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Posted by Clear Admit on March 31, 2008, at 11:58 am
Clear Admit’s own Graham Richmond was featured in the recently released U.S. News and World Report annual ranking of the nation’s top business schools, weighing in on the ethics of admissions consulting.
In a sidebar entitled “Hot Tips for a Graduate Degree in Business,” the U.S. News report touched on a range of business school trends, including the surge of schools offering specialties in real estate and healthcare and the growing acceptance of GRE scores in place of GMAT scores at some schools.
The sidebar also looked at honor codes around the application process, like one at the University of Chicago that requires candidates to pledge that all application materials are their own work. “But admissions consultants, whose services include essay . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 31, 2008, at 4:01 am
As March draws to a close, students are beginning to savor their last weeks of classes before the summer – or graduation!
The Harbus reports that Harvard Business School is celebrating the beginning of spring with green week. The Graduate Green Living Program completed a survey this week to assess the progress of the school’s “Green Living Reps.” These students have been hard at work helping the HBS community implement changes in their daily habits that will have a positive impact on the environment. Results show that students’ daily habits have improved, particularly in the areas of resource conservation and recycling, but that there is still a lot to be done, especially in raising awareness on green issues . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 28, 2008, at 11:58 am
U.S. News and World Report released its 2009 rankings of the best graduate schools at midnight, including a list of the top business schools in the nation. Harvard and Stanford tied for first place, each scoring a perfect 100 points. Wharton came in third with 95 points. And in another tie, with 93 points each, Sloan, Kellogg and the University of Chicago shared fourth place.
What’s changed since last year, you ask? Not much. Company at the top is consistent year to year since the statistics U.S. News uses to calculate rank aren’t widely variable. Here are the top schools this year and last:
2009
1. Harvard and Stanford (tie)
3. Wharton
4. MIT, Kellogg, Chicago (tie)
7. Dartmouth and Berkeley (tie)
9. Columbia
10. NYU
11. UCLA
12. Michigan
13. Yale
14. Cornell, Duke, UVA (tie)
15. CMU
2008
1. Harvard
2. Stanford
3. Wharton
4. MIT
5. Kellogg and Chicago (tie)
7. Dartmouth
8. Berkeley
9. Columbia
10. NYU
11. Michigan
12. Duke . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 28, 2008, at 4:00 am
Thanks for joining us for this week’s Fridays From the Frontline, Clear Admit’s look at the latest notable news in the MBA blogging community. With Round 2 decisions aplenty gracing inboxes and mailboxes, applicants were variously elated and dejected, not to mention quite a few who found themselves somewhere in between. Meanwhile, with spring break upon them, current students pretty uniformly recognized a reason to celebrate.
Despite the ubiquitous advice not to obsessively check your inbox during decision season, the tactic seemed to pay off for Miss Curly Bee, who was greeted with a glowing admit to Kellogg when she logged on at 4 AM. Sadly, Wannabe was not so lucky, receiving the opposite news from the Chicago . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 27, 2008, at 3:30 pm
A recent study out of the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business found that information technology (IT) professionals with a master of business administration degree earn nearly one and a half times their counterparts without an MBA and also more than those with other advanced degrees, according to an article on Examiner.com.
The study, which analyzed data from 50,000 IT professionals, found that those with MBAs earned, on average, 46 percent more than those with just a bachelors degree and 37 percent more than those with other masters degrees.
There are “much larger returns on education than experience,” in the IT sector, Sunil Mithas, Smith assistant professor and lead author of the study, told Examiner.com. Technical skills in this . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 27, 2008, at 1:55 pm
We have previously posted some correspondence tips for those applicants who have been waitlisted by schools that welcome supplemental materials and communication. Today, we’d like to provide some advice to those who are in an arguably more difficult position: waitlisted by schools that discourage further contact with the adcom.
This may sound obvious, but if a school indicates that they do not want supplemental materials, then you should respect their guidelines. In other words, do not send along a new recommendation or an essay if the program has clearly indicated that you should not do so. There may be exceptions to this – for example, if a dramatic change has taken place in your candidacy – but in most cases, . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 27, 2008, at 3:38 am
March is a month that brings a good deal of (hopefully) exciting news to the MBA applicant crowd: interview invitations, admissions decisions, and the announcement of our annual Best of Blogging Awards! For the uninitiated, each year we make an effort to identify exceptional blogs maintained by MBA applicants and students for two important purposes: to recognize the effort and output of the best applicant and student bloggers, and to identify valuable sources of information for the next round of applicants.
