Admissions Director Q&A Below are links to Clear Admit's exclusive interviews with MBA admissions directors at leading programs.
Application Deadlines Below are the upcoming deadlines for admission to the leading MBA programs.
Essay Topic Analysis Below are links to our comments on some of the leading programs' essay topics.
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. MBA Programs: North America If an MBA Program is not listed, please e-mail and we will be happy to list it.
MBA Programs: The 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.
|
Posted by Clear Admit on December 31, 2008, at 4:00 pm
In a post last week, Harvard Business School (HBS) Director of Admissions Deirdre Leopold promised new details this week for round 2 applicants. Yesterday she delivered.
In yesterday’s post, Leopold provided answers to some of the questions her office has been hearing the most over the past few days.
For starters, she informed applicants that they should expect their online status to remain as “submitted” until notification day, which is April 2nd. There is no such status as “under review” or anything similar.
She also assured anxious applicants scheduled to take the GMAT in the next few days that they needn’t worry about whether their official report from GMAC reaches her office by January 6th. “You need to report a GMAT score . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 31, 2008, at 11:30 am
With 2009 nearly upon us, welcome to the final 2008 edition of Wiki Wednesdays, where we share fresh interview reports published in the Clear Admit Wiki, a repository of MBA applicants’ experiences and observations! As most schools have distributed decisions to Round 1 candidates, we’re taking a break from the race to Round 2 deadlines to peruse a few interview reports from Dartmouth / Tuck and Duke / Fuqua.
A recent Tuck candidate recounted the following interview experience with an adcom member:
Walk [me] through [your] resume, starting from undergrad. What [were you] involved in outside of class in undergrad?
Why MBA? (Which led to discussion of goals after school.)
Why Tuck? (It seems they ask everyone . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 31, 2008, at 3:14 am
What Career Function Do You Hope To Have After B-School?
Accounting
Information Systems
Marketing
Business Development
Entrepreneurship
Strategic Planning
General Management
Consulting
Finance
Other
View . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 30, 2008, at 12:00 pm
Thomas Cooley, who has served as dean of New York University’s Stern School of Business since August 2002, plans to step down, according to a report earlier this month in the Financial Times. NYU Stern is now beginning its search for a new dean, the report continued.
Cooley, a macroeconomist, was a former faculty member at Wharton, Rochester and Santa Barbara before coming to NYU Stern, where he replaced George Daley, who is now dean at Georgetown.
In his tenure at Stern, Cooley has hired more than 90 faculty, the FT reported. Under his watch, the school also has raised more than $190 million in the latest fundraising initiative and set up 24 professorships, the FT continued.
Setting up joint programs with . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 30, 2008, at 2:07 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 December 29, 2008, at 12:00 pm
The Yale School of Management (SOM) is among a handful of other schools in the New York area that have begun to offer students a course in hedge fund operations and management taught by someone with real-world experience, according to a recent article in the New York Times.
At most business schools, students can study aspects of hedge funds in classes like investment management, financial engineering, endowment management and entrepreneurship, the Times reported. But at Yale SOM, students study under Leon Metzger, an 18-year industry veteran and founder of Paloma Partners, one of the “granddaddies” of the hedge fund industry, the Times continued.
In a syllabus modeled after an offering memorandum for a hedge fund, Metzger advises students interested . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 29, 2008, at 3:00 am
As we prepare to bid goodbye to 2008 and greet the deadline-packed first month of 2009, 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 along with the exact time each application is due:
Friday, January 2nd
Ross/Michigan, 11:59 p.m. EST
Tuesday, January 6th
Harvard Business School, 5 p.m. EST
London Business School, Noon EST
Wednesday, January 7th
Booth/Chicago, 5 p.m. CST
Yale, 11:59 p.m. EST
Tuck/Dartmouth, 5 p.m. EST
Fuqua/Duke, 11:59 p.m. EST
Darden/UVA, 11:59 p.m. EST
Stanford, 5 p.m. PST
Thursday, January 8th
Wharton, 5 p.m. EST
Anderson/UCLA, 9 p.m. PST
Monday, January 12th
Northwestern/Kellogg, 11:59 p.m. CST
Cornell, 11:59 p.m. EST
Tuesday, January 13th
Sloan/MIT, Noon PST
Thursday, January 15th
Stern/NYU, 11:59 p.m. EST
For those candidates who have already submitted their Round . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 26, 2008, at 12:00 pm
Another seven days have slipped through our collective fingers, and here we are for another Fridays From The Frontline. Applicants have continued to receive news from their first round applications while enrolled students wrapped up their first semesters/terms/quarters and headed home to celebrate (or not) the holidays. The gift of an acceptance certainly lifted the spirits of many a blogger, while the zaps that others received should not be taken as a definitive sign of whether they were ‘naughty’ or ‘nice’, as much as a reflection of the sheer competition all applicants are facing this season.
