{"id":30067,"date":"2015-08-13T08:24:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T15:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/top-ranked-business-school-admissions-dean-tells-all\/"},"modified":"2015-08-13T08:24:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T15:24:51","slug":"top-ranked-business-school-admissions-dean-tells-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/top-ranked-business-school-admissions-dean-tells-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Top-Ranked Business School Admissions Dean Tells All"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chicago business schools set the bar high for average GMAT scores. Credits: Sergey Gabdurakhmanov<\/a> via Flickr<\/a> cc<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

From an in-depth interview with the dean of admissions at a top-ranked business school to MBA students getting an early start to their academic year\u2014let\u2019s dig into the latest news and stories for aspiring business leaders. As usual, leave your comments below and feel free to tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n

Admissions insight at a top-ranked business school<\/b><\/h4>\n

There are lots of good reasons to consider attending <\/span>NYU\u2019s Stern School of Business<\/span><\/a>, from the high starting salaries of its graduating MBAs to the school\u2019s proximity to Wall Street (not to mention New York City restaurants, museums, culture, and nightlife). However, thinking about attending is one thing\u2014actually applying and getting in at this elite business school is another. Check out this eye-opening article with Isser Gallogly, Stern\u2019s assistant dean of admissions. Gallogly offers some words of wisdom to applicants who are worried their GMAT score or GPA might limit their shot at acceptance: \u201cI think sometimes people look at averages as a minimum requirement and think that \u2018If I don\u2019t have that number, I\u2019m no good.\u2019 I really hope that people don\u2019t opt out because maybe they\u2019re over-fixating on a factor or maybe looking at it incorrectly.\u201d As reassuring as that sounds, it\u2019s also worth noting that a Stern MBA doesn\u2019t come cheap; Last year, Stern became the first business school to advise its students to budget more than $200K for their time in the two-year program. In case you weren\u2019t aware, living in New York City is REALLY expensive. (<\/span>Poets & Quants<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

MBA students get a summer head-start<\/b><\/h4>\n

Classes at top-ranked <\/span>University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School<\/span><\/a> didn\u2019t officially start until the beginning of August (notice how summer vacation keeps getting shorter?), but new MBA students have been on its Chapel Hill campus for weeks. Kenan-Flagler is one of several MBA programs across the country to offer increasingly popular summer crash courses in areas like math and statistics for students who may not come from a quantitative background. With many business schools recruiting students with experience far beyond finance and accounting, this growing trend is unsurprising. The summer courses also have the added benefit of socializing students earlier on\u2014which prepares them for the team-based work that will characterize most of their time in business school. Most recently, 180 of Kenan-Flagler\u2019s 275 first-year MBA students enrolled in the three-week summer program. (<\/span>The Wall Street Journal<\/span><\/i><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

New business school heroes<\/b><\/h4>\n

Today\u2019s MBA students are adding some new names to the traditional canon of business role models and heroes. Yes, Warren Buffett and Steve Jobs still top the list\u2014but increasingly you\u2019ll see some lesser known names representing an elite pool of activist investors, including those of Daniel Loeb and William Ackman. While some critics attack these figures as short-sighted opportunists, opinions are gradually changing and new fans are emerging. (<\/span>Business Insider<\/span><\/i><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

White House focuses on female MBA students<\/b><\/h4>\n

Women make up a slight majority of both the nation\u2019s total population and college students\u2014yet they remain a minority at business schools. With the male to female ratio at near parity among law and medical school students. In the male dominated world of business education, a 40% female incoming class is considered a win. Yes, strides are slowly being made. To speed up progress, about 150 schools recently met with officials from the White House. Said the dean of the George Washington School of Business, who attended the meeting, \u201cWe often focus so much on our students and the learning experiences, we don\u2019t often become introspective and look at ourselves and say, \u2018are we really practicing what we preach here?\u2019\u201d (<\/span>Bloomberg Businessweek<\/span><\/i><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

GMAT scores on the rise in Chicago<\/b><\/h4>\n

The University of Chicago\u2019s Booth School of Business<\/span><\/a> is reporting that the average GMAT score for its new class of MBA students has reached a new record high of 726, two points higher than last year. That puts them in the 95th percentile of all GMAT takers (yes, that\u2019s REALLY impressive). The top-ranked MBA program says the average undergraduate GPA for incoming students this year hovers at 3.59, the same as last year. Nearby <\/span>Northwestern University\u2019s Kellogg School of Management<\/span><\/a> also reported an unusually significant increase in its average GMAT score, rising eight points to 724. (<\/span>Poets & Quants<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n


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