It’s been a quiet week for applicants, most of whom seem to be hard at work to meet January deadlines. Several excited bloggers wrote to share news of recent admit decisions. Rungee582 and Juggler each celebrated an acceptance to Wharton, Hobbes announced acceptances at Darden and Duke, and JatWarrior took things a step farther and confirmed his spot in the Tuck Class of 2009. Congratulations to them all! In other admissions news, Iday S wrote to share his post-admissions experience with the Chicago GSB and Inblue took a break from writing Harvard and LBS essays to ponder the remaining likelihood of a nod from Tuck. For those applicants dealing . . . → Continue Reading
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While the past few weeks have seen a number of admits and rejections handed down to round one MBA applicants, the fate of many remains uncertain. There is no reason for waitlisted candidates to lose hope, as the top programs admit a fair number of individuals from the waitlist in round two and thereafter, but we know that cautious optimism does not make the wait for an answer any easier. To help those in this situation make sure that they’re doing all they can, we wanted to share a few waitlist tips: 1. Know – and follow – the rules. Schools vary in their stances when it comes to interaction with those on the waitlist; some shun communication from applicants and even go . . . → Continue Reading Welcome to this week’s edition of Wiki Wednesdays, in which we cull content from the Clear Admit Wiki to offer insight into the interview practices and admissions processes at the top MBA programs. Following up on last week’s Stanford-specific post, we thought we’d turn this week to Harvard. While some schools, like Wharton, have finished interviewing round one applicants and have already notified hopefuls their final decisions, both Harvard and Stanford issue invitations and conduct interviews up to their mid-January notification deadlines. Though most HSB interviews are conducted on campus by members of the admissions committee (as the school is very focused on personality-based fit), this particular report comes from someone who met with . . . → Continue Reading We wanted to take a moment today to post a quick thank you to everyone who took the time to participate in our MBA Search Survey earlier this month. Thank you! By sharing their impressions of a number of top programs and their overall priorities and interests in school selection, participants have provided us with insight that will undoubtedly prove invaluable as we continually aim to offer timely advice and relevant information to business school applicants. We’ve contacted the lucky winners of the video iPod and 10 iPod shuffles, and will be able to share some data from the survey in late January. In the meantime, we wish everyone targeting round two deadlines the best . . . → Continue Reading Welcome back from the long weekend! Now that the first semester of the academic year has come to a close, many first- and second-year MBA students will be exploring elective courses. Therefore, we thought this would be a good time to highlight the elective selection processes used by the leading business schools. We’ve often recommended in our admissions tips that MBA applicants cite their interest in school-specific elective courses in their application essays, since this can reveal specialized academic interests while demonstrating that one has thoroughly researched the school’s academic program. In the next two Trivia Tuesdays we’ll look at how the different processes MBA programs employ for coordinating elective registration impact the odds that students will end up in the courses . . . → Continue Reading Wishing you and your family a wonderful holiday season! -The Clear . . . → Continue Reading Now that Wharton’s D-day has come and gone, we wanted to extend our congratulations to those applicants who gained admission, and extend our sympathy to those who received less favorable decisions. For those applicants smarting from a waitlist decision or a ding, we wanted to point out the silver lining from a few different angles: 1) Timing is everything. The fact that Wharton releases R1 decisions weeks before most schools’ R2 deadlines provides applicants with a chance to reevaluate their approach and regroup with time to apply to other programs. If you didn’t get the news you were hoping for, it may make sense to consider adding a few schools in R2 (there are dozens of deadlines in January). 