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APPLICANT RESOURCES Clear Admit Interview Guides Clear Admit School Guides Below are the upcoming deadlines for Fall 2008 entry to top-tier schools. Apr. 1: UT Austin McCombs R3 Apr. 2: Dartmouth / Tuck R4 Apr. 3: INSEAD R4 Apr. 4: Oxford / Said R3 Apr. 23: UCLA / Anderson R4 Apr. 28: CMU / Tepper R4 May 2: LBS R4 Jun. 6: Oxford / Said R4 Essay Topic Analysis Use categories to access all that has been written on each of the topics. We have categorized by school and by subject matter.
A selection of interview field reports from fellow applicants posted to the MBA Admissions Wiki. Add your reports when you are finished with your interviews. Chicago Columbia Dartmouth / Tuck Duke / Fuqua Harvard Kellogg Michigan / Ross MIT / Sloan Stanford UNC / Chapel Hill Virginia / Darden Wharton London Business School GMAT Resources GMAC Manhattan GMAT GMAT Club Princeton Review Test Prep New York Kaplan Beat The GMAT Writing Resources Guide to Grammar and Writing The Internet Grammar of English English Usage, Style and Composition The Economist Style Guide Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
School Rankings The following resources should be useful to those who want to research the careers open to them after (or before) earning an MBA. Vault.com Wetfeet Business School Resources The following are business resources offered by a variety of leading Business Schools. It's useful to subscribe to these resources, especially for the schools to which you are applying.
If an MBA Program is not listed, please e-mail and we will be happy to list it. Berkeley / Haas Carnegie Mellon / Tepper Chicago Columbia Cornell / Johnson Dartmouth / Tuck Duke / Fuqua Emory / Goizueta Harvard HEC Montreal Indiana / Kelley Michigan MIT / Sloan Northwestern / Kellogg New York / Stern North Carolina / Kenan Flagler Pennsylvania / Wharton Queens Stanford Texas / McCombs Thunderbird Toronto UCLA / Anderson Virginia / Darden Western Ontario / Ivey Yale MBA Programs: Rest of the World As there is some variety in the length of international MBA programs, we have denoted the length of the program next to its name (1 = one year; 2 = 2 years). If an MBA Program is not listed, please e-mail and we will be happy to list it. AGSM (Australia) 2 Cambridge / Judge (UK) 1 CIEBS (China) 2 Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (China) 1 ESADE (Spain) 1 or 2 HEC (France) 2 IESE (Spain) 2 IMD (Switzerland) 1 INSEAD (France) 1 IPADE (Mexico) ISB (India) 1 London Business School (UK) 2 Oxford / Said (UK) 1 Rotterdam (Netherlands) 2 University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) 1 Additional Resources Here we link a host of additional resources available across the web. E-mail info@clearadmit.com to have resources added to this list. AACSB International Association of MBAs Beyond Grey Pinstripes EFMD gradschools.com (worldwide) Infozee mba.com (GMAT Scores) MBAInfo mbaleague.blogspot.com MBAzone MBA Jungle TOEFL Top MBA MBA Tipline We encourage admissions officers, students and applicants to alert us of interesting news and developments, please send an email to news@clearadmit.com so we can blog it. Blog Archive
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Friday, August 10, 2007 Wharton Essay Topic Analysis 2007-2008 Wharton’s made a change to their standard format this year; the school now poses three required questions and asks applicants to choose one more from two options, as opposed to the previous two-required, two-applicant’s-choice model of the past few years. It’s often interesting to pay attention to these shifts, as they’re often an indicator of what sort of information the school is seeking to extract from applicants. Essay 1: Describe your career progress to date and your future short-term and long-term career goals. How do you expect a Wharton MBA to help you achieve these goals, and why is now the best time for you to join our program? (1,000 words) Essay 2: Describe a failure or setback that you have experienced. What role did you play and what did you learn about yourself? (500 words) As is always the case, it’s important to focus on the positive elements of this scenario. A sound approach to any essay that explicitly asks applicants to recount a time when things went less than well is to summarize the failure itself briefly, spending the bulk of the essay relating his or her response and lessons learned. Also along these lines, rather than commenting that he or she learned about a weakness as a result of the failure, it would be ideal for an applicant to select a situation in which something positive was discovered due to the response. This is not to say that your essay should fall into the trap of merely being a ‘veiled success’ (a failure that isn’t really a failure at all); however, it is important to demonstrate positive growth and the learning experience that can come from missing the mark. Essay 3: Tell us about a situation in which you were an outsider. What did you learn from the experience? (500 words) This essay is somewhat similar to INSEAD’s question about culture shock, and an experience traveling or working abroad could make a great topic, but the scope of potential subjects is much broader. While one could certainly be an outsider with respect to population and setting, one could also stand outside of a group with respect to role, purpose, values or opinion. Centering the essay on a story or event rather than just the circumstance might be a way to engage the reader and lend direction to the narrative, illustrating your actions in addition to your lessons. Essay 4: Please Complete One Of The Following Two Questions: |
DISCUSSIONS / BLOGS / WIKI Clear Admit's Most Recent Entries
Wiki MBA Admissions WikiThe Clear Admit Wiki is designed to allow b-school applicants to share their experiences through the application process. You can learn from others' experiences and contribute your own reports to the community. Below are the five most popular pages in the wiki: Wharton Interview Field Reports HBS Interview Field Reports Kellogg Interview Field Reports Chicago Interview Field Reports Columbia Interview Field Reports Discussion Boards BusinessWeek ForumsThe BusinessWeek Discussion Boards are a great way to learn about the issues applicants face. Recently BusinessWeek updated their interface, here is a link to the original interface. Also, Clear Admit hosts the Ask Clear Admit thread, which should help answer your questions. Here are the five most recent discussions. Clear Admit manages the Applying section of the StudyLink MBA discussion boards. The student-2-student Discussion Boards are managed by Wharton, but include discussions about all of the top schools. Here are the five most recent discussions. The Chicago Discussion Boards are managed by the University of Chicago. Here are the five most recent discussions. School-Hosted Blogs Straight from the source: aggregated posts from students and administration. Below are the seven most recent posts in school-hosted blogs. Individuals' Blogs A selection of the latest updates to MBA blogs compiled by Hella.MBA Applicants Bloggers by School The following are links to bloggers at each of the schools listed.Chicago Columbia Dartmouth / Tuck Duke / Fuqua Harvard Kellogg Michigan MIT / Sloan New York / Stern North Carolina / Chapel Hill Stanford Virginia / Darden Wharton Yale ESADE IESE INSEAD London Business School Community Blogs Bshoolers.comCommunity blog with MBA student and alum contributors. Forté Foundation MBA Diaries Video blog entries posted by women MBA students. Owen Bloggers Independent blog with content by Vanderbilt MBA students. Best of Blogging 2007-2008 Top Ten:
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