While not an acceptance, Ahembeea did receive his waitlist notification from Tuck and shared a few lessons from his application process. MissionMBA also . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 26, 2008, at 2:19 am
In a recent post on her blog, Associate Dean for Student Recruitment and Admissions Rose Martinelli reflected on a successful year at the Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business and shared details about her office’s hours and resources for prospective applicants who will be working on their applications over the holidays.
“We will have staff available during normal working hours (8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. CST) on December 23rd, December 29th, December 30th and flexible hours on December 24th and December 31st,” she wrote.
Chicago Booth also will hold an admissions chat on Tuesday, December 30th, at 9 a.m. CST. “This is a great time for you to get any last minute questions answered,” Martinelli advised.
To participate in the hour-long chat, . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 25, 2008, at 3:00 am
‘Tis the day to be jolly, as it’s time for another edition of Campus Chronicles! Today we turn our attention back to NYU Stern, checking out what the student newspaper, Opportunity, has to reveal about the latest happenings on campus.
Opportunity sheds light on the efforts of NYU Stern’s ProMotion Pictures Program to create branded content for Cisco’s Digital Cribs Campaign. This campaign enables students to delve into how individuals employ technology in innovative ways to encourage consumers to adopt these new technologies. In working on these creative interpretations, both business and film students gain real-world experience in working with a corporate sponsor to generate and market their content. Eight teams of NYU business and film . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 24, 2008, at 5:17 pm
London Business School (LBS) announced Monday that Robin Buchanan, the school’s current dean, will become its president and that professor Sir Andrew Likierman will succeed Buchanan as dean.
Likierman, who is currently a professor of management practice in accounting at LBS, will be the eighth dean in the school’s 44-year history.
The role president Buchanan will assume is a new role created on his recommendation, with endorsement by the school’s governing body. In this new role he will focus on development and external relations.
“I am extremely honoured to have been offered the role of dean,” Likierman said in a statement announcing his appointment. “The school’s vision is to be the pre-eminent global business school, and my priority will be to build on the . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 24, 2008, at 11:30 am
Welcome to another round of Wiki Wednesdays, where we highlight new and informative reports in the Clear Admit Wiki, an online repository of information learned by applicants throughout the MBA admissions process. This week, we’re setting the spotlight on UCLA / Anderson, NYU / Stern and the Yale School of Management as they are still distributing Round 1 interview invitations.
In California, a Round 1 applicant shared his on-campus interview experience at Anderson:
Tell me about what you do now?
Why did you choose your current position?
What part of your leadership experience will be the most helpful at Anderson?
Elaborate on your career goals.
How will Anderson help you get to your career goals?
Back on the East Coast, . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 24, 2008, at 3:02 am
For many around the world, the holidays are upon us. In the case of Channukah and Christmas, many gifts will be exchanged over the next week. This led Clear Admit to wonder what you would want, regardless of any religious affiliation, in regards to your business school application process.
What Would The Best Holiday Present Be For You?
An acceptance at my first choice of school, anything else would be the equivalent of coal in one’s stocking.
An acceptance at any of my round one schools, I’m not picky.
A week-long hiatus from the pressures of round two deadlines would be great, with or without a bow.
A second set of hands, and an extra brain, in order . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 23, 2008, at 9:35 am
In a post on her blog, Harvard Business School (HBS) Director of Admissions and Financial Aid Deirdre Leopold took it upon herself to provide one last update to round one candidates before leaving for the holidays.
According to Leopold, she and her staff will be reviewing candidates following their interviews up until the round 1 notification date on January 21st. They also will be building the round one waitlist during this time.
“I expect that around 100 Round One candidates not yet invited to interview will be asked to join the waitlist on notification day,” Leopold wrote. Some of these waitlisted applicants will be invited to interview in the round two cycle, she continued. “Thus, you could say that a Round . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 23, 2008, at 2:55 am
It’s time again for Trivia Tuesday, our weekly look at the options and opportunities at some of the leading MBA programs. Today we take a peek at one of Kellogg’s unique student activities.
KWEST, which stands for Kellogg Worldwide Experiences and Service Trips, is a student-organized addition to the school’s traditional pre-term program. The trips are organized by second-year students and have become an incredibly popular way to begin the Kellogg experience, with over 75% of most incoming classes taking part. While all of the trips include a community service component, they are first and foremost a way to get to know a group of Kellogg students very well, to learn about the school from the second-year trip leaders . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 22, 2008, at 11:45 am
In a post late last week on the Stanford GSB Admissions Blog, Director of Admissions Derrick Bolton announced that his office has extended roughly 400 interview invitations to first round candidates.
