Posted by Clear Admit on July 6, 2004, at 10:24 am
Posted in:  Deadlines , Essay Topics , School: Duke / Fuqua Duke’s deadlines for the 2004-2005 admissions season are as follows:
Round 1: November 1, 2004
Round 2: January 3, 2005
Round 3: February 1, 2005
Round 4: March 15, 2005
As usual, the school is going with four deadlines. Last year, the program offered dates in both mid-October and early December, but this year they seem to be pushing the entire schedule back a bit, perhaps in hopes of capturing more of the applicant pool (and avoiding head-to-head deadline competition with the likes of Harvard, Wharton and Columbia).
As for the essay questions, they are nearly identical to last year, with the chief difference being essay #3, which focuses on ‘Team Fuqua’.
1. Describe your professional work experience since earning your bachelor’s degree and discuss how you chose your career path. (Limit response to 500 words)
2. What are your short and long term career goals once you earn your MBA? Why are you interested in The Fuqua School of Business and how will The Duke MBA help you reach your goals? (Limit response to 500 words)
3. “Team Fuqua” is a frequently used term when discussing the Duke MBA program. Great teams have great leaders with great ideas and great team play. Thus, “Team Fuqua” means much more than teamwork. In fact, it builds directly from the core values of Fuqua, which are collaboration, innovation, and leadership. Please describe what you would bring to build on these core values and make Team Fuqua great. (750 words)
For those of you strongly considering Duke, it will make sense to spend some time getting to know the program before you ‘put pen to paper’ on essays two and three. It will also make sense to target the first round in order to identify yourself as someone who is very serious about the school.
Posted by Clear Admit on July 5, 2004, at 10:35 am
Posted in: School: Harvard Friday’s issue of The Harvard Crimson published an article about the school’s interest in recruiting Chinese professors and students for the HBS community in Boston. Brit Dewey, Managing Director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid, said the following:
“We are in the process of expanding our global reach,” Dewey said. “China is an area of tremendous potential and tremendous economic growth.” Dewey said that the school already has efforts underway to entice more applicants from China. “We have had members of the MBA admissions board travel to China to do outreach, and we have had students and alumni serve as ambassadors to help market the program,” Dewey said.
Working Toward Globalization, HBS Expands Recruiting in China
Posted by Clear Admit on July 5, 2004, at 10:32 am
Posted in: General
Posted by Clear Admit on July 2, 2004, at 11:00 am
Posted in: Deadlines The following schools have now posted their first round deadlines for this fall:
INSEAD: October 6th, 2004
Wharton: October 14th, 2004
Tuck/Dartmouth: October 18th, 2004 (early action)
Haas/Berkeley: October 19th, 2004
Sloan/MIT: October 27th, 2004
Stanford: October 28th, 2004
Chicago: November 12th, 2004
Stern/NYU: December 1st, 2004
The deadlines appear to be shaping up in a similar fashion to prior seasons. Although not yet published, it is safe to assume that Harvard’s first deadline will end up on or about the 14th of October and that Kellogg’s date will be in early November. Similarly, Columbia’s ‘rolling’ Early Decision deadline is likely to fall in mid-October.
For those of you aggressively targeting several top 10 programs, it will be critical to develop a schedule that allows you to coordinate all of the materials without scrambling at the last minute. Here’s a small tip to lessen your load: If Wharton is on your list, get started on some rough drafts of their essays now. They are one of the few schools that has already published their essays for the coming season.
Posted by Clear Admit on July 1, 2004, at 9:54 am
Posted in: Admissions Tips Throughout the admissions season, we receive hundreds of emails with great questions. Some time ago, Clear Admit was invited to host a live chat and Q&A session on the BusinessWeek web site. During the chat, we addressed dozens of critical questions posed by applicants who were just starting down the road to b-school application. Here’s a sampling of the type of questions that were answered:
BusinessWeek: What’s a good strategy for contacting professors at a school that an MBA applicant is interested in? How does the applicant get his or her name known among the faculty before his or her application is submitted?
Clear Admit: It makes a lot of sense to communicate with students and professors who are studying [or researching] your field of interest. Engaging professors and students in informational discussions or interviews can really pay dividends when it comes time to write your essays and persuade the school that you’ve done your homework. At the same time, you can’t expect a discussion with a professor to serve the purpose of affecting your admissions status “behind the scenes.” Professors see right through students who contact them for no reason other than to try to get their name across their desk.
BusinessWeek: What are the chances of a school admitting someone with a good grade point average (GPA), an average GMAT score, good essays, good work experience, and good recommendations? How much does the GMAT count?
Clear Admit: The beauty of MBA admissions process is that it’s a multivariable equation. The GMAT is one variable with several components, such as the breakdown of one’s score, the number of times the test was taken, and whether or not the student is a native English speaker. So students have a chance to compensate for a GMAT score that’s below the average. This is typically done via the other academic metrics, such as [the applicant's] GPA, quality of coursework, and reputation of the undergraduate institution [the applicant attended].
For additional Q&A, check out the full text on BusinessWeek’s site:
http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/jun2003/bs20030630_2491_PG2.htm
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