Here’s the timeline for this year’s awards, which will cover the 2007-08 admissions/academic cycle:
Nominees Announced – Friday, April 11th
We’ll begin by considering all blogs listed in the Clear Admit Wiki and featured in Fridays from the Frontline . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 26, 2008, at 12:11 pm
Seems it’s not just economics majors heading toward MBA programs these days. In recent posts we’ve talked about the new Harvard 2+2 program, designed by HBS to draw talented college students who might otherwise veer toward law or public policy. On the other end of the spectrum, we’re also spotting the emergence of new executive MBA programs targeting professionals in fields not traditionally associated with business – fields as diverse as professional football, religion and education.
The NFL’s MBA
Forbes.com last month ran an article about football players who are studying business while not on the playing field. Partnering with top business schools, the National Football League started the NFL Business Management and Entrepreneurial Program, designed to help professional football players . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 26, 2008, at 4:41 am
Welcome to this week’s edition of Wiki Wednesdays, where we highlight the latest goings on in the Clear Admit Wiki, a repository of applicants’ experiences with the MBA admissions process. Before we take a stroll through some of the newest posts, however, we’d like to note that we will be awarding a $10 iTunes gift certificate to each applicant who submits an interview report for Stanford GSB, INSEAD, Berkeley / Haas, UCLA / Anderson or MIT / Sloan (limit one gift certificate per person). To be eligible, applicants should e-mail their interview reports to wiki@clearadmit.com by March 31st.
For those wondering what sort of details to include in their Wiki entries, we find that the most helpful and informative . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 25, 2008, at 12:24 pm
It’s a nail-biting week, with round two results trickling out from many of the top schools. While we can’t make the wait any easier, we can at least give you the latest from some of the schools as we know it. Here goes:
Harvard: In a blog post yesterday, HBS Managing Director of Admissions and Financial Aid Dee Leopold outlined what applicants should expect tomorrow, March 26th – notification day for round two.
The admissions committee will release decisions sometime during business hours. “I hope it will be in the morning (EST) but we need to make sure all the operational pieces are set,” she wrote. Applicants will receive emails directing them to their ApplyYourself account.
No need to sit by the . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 25, 2008, at 4:21 am
In this week’s Trivia Tuesday column we turn our attention to experiential education across the pond, examining the Shadowing Project at London Business School.
The shadowing project at LBS enables students to gain a firsthand perspective on the daily role of a high ranking manager by “shadowing” that person for up to a week as they perform their job. Students report that they benefit immensely from this exposure, which illuminates skills they need to develop to succeed as managers.
Before entering the workplace of their “shadowees,” as they are called, students examine key studies and concepts in managerial behavior, building a theoretical framework to help them assess the management situations they will witness during the project. After the shadowing period, students synthesize their . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 24, 2008, at 12:02 pm
Led by a senior researcher at the Center for Digital Technology at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, the Gentilly Project is designed to help map recovery efforts in New Orleans’ Gentilly district as it rebuilds in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The results of the project’s third mapping were shared last week with Gentilly residents.
Tuck senior research fellow Quintus Jett developed the project to track recovery in the storm-ravaged neighborhood in an effort to help residents and local business owners more effectively allocate rebuilding resources and to highlight progress in the recovery effort, which could, in turn, spur further investment and development. Gentilly, which consists of approximately 15,000 residences across 22 neighborhoods, was home to 45,000 people prior . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 24, 2008, at 9:50 am
The Ides of March have passed and the end of the month is firmly in sight. Many schools have started or finished spring break, and students have had a brief breath of freedom before hunkering down to finish the semester.
At Columbia Business School, a page 5 article in the Columbia Bottom Line reports on the Social Enterprise Program’s packed event for students who wanted to learn about the Mayor of Newark’s front line experience with social entrepreneurship. Mayor Cory Booker spoke about how Newark is an ideal place to test concepts of social entrepreneurship and social venture capital. The mayor’s results-driven approach seemed to resonate among Columbia’s social enterprise students, many of whom are already involved in socially responsible . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 22, 2008, at 9:39 am
We’re pleased to announce the release of yet another Clear Admit Interview Guide title: the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
Like all titles in the Interview Guides catalog, this document includes school-specific strategy and sample questions, a firsthand interview account, background information on the Ross interview process, and detailed information on planning a visit to the school’s Ann Arbor campus. Visit the Clear Admit Publications page for more information, or proceed directly to the Clear . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 21, 2008, at 2:07 pm
To succeed in business today, CEOs can no longer hole up in their offices and expect the world to come to them, according to INSEAD Dean Frank Brown, whose most recent book, The Global Business Leader, was released in 2007. In an interview with the Economist earlier this month, Brown discussed the book, sharing practical advice for business leaders operating in an increasingly transcultural marketplace.
