{"id":34692,"date":"2016-10-06T06:11:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T13:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/whats-next-for-you-in-planning-for-mba-admissions\/"},"modified":"2016-10-06T06:11:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T13:11:06","slug":"whats-next-for-you-in-planning-for-mba-admissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/whats-next-for-you-in-planning-for-mba-admissions\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Next for You in Planning for MBA Admissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/blog\/business-school-insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/10\/GettyImages-483636051.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6774\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/blog\/business-school-insider\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/10\/GettyImages-483636051.jpg\" alt=\"Find out what\u2019s next for you in business school prep.\" width=\"724\" height=\"483\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Are you planning for your future career as an MBA?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Let\u2019s talk business school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>If you\u2019re like a lot of aspiring business school students, this won\u2019t be the first time you\u2019ve heard that phrase\u2014and wondered where you stand on the road to an MBA or specialized business degree.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>To help you figure out what\u2019s next for you, we\u2019re breaking business school admissions down and offering fun, easy, concrete tips for moving you closer to your educational and career goals.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span>Where do you stand in planning your future?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span>Maybe you\u2019ve only thought about going to business school up until now, considered if an MBA is right for your career path, wondered about the actual salary benefits, but you\u2019ve been putting off the idea for when you have more time to plan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Maybe you\u2019ve done a little digging, investigated the vast and various industries that welcome MBAs with open arms (like energy, tech, health care, to name a few), decided that business school is the way to go, but lost momentum when it came to more concrete decisions\u2014like which program to go to or which standardized test you should take\u2014the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/gmat\/gmat-test\/gmat-overview\">GMAT<\/a> or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/gre\/gre-test\/whats-on-the-gre\">GRE<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Maybe you were born ready when it comes to business school prep. You\u2019ve built up the right academic or work background, can quote the ROI of your degree in various industries, and want to get that high-powered career or promotion underway yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span>What\u2019s next in your path to business school?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span>No matter where you stand in the admissions journey, you\u2019re probably motivated by future career prospects. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmac.com\/market-intelligence-and-research\/research-library\/admissions-and-application-trends\/2015-mbacom-prospective-students-survey-report.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Thirty-eight percent of prospective business school students<\/span><\/a><span> go for career enhancement, 34 percent with plans to switch careers, and 28 percent are aspiring entrepreneurs looking to start their own businesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>So whether you\u2019re just gathering intelligence about the business school experience, already plotting the path toward your future as an MBA, or on the move toward your program of choice, there are still some decisions to make\u2014and a lot of useful admissions information out there to help you make them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Find out <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/getready.kaptest.com\/whatsnext\/?utm_source=businessschoolinsider&amp;utm_medium=kaplan-blog&amp;utm_term=pre-business&amp;utm_content=blog-article&amp;utm_campaign=grad-gmat-whats-next-2016\" target=\"_blank\"><i><span>what\u2019s next for your future with our five-question quiz<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>\u2014and unlock tools to help guide you forward, like our step-by-step checklist for your path to business school.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/blog\/business-school-insider\/2016\/10\/06\/planning-for-mba-admissions\/\">What\u2019s Next for You in Planning for MBA Admissions<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/blog\/business-school-insider\">Business School Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you planning for your future career as an MBA? Let\u2019s talk business school. If you\u2019re like a lot of aspiring business school students, this won\u2019t be the first time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,558,243,940],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gmat","category-kaplan-blog","category-blog","category-gmat-prep-gmat","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}