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Posted by Clear Admit on October 31, 2007, at 4:55 am
Welcome back to another edition of Workbook Wednesdays, brought to you by our friends at Manhattan GMAT. This question is of the caliber one is likely to see if scoring above 700 on the quantitative section of the GMAT. Check back tomorrow for an in-depth look at the answer!
Question
A certain club has exactly 5 new members at the end of its first week. Every subsequent week, each of the previous week’s new members (and only these members) brings exactly x new members into the club. If y is the number of new members brought into the club during the twelfth week, which of the following could . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 30, 2007, at 4:51 am
Welcome to another edition of Trivia Tuesday, where we examine differences in the programs, resources, and opportunities offered by the leading business schools. Today we’re turning our attention to two unique aspects of the academic year at MIT Sloan: the mid-semester Sloan Innovation Periods and the mid-year Independent Activities Period.
The Sloan Innovation Period, or SIP, takes place for a week at the midpoint of each semester. The SIP was introduced to the curriculum to provide an opportunity for all Sloan students and faculty members to explore interests in ways not possible within the standard framework of courses. All classes and activities stop for the week while faculty members organize seminars and other activities designed to provide students with opportunities for hands-on . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 29, 2007, at 2:25 pm
A recent episode of MBAPodcaster features information on selected resources for MBA candidates as they navigate the admissions process at leading programs. In order to select a group of resources to highlight, the team at MBAPodcaster looked at many offerings in the space, ranging from MBA fairs and foundations to discussion forums and publications. We are pleased to report that the Clear Admit School Guides were featured in the podcast as a key source of information that applicants can tap into throughout the application process!
Clear Admit co-founder Graham Richmond was interviewed by MBAPodcaster’s Janet Nakano for the episode. Nakano and Richmond discuss the four stages of the application process in which candidates find the Clear Admit School Guides helpful:
1) When thinking about business school and trying . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 29, 2007, at 5:42 am
We continue our series of 2007-08 essay topic posts with Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business. While Tepper has maintained their interest in an applicant’s goals, growth and diversity, they’ve offered slightly fewer essays to explore those topics this year, as applicants are only required to answer two options for Essay C as opposed to three. Keep in mind that Tepper suggests using only two double-spaced pages for each essay. The school’s deadlines are posted here.
CMU Tepper Essays
Essay A (required): What are your short term and long term goals? How will a Tepper MBA help you achieve these goals? (Please include any information regarding steps you have taken to learn more about Tepper.)
Essay B (required): Describe an instance in which you made an impact . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 26, 2007, at 9:35 am
Welcome back to another Fridays from the Frontline, Clear Admit’s weekly round up of MBA blogs. It was a relatively quiet week out there in the blogosphere as applicants waded through essays, first year students studied for midterm exams, and second year students were busy with – well – a little bit of everything.
Applicant bloggers pushed themselves through another week of essay writing. mbabound08 had a few impassioned things to say about Fuqua’s essays. Before he saw the light, B-school Bound was similarly stymied by Stanford’s Essay A. He also wisely advised applicant readers to leave enough time for their data forms, advice that Achilles would probably echo in . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 25, 2007, at 8:42 am
McCombs is one of the few high ranking MBA programs with a rolling admissions process, and as such applicants may be tempted to put these essays off until more pressing deadlines have passed. It’s nice to have some leeway, but applicants who are very interested in the program should keep in mind that McCombs’s adcom calls November 1 the “suggested” date for early submissions. To help get the writing process started, today we’ll take a closer look at the McCombs Essay Questions.
As was the case with UT Austin’s essays last season, there are three required responses totaling roughly 2000 words, but the questions themselves are rather different in tone and focus.
Essay 1: Please define your short- and long-term . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 24, 2007, at 4:30 pm
Below are this year’s deadlines and essay questions for UT Austin’s McCombs School of Business. The school employs a rolling admissions process, meaning that applications are reviewed as they are received and decisions are made chronologically.
McCombs Deadlines
Suggested Early Submission Date: November 1, 2007
Final Deadline for International Applicants: February 1, 2008
Second Recommended Date for Domestic Applicants: February 1, 2008
Final Deadline for Domestic Applicants: April 1, 2008
McCombs Essays
1. Please define your short- and long-term goals and objectives, your career progression to date, and how an MBA fits in at this time. What makes the Texas MBA the perfect fit for you? (Limit: 900 words)
2. The Texas MBA is built around four key pillars of leadership. . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 24, 2007, at 8:35 am
With Wharton and Harvard interview invitations now rolling out to R1 applicants, the anxiety and excitement of this phase of the admissions process are no doubt kicking in for many of our readers. Applicants to Wharton will have some piece of mind within the month, as all round one applicants to that program will receive an interview invitation or a notification of denial by November 15th. Meanwhile, Harvard applicants might need to wait a bit longer for news from that school, as HBS traditionally releases interview invitations up to and including its final notification date – January 16th this year.
