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Posted by Clear Admit on December 31, 2007, at 12:30 pm
So you’re interested in Yale’s School of Management (SOM), but Connecticut is not in your immediate travel plans. No problem. Yale students are hitting the road over winter break to share their experiences with prospective applicants around the globe.
Through a series of “winter socials,” current Yale SOM students are traveling the globe and meeting with prospective applicants to share information about the school and its programs and answer questions about the application process. Included among the stops so far have been Austin, Cleveland, Geneva, Mumbai and Ho Chi Minh City. Still ahead in the first weeks of January are Bangkok, Istanbul, Los Angeles and Seattle. In total, 23 events were planned.
According to Bruce Delmonico, Yale SOM director of admissions, . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 31, 2007, at 5:28 am
As we prepare to bid goodbye to 2007 and greet the deadline-packed first month of 2008, we would like to take the opportunity to recap the upcoming Round Two deadlines and offer some advice for hardworking applicants.
First, a summary of this month’s deadlines:
Wednesday, January 2nd -
UCLA Anderson, 11:59 p.m. PST
Thursday, January 3rd -
Harvard Business School, 5:00 p.m. EST
Wharton School, 5:00 p.m. EST
Duke/Fuqua, 11:59 p.m. EST
Michigan/Ross, 11:59 p.m. EST
UVA/Darden, 11:59 p.m. EST
Friday, January 4th -
London Business School, Noon EST
UNC Kenan-Flagler, 11:59 p.m. EST
Monday, January 7th -
Stanford GSB, 5:00 p.m. PST
Carnegie Mellon Tepper, 11:59 p.m. EST
Wednesday, January 9th -
Dartmouth/Tuck, 5:00 p.m. EST
Yale SOM, 5:00 p.m. EST
Chicago GSB, 5:00 p.m. CST
Cornell/Johnson, 11:59 p.m. EST
Columbia Regular Decision review begins (rolling)
Friday, January 11th -
Northwestern/Kellogg, 11:59 p.m. CST
Tuesday, January 15th . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 29, 2007, at 11:16 am
As of late yesterday, it seems that Wharton’s main web site is down. Most visitors to http://wharton.upenn.edu have been getting the following message:
Server Error
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Either the Macromedia application server is unreachable or it does not have a mapping to process this request.
For those of you who are frantically trying to work on your R2 applications to Wharton and are used to accessing your online application via the school’s main web site, the best work around is to simply go directly to: https://app.applyyourself.com/?id=UPENN-GSB. Since the online application is hosted by an off-site vendor (ApplyYourself), it remains up and running despite Wharton’s problems with their own web site.
Of course, this doesn’t help those of you who are still hoping to comb . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 29, 2007, at 5:45 am
In early December, Columbia Business School announced that it plans to shake things up a little. The school will revamp its core curriculum in 2008 in an effort to give students more of an opportunity to tailor their business education to meet specific individual career goals.
Make no mistake. The fundamentals are not getting tossed. All students will still be expected to complete several required courses, including finance, accounting, leadership and strategy. But in the new core, the number of required first-year courses has been reduced from nine to six, freeing students up to choose from a range of eight electives spread across three main categories in their second semester. These electives constitute the “flexible” part of the new core.
The categories of . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 28, 2007, at 1:07 pm
Welcome back to another Fridays From the Frontline, Clear Admit’s weekly trek through MBA blogging terrain. From voyeurism to idealism, applicants ran the gamut this week; current students were busy recollecting and reflecting, with a splash of globe trotting, too. Let’s check in with our bloggers for some firsthand accounts…
Miss Curly Bee spent her holidays sick in bed, and when she got sick of writing essays in bed, she revitalized herself with a trip to the BusinessWeek forums, the Jerry Springer of the b-school world – if she had it her way! Entertaining a slightly more honorable distraction, B-School Bound pondered his position between the rock of arrogantly announcing his acceptances to the world and the hard . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 28, 2007, at 7:03 am
The latest figures from the Graduate Management Admissions Council, makers of the GMAT exam, indicate that both registration and test-taker volume have clearly been on the rise in 2007. The number of candidates who registered for the exam from January 1st through November 30th of 2007 is nearly 12% greater than the number of registrations for the same time period in 2006. In addition, the number of actual tests taken through November 30th of 2007 has risen by more than 13%. This means that not only are more candidates registering for the exam, but more of them are actually taking it than in years past.
