From the BusinessWeek discussion forums to the Yahoo.com and Forbes.com business wires, Clear Admit Interview Guides have been getting attention in recent weeks as interview season continues at top business schools.
We think the guides are a great resource for prospective applicants who are gearing up to meet with school representatives and make a case for why they are a good fit for a given program. But of course we do – we wrote them.
Now, thanks to increasing buzz about them from more objective sources, you don’t have to simply take our word for it. Read on to see what others have had to say about our guides:
• Amid recent chatter about interviews at the University of Chicago, we spotted this post on the BW discussion thread.
Writes siggy_smalls: “if you’re concerned about the interview at all, i’d definitely recommend buying the clear admit program guide and interview guide for each school you interview with. ~$25 each. i used one for columbia, nyu and chicago and felt all of them were very helpful. no “new” info but did a good job condensing all the stuff from the website and various forums, etc into one place. perfect to print out and take on the plane to review prior to your interview.”
• And then there was this, also on the BW forum, in response to a query by an applicant who’d received an interview invite to an unnamed top school about whether he should get our school and interview guides to prepare for it.
Writes chirpy: “I highly recommend reading the Clear Admit School and Interview guide. You can buy both for a discount on their site. The School guide is good for brushing up on the program, classes, clubs, school strengths, etc, — whereas the interview guide explains their typical interview, with questions other candidates have been asked. I suggest preparing answers in advance to the questions in the guide, that way you won’t be caught off guard by anything your interviewer asks. I think it’s only around $30 or $40 for both guides, which is nothing if you’ve made it this far in the process…
• Finally, Linda Abraham of the admissions consultancy Accepted.com had these words of praise for the guides, which she recommended as a means of expanding on the information provided in her firm’s publications:
Writes Abraham: “Clear Admit has done a thorough job in comparing the schools and highlighting their differences, something the schools themselves and the various media guides don’t do nearly as well, if at all. If you want to learn how to apply effectively and present yourself well; read Accepted.com’s ebooks; if you want to research specific schools, check out these guides.”
The Clear Admit Interview Guides are currently available for Chicago, Columbia, Fuqua, Haas, Harvard, Kellogg, MIT Sloan, NYU Stern, Stanford, Tuck, Warton and Yale. Each provides school-specific interview insight and strategic advice, detailed analysis of exactly how that school’s admissions committee weighs interviews, first-hand interview accounts, information on planning a campus visit and sample questions consistently posed to interviewees at that school. In addition, the interview guides each include a section devoted to general interview preparation techniques that will be useful throughout the MBA application process.
Interview guides, which sell for $20, can be purchased in the Clear Admit Shop. Receive a $5 discount when you buy both the school and interview guides together for a given school. And if the school you are interviewing at is not listed above, please check back regularly because we intend to add interview guides for additional schools throughout the admissions season.
Comments closed
