Archive for October, 2009
The GMAT, Jobs, and Admissions
BusinessWeek recently published an excellent article, GMAT: The MBA Job Seeker’s Best Friend, exploring the impact of GMAT scores on post-MBA job prospects and the reality that some business school are encouraging accepted students to retake the GMAT to improve their chances of getting desired jobs. What is...
Georgetown McDonough 2010 MBA Application Questions, Deadlines, Tips.
Georgetown McDonough 2010 MBA Essay Questions My comments are in red: All essays should be double-spaced using 10 point font. Prepare your attachments offline in separate document files and upload them individually. Please follow the instructions regarding length of each attachment, and label each page with your...
MBA Admissions News: Tuck, Rankings, Global Entrepreneurship, MBA Interviews
Let’s take a look at a few developments during a busy October for MBA applicants: The Dartmouth News published an article about the increasing percentage of women at Tuck with a couple of factoids about Harvard and Wharton. Unfortunately, there is an inaccuracy in the article...
Emory Goizueta 2010 MBA Application Questions, Deadlines, Tips.
Emory Goizueta 2010 MBA Essay Questions My comments are in red. In separate documents, please address the following questions. On the top of each page, please indicate your full name as listed on your application and the question to which you are responding. 1. List one of your...
MBA Admissions Q&As: Cornell, NYU Stern, Columbia, Notre Dame
We have two great MBA admissions chats next week: Cornell Chatter, an Accepted.com online Q&A session, on Monday, October 12, 2009 at 10:00 AM PT/1:00 PM ET/5:00 PM GMT when Randall Sawyer, Director of Admissions, along with other staff members will answer your important questions. Use...
Consortium 2010 MBA Application Questions, Deadlines, Tips
Consortium 2010 MBA Application Essay Questions My comments are in red. This year’s core application questions are identical to last year’s and I’ve posted their guidelines from 2009 as well below:* The following essay questions provide us with an opportunity to evaluate your strengths and weaknesses, experiences,...
Chicago Booth: Top 10 To-Do List Before Submitting Your MBA Application
Chicago Booth’s first round deadline this year is rapidly approaching (Oct. 14), and it has thoughtfully supplied a checklist of items to consider before you hit SUBMIT. Although I am particularly partial to #5, all ten are right on. These helpful, last-minute tips constitute your...
News About Great Application Essays for Business School
Paul Bodine, Accepted’s Senior Editor and author of Great Application Essays for Business School and other fine admissions books, just emailed me the following news: Great Application Essays for Business School is available again on Amazon. You can also buy it from Accepted’s bookstore, if you...