Tag Archive | "wharton"
Current, MBA
Test prep companies have a busy season ahead of them; test prep traffic is bound to increase as future b-school applicants scramble to prepare for the Next Generation GMAT, reports a Businessweek article, “GMAT Test Prep: Changes on the Way.” The new GMAT, which will launch in 2012, will include a new integrated reasoning section [...]
Blog, MBA
2011 School Threads (Deadlines, Essays, Discussions)
- Stanford
- Yale
- Wharton
- Duke
- ISB
Bschool Life, Current, MBA
Along with the deterioration of the economy came a huge boom in b-school applications. According to a Businessweek article yesterday, “Business School Applications Sputter,” that two-year boom now appears to be softening.
Top MBA programs in the U.S., including Wharton and UC Berkeley Haas, have reported that they received either an equal or lower number of [...]
Bschool Life, Current, MBA
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, and the Indian School of Business, four rival Asian business schools, have joined forces to recruit students from North American and Europe, reports a Bloomberg Businessweek article, “Asian B-Schools Target Western Students.” Collaborative initiatives include traveling to target [...]
Bschool Life, Career, Current, MBA
The decision to attend b-school and the concern over post-graduation job prospects have never been as closely intertwined as they are today. That’s why University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School has chosen to link the admissions and career services departments, an unprecedented decision that will likely be closely scrutinized by other top b-schools.
According to a recent [...]
Bschool Life, Career, Current, MBA
They were looking for four things. I didn’t know until I’d made it to the third and last round of interviews, but McKinsey and Company, the strategy consulting firm perennially ranked among the top “dream” employers of MBA students, was looking for four specific qualities in the candidates they hired. By my calculations, McKinsey made [...]
Blog, MBA
- International School Visits – American Living Abroad
- School Visits – how far is too far for a School Visit
- Wharton’s Reapplication Essays – why they are the same as the first-time essays
- R1 and R2 Applications – can I still choose if I get accepted during both rounds?
Current, MBA
This Wharton 2011 MBA Application tip post is one of a series of posts providing MBA application and essay advice for applicants to top MBA programs around the world. You can access the entire series at http://blog.accepted.com/acceptedcom_blog/tag/2011-mba-application-tips. My tips for answering Wharton’s essay questions are in red below.
Wharton 2011 MBA Essay Questions
If you think that [...]
Books, Bschool Life, Current, GMAT
A recent Wharton alum and former user of Accepted.com resources, recently sent me information about an interesting blog he’s working on. Check out Mate, I C Bill’s new blog that tracks his “extended recruiting efforts.”
Harvard Business School, Yale SOM, Northwestern Kellogg, Chicago Booth, and Michigan Ross are all either in the midst of searching for [...]
Current, MBA
Part-time or short executive MBA programs are sprouting up in countries not traditionally served by business schools in an initiative to spread the availability of executive education, reports a recent Financial Times article, “Winds of change blow for business schools.” Lagos Business School in Nairobi is one such school that works together with Nairobi’s Strathmore [...]
