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Posted by Clear Admit on October 31, 2009, at 9:00 am
Today’s GMAT practice problem comes from the test prep firm ManhattanGMAT. To help prepare for the exam, see if you can solve the problem first, then read on for the correct answer and explanation.
Problem
Machines A, B, and C can either load nails into a bin or unload nails from that bin. Each machine works at a constant rate that is the same for loading and for unloading, although the individual machines may have different rates. Working together to load at their respective constant rates, machines A and B can load the bin in 6 minutes. Likewise, working together to load at their respective constant rates, machines B and C can load the bin in 9 minutes. How long . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 30, 2009, at 1:00 pm
As the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, begins to make its rounds, business school officials are turning to technology to help keep their MBA programs on track in the event of an epidemic, the Financial Times reports.
According to the FT report, the business school population is particularly vulnerable to the swine flu, which infects young people more than it does older ones. Add to this the format of many MBA programs – which rely on face-to-face group discussions and lots of work in teams – and the potential of an epidemic to disrupt class continuity is acute.
Many schools are putting measures in place that would allow professors and teachers to take advantage of virtual teaching to help combat the . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 30, 2009, at 3:00 am
Hello and welcome to Fridays From The Frontline, the weekly blog post dedicated to looking inside the MBA applicant and student experience. The MBA blogosphere was hopping this week, with some applicants receiving interview invitations or preparing their second round essays, while students had a few thoughts about the recruiting process.
A Beautiful Mind received an invite from ISB and was quite relieved (congratulations!). Steve went to his fiancee’s brother’s wedding and may have laid down some pretty cheesy dance moves and was looking for a few NYU details to spice up his essays. XLick completed his NYU essays and felt that they were quite strong, especially his creative essay. Atypical HBS was still . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 29, 2009, at 1:00 pm
Especially in today’s tight job market, some employers are using Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) scores as part of the process of evaluating job candidates’ potential, according to reports last week in BusinessWeek and Inside Higher Education. And some business schools, according to both reports, have begun to advise some students to retake the exam in hopes of higher scores that might improve their prospects of being hired.
You thought once you got into business school you’d never have to think about the GMAT again, right? And with good reason. According to the Graduate Management Admissions Council, which owns and administers the exam, the test is intended to help predict a candidate’s first-year grades in an MBA program, not as a valid . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 29, 2009, at 11:30 am
Welcome back to our weekly installment of Campus Chronicles. This week we’ll take a look at NYU’s student newspaper, the Stern Opportunity, to see what’s been happening on Stern’s campus.
Stern’s newest club, the Government and Business Association (GBA), hosted the school’s first event of the 2009-2010 academic year, a panel discussion entitled “Can Government Spending Replace the Consumer?” Over 125 Stern students and alumni came out to participate in panel discussions with Nouriel Roubini, a professor of Economics and International Business at Stern, and Maury Harris, UBS Chief US Economist. Roubini and Harris discussed topical subjects including the economic downturn, strategies for recovery, and long-term implications on . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 28, 2009, at 8:00 pm
Today, our friends at Manhattan Review share their advice on critical reasoning questions in the GMAT:
Anyone could tell you that Critical Reasoning helps to measure your logical thinking skills. What you may or may not know is that the formal logic required to truly become a master of this question type originated in part with Aristotle and is highly mathematical in nature. This means that even when you’re working in the Verbal section of the GMAT, you are still applying mathematical concepts to the material.
The single idea that is the most useful in Critical Reasoning on the GMAT is the Contrapositive. Here’s how to form a contrapositive:
Step 1: Start out with a cause/effect statement. This is best . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 28, 2009, at 1:00 pm
Students in the Yale SOM Private Equity Club next week will host its ninth annual private equity conference, one of the largest student-run private equity conferences in the country. This year’s conference theme, “Expanding Horizons,” will include a focus on the ways in which the market conditions of the past year have created new trends and opportunities for private capital.
