Archive for March, 2009
Beautiful B-School Photo Contest Judges
Today, I am happy to announce the judges for the Beautiful B-School Photo Contest. They are: Eric Bahn, founder of BeatTheGMAT forum. Elissa Ellis-Sangster, executive director at Forte Foundation. Happy Librarian, author of MBA Dream blog. MissionMBA, author of My Journey to a B-School… blog. MBAVeggie, author of The Journey...
HEC Tops in Marketing Outside US Per Princeton Review
Reuters reports: HEC in France has been voted the top business school outside the USA for the teaching of marketing by over 19,000 business school students in the latest survey by The Princeton Review. The school was one of only two non-US schools to feature in...
2009 GMAT Club’s Business School Rankings
Second Annual GMAT Club MBA Rankings – Top 20 schools ranked based on the interest each of the Schools generates throughout the year on the GMAT Club’s MBA forum. Methodology: each of the business school master threads is examined and views are counted to arrive at...
Admissions News: Duke’s New MM, WL Chat Transcript, Moms in Business
A few admissions news items from this week: Duke’s Fuqua School of Business will offer a master’s program aimed at recent graduates with little or no work experience starting in August 2009. The program will provide a Masters in Management Studies (“MMS”) and consist of 12...
HBS Applicants Face Big Week
Harvard Business School’s Admissions Director Dee Leopold announced in her blog that next week will be a critical week for MBA applicants to HBS. HBS will extend offers of admission to about 40 round-one waitlisters shortly after April 2. HBS will release all round-two admissions decisions on...
Thank You Thursday!
Tweet! It is with great pleasure that we announce our first Thank You Thursday winner! “WorldTutorExch” Congratulations on winning your choice of Accepted.com Admissions Ebooks! As mentioned earlier this week, we’d like to thank our Twitter followers. So twice a month, we will randomly pick one of...
Lincoln’s Leadership Among Rivals
The uber-attribute of admissions is leadership. Yes schools want to see intelligence and achievement, but when discussing personal qualities, leadership is at the top of every admissions professional’s Most Wanted List. You can read volumes about leaders and leadership — good and bad. I just finished...
Twitter Thank you Thursday!
A few of you may remember my “Tweet Tweet” post last August where I skeptically announced Accepted’s participation in Twitter. Well since then I discovered that I actually enjoy the simplicity and brevity of Twitter: A maximum of 140 characters per post. It’s easy and allows...
The Official Guide for GMAT Review 12th Edition Update – 30% Are New Questions
The first reports about the The Official Guide for GMAT Review 12th ed are coming in: The book is said to have about 30% new questions, including some bold CR’s. Overall the format remained the same and some of the older questions have been replaced with...
European B-Schools In Demand
This was a week for articles about the demand for European business schools like London Business School, INSEAD, and IMD among US applicants seeking both MBA and EMBA degrees. Here is a sample: An MBA With Savoir Faire from The Wall St. Journal. BusinessWeek’s Special Report: “B-Schools...
