Posts Tagged ‘MBA Admissions’
Identifying Your Business School Short-List: 3 Factors to Consider
For candidates just getting started in preparing for MBA admissions and for candidates choosing among business schools after gaining admission, many key factors should influence your choices. Of course, for the candidate just getting started, you must assess where you are competitive. But for both...
How to Deal with a Waitlist Situation
Instead of a clear “yes” or “no,” some candidates will find themselves on an MBA admissions waitlist. Some schools, such as the Wharton School or Harvard Business School, ask candidates not to provide additional material. Many programs, however, will accept new items of information and...
2011 Cornell Johnson Waitlist Admissions Director Interview Posted
If you were waitlisted at Cornell Johnson, then we hope you took advantage of our recent Q&A with Johnson’s Assistant Dean of Admissions, Randall Sawyer. As always, Mr. Sawyer provided excellent advice and information in response to our participants’ questions. You can read the...
April Fools Prophecies
It’s April Fools Day so I feel like being a pundit, which is not that far removed from being a fool. The main difference between pundits and fools: Pundits are right, and fools are wrong. However events will determine which category...
2012 Applicants: Time to Poke the Box
I just finished Seth Godin’s Poke the Box, an ode to initiative, innovation, and overcoming fear of risk and failure. In this short book, which Godin alternately and accurately refers to as a “manifesto” and a “rant,” he motivates the reader to just do...
MBA Admissions News Round Up
Last week Wharton launched a new educational website geared towards high school students, Knowledge@Wharton High School. The site will teach high schoolers about business practices and keep them up-to-date with relevant business news. Wharton professors will also have a space on the site to post...
Free Executive MBA Special Report Available NOW
Are you applying to a top executive MBA program? If so, then you’re going to need to make sure that your candidacy stands out from the crowd of other applicants, and there’s only one way to do that—through creating a strong application that highlights your...
2011 HEC Paris MBA Admissions Director Interview Posted
Thank you to Marie-Laurence Lemaire, HEC MBA Program’s Senior Business Development Manager for joining us last week for an excellent Q&A on HEC’s admissions practices, international perspective, scholarships, student life, and curriculum. You can read the whole HEC Paris MBA Q&A transcript, listen to the...
Is Business School Too Expensive in this Economy?
We recently posted a blog on the most common motivations among business school applicants. Data in a related GMAC article shows that applicants view high b-school tuition as a worthy investment into their futures. The point of the article is that, contrary to...
4 To-Do’s for Accepted Grad School Applicants
Should you kick back on a beach? Or go for a latte with a colleague? Find out why both may be in order in this video from Eye on Admissions where Linda Abraham outlines four action items that should be on the to-do lists...