Archive for January, 2009
Best thing about Business School, Duke vs UNC interview impression – GMAT Club
The best thing about Business School (even before school starts) discussion is here. Interview at Duke (Fuqua) and UNC. Read different impressions in this thread.
Investment banking recruiting, 730 GMAT after a score of 620 – GMAT Club
Investment banking recruiting. How is it going these days? Read more. Read about 110-point increase in GMAT score in our forum. Inspiring thread with valuable advice on how you can get a good GMAT score is here.
Insight Into Michigan Ross Admissions
The Monroe St. Journal has an excellent interview with Ross Admissions Director Soojin Kwon Koh in which she discusses admissions trends this year, changes in Ross’s admissions process, and the role of Ross second-year students and alumni in the admissions process. A few highlights: Ross experienced an...
The Financial Crisis: Danger or Opportunity
On a recent very long flight, I was pacing up and down the aisle and noticed a header on a computer screen: “The Financial Crisis: Danger or Opportunity.” I have no idea what my fellow passenger was writing about, but I started mulling over that...
From My Inbox: Help with MBA Waitlist Letters
Feedback from Accepted’s Inbox: “It was indeed a big help for me to write a waitlist letter. I am now confident about what and how I should write one to get off the waitlist!” What was the “It” that NK found so helpful? The Nine Mistakes...
HBS 2+2 2009 MBA Application Questions, Deadlines, Tips.
Harvard Business School 2+2 Program Key Dates: Application Submission: July 1, 2009 (5 p.m. EST) Admissions Notification: September 15, 2009 Harvard Business School 2+2 Program Essay Questions: The Harvard 2+2 application is online and the submission deadline is July 1, 2009. Harvard’s instructions and question are in black below; my comments...
FT 2009 B-School ranking, MBA and job security – GMAT Club
Financial Times Business School ranking 2009 discussion. You may also find our updated wiki B-School rankings useful. Does MBA provide job security? Did MBA ever provide it? Read more.
R2 Business School application volume, waitlist strategies – GMAT Club
Has the Business School application volume really fallen in R2? Read more in our forum. What are your waitlist strategies? Get some waitlist advice here.
What You Don’t Need to Know on a Waitlist
At the Ross waitlsit chat yesterday (transcript should be posted next week), there were the usual percentage of questions related to waitlist stats. Indeed, at this time of year every year, waitlist applicants obsess over previous years’ acceptance rates at the schools waitlisting them. Nervous,...