2) R1 . . . → Continue Reading With admissions decisions rolling out to round one applicants and the fall term at most schools coming to an end, it’s been an eventful week in the MBA blogosphere. Let’s start off this week’s installment of FFF with a look at the news on the applicant front. Though there’s been some less-than-joyful sentiment – Hobbes is suffering from application burn-out and fears that his Haas application reflects this, the stress of waiting for a Kellogg decision is getting to MBA babe, Iday also eagerly awaits word from that program after his phone interview and Median2k9 is in the same boat after interviewing with Columbia – this week has been dominated by celebration. It’s been . . . → Continue Reading It seems that Wharton is following a slightly new approach in delivering their final decisions to R1 applicants. In past years, the committee ‘flipped a switch’ at 9 AM on the nose. This enabled all applicants to see their results by logging into their online application. It also meant that admits, waitlists and rejections all went out simultaneously as applicants gathered in front of their computer screens in the morning hours, frantically hitting ‘refresh’ until the nine o’clock hour had arrived… This year, the committee has promised decisions “by 5 PM” today, and it seems they’ve opted to reach out to some admits by telephone in the early morning hours (as of this post, the adcom had been calling admits from approximately 9 AM – 10 AM . . . → Continue Reading The waiting game has come to an end for many first-round applicants, as a number of leading programs – Chicago, Tuck, Cornell, Duke, UNC, Darden, Kellogg, Yale, Columbia and LBS among them – have been releasing admissions decisions over the past few weeks. With Wharton releasing final decisions today to all round one applicants who were invited to interview, we thought this would be a good occasion to say good luck to everyone eagerly expecting news from that and other schools! For those keeping track, here’s what the final notification calendar looks like for those programs that have yet to release all of their admissions decisions to this crop of applicants: January 8: Kellogg Posted in:
 School: Berkeley / Haas , School: Chicago , School: Cornell / Johnson , School: Dartmouth / Tuck , School: Duke / Fuqua , School: Harvard , School: INSEAD , School: London Business School , School: MIT / Sloan , School: Michigan / Ross , School: NYU Stern , School: Northwestern / Kellogg , School: Penn / Wharton , School: Stanford , School: UCLA / Anderson , School: UNC / Kenan Flagler , School: Virginia / Darden , School: Yale |  Welcome to Wiki Wednesdays, where you’ll find updates on new and notable additions to the Clear Admit Wiki, our repository of firsthand information about the MBA admissions process. We’ve received new interview reports this week for ever-popular programs like Harvard, Kellogg and Wharton, but in this WW installment, we’d like to highlight a recent contribution to the Stanford interview page. Among the rarest of invitations due to the school’s small class size and high selectivity, all Stanford interviews are conducted by alumni. The benefits of an alumni interview are that applicants gain exposure to a member of the Stanford community who has been through the GSB experience. Of course, since your interviewer . . . → Continue Reading Welcome to another edition of Trivia Tuesday, our weekly examination of the distinguishing details of MBA programs. Last week we took a look at the first year learning team and study group systems at Wharton and Tuck, which are representative of the small group learning arrangements used at many of the leading business schools. However, we hinted that not all MBA programs use static, assigned study groups to cultivate team-based learning in the first year. This week we follow up by taking a closer look at Kellogg, a school known for its focus on teamwork, yet one of the only leading MBA programs not to assign first-year study groups. Like other b-schools, Kellogg does split its entering class into smaller sections, usually . . . → Continue Reading We just wanted to remind our readers that today is the last day to take the MBA Search Survey to share your views on the top programs and offer insight into your school selection process and priorities. This online questionnaire, which closes tomorrow, should take just 10 minutes to complete. In addition to assisting us in our ongoing efforts to provide interesting and helpful content, you can also help yourself out by entering to win one of 10 iPod Shuffles or even a 30GB Video iPod! We hope to hear . . . → Continue Reading Welcome back from the weekend! Today we’re highlighting two recent news stories featuring the activities of current MBA students and recent graduates. To start us off, BusinessWeek recently ran an article investigating the fate of business plan competition winners. Business plan competitions, which are held at most of the leading MBA programs, encourage teams of students (and sometimes professors) to develop and present a viable, compelling idea for a new business. These competitions tend to award anywhere from $10,000 to $30,000 to the winning business plan, which often enables the winning team to translate their concept into reality. The popularity of business plan competitions has increased dramatically from 2002 to 2006, but little systematic follow-up has been done to gauge . . . → Continue Reading The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) recently released their Job Outlook 2007 report, which indicates that employers are planning to hire 22% more MBA graduates from the Class of 2007 than they did from the Class of 2006. MBA grads interested in manufacturing will enter a particularly strong job market, with employers in that sector planning a 32.4% hiring increase over last year. Employers in the South and Midwest are also planning particularly busy hiring seasons, with expected increases of 59% and 51%, respectively. In contrast, while employers in the Northeast U.S. and Western