Today marks the fourth anniversary of the Clear Admit Blog! In the four years since we started blogging, we’ve seen incredible growth in the online MBA community, with scores of applicants, students, business schools and commentators adding their voices to the business school blogosphere.
In celebration of this milestone we thought we would take a look at how the online MBA community has developed since the early days of our blog – a topic that generated a lively and productive discussion at the recent GMAC Conference in Philadelphia.
Based on the prominence of the Clear Admit site as a portal for MBA applicants and students, Clear Admit co-founder Graham Richmond was invited to lead a panel for MBA admissions officers on what applicants look for in their online experience. The discussion began with an excellent presentation on applicant behavior online, which was given by Stephanie Geyer, a consultant with higher-education specialist firm Noel Levitz. Her presentation was followed by Angela Dimit’s case study of the University of Illinois Urbana engineering school and its creation of a social network for students and alumni. This was all then wrapped around a closer look at the MBA applicant community – via Clear Admit’s portal, including our blog, wiki, Fridays From the Frontline column and other features – and an open discussion with admissions officers from Columbia, Wharton, LBS, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, UNC, Penn State and more.
One interesting facet of the discussion was the way in which business schools like the Chicago GSB, London Business School, Penn State, Wharton, Yale and others are engaging the applicant community via admissions office blogs and are building social networks by bringing student bloggers together. At Clear Admit, we’ve enjoyed welcoming new admissions office, student and applicant bloggers to the online MBA community, since we’ve seen how applicants benefit from the open, interactive exchange of information that this community provides.
In the end, we would like to thank all of our readers for their support during another exciting year of blogging! Knowing that this blog is a valued source of information and advice makes our work all the more rewarding. It’s been a pleasure being part of the development of the MBA blogging community over the past four years, and we look forward to many more!
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