| Last visit was: 23 Apr 2026, 08:12 |
It is currently 23 Apr 2026, 08:12 |
|
|
Customized
for You
Track
Your Progress
Practice
Pays
| FROM The Consortium Admissions Blog: The Powers Foundation by Alex Haddock |
![]() Alex Haddock Darden Class of 2016 Instragram: @fishstix24 Coming to business school was a bitter sweet decision for me. I knew I wanted to transition into investment banking – a career I had pursued while an undergrad at UVA – but I had spent the last 5 years building deep, life-long relationships with students and families as a teacher. In order to stay connected to my “educator self” I started a non-profit organization designed to support students, teachers and families in Title I public schools (schools serving a high-proportion of students from low-income households). It was based on an idea from my first classroom in 2009 built on a belief that empowering parents to help their children is the most effective form of teaching. Through my first few months at Darden, I have already partnered with my former school near the DC area and with a school here in UVA’s backyard. I have also gotten the Darden community behind the cause, with many Consortium students and I volunteering to teach and interact with families at our school partners. Furthermore, hearing of our success, we are in talks with school districts in Richmond and Baltimore about possibly expanding next year. www.thepowersfoundation.org |
| FROM The Consortium Admissions Blog: Diversity Online |
Diversity in university and executive posts in corporations will have to catch up with the spectrum of humanity available online. A very progressive view of the Internet might propose that it is perhaps the most diverse and open network of mass communication ever invented. Online sharing tools qualify the Web as a new paradigm.![]() <h2>New Global Game-Changer</h2> It may have been overly optimistic a couple decades ago to think of the Internet as a utopian force, although it certainly was a strong economic force — a bubble that soon popped. Confidence in the Web needed to be earned by the global community participating with this grand experiment. Humanity has created the Web, as good as we have it today. It is diverse. Some people in challenged areas may have to put in extra effort to publish to the Web or use it to communicate — but the telecom services in developing economies is leapfrogging the developed economies' technological evolutions. <h2>Strange Signs and Opportunities</h2> With global convergence, and the Web tying us all together in real time, and the mobile computing revolution — the stage is set for a new paradigm of opportunity for young aspirants. The diverse minds learning the ropes of business and economic activity in general today will soon begin to correct course and steer the world in a more peaceful direction. Nothing can be overlooked or written off as unimportant at first glance. Powerful new economic drivers like crowdsourcing and online commerce are game-changers. Something like a no deposit casino may seem trivial, but, it is part of one of the biggest online phenomenons world-wide in an industry worth billions. A global economy requires diverse people in positions of responsibility in order to work. The Web may well be a strong influence upon societies that are realising how critical diversity is for comprehensive cultural and economic progress. |
Success stories and strategies from high-scoring candidates.