{"id":13501,"date":"2012-08-07T10:52:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T17:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=13501"},"modified":"2012-08-07T10:52:57","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T17:52:57","slug":"wharton-introduces-new-component-to-mba-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wharton-introduces-new-component-to-mba-application\/","title":{"rendered":"Wharton Introduces New Component to MBA Application"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School<\/strong> recently announced a few updates for the 2012-2013 academic year that will impact and benefit potential students interested in joining the Wharton community.<\/p>\n

The school plans to roll out a new evaluation model, the team-based discussion, for the upcoming application cycle. No other business school has anything like it; as vice dean Karl T Ulrich<\/strong> explains in a statement<\/a>, the team-based discussion gives candidates the chance to work together with a handful of their fellow applicants to solve real-world business scenarios as a team. The exercise will demonstrate how they approach and analyze specific situations and interact with other people--critical components to Wharton's team-focused learning style.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek<\/a><\/em>'s Alison Damast<\/strong>, Ulrich says the school wanted to see how applicants reacted in an unscripted environment, since \"Because of blogs and the applicant community and discussion forums, people have developed a really good sense of what the admissions process looks like, down to what kinds of questions are asked and how they manage the interview.\"<\/p>\n

This new component was piloted with both current Wharton students as well as with prospective students during the 2012 Round 3 interview process, Ulrich says, adding that \"this type of assessment also serves as a tool to take prospective students \u2018off the page\u2019 and allows us to see firsthand the ways in which they can contribute to our community of diverse learners and leaders.\"<\/p>\n

The vice dean also reveals that Wharton School is piloting a Semester in San Francisco, which will give a select group of second-year students the opportunity to spend the fall term at the Wharton San Francisco campus.<\/p>\n

With this new 360-degree MBA application component, a San Francisco study option, and the debut of Wharton School's new curriculum<\/a> this fall, to say that the school is looking to shake things up in order to improve business education would be an understatement.<\/p>\n

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