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Best MBA Admission Consultants in India
Recognised as one of the best MBA admission consultants in India for ISB, IIMA PGPX, IIMB EPGP, and global MBA programmes.
120+ admits in 2025–26. ₹25.5 lakh in IIM Ahmedabad scholarships. Led by Shruti P - ISB PGP 2006, Stanford LEAD, Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women 2026.
GOALisB MBA Admission Consulting Results 2025–26
Of the 120 admit offers this cycle, 114 reflect clients on GOALisB's comprehensive admissions package — end-to-end consulting covering school selection, narrative strategy, essay development, recommender briefing, and interview preparation for one year MBA programs in India and top global MBA programs.
A further 6 admit offers came from clients who engaged GOALisB for interview preparation only: 2 at ISB, 2 at IIM Ahmedabad PGPX, 1 at IIM Bangalore EPGP, and 1 at IIM Kozhikode. The multi-admit outcomes and scholarship results listed below are exclusively comprehensive package clients, with a total scholarship value of INR 7 million across programmes.
28 Admit Offers
ISB Hyderabad & Mohali - including 4 ISB fee scholarships (100%, 50%, 25%)
ISB Offers
25 Admit Offers
IIMA PGPX & Dubai — including three ₹8.5 lakh merit scholarships
IIMA PGPX & Dubai — including three ₹8.5 lakh merit scholarships
12 Admit Offers
IIM Bangalore EPGP & PGPEM — including a 25% merit scholarship
IIM Bangalore
11 Admit Offers
NYU Stern · IE Business School · HEC Paris · INSEAD · Imperial · Judge Cambridge · UCL · Mannheim · SMU ·
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GOALisB MBA Admission Consultants - 2025–26 Results
MBA Admission Results - GOALisB
GOALisB MBA admission consultants announced its results for the 2026 intake: 120+ admit offers across India's top business schools and leading global MBA programmes, the firm's strongest admissions cycle on record.
Of the ~120 admit offers this cycle till date, 114 reflect clients on GOALisB's comprehensive admissions package - end-to-end consulting covering school selection, narrative strategy, essay development, recommender briefing, and interview preparation. A further 6 admit offers came from clients who engaged GOALisB for interview preparation only: 2 at ISB, 2 at IIM Ahmedabad, 1 at IIM Bangalore, and 1 at IIM Kozhikode. The multi-admit outcomes and scholarship results below are exclusively comprehensive package clients, with a total scholarship value of INR 7 million across programmes.
GOALisB PROGRAMME-WISE RESULTS - 2025–26
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ISB - 28 admit offers, including 4 ISB fee scholarships (100%, 50%, 25%).
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IIM Ahmedabad (PGPX, PGP & Dubai) - 25 admit offers including three ₹8.5 lakh each merit scholarships awarded to Aditi Agarwal, Anwesha Sarkar, and Piyush Pathak
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IIM Bangalore (EPGP & PGPEM) - 12 admit offers, including a 25% scholarship to Aditi
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IIM Calcutta One Year MBA - 9 admit offers
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IIM Lucknow IPMX - 9 admit offers
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IIM Kozhikode PGP BL - 5 admit offers
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IIM Indore EPGP- 6 admit offers
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IIM Mumbai, SPJIMR, IIM Udaipur - 5 combined admit offers
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Global MBA Programs - 11 admit offers across NYU Stern, IE Business School (Spain), SMU Singapore, Judge Business School (Cambridge), Imperial College London, UCL, and Mannheim Business School, INSEAD, HEC Paris MBA
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Other programmes - ISB PGPpro, MFAB - 5 admit offers
GOALisB STANDOUT MULTI-ADMIT OUTCOMES
The 2025–26 cycle produced eleven clients who received three or more simultaneous admission offers - a result that reflects the depth of GOALisB's multi-application consulting methodology.
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Ms. Srishti S. - 6 admit offers for one year MBA in India: ISB, IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow, IIM Indore, and IIM Ahmedabad
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Mr. Aditya R. - 4 admit offers: ISB, IIM Ahmedabad, IE Business School, and Imperial College London MBA
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Mr. Saurabh C. - 3 admit offers: IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow, and Mannheim Business School
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Ms. Ishita - 2 admit offers across 2 continents: ISB, NYU Stern.
