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 with a waitlist decision from Wharton, current Wharton student LL writes to offer “living proof” that an R1 waitlist can turn into an R2 admit. Finally, AsianGal writes with reassurance that reusing and recycling those admissions essays is easier than you might have expected and Median2K9 reports on a conversation with an MIT Sloan couple — passing on some good tips for any MBA application.
In student news, there’s a lot of celebration, reflection and travel this week as the fall term wraps up and the winter break begins. Managing to combine both travel and reflection, Jacek checks in from the Barcelona airport with lessons learned from term one at ESADE. Also in Barcelona, Ashwyn shares his own lessons from the fall term at IESE and Gandaki expresses his excitement at an upcoming trip to an IESE classmate’s home in Finland. At INSEAD, students in both Singapore and Fonty celebrated the end of the term in style. Hallonman describes the enjoyable excess of the end of term party and DomoDomo shares a recommendation for a great bottle of wine. Although many students are celebrating the end to the first term, some are just getting started, and InvisibleInk wrote to announce an easier-than-expected visa process in preparation for heading to INSEAD.
One student blogger is filled with excitement about doing, well, nothing. Home in Valencia over the winter break, it seems Karlitos is just starting to realize how busy he was at LBS. Fellow LBS student AngelAngie is taking time over the break to ponder her career direction and whether the recent record bonuses paid out to investment bankers are a positive or negative sign for aspiring i-bankers. In the U.S., MBA students were headed overseas this week, with Stanford GSB student Mbwana considering the challenges to scaling a business in Tanzania and Brownoski packing his suitcase to head to Hong Kong to participate in the Yale SOM’s new first year international experience.
Finally, a few current students wrote to offer advice to this year’s group of applicants. Phantom writes from Rice to discuss the pros and cons of pursuing a dual degree MBA program, Kathleen shares her thoughts on some of the common concerns of aspiring b-school students, and finally, Wakechick announces a new blog run by the Dean’s Student Admissions Committee at the Chicago GSB (which can be found here).
That’s all for this week! Happy New Year to all our readers and bloggers – we’ll see you in 2007!