The conference, which will take place on November 6th in Greenwich, CT, will include keynote addresses by Yale SOM alumni who have gone on to lead successful private equity firms. Speakers include David Jackson ’93, CEO of Istithmar World Capital; John Howard ’80, CEO of Irving Place Capital; and Dan O’Connell ’80, founder and CEO of Vestar Capital Partners.
There will also be a . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 28, 2009, at 11:00 am
Last week we asked you how you would end your interview, this week we wonder how you would begin?
Interview Strategy: How do you Prepare for the Big Day?
I practice in front of my mirror, and have worked extensively to polish my resume.
I rely on my friends to help me prepare and listen to my responses to key questions.
I have enlisted an admissions consultant to assist me through rigorous mock interviews.
I’ve availed myself of resources like the Clear Admit Wiki, Interview Guides and applicant bloggers.
I have a suit and I’m good with people, I’m not worried.
View . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 28, 2009, at 3:00 am
We’re pleased to announce the release of the 2009-2010 versions of our 18 Clear Admit Interview Guides, which provide school-specific insight and strategic advice to help applicants ace their admissions interviews. For those who are unfamiliar with these publications, the Interview Guides are based on our years of MBA admissions experience and our work with hundreds of applicants interviewing at leading programs. The Clear Admit Interview Guides contain the information candidates need for a successful interview, including:
School-specific strategy
Analysis of how the adcom weighs the interview
First-hand interview accounts
Detailed information on planning a campus visit
Dozens of sample questions consistently asked by that particular program
Each Clear Admit Interview Guide also includes our General Interview Guide, a rich source of advice on how to be . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 27, 2009, at 1:00 pm
A $3 million gift will establish a special law and business professorship shared between the Kellogg School of Management and the Northwestern University School of Law, the schools announced last week. Bernard Black, an expert in corporate law and finance and healthcare regulation, will be the first to fill the role.
The gift, from defense contractor General Dynamics Corporation, will establish the Nicholas D. Chabraja Professorship, named for the company’s retired chief executive officer and a Northwestern alumnus. The first of its type, the professorship will support both Kellogg and the School of Law, a symbol of the increasing integration of the two fields.
The donation also will provide support to Northwestern’s JD-MBA program, the largest joint law and business program in the . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 27, 2009, at 11:00 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 October 27, 2009, at 3:00 am
Interested in a future career in healthcare? Choose the best MBA program for you with the help of Clear Admit’s Career Guide to Healthcare, a great resource from our brand new line of career-focused guides! This guide is directed toward prospective applicants hoping to work for companies like Aetna, Kaiser Permanente, Medco Health Solutions or Pacific Healthcare; or who are thinking about healthcare-focused positions in industries like venture capital, consulting, or investment banking. Applicants looking to pursue careers in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices will also benefit from this guide, as they typically participate in MBA healthcare programs as well.
With 44 pages of detailed information on the top MBA programs with a focus on healthcare, this guide . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 26, 2009, at 1:00 pm
The vast majority of MBA programs has revised curricula in recent years or has plans to make curricular changes in the near future, according to a study conducted by the MBA Roundtable, a nonprofit organization that tracks MBA curricular design and innovation.
The study found that 69 percent of MBA programs have significantly revised their curricula in the past four years, and a full 89 percent are currently planning curricular changes. The most common revisions include adding project-based courses or other applied content. Many programs also have worked or are working to integrate content across topics and disciplines.
Other points of focus in curricular revision have included placing greater emphasis on leadership development and global perspectives, with about half of MBA . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 26, 2009, at 8:14 am
With interview invitations from a number of programs already on their way out to Round One applicants, we wanted to offer some more advice on this element of the admissions process. Last week we posted some very basic etiquette information that will help candidates ensure that everything is in order on the big day. Today, we turn our attention to some steps one can take to prepare for the interview itself.
