I wasn’t born where I was supposed to be born. Two weeks before I was due, my parents boarded a plane in poverty-stricken Baroda, a village in India, and headed for Jersey City, New Jersey. Here I was born and raised by two uneducated parents who hailed from agrarian settlements in rural India. They never finished high school, and were victims of a teenage love story gone awry. If they had not won the Visa lottery, I would likely...

Suspend. Resuspend. Survey after survey, math model after math model – some find the world of research a rather humdrum, monotonous chore. Research, to me, is the single building block of every field. Without research, we would live in a world of apothecaries, a world with markets where producers didn’t know how to appeal to consumers, and a world where the theory of geocentrism in our Solar System was still widely accepted. My summers had always consisted of research projects,...

My personal statement and supplemental essays were both used for the school I now attend - the University of California, Berkeley. Both essays were specifically catered to things that Berkeley is fond of. Firstly, the supplemental essay used here was all about research because I knew that Berkeley places high importance on research. After doing some web searching/researching on Berkeley I found that they hire professors SOLELY based on research work - doesn't matter how good at teaching they...

When I was looking into schools to apply to, the first thing I did was write down a list of things...

One thing that I think is super important is finding research experience to add onto your resume before applying to universities. Many private universities focus a lot of their efforts on...

One of the most important things that I would change about my application process was the generic supplement essays I used. I remember scrambling days before certain applications were due and I would copy and...

I ultimately decided to choose the University of California, Berkeley after doing extensive research of each school I was accepted to. I researched internship, research, and post-college opportunities for students of my majors (Business Administration and Computer Science) and analyzed which school topped the charts in these fields...

I personally did not use a private admissions counselor but I had a number of friends that did. These private admissions counselors will basically do your...

I found that at every interview I had with schools, the interviewer...