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The Pants Pooping Applicant Thread for 2010 15 Dec 2009, 20:36
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Thanks dzyubam this is very valuable. It surprised me that there are so many people on financial aid from the univ. Statistically speaking, most of the MBA student will be "subsidized" in some way or another by their uni. I thought they only give finaid to the highly qualified to keep them from going to another school?
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The Pants Pooping Applicant Thread for 2010 16 Dec 2009, 03:28
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That finaid percentage shows how many students got "some form of financial aid", which may not be much :).
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Thanks dzyubam this is very valuable. It surprised me that there are so many people on financial aid from the univ. Statistically speaking, most of the MBA student will be "subsidized" in some way or another by their uni. I thought they only give finaid to the highly qualified to keep them from going to another school?
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The Pants Pooping Applicant Thread for 2010 21 Dec 2009, 22:06
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Hi,

I noticed the annual fees tuition in the list. I'm trying to calculate the actual budget for my MBA degree fees and wanted to know the average living expenses. Can someone help me in that? I have a not so great score of 670 (Q47, V35) and am looking at Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Indiana, Purdue and Georgia Tech. I will also be applying to other Universities but I guess this list will give me a fair idea of what the other would be like.

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You might want to check out schools' websites directly for info about average living expenses. FYI Ithaca is gorges. Cold too..lol...great folks though
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dzyubam, thanks for the table. I think it's very useful. However, I see a problem with just averaging the 4 rankings. For example, Georgia Tech, unranked in 2 rankings, jumps CMU, UNC, Texas, IU, etc., all of which have better ranking than Georgia Tech in the 2 rankings in which GT is ranked.

I think a better way to average the rankings is to normalize each ranking. For example, each ranking is scaled from 0-100 (0 being unranked). If a ranking only ranks 25 schools, each increment would weight 4 points. You can created a composite ranking that isn't skewed by unranked schools.
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The Pants Pooping Applicant Thread for 2010 01 Jan 2010, 18:31
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dzyubam, thanks for the table. I think it's very useful. However, I see a problem with just averaging the 4 rankings. For example, Georgia Tech, unranked in 2 rankings, jumps CMU, UNC, Texas, IU, etc., all of which have better ranking than Georgia Tech in the 2 rankings in which GT is ranked.

I think a better way to average the rankings is to normalize each ranking. For example, each ranking is scaled from 0-100 (0 being unranked). If a ranking only ranks 25 schools, each increment would weight 4 points. You can created a composite ranking that isn't skewed by unranked schools.
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Thanks for pointing this out. This was supposed to be fixed (in particular the formula needs to be average, not sum and division).
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dzyubam Thank you for the table. It is very useful.

I saw an error, on Indiana University, R2 is on 5-Jan.
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Thank you! +1. I've corrected it.
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dzyubam Thank you for the table. It is very useful.

I saw an error, on Indiana University, R2 is on 5-Jan.
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As I was searching, I found some deadlines. I post them to help people like me.

Cornell University: Johnson
Round 1 Oct 6, 2009
Round 2 Nov 12, 2009
Round 3*# Jan 12, 2010
Round 4# Mar 30, 2010

Emory University: Goizueta
* November 1, 2009 - Early Deadline
* December 1, 2009* - Recommended International Deadline
* February 1, 2010** - Scholarship and One-Year Program Deadline
* March 1, 2010 - Final Deadline

University of Southern California: Marshall
Round 1 November 1
Round 2 January 15
Round 3 March 15

University of Maryland: Smith
November 1, 2009
December 15, 2009
January 15, 2010 *
March 1, 2010
April 30, 2010

Washington University: Olin
Round 1 November 2, 2009
Round 2 January 4, 2010
Round 3 March 1, 2010
Round 4 April 19, 2010*

University of California at Davis
Round 1* November 4, 2009
Round 2* January 6, 2010
Round 3 March 3, 2010
Late Round May 5, 2010

Brigham Young University: Marriott
Fall (September): January 15, 2010
October 1, 2009 – Applications accepted for Fall 2010
November 1, 2009 – Application review begins
December 1, 2009 – Round 1 application deadline
January 15, 2010 – Round 2 application deadline: Recommended international application submission date
March 1, 2010 – Final international application deadline
May 1, 2010 – Final domestic application deadline (based on room in the program)

SMU: Cox
Round 1 -- November 4, 2009
Round 2 -- January 6, 2010 (STRONGLY advised for all international applicants)
Round 3 -- March 3, 2010 (priority consideration deadline for scholarship opportunities)
Round 4 -- April 28, 2010

Purdue University: Krannert (4 rounds)
Early November 1
Priority January 10
Regular March 1
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Hi All,
There is a thread for Indiana University (Kelley) 2010 if a global mod wants to update the first page of the thread.

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Thanks! The link added. +1.
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Hi All,
There is a thread for Indiana University (Kelley) 2010 if a global mod wants to update the first page of the thread.

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The table in the second post has been updated with new Financial Times Rankings.
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Hi dzyubam,
thanks for updating with the new FT ranking. Can you added Texas-McCombs' thread link when you get a chance?
calling-all-texas-mccombs-fall-2010-applicants-85165.html
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Thread added.
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Hi dzyubam,
thanks for updating with the new FT ranking. Can you added Texas-McCombs' thread link when you get a chance?
calling-all-texas-mccombs-fall-2010-applicants-85165.html
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Thanks a bunch dzyubam -- extremely nice to have all that info in one chart. Especially all of the round deadlines in combination with all the other data.

Any consideration for Forbes or WSJ? For your reference (some of the rankings differe from your list, but I'm not sure which ones are more current) >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Un ... l_rankings
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Hi

I have also posted this on the international b-school rankings.

Thank you again for the comprehensive rankings.
I do have a few questions however.
1) You placed Financial Times, Economist, and Business Week rankings. I am a little unsure as to which you or other find more reliable and how they base their rankings.
Does anyone perfer one over the other or should I regard on emore over another based on my goals?

2) GPA, how important is this in determining which B-school to pick?

3) I am 25 with 2 years of experience....this list is a bit daunting when I look at the average or mean of years of work experience and age. Should I be focusing on a certain ranking range or school since I fall well below the average? Should I start looking at top 50-150 schools?

Thank you again for this ranking chart!!
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There one column "FinAid". What does it exactly signifies?
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Thanks for the rankings list...but the mean age recorded against each school --> is it the figure recorded from outgoing batches or the figure recorded from entering batches ?
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What does this FinAId in % signify? Is it upper limit % value for the scholarship/Aid chances of getting Aid.
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Thank you, that table is awesome! +1
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That's percentage of students getting SOME FORM of financial Aid - some form is the keyword.
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