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Posted by Clear Admit on February 27, 2010, at 9:00 am
Today’s GMAT tip comes from test prep firm ManhattanGMAT. In this article, Chris Ryan, ManhattanGMAT’s Director of Instructor and Product Development, covers the concept of causation in Critical Reading questions:
The concept of causation appears regularly on the GMAT and most people taking the exam can expect to see at least one Critical Reasoning question dealing with the issue. If you understand the concept and anticipate it, you will be much better prepared to answer the question correctly when it arises.
First, in general, “causation” means that one thing causes another thing to occur. (It’s also possible, of course, for several things to combine to cause one thing to occur, for one thing to cause several things to occur, and . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on February 26, 2010, at 1:59 pm
If you received an invitation to interview from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School as part of Round 2, don’t forget that all interviews must be completed by March 5th. That’s next Friday. So if you haven’t scheduled your interview yet, get cracking! And if you’ve tried but are having trouble, Wharton’s MBA Admissions & Financial Aid Team urges you to contact its office for help.
Some applicants have had questions about the various types of interviews that can be scheduled. At Wharton, you can choose to schedule an on-campus interview, a hub interview or an alumni interview. All interviews are weighted equally, and applicants are encouraged to choose based on whatever is most convenient for them.
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Posted by Clear Admit on February 26, 2010, at 3:00 am
Welcome back to Fridays From the Frontline! Clear Admit’s weekly round up of the latest news from MBA applicant and student bloggers. Since last week, more applicants have received news or scheduled interviews while students continue to have all kinds of experiences, from professional treks to awkward recruiting dinners.
Steve jumped into the Atlantic ocean and took a photograph with a giant chicken…but didn’t remember any of it. XLick felt that his Cornell interview was more of a conversation than an interrogation. Nistha, inspired by a recent post by Orlando, delved into the differences between generalization and specialization. AJ heard bad and medium news, receiving a zap from Yale and a waitlist notification from . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on February 25, 2010, at 1:00 pm
Rose Martinelli, the director of admissions at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, in a recent blog post tackled some myths and shared some advice for prospective applicants considering the school’s upcoming third-round deadline.
“Somewhere along the line, R3 inherited the reputation of being somewhat irrelevant in the overall admissions cycle – a round where you made a last ditch effort to gain admission while perhaps believing that your chances for acceptance were very slim,” she wrote. Acknowledging that Round Three can be more competitive because the majority of acceptances go to applicants in the first and second rounds, she stressed that a good portion of the next Chicago Booth class will be admitted from R3. In fact, a good . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on February 25, 2010, at 2:09 am
Welcome back to Campus Chronicles! This week we’ll take a look at HBS’s student newspaper, The Harbus, to see what’s been going on at the Harvard campus for b-school students.
Harvard’s first “J-Term” ran from January 4 to January 22, giving HBS students the choice to enroll in an intensive seminar, join an Immersion Experience Program (IXP) trip, or take on an “independent opportunity,” an academic-based project or trip designed by an individual student. One student took a “winternship,” i.e. a winter internship, at RRE Ventures, an emerging New York venture capital firm focused on technology. During the course of his three weeks at RRE, this student had the chance to observe pitches, evaluate deals, meet . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on February 24, 2010, at 8:00 pm
Today’s GMAT tip comes from our friends at test prep firm Knewton. Today, they offer their advice on questions that include complex negations:
Alex Sarlin, is the Lead Verbal Developer for Graduate Programs at Knewton, where he specializes in helping students with their GMAT preparation.
The GMAT has a limited bag of tricks up its sleeve to disguise incorrect answer choices. Think of the test-makers as politicians caught in a fib; they can exaggerate (extreme answer choices), skirt the subject (irrelevant answer choices), twist the truth further (distortions), or draw dubious inferences to throw you off the scent. In the end, though, any politician will tell you that the most efficient way to get away with . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on February 24, 2010, at 3:21 pm
Welcome to Wiki Wednesdays, in which we set a spotlight on the latest submissions to the Clear Admit Wiki, an online repository for MBA applicants to share their experiences with admissions interviews. We’ve received a number of great interview reports this past week! Be sure to check out the latest posts for: Chicago Booth, Columbia Business School, London Business School, NYU / Stern and Wharton. We’d like to thank everyone for continuing to share their experiences in the Clear Admit Wiki!
Before getting into contest details, let’s take look at a couple of the latest contributions. A candidate for Columbia interviewed with a second-year student, who asked the following questions:
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Posted by Clear Admit on February 24, 2010, at 1:00 pm
Impressed with the advancements at the Tuck School of Business in the past two decades and moved by the camaraderie of classmates during a recent reunion, a Tuck alumnus recently made a gift of $2.5 million to endow a new faculty chair at the school.
The new Bakala Professor of Management faculty chair is named for Zdeněk Bakala, a member of the Class of 1989 who returned to campus for his 20th reunion this past fall. In enabling Tuck to expand its faculty of thought leaders, the establishment of the new chair advances one of the primary goals of the school’s ongoing Tuck 2012 initiative.
