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Clear Admit School Guides
Seventeen titles available! Understand how the leading programs compare and learn more about the MBA experience in and beyond the classroom through Clear Admit School Guides. As featured in the Economist.

Clear Admit Interview Guides
Be as prepared as possible for your MBA interviews this season with the Clear Admit Interview Guides! School-specific sample questions and in-depth strategy, campus visit details and places to stay.

Application Deadlines
Below are the upcoming deadlines for admission to top-tier schools.
Oct. 1: INSEAD R1
Oct. 3: Northwestern / Kellogg R1
Oct. 8: Columbia 2009 J-Term and ED
Oct. 9: Wharton R1
Oct. 10: Michigan / Ross R1
Oct. 15: Chicago GSB R1
Oct. 15: Dartmouth / Tuck EA
Oct. 15: Duke / Fuqua EA
Oct. 15: HBS R1
Oct. 22: Yale SOM R1
Oct. 24: UNC Kenan-Flagler R1 (Early Action)
Oct. 28: UVA / Darden R1
Oct. 28: MIT Sloan R1
Oct. 29: Stanford GSB R1
Nov. 4: Berkeley / Haas R1
Nov. 15: NYU / Stern R1

Essay Topic Analysis
Below are links to our comments on some of the top programs' essay topics.
The Career Goals Essay*
Berkeley / Haas*
Chicago GSB*
CMU / Tepper
Columbia
Cornell / Johnson
Dartmouth / Tuck*
Duke / Fuqua
Harvard*
IESE
INSEAD
London Business School
MIT / Sloan*
Michigan / Ross*
Northwestern / Kellogg*
NYU / Stern
Oxford / Said
Penn / Wharton*
Stanford GSB*
UCLA / Anderson
UNC / Kenan-Flagler
UT Austin / McCombs
UVA / Darden
Yale SOM
* denotes '08-'09 commentary

Categories
Use categories to access all that has been written on each of the topics. We have categorized by school and by subject matter.

Interview Reports
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
Rankings are a good way to start your research on various MBA Programs. Keep in mind each uses a different methodology.
Business Week
Economist
Financial Times
Forbes
USNews
Wall Street Journal

Career Guides
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.

MBA Programs: North America
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
Cranfield School of Mgmt (UK) 2
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
Manchester Bus. School (UK) 2
Oxford / Said (UK) 1
Rotterdam (Netherlands) 2
Tsinghua IMBA (China) 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

Friday, May 09, 2008

Fridays From the Frontline

Welcome back to Fridays from the Frontline, our weekly recap of the whirlwind of activity in the MBA blogosphere. With the school year coming to a close and the application season finally winding down, both students and applicants are reflecting on their journeys so far. Let’s check in and see what they have to say…

Current student La Laudiaria returned with a flurry of activity this week chronicling the bittersweet end of her Wharton career. After struggling to the finish line, she got us all up to speed, sharing accounts of Wharton’s prom and how she and her fellow Follies writers were ambushed into playing what is, perhaps, the most electrifying drinking game ever. MBAGladiator is also preparing to wrap up his tenure at Yale SOM by planning trips up and down the eastern seaboard for the coming weekends and squeezing in a paper and an exam before it’s all said and done. John is also planning to travel prior to his graduation from Columbia; his plans carry him south of the border to Puerto Rico with fellow CBS students for the last time. John, like Rubeo Boy from NYU’s Stern school, is struggling with finding a job before graduation, but each are sure that their elite educations will provide them with ample opportunity! Finally, also traveling this week was Wim De Bruyne, en route from Singapore, where she had a unique opportunity to enjoy the jewels of southeast Asia, back to Fontainebleau to finish her last session of INSEAD before graduation. Best of luck to you, Wim!

Anand took some time out this week to help correct a few misconceptions about the rigors of Darden’s schedule. While he confirmed that the first two terms at Darden are remarkably strenuous, with class and associated preparation consuming 36% of his time - more than he dedicated to sleep - in the fourth quarter, that dropped to a more reasonable 19%, allowing ample time to party. HairTwirler wrapped up her first year at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business at the beginning of May and hasn’t looked back since. She has a busy summer ahead leading into a challenging second year schedule. ChennaitoChicago clues us in on life at Kellogg, running through the many great opportunities provided through Kellogg’s alumni network. He helped with the MBC Conference, which featured a keynote address by Boeing CEO Jim McNerney, and he took a class in which industry executives gave students an unparalleled educational experience! m@ posted from Jamaica where his work with the Blue Mountain Project brought him into direct contact with the people he was trying to help, and really helped bring his Ross School of Business experience full circle. He also put out a post-BoB invitation to submit blog topic requests, so start sending those emails! CS@HBS was surprised to get a look at her blog visitor demographics, in spite of Harvard Business School’s international appeal. Meanwhile, MaybeMBA bemoans her clustered midterms at Chicago GSB, with three of four held over two days, and revisits her list of 22 MBA pros and cons one year later. Also in Chicago, GSBSutras shares the top four reasons to look forward to taking a class on the third floor of the Chicago GSB’s Gleacher Center.

Turning our attention to applicant-bloggers, this week, Agent-C celebrates the completion of the hangar of which he oversaw construction and reflects on the the business school application process. He warns people not to get too swept up in school rankings and to focus on what schools best fit your wants and needs, which can only be done by knowing oneself. He also gives his impressions of campus visits to six top schools and shares his thoughts on the GMAT. Meanwhile, TinyDancer is having a yard sale to prepare to move and, unfortunately, the modest profit won’t go far to financing her Wharton MBA; Eight Schools is really feeling some sticker shock in calculating what it will cost to complete the Tuck MBA and cope with the price of living in Hanvoer. In closing, we would like to extend our condolences to Dreamer, whose GMAT journey ended in disappointment, but who excelled on the CATs and plans to start at the Indian Institute of Management. Best of luck!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone! Tune in next week for another action-packed edition of Fridays From the Frontline….

# posted by Clear Admit @ 4:20 am in Fridays from the Frontline

DISCUSSIONS / BLOGS / WIKI

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Wiki

MBA Admissions Wiki
The 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 Forums
The 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.

StudyLink Forums
Clear Admit manages the Applying section of the StudyLink MBA discussion boards.

student 2 student
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.

Chicago Discussion Forums
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

MBA Students

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.com
Community 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.

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