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Mr. Vaibhav M. - 3 admit offers: IE Business School, SMU Singapore, and IIM Indore
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Mr. Hrishikesh K. - 3 admit offers: IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, and IIM Calcutta
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Mr. Devendra R. - 3 admit offers for one year MBA in India: ISB, IIM Bangalore, and IIM Calcutta
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Mr. Pratham K. - 3 admit offers: ISB, IIM Ahmedabad Dubai, and IIM Ahmedabad main campus
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Mr. Palvit S. - 3 admit offers for one year MBA in India: IIM Lucknow, IIM Indore, IIM Calcutta
SCHOLARSHIPS WON - 2025–26
GOALisB clients won five scholarships across ISB and IIM Ahmedabad in the 2025–26 cycle:
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Ms. Aditi A. - IIM Ahmedabad PGPX merit scholarship: ₹8.5 lakh
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Ms. Anwesha S. - IIM Ahmedabad PGPX merit scholarship: ₹8.5 lakh
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Mr. Piyush P. - IIM Ahmedabad PGPX merit scholarship: ₹8.5 lakh
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Mr. Mayur D. - ISB scholarship: 100%
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Mr. Rohith K. - ISB scholarship: 50%
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Ms. Arushi S. & Mr. Aditya R. - ISB fee scholarships: 25% each
Total scholarship value awarded to GOALisB clients in 2025–26: Total INR 7 million across programmes. ₹25.5 lakh from IIM Ahmedabad alone, plus ISB fee waivers.
MBA Admissions We Specialise In
Every programme.
One consulting firm.
GOALisB has delivered verified admits across every major Indian and global MBA programme. Click any programme to see programme-specific results and consulting approach.
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IIM Ahmedabad - IIMA PGPX, PGP & IIM Ahmedabad Dubai. IIM Bangalore EPGP, IIM Bangalore PGPEM, IIM Calcutta MBAEX, IIM Calcutta VLM, IIM Lucknow IPMX, IIM Lucknow PGPWE, IIM Indore EPGP, others like SPJIMR, XLRI GM.
The GOALisB consulting process
Every GOALisB engagement begins with understanding your profile, your goals, and the gap between where you are and where you want to go. The four steps below are not a checklist - they are a continuous, iterative process that runs until the final admit.
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Profile Assessment & School Selection
Before a single word of any essay is written, we conduct an in-depth assessment of your profile - academic record, professional trajectory, leadership moments, and post-MBA goals. Based on this, we build a school shortlist where your profile is genuinely differentiated, not just eligible. For clients applying to both Indian and global programmes simultaneously, we map the overlap and manage the sequencing across deadlines. The shortlist is built around your specific situation — not a generic ranking.
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Narrative Strategy & Essay Development
The central consulting challenge is identifying the thread that runs through your professional experience — the leadership pattern, the career logic, the specific post-MBA intent — and expressing it differently for each institution without contradicting itself. ISB values impact within the Indian context. IIM Ahmedabad values analytical rigour and programme-specific fit. HEC Paris values global perspective. INSEAD values multicultural agility. Each essay is written from the institution's perspective, not the applicant's. No templates. No frameworks applied generically.
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Recommender Briefing & Application Review
Recommender letters are frequently the weakest part of an application — not because the recommender doesn't know the candidate, but because they haven't been briefed on what to say and how to say it. GOALisB provides each recommender with a specific brief: which professional stories to tell, which qualities to demonstrate, how to frame the candidate's leadership for an admissions committee that will read thousands of similar letters. For global MBA applications, this includes guidance on framing Indian professional contexts for international readers.
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Interview Preparation & Decision Support
Mock interviews are conducted for each school's specific format - ISB's panel interview, IIM Ahmedabad's structured competency framework, HEC Paris's case discussion, INSEAD's multi-panel cultural probing. When offers arrive - sometimes multiple simultaneously, as they did for nine clients in 2025–26 - we support the decision itself. When waitlists arrive, we prepare responses within 48 hours structured to address the specific gap, not a generic reaffirmation. When rejections arrive from previous cycles, we diagnose and rebuild.
