WSJ Just
published an article which is a piggy back from the GMAC survey released yesterday demonstrating an in crease in applications for the classes started in Fall 2015 (last application season). So if you did not get it, that's because the competition has gone up, and sometimes quite a bit. Additionally, 2015 was an especially hard year for International Applicants, with US schools reducing quotas/numbers they take from abroad. Here are the highlights:
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The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, Yale University’s School of Management and Harvard Business School were among the M.B.A. programs drawing more applications for classes entering in the fall of 2015 than a year earlier, according to the schools. Wharton’s M.B.A. applications rose 7.8%, Booth’s 15.6%, Yale’s 25.1% and Harvard’s 1.5%, according to the schools.
Some elite schools lost ground with applicants. Applications fell 5% at New York University’s Stern School of Business and 8.1% at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management, those schools reported.
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Many top schools, including Booth, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, increased the share of women in their entering M.B.A. classes, and several schools now boast M.B.A. classes that are more than 40% women.
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International applicants, a crucial growth market for U.S. business schools over the last decade, may be slowing. While 51% of two-year, full-time M.B.A. programs said they attracted more admission bids from global students year-over-year, that is down from last year, when 65% of programs reported such increases, according to GMAC.
At several top programs—including Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, Booth, Sloan and Marshall—the proportion of international full-time M.B.A.s is shrinking.
“The change in international students was intentional,” said a spokeswoman for McDonough, which dropped its share of international students in its entering class from 41% last year to 33% this year.
Full Article:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-more-pe ... 1443647494
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