Organizations are no longer local, but instead operate across many countries and sell into many different economies, says Brown. “So, if you’re aspiring to leadership, the concept of building a career in one place is pretty much by the board,” he told the Economist. “You’ve really got to not just be aware of . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 21, 2008, at 3:54 am
Welcome back to another issue of Fridays From the Frontline, our periodic table of the MBA elements, not to mention applicants! With decisions rolling into the b-school blogosphere this week, there was no shortage of post-worthy news; between exams, recruiting and graduation, current students found plenty to write about, as well. Let’s check it out…
First, we’d like to congratulate long-time blogger Bschool Diva, who after an extended wait, has to wait no longer to find out that she’s made it off the Chicago GSB’s waitlist and into their venerable class of 2010! Similarly, Gltnforpnshmnt found that he’s in at Ross (and out of work – voluntarily, of course!)… our congrats to him as well! A bit further . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 20, 2008, at 12:07 pm
The 25th annual Graduate Business Conference, drawing student leaders from 40 of the world’s top MBA programs, will take place April 3rd through 5th at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.
The conference, which was founded at Columbia Business School in 1983, is organized by the Graduate Business Forum, an international group for MBA students. It is designed to provide students with valuable networking opportunities while showcasing best practices in student government.
The conference will also expose students to experts in the field of leadership. This year’s keynote speakers are Chip Conley, president and CEO of boutique hotelier Jolie de Vivre Hospitality; best-selling author and management coach Marshall Goldsmith; and Richard Lyons, chief learning office for Goldman . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 20, 2008, at 4:33 am
With decisions from Haas and Tuck released this week and R2 decisions for many programs due out next week, the spring notification season will soon be coming to a close. While we would like to hope that today’s topic isn’t apropos for too many of our readers, we wanted to offer some advice to applicants who’ve been rejected from their preferred programs and are planning on reapplying next season. While it’s important to take some time to deal with the disappointment, it’s never too early to begin thinking about the next season, and there are a number of steps you can take to improve your candidacy and move toward a stronger application.
1) Reevaluate. While it’s certainly difficult when things don’t . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 19, 2008, at 1:57 pm
The London Business School, in partnership with global investment firm Goldman Sachs, last week announced a new scholarship for full-time MBA students.
Established as part of an effort to highlight Goldman Sachs’ commitment to diversity, the first Goldman Sachs International Scholarship, in the amount of £20,000, will be award to a deserving international student starting the MBA program in autumn 2008. Scholarships will be awarded based on an assessment of candidates’ financial need and academic merit.
“Goldman Sachs is delighted to be working with London Business School to launch a new scholarship award,” said a Goldman spokesperson in a statement about the new award. “We hope the Goldman Sachs Scholarship will strengthen our global reach and continue to demonstrate our commitment to diversity.”
Candidates . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 19, 2008, at 3:37 am
Welcome to another edition of Wiki Wednesdays, where we take a tour of the newest reports in the Clear Admit Wiki, a user-generated resource of applicants’ first hand experiences with the MBA admissions process. Before highlighting some of the latest additions to the Clear Admit Wiki, however, we’d like to remind all MBA applicants who have been interviewed this season that we’ve extended our iTunes gift card contest through this Friday, March 21st!
Between now and this Friday, we’ll be awarding a $10 iTunes gift certificate to the first 10 applicants who contribute interview reports to MIT/Sloan, LBS or Stanford GSB. We’ll also be awarding a $15 iTunes gift certificate to every fifth applicant who contributes any . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 18, 2008, at 12:55 pm
Last week, Clear Admit’s own Eliot Ingram visited Harvard University as part of an event hosted by an undergraduate student group interested in learning more about the MBA admissions process. The event was a follow up to a recent presentation by Harvard Business School (HBS) to the college student group about the new HBS 2+2 deferred admissions program, in which college juniors can apply to secure a spot in the HBS class after graduating from college and completing two years’ of approved work experience.
The event, which took place on Thursday evening, March 14th, was hosted by Aspiring Minority Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs (AMBLE), a group at Harvard University for college students interested in business careers.
The AMBLE event consisted of . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 18, 2008, at 4:03 am
In this week’s installment of Trivia Tuesday, we turn our focus to MIT Sloan and the structure of its first-year class, examining how the school creates first-year teams and how these teams impact students’ experiences.
Each class of 300 or so first-year students is divided into six smaller groups, called cohorts or “oceans” (Atlantic, Baltic, Caribbean, Indian, Mediterranean and Pacific), which help to give shape to the core curriculum experience. Oceans, comprised of approximately 55-60 students each, take all seven of their core courses together, thereby getting to know each other quite well in the academic environment. As a result of their shared academic experience, students within each cohort tend to spend time together outside of the classroom as well, . . . → Continue Reading
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