Tag Archive | "wharton"
Bschool Life, Current, MBA
Most people think that if you’re undergoing the Greek system’s recruitment and pledging trials, focus on your studies, and consequently your GPA, are bound to plummet. However, according to Penn’s Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs, the opposite occurs with University of Pennsylvania Greeks. A recent Daily Pennsylvanian article reports that “at Penn, Greeks can [...]
Career, Current, MBA
While students are still worried about landing post-graduate jobs in the tight job market, career service directors predict that 2010 may be “the year of the [MBA job market] turnaround,” reports BusinessWeek last week. Some of these encouraging signs include an increase of full-time MBA job postings—70% of schools saw a decrease in postings last [...]
MBA
It’s late February, already in the ebb of the current MBA admissions season. As such, it’s the perfect time for people considering applying next season to break out of hibernation and start tackling a part of the process that is often shortchanged: school selection.
In ten-plus years of MBA admissions consulting I have found that a [...]
Bschool Life, Career, Current, MBA
The Financial Times published today its 2010 ranking of global MBA programs. Its ranking attempts to “assess the effect of the MBA on … subsequent career progression and salary growth.” Consequently it draws its data from the schools themselves and from surveys of graduates at least three years after earning their MBA degree. In [...]
Bschool Life, Career, Current, MBA
Forbes took its survey findings from “The Best Business Schools” and compiled a second rankings report: “The Most Satisfied MBAs.”
Stanford won top slot for both rankings. It is #1 for providing the best return on investment for its graduates, as well as for churning out MBAs who are extremely satisfied with their current jobs and [...]
Bschool Life, Current, GMAT, MBA
Now that top b-schools (including HBS, Stanford, Wharton, and MIT Sloan, among others) are accepting either GMAT or GRE scores, MBA applicants are a bit at a loss as to which test might enhance their chances of acceptance.
BusinessWeek calls the recent GMAT-GRE showdown the “business school version of the Coke-or-Pepsi debate.” Obviously choosing between taking [...]
Bschool Life, Current, Interviews, MBA
A few bits of communications this week reveal the uncertainly among 2010 MBA applicants now and the new opportunities provided by the earlier Round 1 deadlines/notification dates set by certain schools.
Here’s what I’m referring to:
On the BusinessWeek Forum, Todoubled started a fairly active thread with the title “Denied from Wharton/Chicago, what next?”
I received an email [...]
Blog, Bschool Life, Career, Current, MBA
Wharton 2010 EMBA Application Essay Questions
The Wharton EMBA adcom shows a very clear focus in its set of essay questions (in black font). It wants to understand your goals and how executive business studies support them (essay 1), it wants to get a glimpse of you as a person and a professional (essay 2), and [...]
Bschool Life, Interviews, MBA
Let’s take a look at a few developments during a busy October for MBA applicants:
The Dartmouth News published an article about the increasing percentage of women at Tuck with a couple of factoids about Harvard and Wharton. Unfortunately, there is an inaccuracy in the article regarding a non-existent experience requirement at Tuck. I checked with [...]
Career, Current, MBA
Yes those MBA deadlines are approaching. Rapidly. Kind of like a train roaring through a dark tunnel. Do you see the headlight peering through the gloom, growing brighter and brighter?
So what are my thoughts at the end of a hectic week?
Accepted’s editors have noted a rash of bloopers in applicant essays. While these malapropisms (and [...]
