{"id":501,"date":"2009-03-27T12:32:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T20:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=501"},"modified":"2009-03-28T23:34:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T07:34:18","slug":"admissions-news-dukes-new-mm-wl-chat-transcript-moms-in-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/admissions-news-dukes-new-mm-wl-chat-transcript-moms-in-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Admissions News: Duke&#8217;s New MM, WL Chat Transcript, Moms in Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few admissions news items from this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/mba\/DukeFuqua.aspx\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/mba\/DukeFuqua.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Duke's Fuqua School of Business<\/a> will offer a master's program aimed at recent graduates with little or no work experience starting in August 2009. The program will provide a <a title=\"https:\/\/www.dukenews.duke.edu\/2009\/03\/mmr.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dukenews.duke.edu\/2009\/03\/mmr.html\" target=\"_blank\">Masters in Management Studies (\"MMS\")<\/a> and consist of 12 business courses taught over four six-week terms or nine months.\u00a0 Participants can have a bachelors, masters, or doctoral degree, but little or no formal business education. It is in direct competition with <a title=\"https:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/acceptedcom_blog\/2008\/10\/2\/lbs-launches-masters-in-management.html\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/acceptedcom_blog\/2008\/10\/2\/lbs-launches-masters-in-management.html\" target=\"_blank\">London Business School's Masters in Management <\/a>program.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/aboutus\/editors.aspx?editorid=31\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/aboutus\/editors.aspx?editorid=31\" target=\"_blank\">Natalie Grinblatt Epstein<\/a> and I took questions from waitlisted applicants during a lively <a title=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/chat\/Transcripts\/2009\/mba03192009_waitlist.aspx\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/chat\/Transcripts\/2009\/mba03192009_waitlist.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">MBA waitlist chat<\/a> last week. The first topic : The ABC's of Getting Accepted from the Waitlist. For the whole alphabet,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/chat\/Transcripts\/2009\/mba03192009_waitlist.aspx\"> see the transcript<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Thank you. Thank you. We have crossed the 1000 vote threshhold in Start-Up Nation's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startupnation.com\/leading-moms-2009\/contestant\/4321\/index.php\">Leading Moms in Business contest. You can still vote, and please do.<\/a> The contest ends March 31, and I have no idea if we are among the winners.<\/li>\n<li>We will announce the judges for the <a title=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/zones\/photos.aspx\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/zones\/photos.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Beautiful B-School Photo Contest <\/a>next week. Whether you visited a school earlier, are attending an admit weekend in the next few weeks, or just got invited to interview, please <a title=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/zones\/photos.aspx\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/zones\/photos.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">submit your pics<\/a>. You could win a $200 Amazon gift certificate.<\/li>\n<li>If you are on a law school waitlist, buy <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/Ecommerce\/lawWait\/lawWaitList.aspx\">The Nine Mistakes You Don't Want to Make on a Law School Waitlist <\/a><\/em>and save 20% through March 31, 2009. That's Tuesday.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/chat\/Transcripts\/2009\/mba03232009_lbs.aspx\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/chat\/Transcripts\/2009\/mba03232009_lbs.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">London Business School's MBA\/MiF chat transcript <\/a>is now online.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/chat\/Transcripts\/2009\/mba03252009_cornell.aspx\">2009 Cornell Johnson MBA Waitlist Chat transcript<\/a> is now online.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few admissions news items from this week: Duke&#8217;s Fuqua School of Business will offer a master&#8217;s program aimed at recent graduates with little or no work experience starting in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,11,3,6,8,10],"tags":[17,50,95,85,82,39,76],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-mba","category-b-school-life","category-current-events","category-fun-stuff","category-interviews","tag-chat","tag-cornell-johnson","tag-duke-fuqua","tag-grad-school-admissions","tag-law-school-admissions","tag-mba-admissions","tag-mba-waitlist","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}