If you weren’t among those to receive an invite last week, don’t despair. “We expect to invite an additional 150 to 200 applicants to interview in the next few weeks,” Bolton continued. His office will continue reading and evaluating applications up until the January 22nd notification deadline, he added.
At that point, he continued, an additional 50 to 100 applicants may be asked to join the waitlist without having been interviewed. These candidates might receive an interview invitation at a later date.
If you were among the lucky ones to receive . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 22, 2008, at 2:02 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 . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 20, 2008, at 11:27 am
Earlier this week, BusinessWeek ran the second of a five-part series called “Five Years to B-School,” featuring extensive input and admissions advice from Clear Admit co-founder Graham Richmond.
The series is designed to provide prospective business school applicants with a roadmap for what they should be doing in the five years leading up to business school in order to create the strongest resumé and skill set possible. Year two was the focus of this most recent article.
According to BW, prospective applicants should have spent the first year leading up to business school getting their feet wet and should now, in year two, be taking greater initiative and beginning to more clearly define their career paths.
This means taking on more responsibility . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 19, 2008, at 1:19 pm
As we near the end of our Admissions Director Q&A series, we are pleased to bring you a recent interview with Mae Jennifer Shores, admissions director at the Anderson School of Business at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
As reported by BusinessWeek earlier this fall, Anderson is currently experiencing an application volume surge, in part due to the fact that more students seek haven in business school when the economy slumps. But in the BW article, Anderson’s dean also attributed the rise in applicants to the strength of the school’s entrepreneurship program and increased interest among candidates from Asia.
In the interview that follows, Shores provides a ton of information regarding social enterprise at Anderson, an area she feels . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 19, 2008, at 2:45 am
Welcome back to Fridays From The Frontline, Clear Admits regular end of the week perusal of the world of business school blogging. This week, round one acceptances and zaps began coming in at a faster rate while the deadlines for round two steadily became closer.
A flurry of news has been winging its way to ’11 hopefuls this past week, with even more decisions slated for next week, applicants are in a tizzy. Fishee was accepted by Wharton and Duke in one day and Samantha got into Kellogg. MBADreamer, still waiting to hear from Stanford and Haas, considered a round two application to McCombs. Mike, having already heard from Kellogg, was still waiting for . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 18, 2008, at 1:30 pm
The BusinessWeek online discussion forum was buzzing yesterday with reports of anxious Kellogg applicants receiving congratulatory letters from the Kellogg assistant dean of admissions saying they’d been admitted to the class of 2009, only to find that their online status showed they’d been denied. Uh oh.
The BW thread reveals references to at least four such situations. One of the affected applicants, santurian, shared this post:
“Yes the same thing has happened with 3 other guys on GMATClub. We all got the mail from the Asst. Dean congratulating
***
Congratulations! I am pleased to inform you that you have been admitted to Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management MBA Two-Year Class of 2011.
****
The status message on the online system is:
******
The Admissions Committee has . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 18, 2008, at 6:52 am
As many of our readers know all too well, it’s that time of year when MBA aspirants are in the thick of their applications, wrestling with essays and working to get a handle on their positioning and the strengths and weaknesses of their candidacies.
Clear Admit is here to help! Now is the time to take advantage of our free initial assessment. One of our admissions counselors will spend about 30 minutes getting to know your background and goals, and will offer you detailed feedback on your business school candidacy, helping you identify the strong points of your application and offering advice on mitigating your weaknesses. To initiate this consultation, simply send your resume or CV, along with some information about . . . → Continue Reading
|
Clear Admit’s Most Recent Posts
MBA Admissions Wiki In the Clear Admit Wiki, you can share your experiences through the application process and learn from those of others. Below are the five most popular pages in the wiki:
BW Business SchoolsThe BusinessWeek Discussion Boards are another way to learn about the issues applicants face. Clear Admit hosts the Ask Clear Admit thread, which should help answer your questions. Here are the five most recent discussions taking place in the forum:
Beat the GMATClear Admit is a featured expert in the BeatTheGMAT forums, answering questions from applicants across the globe. Feel free to ask us your questions in this forum! Here are the most recent posts:
GMAT ClubGMAT Club
Below are the five most recent posts to the GMAT Club message boards.
Wharton Student2StudentStudent2Student
The student-2-student Discussion Boards are managed by Wharton. Here are the five most recent discussions.
Studylink ForumsClear Admit manages the Applying section of the StudyLink MBA discussion boards.
School-Hosted BlogsStraight from the source: aggregated posts from students and administration. Below are the seven most recent posts in school-hosted blogs.
Individuals’ BlogsA selection of the latest updates to MBA blogs compiled by Hella.
MBA Applicants
MBA Students
|
