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I request the admissions committee to consider the following details pertaining to the gap between Secondary Schooling and the B.B.A:
Immediately after completing my Secondary Schooling, I had enrolled for an undergraduate degree in Electronics Engineering with the University of ABC in August . Within the first four semesters, I realized that while being an engineer is a prestigious career path – my passion definitely lay elsewhere. At the age of 18, the choice was primarily influenced by peer pressure. Halfway through the course, I dropped out of the program in October 1998. Such a move is highly unconventional in my country and resulted in significant disapproval from all fronts.
The early week of December 1998 was a fissure in my career that had so far been a smooth ride. The fact that I had dropped out halfway through engineering represented an entire two years of “downtime”. It took me an entire month to come out of the situation and gather courage
If I was not the best at engineering, I had to be best at something – and I just had to find it. The problem had opened this door of opportunity….