MBA Applicant Tool (very much in Beta)

i also bought www.mbacharts.com . i will let everyone know when you can use that more convenient url

This url is now fine to use:

https://www.mbacharts.com/

The in-profile commenting function isn't working for me, but i may just be a bit stupid. Help pls.

i just wrote "hi" on your comments section, so its working for me.

what you need to do is enter text in the box below the section, then click the "comment" button. let me know if that works for you, and I would also be curious to know what you tried so that i can account for that case

how do you save your profile? There is no submit button or anything and I don't see my name added to the schools. Also, all my data disappears when I leave the site.


EDIT: doesnt work for me if i sign in with google, but works using sign in with mba app. Using Firefox.

ok, so if you create a new account w/ google credentials, it fails to save? I will look into this tonight. I was able to update my google-credentialed account so perhaps its an issue with new accounts.

Thanks for the report.

I think it was a firefox issue, not a google issue.

It would be interesting if you could select "top 10" from the dropdown and plot that.

Awesome tool, I work in software myself, can very much appreciate the work gone into this.

A few ideas (you'll likely have thought of/heard some of these already):

1. Fixed header so when you're scrolling through profiles you can identify the data.

2. A "location" field added to profile. Ex. (Los Angeles, CA, USA, but leave the option open to not include

Tracking this data over time has a few uses:
a. Can potentially help candidates connect with others in their vicinity. (Comments would help facilitate this)
b. Using Google API, create a location map to show where candidates are from and different colored "pins" for their status (interviewing, submitted, accepted, etc). One of the biggest sources of conspiracy theories as we go through this process is "where have all the invites been going to? Anyone in 'xxxx city' have an interview yet?"
If the different pins thing is a hassle, critical status here would be showing where interview invites have gone.
c. Might be able to mine this for other useful info, might be useful to admissions consultants to whom you could sell premium access to. Obviously this would only become relevant after a lot of users and likely unpopular with a few (I don't mind, this is BUSINESS school we're talking about after all).

3. Outside of tracking application status for schools, the niche MBACharts fulfills in my mind is in its name, a visual representation of bschool data. It seems as if the rest of the bschool sites (accepted, gmatclub, BW) have a good amount of info and are laid out well, but don't show things in graphs, charts, or any other tools our up-and-coming Mgmt Consultants will be soon able to put together in their red-eye flight slumbers.
I think creating a few other graphs/charts might be useful, like seeing industry or location concentrations by school, or even customizing it to allow you to add multiple schools to compare as rhyme suggested.

4. Change the onMouseOver state for the "Discuss this school at gmat club". Probably just a pet peeve of mine, but when I first put my mouse over it, I thought the link didn't work because the cursor turns into the "text selector".

5. You might want to make a link to the sign-in page at the top, above the tabs, similar to where you have the sign-out link in the upper left. Just an ease of use thing.

6. Requiring Email for registration would unlock a lot of stuff. I agree with MBA2010Girl about the privacy, so this could be optional, but it would allow you create features to maintain accurate data like periodic email reminders for people to update their status (have to make this as easy as possible, or people won't do it) or receiving an email if someone makes a comment on your profile.

thanks for the ideas JTech. After I finish out my apps I will be able to put more time into the site. Those all sound solid..I am really looking forward to adding email notifications next. I think optional email notifications really help people stay engaged with the site (comment notifications, replies, etc).

Nice and very helpful tool.

I was not able to save my profile, I tried couple of times.
May be because I am using Firefox with Mac OS.

Great tool

1 suggestion

a way to understand statistically / graphically the percentage of people who apply to 1 school apply to another.

and the same thing for acceptances, except the percentage that choose 1 over another....

Just wanted to bump this up as a reminder that people need to update their profiles on MBA Charts.

While the numbers aren't all-incompassing when considering business school admissions, it is indeed interesting to see the trends.

Great resource

This thread and this tool need more love. It's 98% of the way there, and that last 2% will make it 10x more useful

my WOW! ))
Very Good!
+1 kudos

Please add: Oxford/Cambridge Universities.

For international student TOEFL score is required by BS, you may add it as well.