These figures from GMAC seem to corroborate the application volume news we’ve been hearing from . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 27, 2007, at 6:12 pm
Though perhaps not as crucial a consideration as curriculum or faculty, a school’s physical environment does play into the decision of where to pursue a graduate education. With this in mind, those of us here at Clear Admit want to keep you up to date on the changing architectural landscape at the world’s top schools. Today we’ll take a look at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, which has recently embarked on the third and final phase of a facilities expansion begun in 1998.
Fuqua has enjoyed rapid growth since its original facilities were constructed in 1981, at which point the school consisted of 148,000 square feet of space in the current Keller East and West buildings. The first expansion . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 27, 2007, at 4:04 am
Picking up the thread we began earlier this month of essay-writing tips for Round Two applicants, we wanted to take some time today to discuss a frequently-made mistake in the application process. In their desire to make their case to their target MBA programs, many applicants devote sentences and even paragraphs to explaining why the school in question is their “first choice” and arguing its superiority over other schools.
Though certainly understandable, this is actually not a very productive exercise. Let’s consider a few reasons why, from the schools’ point of view:
Tell me something I don’t know. A popular strategy – and not always bad one – for applicants seeking to demonstrate their fit with one school above any other is to . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 26, 2007, at 1:47 pm
Oxford’s Saïd School of Business last week launched a new blogging site, BusinessBlogs@Oxford, designed to provide a glimpse into the lives and activities of current students in the school’s MBA, Executive MBA and Msc in Financial Economics programs.
The blog, which is maintained by Saïd’s marketing and admissions department, features posts by current students as well as links to students’ posts on other sites. There is also an extensive resources section, providing information about the Oxford admissions process, GMAT and TOFEL information, a link to the Financial Times MBA rankings and – we are proud to say – a link to Clear Admit.
In recent posts, students have given their views on the . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 26, 2007, at 4:40 am
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
Posted by Clear Admit on December 25, 2007, at 6:01 am
Wishing you and your family a wonderful holiday season!
-The Clear . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 24, 2007, at 12:54 pm
In the last of our series of posts about MBA students giving back around the holidays, we’ll take a look at a group from Cornell’s Johnson School of Business who spent a week in mid-December volunteering for the New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity (NOAHH).
Led by Jim Bride (MBA ’08), the team of 10 students headed to St. Bernard Parish, one of the communities most devastated by Hurricanes Katarina and Rita, on December 10th. Staying at Camp Hope, a converted school that provides basic housing for volunteers, the students worked with NOAHH to construct new homes in an area where every residential and commercial unit suffered significant structural damage in the storms. With help from students like those from Johnson, NOAHH . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 24, 2007, at 4:53 am
Welcome to special holiday edition of Trivia Tuesday!
With Round Two application deadlines rapidly approaching, we would like to highlight an important component of application success: a candidate’s ability to convey enthusiasm for and fit with the target school. The best way to convey this fit is through an in-depth understanding of the school’s culture and of the ways in which you could gain from and contribute to the program as a student. Of course, as many applicants rush to assemble their essays for the January deadlines, this is one aspect of the process that falls by the wayside far too often – usually with disastrous effects on the application since candidates are unable to convince the MBA programs of their interest.
With . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 21, 2007, at 4:13 pm
To help guide parents through the gift-giving season – especially in the aftermath of several highly publicized toy recalls – MBA Fellows at Tuck’s Center for Digital Strategies have ranked their picks for the top tech toys of 2007.
