was looking at my tuition fee receipt and just out of my curiosity I did a simple math on how much money I was exactly paying for each lecture session of a course. I was amazed by the calculations and it just changed my perspective of classes …
One of the things that I have noticed with international students is NOT planning ahead of time. Students decide to study MS or MBA in US in the eleventh hour and say I do not have time. They start googling “ How to prepare for GRE in 15 days ? One month or Two months”. …
From my experience talking to international students, the first thing that I have seen most of the students ask someone when they plan on applying schools is “Can you send me the list of Top ranked US universities for this program ?” . The reality is, except few, most of the students just blindly look …
The way it works in India and maybe few other countries is, once you take up a Major (or Branch) in Bachelors, it is very hard to change that Major. You do not see many schools encouraging changing of majors unless you are in a flexible top notch school. Unlike, in America it works differently…Let …
I remember looking for deals as a student where to buy tickets and asking people and school officials where to buy air tickets for cheap. I did not know initially know where to buy and usually would just go to websites like priceline.com, orbitz.com, kayak.com to buy tickets. But, there is another website that I …
Some of you might be in a situation, where you realized that the school you got in was not the best fit or not convenient because of family living else where and would like to transfer to another school. I started my MBA at one school and transferred to other school; in the process I …
by Guest author Kristal I recently had to move across the country for school, and so I had to find somewhere new to live. Now that I have somewhere, here are a few things I learned in the process. First Steps in looking for Housing (Apartment) Firstly, if you’re going to move for school, start …
Typically(for most of the schools), when you start to apply for MS program in US, you may notice in the universities websites just deadlines corresponding to fall, spring or summer. It would just be just one date. But, for MBA in top ranked schools, the deadlines work differently. Here are few thoughts on this. How …