U.S. are also planning to hire more MBAs, their planned increases are far more modest, at 14.6% and 13.5%, respectively. The organization says that these . . . → Continue Reading Welcome to this week’s edition of FFF! Let’s take a look at what’s been going on this week in the MBA blogging world. Our applicant friends have truly been running the gamut of emotions and application experiences this week. Working in reverse, let’s take a look at things from the admissions decision angle. From a slightly removed perspective, Uniqpath sums up the latest news on school decisions and updates fellow applicants on Stanford’s interview timeline, whereas others share more personal news; JatWarrior is elated by a Tuck admit and Rohit shares the happy news of a Notre Dame fellowship, while righty and B-School Diva are singing the waitlist blues about Mendoza and . . . → Continue Reading We just wanted to remind our readers of the opportunity to complete our online survey about their views on the leading MBA programs and factors that influence their school selection decisions. We’re seeking this information so that we can better understand how the different schools are perceived and to take an inventory of what information applicants value and feel they need in the application process. In addition to helping us continually aim to offer relevant advice and resources on business school admission, participants also stand to benefit from our survey giveaway; those who take the ten minutes needed to respond to our questions can enter to win a prize. With 11 gifts available – 10 iPod shuffles and . . . → Continue Reading We often stress that, to present oneself effectively in one’s application essays, it is critical to think carefully about what a given question is asking and what this might indicate about a specific school’s admissions priorities. Of course, it’s also imperative to communicate clearly and appropriately regardless of the target program or particular inquiry. Today, we’re going back to basics and offering a few broadly applicable tips on tone and style to keep in mind when drafting written materials for your applications. 1. Be Professional. While a number of schools ask fun questions and most urge applicants to be themselves rather than submitting “overly polished” materials, it’s important to remember that this is a graduate school application and you should approach your . . . → Continue Reading For those applicants targeting January deadlines and hard at work on their essays, we wanted to put together a quick list of links to our Essay Topic Analysis. We’ve arranged the list by the date of each deadline, which might also help those having difficulty deciding which program to tackle first. January 3: Harvard, UCLA Happy writing! To complement these school-specific insights, stop by this blog tomorrow for some broadly applicable essay advice on tone . . . → Continue Reading Welcome to another edition of Wiki Wednesdays, our consistent column highlighting new and notable content from the Clear Admit Wiki. As many applicants have learned, even the schools that notify first round applicants of interviews relatively late in the season – namely, Harvard, Stanford and MIT – have begun releasing invitations. As interview season kicks into high gear, more candidates than ever are considering the differences between programs’ interview styles and reflecting on how to present themselves most effectively. For instance, this post from a recent HBS interviewee does a great job alerting other applicants to the nature and necessary preparation for a meeting with Harvard’s adcom, nicely illustrating the value of a resource like our wiki: My questions . . . → Continue Reading Since 1984, applicants to the MBA program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton school have had the option of applying to pursue a Masters in International Studies at the Lauder Institute in conjunction with their business courses. A great option for those interested in working abroad after graduation, the program offers eight language tracks and a summer in-country immersion experience. Since the program’s inception, this degree has been available only in connection with the Wharton MBA. Last week, however, Penn announced that Lauder is establishing a second joint degree program with its Law School, giving students a chance to earn a JD/MA over the course of three years. On the reasoning behind the planned program, Law School Dean . . . → Continue Reading It’s Tuesday once again and it’s time to check in on the important details and differences of the leading MBA programs. This week’s focus is teamwork, now a hot topic in business education. For the last decade or so, business schools have moved towards greater use of teams in coursework. This trend has been prompted by the reality that much of modern business depends on the work of functional, productive teams. In response, many business schools have integrated mandatory teamwork into the MBA curriculum, especially into the first year. Today we’ll look at a few of the models used by the leading MBA programs. Wharton was among the first of the leading business schools to incorporate small learning teams into the first . . . → Continue Reading |
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