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valiant_fighter

Hi,
I have three questions here....

1)I have heard from many of my friends that if we enroll for admission counselling in GMAT coaching centers, it will backfire rather than being an advantage. The essays they are preparing for all of their students will be more or less same and the colleges can easily find it. So the colleges usually dont prefer applications like that...and it is better to prepare everything by ourself....

Is it so guys? Is it better to go for admisssion counselling than doing all the application work by ourselves?

2)I have lot of extra curricular activies - like volunteering and organising various events in college and later in my office, handling some posts in student unions in college, playing in college volleyball team etc...But I cant show any proofs for none of these, as there are no certificates or so....

My question is that still I can quote all those in my applicaiton and will they give weightage to it?

3) Am planning to take GMAT on sept 26....but by Sept 15th, the first round of ISB Hyd admisssions will be over....and I am particular to get admitted in 2008 itself....I heard that chances are less in second round...

so my question is whether i can enhance my chances by a better GMAT score in the second round? or any thing i can do for improving my chances?

Thanks in advance...

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valiant_fighter has no status. Newbie PaGaL Status: Offline Posts: 10 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Chennai Age: 26 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 1 Post	Re: Ask Jennifer@Accepted.com: Application-writing advice for the best global B-schoo - 09-09-2007, 11:19 PM Hi, I have three questions here.... 1)I have heard from many of my friends that if we enroll for admission counselling in GMAT coaching centers, it will backfire rather than being an advantage. The essays they are preparing for all of their students will be more or less same and the colleges can easily find it. So the colleges usually dont prefer applications like that...and it is better to prepare everything by ourself.... Is it so guys? Is it better to go for admisssion counselling than doing all the application work by ourselves? 2)I have lot of extra curricular activies - like volunteering and organising various events in college and later in my office, handling some posts in student unions in college, playing in college volleyball team etc...But I cant show any proofs for none of these, as there are no certificates or so.... My question is that still I can quote all those in my applicaiton and will they give weightage to it? 3) Am planning to take GMAT on sept 26....but by Sept 15th, the first round of ISB Hyd admisssions will be over....and I am particular to get admitted in 2008 itself....I heard that chances are less in second round... so my question is whether i can enhance my chances by a better GMAT score in the second round? or any thing i can do for improving my chances? Thanks in advance...