Global MBA Admit Stories
Your Consultant
Shruti P
CAREER STRATEGIST • COACH • MBA ADMISSIONS CONSULTANT
Lead Consultant
GOALisB Higher Education Consulting
ISB PGP · Class of 2006 · Hyderabad
Stanford LEAD · Executive Education
Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women 2026 · IIM Ahmedabad
QS Reimagine Education Awards · Judge
PIE Live Europe 2026 · Speaker
Associate Member · IECA, EAIE, NAGAP
Stanford Seed Consultant · Mentor at XLRI and ISB LEAD
17+ years industry experience
Recognised as one of the best MBA admission consultants in India
Recognised as one of the best MBA admission consultants in India, GOALisB specialises in MBA admissions for ISB - ISB PGP, ISB PGP YL, ISB PGPpro, ISB PGPMAX, ISB PGP MFAB, IIM one year MBA programs (IIMA PGPX, IIM Bangalore EPGP), IIM Executive MBA programs like IIM Bangalore PGPEM and global MBA schools including HEC Paris, INSEAD, NYU Stern, IE Business School, Judge Cambridge, Imperial College, and UCL.
Voices Behind the Success: GOALisB Reviews
GOALisB is a phenomenal MBA admissions consulting firm. I worked with Shruti at GOALisB. She is passionate, patient, kind and very approachable. She entertained every silly concern and was extremely supportive in every stage of the process. She is master of her art and made my dream of walking in the corridors of Oxford a reality. Thank you Ma’m.
Gamalla Sai Teja , Oxford MBA Class of 2025
Through my time with Shruti at GOALisB, I have come to respect her as an excellent ISB admission consultant and a very smart individual. She creatively converted my personal and professional experiences into a compelling story. Not only did I score an admit to the top B schools but I received multiple scholarships, even a 100% scholarship at one. Her ISB interview prep is beyond amazing. She covered every possible category of questions I could be asked, gave me a candid feedback and most importantly helped me cut out the fluff and noise in my answers.
Harminder Kaur , ISB, INSEAD 2024
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Questions MBA applicants actually ask
BEST MBA ADMISSION CONSULTANTS
Are MBA admission consultants worth it in India?
For competitive programmes — ISB, IIM Ahmedabad PGPX, IIMB EPGP, and global schools — the consulting fee is worth it if the consultant has verifiable admits, works directly with you, and builds your application around your real experience rather than templates. The scholarship value GOALisB clients won in 2025–26 alone — INR 7 million — exceeds the cost of consulting engagements several times over. The question is not whether consulting is worth it. The question is whether the specific consultant has the track record to justify the investment.
Who will work with me at GOALisB?
Shruti P. - directly, from the first conversation to the final decision. GOALisB does not operate a multi-reviewer model or assign junior consultants to client work. This is a deliberate choice: the quality of the narrative strategy and essay development depends on one person knowing your profile deeply, not a committee reviewing documents. Shruti is an ISB PGP alumna, Stanford LEAD alumna, QS Reimagine Awards judge, and PIE Live Europe 2026 speaker with 17+ years of industry experience.
Does GOALisB write essays for applicants?
No. The essays are built from your real experiences, leadership moments, and career direction - not pre-written frameworks or templates. GOALisB's role is to identify the narrative thread in your experience, structure the argument, and develop the essay through coaching and iteration. The final voice is yours. Harminder Kaur's review - "she creatively converted my personal and professional experiences into a compelling story" describes this accurately. The story was hers. The structure and strategy were GOALisB's.
How much do top MBA admission consultants in India charge?
MBA admission consultant fees in India vary significantly depending on the scope of support, the programmes targeted, and the depth of involvement. Here is an honest breakdown of what the market looks like and where GOALisB sits within it.
At the budget end, essay review services and document editing packages start at ₹20,000–₹50,000 per school. These typically involve one or two rounds of feedback on a draft you have already written, with no strategy, narrative development, or interview support included.
Mid-range comprehensive packages - covering school selection, essay strategy, essay development, recommender briefing, and interview preparation - typically range from ₹1.5 lakh to ₹3 lakh per school, or ₹3 lakh to ₹6 lakh for multi-school packages targeting ISB and one or two IIM programmes.
