Posts Tagged ‘UCLA Anderson’
Consortium: Interview with Admissions Directors
Last week’s Consortium Q&A was a huge success and tons of important issues were addressed by Rebecca Dockery, the Consortium’s Recruiting Director, and a panel of representatives from top MBA programs, including Dartmouth Tuck, Emory Goizueta, Michigan Ross, NYU Stern, Rochester, UCLA, UNC, USC, UT...
The State of the 2010 MBA Job Market
Almost 90% of MBAs from the class of 2010 were employed after graduation, compared to 84% from the year before, reports a GMAC press release on the 2010 job scene. The press release also points out that these post-recession graduates are “faring better than their...
2010 MBA Rankings Released by Businessweek
Businessweek just released its biannual full-time MBA rankings. There were some minor shifts in this year’s U.S. top 30 compared to those of 2008, and some more significant changes in the international rankings, as you’ll see below. Top 30 U.S. Business Schools of 2010 (2008 rankings...
MBA Admissions News Round Up
A Businessweek article reports on the increased phenomenon of helicopter parents…not at preschools, middle schools, or even colleges, but at business schools. “Helicopter parents,” a term used to describe hovering parents, have taken an active role in their children’s b-school application process. And when we...
Top B-School Admissions Gets Easier, for Some
A Businessweek article reports on the drop in selectivity among top business schools including Michigan Ross, Cornell Johnson, UCLA Anderson, Indiana Kelley, and Maryland Smith. These schools all admitted a higher percentage of applicants in 2010 than they did in 2008, when b-school application numbers...
Business School Guides, GMAT to Applying Time, You Tube Videos
Business School Guides – new from GMAT Club Chicago Booth MIT (Sloan) UC Berkeley (Haas) Michigan (Ross) Duke (Fuqua) UCLA (Anderson) GMAT to Applying Time – is applying 5 years after the GMAT a disadvantage? Inspiring You Tube Videos – Updated Weekly – Inside the HBS Case method, Bill Gates’ speech, and the...
Free B-School Info: Check Out our Online Q&A Transcripts!
If you’ve been following our events schedule, you’ll know that we’re already well into our fall 2011 Q&A season. We’ve had valuable question and answer sessions with admissions directors from four top business schools so far – UC Berkeley Haas, Chicago Booth, Northwestern Kellogg, and...
MBA Admissions News Round Up: What’s Going On in the World of Top MBA Admissions
Large, elaborate b-school campuses don’t just attract more applicants and professors, but help a school climb higher in the rankings, reports a Businessweek article, “Elite B-Schools Keep on Building.” According to Yale professor Matthew Speigel, “Elite business schools in the U.S. are locked in an...
MBA Admissions News Round Up
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will be joining the Stanford GSB faculty next month as co-director of the school’s Center for Global Business and the Economy, reports a Businessweek blog post last week. The center “aims to be the leader in developing and disseminating...
MBA Admissions Consultants: Thoughts on thoughts
I have been thinking for several weeks that it is time for me to write a post about MBA admissions consulting. I have seen blog and forum posts heatedly discussing the pros and cons of admissions consulting and what makes a good consultant. I admit...