Tag Archive | "Financial Aid"
Bschool Life, Career, MBA
Here’s what’s going on in the world of college and MBA admissions…money-wise.
Many b-school students will be returning to class this fall without having had the rosy summer internship experience they had expected—that is, if they were lucky enough to land an internship at all. The main cause for disappointment: Fewer internships are turning into full-time [...]
Books, Bschool Life, Current, Fun Stuff, MBA
Top European b-schools continue making the same mistake: First, in 2008 London Business School ousted their new dean, Robin Buchanan, for being too much of a businessman and not enough of an academic dean. Now IMD’s president, John Wells, is stepping down due to similar criticism. Finally, Frank Brown, Insead’s current dean, also plans to [...]
Books, Current, Fun Stuff, MBA
Applying to graduate school can be complicated enough—and that’s before you start worrying about how you’re going to pay for it. This month’s featured ebook, Financing Your Future: Winning Fellowships, Scholarships and Awards for Grad School, will provide you with valuable tips on how to secure funds for the next stage in your educational future.
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Bschool Life, Current, Fun Stuff, MBA
I will run out of superlatives if I attempt to describe the 2010 AIGAC Conference in Boston. Suffice it say that it was extraordinarily illuminating. MIT Sloan and Harvard Business School graciously and generously hosted the event, which was kicked off by MIT Sloan’s Dean David C. Schmittlein, who discussed the reasoning behind MIT Sloan’s [...]
Books, Bschool Life, Current, MBA
1. A Chronicle article titled, “On Sticker Prices and ‘Wishful Thinking,’” reports that students and parents have hastily “ruled out colleges based solely on published sticker prices without considering how much financial aid they might receive.” According to a recent survey, these students and their parents did not use online financial aid calculators, nor did [...]
Bschool Life, Current, MBA
A recent CNN.com video, “Students choosing price over prestige?” describes how American high school seniors have some pretty tough decisions to make: Should they pursue a prestigious, top-dollar education at an Ivy League school? Or should they settle for a more affordable option—a state school or community college? Which, in the end, will offer more [...]
Current, Fun Stuff, MBA
As top universities strive to become more affordable, many have agreed to maintain their no-loan pledges again this year. (52 schools made no-loan pledges last year; 50 have committed to renew that pledge again this year.) This decision saves low-income (and some middle- and upper-class families) from receiving unreasonable student loan offers in their financial [...]
Bschool Life, Current
Top universities in Latin America—concentrated mainly in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil—have poured an increasingly large amount of government funds into sending students abroad to complete graduate degrees and on improving the educational standards at home, reports a Chronicle article titled “Latin America Hopes to Lift Global Profile.”
Programs in Latin America are working to [...]
Bschool Life, Career
According to a Haas School Newsroom press release, UC Berkeley Haas will be offering ten scholarships this fall that will be matched by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Yellow Ribbon Program in an effort to attract more veterans to its top MBA program. The scholarships will be up to $10,000 each per year. To [...]
Current, Fun Stuff
I am a big fan of the book Made to Stick by the brothers Chip and Dan Heath. It has so much of value for anyone interested in communicating. I have decided to show you how to apply their six key princples to your application essays and personal statements in my webinar “Essays that Stick” [...]