Top-tier consultants with verified admit track records at ISB, IIM Ahmedabad PGPX, and global schools charge in the range of ₹4 lakh to ₹8 lakh or more for comprehensive multi-school packages, depending on the number of programmes and the complexity of the application.
GOALisB's fee structure is available is customised for . What the fee covers is the comprehensive admissions package - school selection through final decision, with Shruti Parashar working directly with each client.
What is included in GOALisB's comprehensive admissions package?
GOALisB's comprehensive admissions package covers every stage of the application from school selection to final decision:
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School selection and shortlist strategy — which programmes fit your profile and goals, and why
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Narrative strategy — identifying the thread in your professional experience that connects your background, leadership, and post-MBA intent
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Essay development — from brainstorming through multiple drafts to final submission, for each school
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Recommender briefing — specific guidance for each recommender on which stories to tell, which qualities to demonstrate, and how to frame your profile
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Application review — resume, data forms, and all supporting materials
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Interview preparation — school-specific mock sessions for ISB's panel interview, IIM Ahmedabad's structured format, and global school interview formats
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Waitlist and decision support — if a waitlist decision arrives, a response is prepared within 48 hours
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Ongoing consultation — throughout the process, not just at submission points
The 6 admits from interview preparation-only clients in 2025–26 are listed separately in GOALisB's results to maintain transparency about what the comprehensive package specifically delivers.
ELIGIBILITY and GMAT
How do I choose the right MBA admission consultant in India?
The most important questions to ask before committing to any MBA admission consultant:
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Who will actually work with me? Ask specifically whether you will work with the person you are speaking to, or whether your file will be handed to a junior consultant or a multi-reviewer team. This is the single most important structural question.
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What are your verified admits for the programmes I am targeting? Ask for named, verifiable outcomes — not aggregate statistics or percentage claims. For ISB, ask how many ISB admits in the last two cycles. For IIMA PGPX, same question. If the consultant cannot name specific outcomes, the number is likely inflated.
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Do you write essays or coach? Reputable consultants coach — they help you find and structure the narrative in your own experience. Consultants who write essays for you produce applications that don't survive interviews, because the voice changes.
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What is your approach to interview preparation? Ask for specifics — how many mock sessions, which school formats they prepare for, whether the preparation is generic or school-specific.
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What happens if I get waitlisted or rejected? A consultant with real ISB and IIM experience has a waitlist strategy. Ask for it.
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Can I speak to a past client? Verifiable testimonials from named clients who received specific admits are the strongest proof of outcomes.
GOALisB's answers to all five questions are on this page and at www.goalisb.com/reviews.
What is the difference between a usual MBA admission consulting service and a comprehensive consulting package?
Usual MBA Admission consulting package: you write a draft, the consultant provides feedback. You revise, they review again. The narrative strategy, school selection, and positioning are your responsibility. This is appropriate for applicants who have a clear sense of their story and need an experienced eye on execution.
GOALisB Comprehensive consulting: the consultant works with you from school selection through final decision. The narrative strategy is developed jointly. Essays are built from scratch through coaching and iteration. Recommenders are briefed. Interview preparation is school-specific. Waitlist responses are prepared if needed.
The outcome difference is visible in the data. GOALisB's comprehensive package clients produced nine multi-admit outcomes (three or more simultaneous offers) in 2025–26. The six interview-preparation-only clients produced six individual admits. Multi-admit outcomes - Srishti Singh's six, Aditya Ranjan's four across two continents, are not possible without comprehensive narrative strategy applied consistently across every application.
What should I look for in client reviews of MBA admission consultants?
When reading reviews of any MBA admission consultant — including GOALisB — look for these signals:
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Specific outcomes named — which programme did the reviewer get into? If a review says 'I got into my dream school' without naming the school, it is not verifiable.
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Specific process described — did the reviewer describe what the consultant actually did? Generic praise ('she was amazing and supportive') is less informative than specific description ('she helped me identify that my career pivot story was the wrong angle and rebuilt the narrative around my sector expertise').
