An Emirati friend of mine was recently accepted to the Harvard and Stanford Business Schools. He generously agreed to answer some questions on the hows and whys.
I have received a few comments and emails asking about my profile: Egyptian born 1977. Read Electrical & Electronic Engineering at Imperial College of London. B.Eng Upper Second Class Honours (2.1) GMAT 740. Resume.
As I first starting planning to applying to B-school back in 2005 or 2006 I ended up starting a few different GMAT prep programs without completing them. When I started studying properly I was scoring around 600 on the diagnosis tests. I ended up scoring 740 with the help of various courses / books etc: [...]