Those who make it to this next step will have very different experiences interviewing at these two programs; Wharton interviews are generally conversational and . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 23, 2007, at 8:18 am
It’s time for another look at the programs, resources and opportunities that help differentiate the leading business schools. Following up on past columns about pre-term programs and international orientations, let’s examine the options available to help incoming Fuqua students start the school year on the right foot.
All Fuqua first-year students participate in the recently-introduced, three-week Global Institute pre-term program. The Institute, held in August before the start of classes, consists of two core courses designed to help students gain a more nuanced understanding of the global business environment and enhance their collaborative leadership skills.
In addition to the mandatory Global Institute, Fuqua offers a Summer Math Review Course and a Language Institute in the weeks before New Student . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 22, 2007, at 9:08 am
During the third annual BusinessWeek online MBA expo, one of the major topics of discussion was how applicants can find the right fit with an MBA program. BusinessWeek posed this question to a range of experts, including Clear Admit co-founder Graham Richmond, Ross Admissions Director Soojin Kwon Koh, Chicago Admissions Director Rose Martinelli, and Berkeley Haas Admissions Director Pete Johnson. The result is a great resource for applicants in any stage of the admissions process: the panel’s suggestions on what to ask when considering a school will help those still making a list of target schools, while the advice on how the schools evaluate fit is crucial to those candidates . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 19, 2007, at 8:59 am
Welcome back to Fridays From the Frontline, our weekly ride through the MBA blogosphere. With Round 1 deadlines thinning out, applicants are starting to regain some sanity, while current students are just getting onto the roller coaster of exam period. Let’s check in with our bloggers for some firsthand accounts.
Reaching out to fellow Round 1 applicants similarly twiddling their thumbs, B-School Diva offers tips on how to win the waiting game. Not quite there yet, Mbadreamer fills us in on the recent recommendation marathon she went through with her boss – almost literally! Somewhat traumatized himself, Bokaa vows never to make his future ‘recommendees’ endure the anxiety his recommenders just put . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 18, 2007, at 12:12 pm
With many applicants turning their attention to Kenan-Flagler’s application at this point in the month, we wanted to offer our thoughts on each of the program’s inquiries for this year.
UNC’s application essays for this season are identical to last year’s. Rather than the typical approach of offering applicants a number of essay options and requiring that they select and respond to several of these, UNC includes two optional essays that might only be applicable to a portion of the applicant pool. Though the 2000 total words across the two required essays don’t put the school’s topics too far below the average in terms of total application length, most applicants will have to cover their entire candidacies in response . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 18, 2007, at 8:43 am
As promised, below is the answer to our weekly Challenge Problem. Enjoy!
Question
A gambler began playing blackjack with $110 in chips. After exactly 12 hands, he left the table with $320 in chips, having won some hands and lost others. Each win earned $100 and each loss cost $10. How many possible outcomes were there for the first 5 hands he played? (For example, won the first hand, lost the second, etc.)
(A) 10
(B) 18
(C) 26
(D) 32
(E) 64
Answer
Let W be the number of wins and L be the number of losses. Since the total number of hands equals 12 and the net winnings equal $210, we can construct and solve the following simultaneous equations:
So we know that the . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 17, 2007, at 7:58 am
Here is this week’s Challenge Problem, brought to us by Manhattan GMAT. This is the caliber of problem one would see on the exam if scoring in the 700 range or higher. Take a shot at this one and check back tomorrow for an in depth look at the answer!
Question
A gambler began playing blackjack with $110 in chips. After exactly 12 hands, he left the table with $320 in chips, having won some hands and lost others. Each win earned $100 and each loss cost $10. How many possible outcomes were there for the first 5 hands he played? (For example, won the first hand, lost the second, etc.)
(A) 10
(B) 18
(C) 26
(D) . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 16, 2007, at 12:59 am
It’s Tuesday again and that means it’s time for some trivia! As our regular readers know, each Tuesday we take the opportunity to highlight some of the programs, policies or predilections of the leading business schools. Our goal is to help applicants learn more about individual schools while also discovering some of the important differences between them. Today let’s turn our attention to the varying opportunities for international management study at two of California’s top programs: UC Berkeley’s Haas School and UCLA’s Anderson School.