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Consistency across a large sample — one glowing review can be selective. 150 reviews across GMATClub, Poets&Quants, LinkedIn, and Google — with named outcomes and specific descriptions — is harder to manufacture.
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Reviews from the programmes you are targeting — an ISB review from a consultant who specialises in US MBA has limited relevance. Look for reviews from people with similar profiles applying to similar programmes.
GOALisB's reviews are at www.goalisb.com/reviews — named, with programme outcomes specified. The review from Harminder Kaur (ISB, INSEAD) and Gamalla Sai Teja (Oxford) are representative of the specificity you should look for in any consultant's testimonials.
ADMISSIONS PROCESS
Does GOALisB work with applicants outside India?
Yes. GOALisB works with Indian professionals based outside India - in the UAE, Singapore, the US, Canada, the UK, Europe, and the Middle East - who are applying to ISB, IIM executive programmes, or global MBA schools.
GOALisB also has location pages for applicants researching MBA consultants in specific cities and countries: Dubai, Singapore, Chandigarh, Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, and international locations including Germany, France, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Nepal, and others.
All consulting is conducted remotely — sessions via video call, documents shared digitally. Location is not a constraint.
What are the Client reviews and success rates of GOALisB?
GOALisB has 150+ verified client reviews across Poets&Quants, LinkedIn, and Google - with named reviewers, specific programme outcomes, and descriptions of the consulting process. Here is the complete picture: success rates, verified outcomes, and selected client voices.
SUCCESS RATES - 2025–26 CYCLE
Of the 120 admit offers in the 2025–26 cycle:
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114 reflect clients on GOALisB's comprehensive admissions package
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6 reflect clients who engaged GOALisB for interview preparation only
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9 clients received three or more simultaneous admit offers
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6 clients received ISB or IIM Ahmedabad scholarships
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2 ISB waitlists were converted to final admit offers
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3 ISB reapplicants secured final admit offers
GOALisB does not publish a single percentage success rate, because that number is meaningless without context. A 95% success rate from a consultant who only takes applicants with strong profiles reflects selection, not consulting quality. The meaningful measure is named, verifiable outcomes across a range of profiles and programmes.
GOALisB's /goalisb-charges page has a 5.37% CTR - the highest of any service page on the site. This means applicants who find GOALisB are converting at a high rate. The reviews and results are the reason.
VERIFIED ADMIT OUTCOMES — 2025–26
The following outcomes are named, verifiable, and representative of the 2025–26 comprehensive package client cohort:
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Srishti Singh - 6 simultaneous admits: ISB Mohali, IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow, IIM Indore, IIM Kozhikode
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Aditya Ranjan - 4 admits across 2 continents: ISB Hyderabad (25% scholarship), IIM Ahmedabad, IE Business School (Spain), Imperial College London
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Piyush Pathak - IIM Ahmedabad PGPX (₹8.5L merit scholarship) + IIM Calcutta PGPEX. Indian Railways Service of Engineers.
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Aditi Agarwal - IIM Ahmedabad PGPX (₹8.5L scholarship) + IIM Bangalore EPGP (25% scholarship). Two merit scholarships in one cycle.
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Anwesha Sarkar - IIM Ahmedabad PGPX (₹8.5L scholarship) + IIM Lucknow IPMX
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Siddharth Pamnoor - IIM Ahmedabad PGPX + IIM Calcutta PGPEX. Petroleum engineer, ONGC.
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Mayur Deshpande - ISB Hyderabad with 100% fee scholarship (full fee waiver)
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Ishita Agarwal - ISB Mohali + NYU Stern, New York. Two continents, concurrent admits.
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Pratham Khurana - ISB waitlist converted + IIM Ahmedabad + IIM Ahmedabad Dubai
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Hrishikesh Khadaye - IIM Ahmedabad + IIM Bangalore + IIM Calcutta simultaneously
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Saurabh Chandra - IIM Calcutta + IIM Bangalore + IIM Lucknow + Mannheim Business School (Germany)
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Vaibhav Marwaha - IE Business School (Spain) + SMU Singapore + IIM Indore. Three countries.
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Saransh Mittal - HEC Paris MBA + Judge Business School, University of Cambridge