1) Know what to expect. This might go without saying, but interview types and duration vary across programs. For instance, nearly all invited Stanford applicants interview with alumni, while on-campus Wharton interviews are conducted by second-year students (and in rare cases admissions staff). Candidates . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 24, 2009, at 9:00 am
The weekend is a great time to get some GMAT studying done. To help you, today we share a sample problem and an explanation of its solution provided by Manhattan GMAT:
Problem
If a, b, and c are positive integers, with a < b < c, are a, b, and c consecutive integers?
(1) 1/a – 1/b = 1/c
(2) a + c = b2 – 1
A: Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.
B: Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.
C: BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.
D: EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.
E: Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient to answer the question asked, and . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 23, 2009, at 1:00 pm
In a post to her blog yesterday, Harvard Business School (HBS) Director of Admissions Dee Leopold shared that her office continues to send out interview invitations to Round 1 applicants and that a significant number have yet to go out. She did not disclose how many more invitations will be sent, but she did explain that the timing of when you receive an interview invitation does not reflect the relative strength of your application or candidacy.
Interview invitations are not sent out on Saturday and Sunday, she added, so no need to look for them on the weekends.
Leopold reminded applicants that HBS will make R1 decisions before viewing R2 applications this year and that some applicants waitlisted in the first round . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 23, 2009, at 3:00 am
Welcome back to Fridays From The Frontline, Clear Admit’s jovially jubilant jaunt through the sometimes fraught, oft times fantastic, MBA application and student blogging process. Many students this week are either in the midst of, or preparing for, their mid-term exams. Applicants, after a brief respite after round 1 deadlines, seem to be gathering their strengths for the next set of essays they will write for round two. The weather on the east coast of U.S. has teetered from the last days of summer to chilly rains and finally a definite shift in the color of foliage (green to reds, yellows and reds!) that represents the official changing of the seasons. In other news, at least one east coast city is . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 22, 2009, at 8:00 pm
For today’s GMAT tip, our friends at Manhattan Review work through a data sufficiency problem, to show a strategic way to tackle such questions efficiently:
It is true that Data Sufficiency is, in its own way, a unique form of testing question, and most likely quite different from anything you’ve ever seen before.
The concepts being tested here are not only purely mathematical, but logical. The crux of answering a data sufficiency question correctly is being to test for CERTAINTY and differentiate between CERTAINTY and mere POSSIBILITY.
Let’s test this idea with a real GMAT Data Sufficiency question:
If 2x(5n) = t, what is the value of t?
(1) x = n + 3
(2) 2x = 32
A. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 22, 2009, at 2:30 pm
Executive MBA (EMBA) programs have had trouble attracting as many students this year as they did last, with the exception of programs that feature classes taught across multiple continents. This according to data collected for the Financial Times’ 2009 EMBA ranking, released October 19th.
Among schools surveyed by the FT, overall enrollment in EMBA programs has dropped 9 percent – and it is believed to have dropped even more among lower-ranked schools. But multi-continent EMBA programs are proving the exception. They are the only programs to have increased enrollment this year, the FT reports.
Unlike regular MBA enrollment, which is often counter-cyclical to the economy, EMBA enrollment generally drops when times get tough, especially as corporate sponsorship dries up. But multi-continent . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 22, 2009, at 12:00 pm
We return to this week’s Campus Chronicles with a review of MIT Sloan’s student newspaper, Fifteen, to learn about the latest events on Sloan’s campus.
The MIT Sloan student Senate held its first meeting of the year on October 6th, welcoming 24 new Senators from the class of 2011. This year the Senate vows to prioritize projects based on Senators’ interests, following up on last year’s efforts to learn how the Senate can have a positive impact on issues that need to be addressed. These new projects include developing cross-campus relationships, creating electronic announcement boards, and improving club websites. In addition, Senators will team up with the Sloan admissions office to create a “Sloan on . . . → Continue Reading
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