The Certificate in Global Management at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business is designed to expose students to the theory and practice of global business management. To be eligible for the certificate, students must complete at . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 15, 2007, at 2:47 am
The big news in the Columbia Bottom Line this week was the creation of a student-run microfinance investment fund, which will be referred to as Microlumbia, short for “microfinance at Columbia.” The fund is sponsored by the International Development Club and is currently seeking applications for vice-president and assistant vice-president positions. The paper’s other top story was Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack’s speech at the Silfin Leadership Series, where he told the packed room that he got to where he is at Morgan Stanley by giving his opinion, and urged others to do the same. This year’s applicants to Columbia might also be interested in the article on page 6, which discussed Dean Hubbard’s address at the school’s first . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 12, 2007, at 3:03 am
Welcome back to this week’s edition of Fridays From the Frontline, our weekly recap of breaking news in the MBA blogosphere. Broadcasting live from the midst of Round 1 deadlines, let’s go right over to our applicant correspondents…
Facing down the question that many applicants have been battling over the past few days, RunningTurtle decides to throw in the towel for Round 1 in order to put his best foot forward in Round 2. This was nearly the outcome for B-School Bound, as well, who met with a sudden onset of near cardiac arrest after a disheartening recommender request just hours before Wharton’s deadline. Keeping to a more measured course, Vector Space takes a short break from essay . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 11, 2007, at 3:08 am
Round Two applicants may still have time for a campus visit or two before they have to settle down to write their essays in the coming weeks. With this in mind, we’d like to revisit a few of the social opportunities available to prospective applicants during their campus visits. These opportunities are inherently less formal than information sessions and class visits, and thus they can be more of a challenge to identify and incorporate into your plans ahead of time. Applicants should not be deterred, however. After all, one’s “fit” with a school can’t be determined solely on the basis of admissions brochures – sometimes joining students for coffee or a drink can be much more enlightening.
Since . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 10, 2007, at 5:14 pm
As many of our readers are drafting essays and beginning to think about admissions interviews, we wanted to share some relevant feedback that we’ve received on the Clear Admit School Guides. This quote just came to us via email from an applicant who recently purchased the Clear Admit School Guide to Tuck in advance of an on-campus interview:
“Please convey my thanks to the person who authored the Tuck Clear Admit Guide. It helped me ace my interview. My interviewer was very impressed with my detailed knowledge of Tuck. It clearly made a world of difference to my interview effort.”
This comment is very much in keeping with the feedback we’ve received since the launch of the School Guides project. Clear . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 10, 2007, at 7:18 am
Today marks the first application deadline for Cornell’s Johnson School. The Johnson School offers four different application rounds, with the second round slated for November 14 (see below). In keeping with our series of essay topic analyses, let’s take a closer look at the essays.
2007-2008 Cornell / Johnson Application Deadlines
Round 1
Deadline: October 10, 2007
Notification: December 7, 2007
Round 2
Deadline: November 14, 2007
Notification: January 11, 2008
Round 3
Deadline: January 9, 2008
Notification: March 5, 2008
Round 4
Deadline: March 19, 2008
Notification: April 30, 2008
2007-2008 Cornell / Johnson Essay Analysis
The format of the school’s questions, with just two pointed inquiries of only 400 words each, make this one shorter – and more challenging – than some of the other top programs’ applications. The relatively short format might be a welcome . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 9, 2007, at 2:56 am
It’s Tuesday, and that means it’s time once again for tantalizing trivia on the trends and traditions at the nation’s leading MBA programs. Our goal is to highlight the differences between some of the leading business schools in order to help applicants develop a more nuanced view of the opportunities and resources that impact the student experience at each school.
Today we turn our attention to cross-registration, an oft-overlooked indicator of academic opportunities. In an age of increasingly interdependent business operations, cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary study is becoming an ever-more important aspect of students’ academic preparation. In addition, the growing popularity of joint and dual degree programs in law, medicine, languages and other fields shows students’ widespread interest in studying beyond the traditional . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 8, 2007, at 8:56 am
It’s been another busy week on MBA campuses – let’s take a look at the news and views from the student newspapers.
At the Chicago GSB, the Chibus kicked off its publishing year with a huge issue, jam-packed with articles for entering students and returning students alike, many of which could help prospective students get a better sense of the Chicago campus and community. The issue begins with a welcome from Deputy Dean Stacey Kole, in which she outlines some of the ways the administration is working to increase job search resources and spread the Chicago name, while also inviting all students to share their thoughts at a weekly coffee hour with the deans. Before turning . . . → Continue Reading
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