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From biotech to Goldman, now headed to Wharton.
Juliee's path moved from biotech to Goldman Sachs. Shaped by missed opportunities, she is now headed to Wharton to back overlooked deep-tech founders in India.


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Juliee's path moved from biotech to Goldman Sachs. Shaped by missed opportunities, she is now headed to Wharton to back overlooked deep-tech founders in India.



From national swimmer to operations leader at P&G in Manila, now an admit to Harvard and Wharton.
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Eight top schools and nearly $1M in scholarships, including a full ride to Harvard.
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A reapplicant who turned a Wharton reject into admits at Wharton, Kellogg and Columbia.
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IIT Kharagpur classmates who applied together and became Wharton classmates.
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From the textile lanes of Sanganer to IIT Bombay, Bain and Harvard with $175k in aid.
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A Marathi-medium kid from Aurangabad who landed Stanford GSB with Knight-Hennessy.
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From BCG to advising a head of state, now headed to Harvard with $175k in aid.
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From Gurgaon and Dubai to Michigan Ross, carrying a family legacy forward.
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From a small town in Haryana to Harvard, with admits at Stanford, Wharton and Kellogg.
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From IIT Madras and P&G to Harvard, set on changing India's consumer industry.
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Harvard (waitlisted at MIT Sloan). First data scientist at HILTI, four years; B.Tech and M.Tech, IIIT-Bangalore.
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Harvard, Wharton, Booth and Columbia — heading to HBS. Consultant at Bain & Company; IIT Bombay engineering.
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Wharton, with a $100K Joseph Wharton scholarship. IIT Roorkee; ONGC internship.
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Kellogg 1Y (also Darden and Ross). Six years in project finance at Yes Bank; DA-IICT engineering, IIM Shillong MBA, CFA charterholder.
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INSEAD, with a €20K scholarship. Based in Hong Kong; IIT Patna and IIT Bombay.
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Wharton (also Kellogg). Mathematics, St Stephen’s College, Delhi University.
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Stanford (also Kellogg & Columbia). Chief of Staff to the CEO at Kepler Cannon; B.Com Honours, Lady Shri Ram College.
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Kellogg — a no-interview waitlist conversion. Client Partner, Global Health at Qure AI; previously Amazon; BITS Pilani.
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Harvard (also Wharton with a $100,000 scholarship). Elevation Capital, previously McKinsey; Economics, SRCC.
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UC Berkeley Haas. Five years across tech, investment banking and venture capital at Cisco and Bertelsmann India; BITS Pilani.
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Columbia (six admits from seven applications, including Kellogg and Booth). McKinsey; NSIT Delhi.
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Harvard, with a scholarship covering over 100% of tuition (also Wharton, full tuition grant). Led three business units at Apna, previously Chief of Staff to the Founder; McKinsey; SRCC.
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Harvard (also Wharton and Kellogg). Healthcare consulting at BCG; SRCC, Delhi University.
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Kellogg (also Wharton with $55K and Ross with $80K). Project leader at D.E. Shaw; B.Tech Computer Science, NIT.
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Harvard — admitted to all five she applied to, with $300,000 in combined scholarships. IIT Madras.
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Kellogg (also LBS, and Ross with a full scholarship). IIT Kharagpur, Electronics and Communication Engineering.
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Cambridge Judge. Statistical programmer at Cognizant; Pharmacy, BPUT, and a Masters in Pharmacology.
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Columbia, in Round 1. Data scientist on the Fraud team at American Express; Economics at SRCC, Master’s from the Delhi School of Economics.
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ISB, with a 50% merit scholarship (also Ross). Auctus Advisors, management consulting across India and the Philippines.
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Booth — her second MBA. Bain Capability Network; BBS Delhi University, MBA from ISB.
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IESE Business School, with a full Forté Fellowship. Content creator, previously corporate strategy at Landmark Group, UAE; B.Sc Economics, NMIMS.
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Wharton, with a $100K scholarship. Not from a feeder college; started with a below-average GMAT.
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INSEAD. Uber, Cairo then Netherlands headquarters; IT, German University of Cairo.
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Wharton, Booth, Columbia and Kellogg — deferred MBA programmes. PwC Social Sector Investment Practice; Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi.
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Berkeley Haas (also Duke, with $120K in scholarships). Amazon, previously ZS Associates; B.Tech Computer Science, VIT.
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MIT Sloan, with a 100% scholarship. Programme Manager at the Ministry of Finance; eight internships during college.
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Columbia, with an $80K scholarship. Investment banking analyst at JP Morgan.
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Columbia and Ross, with $100K in scholarships. SUN Mobility, previously Bain & Company; B.A., Hindu College.
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Columbia (also Yale and Ross). Deutsche Bank, previously D.E. Shaw; CFA charterholder; Management Studies, Delhi University.
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Duke Fuqua, early admit with roughly $40K in scholarship. Now at BCG Seattle; employee number 30 at UrbanClap; Delhi University.
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Duke and Darden, both with scholarships. Area manager in the family poultry business; previously Fidelity Investments; B.Tech, VIT.
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Wharton, with $80K in financial aid (also Columbia with $100K). Founder and CEO of NoBarr; Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies.
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Booth and Kellogg, with roughly $40K from each. Came to the US on a soccer scholarship to Merrimack College, speaking no English.
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Stanford GSB — from six admits with financial aid. First in his family to attend university; IIT Guwahati.
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Columbia, early decision — his second MBA. Banking and risk modelling advisor, visually impaired; MBA from IIM Trichy.
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Tuck. Subsea Operations Engineer at Reliance Industries; IIT Dhanbad.
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Wharton, with a $35K scholarship (also Kellogg). First in his family to study at an IIT; IIT Bombay.
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Wharton, with a $60K scholarship. Four years at Bain Capability Network; Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies.
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Wharton (also Cornell and INSEAD), with $40K in scholarships. Chartered Accountant; B.Com, Lady Shri Ram College.
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Chicago Booth, with a $100,000 merit scholarship. Abbott, previously BCG; Economics, IIT Bombay.
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Booth (also Ross, Darden and Kellogg). Investment banking at JP Morgan; Punjab Engineering College.
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Kellogg. Sattva Consulting, after a Teach For India fellowship; Economics, Miranda House.
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Sarthak, hailing from New Delhi, pursued his academic path, graduating with a B.Tech in IT from Delhi Technological University. While his academic…
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Harvard, Wharton, Booth and Columbia. Private Equity at GIC, Singapore; previously Kearney; Economics, St Stephen’s College.
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Berkeley Haas, with a 40% scholarship (also UNC Kenan-Flagler and Indiana Kelley). Business analyst at Merilytics; BITS Pilani.
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Wharton (also Booth with a $50K scholarship). B.Tech Electronics and Electrical Communication, IIT Kharagpur.
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Columbia (also Ross). Project Leader; Civil Engineering, Delhi Technological University.
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Kellogg. Deputy Director of Income Tax, Hyderabad (IRS); IIT Kharagpur B.Tech.
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Wharton, with a $40K scholarship — as a re-applicant. Mayo College, then IIT entrance preparation in Kota.
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Wharton and Booth, with $180K in scholarships. BCG; Chemical Engineering, IIT Delhi.
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