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Posted by Clear Admit on December 30, 2003, at 10:34 am
This year’s ’round two’ deadlines for the top schools are very tightly compressed. Here’s a quick look at some key dates for next week:
1/5: Yale
1/6: Dartmouth, Stanford
1/7: U. Michigan
1/8: Harvard, Wharton
1/9: Kellogg, U. Chicago, LBS
That’s the top 5 schools compressed into a four-day window – not to mention Dartmouth, Michigan, Yale and LBS! Of course, the following week features INSEAD, UVA, NYU, Cornell, UNC and CMU – with MIT, Duke and Berkeley just beyond that. That’s 19 schools in 19 days!
In prior years, the top programs have actually had their deadlines slightly more spread out across the first three weeks of January. Why is this year different? Two reasons:
1) The fact that the holiday is on a Thursday this year has . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 24, 2003, at 9:26 pm
Posted by Clear Admit on December 24, 2003, at 10:44 am
As some of you may have heard, Kellogg has given out a handful of pre-Christmas admits to R1 applicants. Congratulations to those who have been accepted to the Kellogg class of 2006!
We first heard the news from some of our clients last week, and there has since been some relevant discussion amongst R1 applicants in the BW discussion forums. All indications are that this seems to be a fairly limited number of early admits – so fear not if you have not . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 23, 2003, at 12:52 pm
Many of our international readers have questions about the visa process for MBA students. These questions fall into two categories: a) obtaining a visa to study in the USA (usually an F-1 visa) and b) obtaining a visa to work in the USA after b-school (usually an H1-B visa). For a terrific summary of the process in Q&A form, please read the chat transcripts from a discussion that was recently held with Paul Zulkie (American Immigration Lawyers Association) on BW Online. Reading these transcripts will offer a quick explanation to many of your . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 19, 2003, at 3:38 pm
Wharton has released their ‘Round 1′ admissions decisions. Congratulations to those of you who have been accepted to the class of 2006! Be sure to take a look at Wharton’s admit portal and discussion boards. These have proven quite popular in recent years (especially for learning more about the program, making friends with future classmates, etc).
Of course, not everyone will recieve good news today (or even definitive news – thanks to the waitlist), but the beauty of Wharton’s early notification date is that it allows those who didn’t make the cut to alter their strategy and look at some of the second round deadlines in January. Looking on the bright side, any candidate who made the interview cut (but was not . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 18, 2003, at 5:21 pm
Here’s a great question we received in the BW Online Forums:
“What is the purpose of asking second gmat score and how many times one has taken the gmat ? Do we need to fill these out as they only take highest score?”
Many schools ask for multiple scores in their application forms. Although the highest score will be the ‘score of record’, the admissions officers are still curious to understand your history with the exam. Also, keep in mind that the ETS score reports show your last three tests (within a 5 year period), so if you only list your top score in the application, the school will see the other scores when they verify with ETS.
Why . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 17, 2003, at 2:03 pm
As most MBA applicants know, schools always look at academics when examining an application. This category broadly consists of university studies and standardized test scores (GMAT/TOEFL), with subcategories like course selection, class rank, quality of school attended, number of times the GMAT was taken, breakdown of GMAT, supplemental coursework/certifications, etc.
Although I could write an entire book on the various nuances in the ‘academic profile’, let’s focus on a single question for the purpose of today’s blog entry: How does one mitigate a low undergraduate GPA?
Generally speaking there are 4 ways to address a poor undergraduate GPA:
1. Perform exceptionally well on the GMAT (e.g. well above the average at the schools on your list)
2. Counter your undergraduate GPA with a graduate school . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 16, 2003, at 10:20 am
As many of you have heard, Wharton will be releasing their “Round 1″ admissions decisions this Friday morning (Dec. 19th) instead of next Tuesday (Dec. 23rd). The school has done this sort of thing in the past, which is why their admissions process is widely regarded as the most efficient amongst the top schools. (Click here for the BW discussion: Wharton Round 1 ‘waiting room’)
Admitted students will have instant access to the ‘admit portal’ and discussion boards that have made the program so popular amongst applicants in recent years. If you are admitted, please take advantage of these resources to learn more about the program and chat with your potential classmates.
Although those who are denied will have . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 12, 2003, at 5:11 pm
This has been a rather busy couple of weeks in admissions land! Darden/UVA, Fuqua/Duke, and Tuck/Dartmouth have all released round 1 decisions to applicants. In addition, Columbia ED results have been trickling out as well (which puts some of you in a bit of a pinch if you are waiting on other schools).
If you are looking for school-specific chat, check out the following threads at BW Online:
1) Duke/Fuqua ’04 Admits Thread
2) Tuck Thread
3) Darden Admits
4) Columbia ED discussion
Wharton round 1 decisions are on the horizon as well. Stay tuned to this site and to the Wharton Student-2-Student discussion board for details.
Congratulations to those of you who have been accepted at Darden, Fuqua, Columbia . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 11, 2003, at 12:07 pm
Since I am a firm believer that ‘bloggers’ need to stick together, I wanted to point our readers to a rather informative blog from an MBA applicant. The blogger in question is a female, with a non-traditional background (non-profit). Check out http://futurembagirl.blogspot.com/ for details. Essentially, ‘Future MBA Girl’ has been keeping an excellent diary of the admissions process and her research and interaction with the various programs. This should be good reading for anyone in the application process – particularly those from . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 10, 2003, at 3:42 pm
This is a very popular topic in the discussion boards we moderate, so here’s the official Clear Admit stance on MBA essay lengths:
As a rule, candidates should try to stay within +/- 10% of the suggested word limits for their essays. It is important to keep in mind that the admissions person reading your file may also have 10-15 other files to get through in a sitting, so if you consistently extend your answers beyond the suggested limits you are asking them to give you more time than they are devoting to the other applicants.
In other words, if you were to ignore the word limits and overshoot by 20% throughout, you are essentially saying that you are 20% more interesting than . . . → Continue Reading
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