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...

Cornell Johnson 2010 MBA Essay Questions My comments are in red. To ensure the depth and dynamism of the Johnson School education, we seek to enroll a class composed of students whose insights are distinct and whose actions are penetrating. The essay portion of your application gives...

Forbes published today its 2010 MBA rankings for US and non-US MBA programs. The Forbes ranking is based on ROI, specifically “the return on investment achieved by the graduates from the class of 2004.” Forbes surveyed 17,000 alumni at 103 schools and heard back from...

The US News just released its 2009 Grad School Rankings. I’m going to list the top ten for business school, law school, and medical school (research) and provide links to the ranking methodology for each category. For other graduate specialties, please visit the US News...

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...

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...

Maverick of the “En Route to MBA” blog gives excellent advice to waitlisted MBA applicants in his recent post “Waitlist -> Admit - How?” based on his experience getting accepted from the Carey waitlist.  (Congrats Maverick!) Maverick refers to a “waitlist appointment” in his post.  If you...

We’d like to hear from you! As a member of the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants (AIGAC), we are conducting a survey to help us better understand MBA applicants’ goals and needs.  If you are or will be an MBA applicant, we invite you to...

Tons of deadlines this month, and I meant to post these tips earlier in the week. Time got away from me. Please use these techniques for essays with upcoming deadlines. Give yourself a break. Put the application away for a day, overnight, several hours, or at...

A few MBA applicant bloggers are dealing with questions now that they have received first round decisions. First Hakuna Matata!!! is thrilled to be accepted to Yale SOM and Cornell Johnson. Congratulations! He asks several questions in “3 down…1 to go!” and I am going to respond...