Developed under the direction of management professor Eric Johnson, a supply chain management expert who has studied the toy industry, the list provides recommendations for all age levels from infant to adult. Top picks include magnetic building blocks for tiny tots that double as floating bath toys, a talking ball that reinvents the game of catch and a musical toothbrush to encourage thorough brushing with songs by the Black Eyed Peas, Hillary Duff, the Beach Boys and . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 21, 2007, at 11:53 am
Welcome back to this week’s Fridays From the Frontline, Clear Admit’s weekly report on current events in the MBA blogosphere. With visions of admits dancing in their heads, applicants were in a frenzy this week, while current students found themselves rather nostalgic for acceptances past. Let’s hear what all the buzz was about…
Congratulations to B-School Bound, who found himself among the ranks accepted at Wharton. On the other hand, his “now at least I know I’ll be going somewhere next year” sentiment probably found him little company! To his credit, later in the day he sounded a bit more excited… Our congratulations also go out to Power Leveler, whose “Yes” from . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 21, 2007, at 3:28 am
So far we have heard from many people interested in sharing their thoughts on MBA programs, but we would still love your input. We’ve extended the survey deadline to Sunday, December 23rd in hopes that a few more of our readers find a few moments to complete our 10-minute online survey. By completing the survey you will help shape the future content of this web site and ensure that we are providing MBA applicants with a valued resource.
After completing the survey, enter to win an iPod Touch or one of four new . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 20, 2007, at 5:11 pm
With the release of NYU Stern School of Business late last week and the launch of UC Berkeley Haas today, the Clear Admit Interview Guide catalog has 10 available titles:
Chicago Graduate School of Business
Columbia Buisness School
Haas School of Business
Harvard Business School
Kellogg School of Management
MIT Sloan School of Management
NYU Stern School of Business
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Tuck School of Business
Wharton School
For more information, check out our Interview Guide announcement post or visit the Clear Admit shop. Good luck to all round one applicants who are still in the midst of . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 20, 2007, at 1:06 pm
In the midst of this season of holiday exchanges, MBAs at top U.S. schools are taking time out of their studies for – and, in some instances, even devoting their studies toward – giving. In a series of posts over the next few days, we’ll look at how students in management programs around the country are helping donated toys find their way to needy children, rebuilding houses in storm-ravaged communities and helping parents make informed gift-giving decisions by ranking the year’s top toys.
Kellogg Students Play Santa
At Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, the student-run organization Business With a Heart (BWAH) is in the midst of its annual Holiday Gift Drive, which will help grant the holiday wishes of approximately 500 needy children . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 20, 2007, at 3:43 am
The waiting game has come to an end for many first-round applicants, as a number of leading programs – Chicago, Tuck, Cornell, UNC, Kellogg, 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 first-round admissions decisions to this crop of applicants:
Carnegie Mellon – December 21st
Cornell Johnson (R2) – January 11th
Michigan Ross – January 15th
Harvard – . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 19, 2007, at 2:12 pm
Lining up a summer internship or full-time position for after graduation tops the New Year’s resolution lists of many a current MBA student. At Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business, students get a helping hand thanks to two annual school-led tours of major job markets on the east and west coasts in early January.
Approximately 45 first- and second-year students are scheduled to depart for the West Coast on January 3rd as part of a seven-day tour that will include meetings with such top employers as Apple, Google, Cisco, HP, Intel, SAP, KLA-Tencor, Agilent and Yahoo! Additionally, the tour is scheduled to coincide with the West Coast Forum, a collaborative recruiting event with the MBA programs at Duke University, Yale University, Vanderbilt . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 19, 2007, at 5:15 am
Welcome to this week’s edition of Wiki Wednesdays, where we highlight new entries in the Clear Admit Wiki, a repository of MBA applicant experiences and observations. In honor of Chicago’s Round 1 acceptance calls going out today – ahead of their initially published January 3rd decision notification date – we’re taking a closer look at Chicago GSB interviews to pass on some preparation pointers to Round 2 applicants!
Chicago grants interviews on an invitation-only basis after evaluation of a submitted application. All interview invitations are released by Chicago’s “mid-decision” deadlines, which tend to fall four to six weeks after the relative round’s deadline date. Interviews are conducted either on campus or at an alternate, more convenient location for the interviewee . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 18, 2007, at 5:20 pm
The MIT Entrepreneurship Competition, together with the MIT Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, last week announced that the 2008 competition, which kicks off in February, will feature a new award category and $50,000 in additional prize money as part of an effort to encourage participation by entrepreneurs in the social development sector.
Beginning in the coming year, the Legatum Center will award a $30,000 Legatum Prize for the “business plan that will have the most significant impact in a developing economy,” a release from the school announced on Friday. Two $10,000 Legatum Prizes for runners up in this category will also be awarded. Business plans across all tracks of the MIT Entrepreneurship Competition will be eligible for these new prizes.
The . . . → Continue Reading
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