A Czech native, Bakala has been involved in finance and business in the Czech Republic and the CEE . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on February 24, 2010, at 3:00 am
How Will You Inform Your Current Boss of Your Imminent Departure?
My boss was one of my recommenders, so she is prepared for my departure.
I’ll ask him to go to lunch with me and tell him how valuable my time at the company has been but…
I will write an official letter and hand deliver it to HR.
I think they’d get a kick out of a singing telegram delivering the news.
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Posted by Clear Admit on February 23, 2010, at 3:00 pm
MBA applicant blogger ‘A Beautiful Mind’ dedicated a recent post to sharing advice on how to compile a list of target schools, and, in tandem, offered his thoughts on how the Clear Admit Career Guide to Consulting helped him.
When it comes to determining the schools that best suit your interests, A Beautiful Mind stresses the importance of first identifying which field you plan to enter post-MBA, and of then pinpointing schools that align with these goals. To help you narrow your list in this way, A Beautiful Mind suggests a particular tool: “A good resource for identifying relevant schools is a Clear Admit Career Guide . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on February 23, 2010, at 12:00 pm
A. Michael Spence, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and former dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, will join the faculty of New York University’s Stern School of Business as an economics professor beginning in September, the school announced yesterday.
Spence comes to Stern from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he is currently the Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management and where he served as dean from 1990 to 1999. Before that he spent 15 years at Harvard University, holding a joint appointment as a professor of economics and business administration in its Business School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and serving as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1984 to 1990.
A Nobel Prize . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on February 23, 2010, at 3:08 am
It’s time again for another edition of Trivia Tuesday, our weekly examination of the programs and opportunities that differentiate the leading MBA programs. This week we take a peek into the Clear Admit School Guide to Harvard Business School, and share an excerpt on HBS’s Entrepreneurship Initiative.
“Harvard offers students an array of opportunities to study entrepreneurship. In addition to analyzing cases on start-up enterprises across the RC curriculum, all RC students take the Entrepreneurial Manager course. In their second year, students may choose from the 18 courses and field study opportunities offered on the topic.
Over 30 of the school’s faculty members are part of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit, and more than 40 other faculty members conduct research in the area. Harvard . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on February 22, 2010, at 1:00 pm
The Massachusetts Institute of Techology (MIT) Sloan School of Management this month announced a new sustainability certification program designed to teach students how to balance economic growth with environmental sustainability.
The new program is open to students in all MBA and other Sloan-related programs. To attain the new Certificate in Sustainable Business, students must complete a range of required core and elective courses designed to leverage Sloan’s strengths in process improvement, organizational learning and adaptation, entrepreneurship and other areas to promote more sustainable business practices. Among the required core classes are courses in system dynamics and sustainability strategies, as well as a sustainability lab and seminar. A special capstone course in sustainability will also be offered as part of the certification process . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on February 22, 2010, at 2:17 am
After a relatively sleepy February, March will soon be upon us with its extensive list of application deadlines and decision notification dates. Let’s take a look at the long list of Round 3 (or 4 or 5) deadlines spread over the next two months:
March 1: Michigan/Ross R3
March 3: Columbia (int’l applicants)
March 4: Northwestern/Kellogg R3
March 8: CMU Tepper R3
March 9: Wharton R3, Duke/Fuqua R3
March 10: INSEAD R1 (Jan. intake), Chicago/Booth R3, Yale R3, Berkeley/Haas R4
March 15: NYU/Stern R3
March 17: UCLA/Anderson R3
March 19: UNC/Kenan-Flagler R3
March 30: Cornell R4
March 31: INSEAD R4 (Sept. intake), UVA/Darden R3
April 2: Dartmouth/Tuck R3
April 7: Stanford R3
April 8: HBS R3
April 14: Columbia (final)
April 26 CMU Tepper R4
While it’s always best to apply as early as possible, the difference between . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on February 21, 2010, at 8:00 pm
Today’s GMAT tip comes from our friends at Veritas Prep. In today’s article, they present the eighth installment of their “Think Like the Testmaker Series”:
Brian Galvin is the Director of Academic Programs at Veritas Prep, where he oversees all of the company’s GMAT prep courses.
When you think about it, the authors of the GMAT are tasked with a pretty difficult initiative: using fairly common skills — algebra, grammar, arithmetic, logic — they need to write questions that will be difficult for large percentages of high-achieving examinees. Those taking the GMAT are already quite accomplished: college graduates, some already with graduate degrees, most with some quality post-college work experience, and all with a desire . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on February 19, 2010, at 4:00 pm
Starting this Sunday, February 21, the QS World MBA Tour is holding events in five North American cities. These events are designed to give MBA hopefuls a chance to meet with admissions officers and alumni representatives from business schools across the globe.
The QS World MBA Tour events provide an opportunity to begin or continue researching target schools, regardless of where you stand in the application process. If you haven’t received good news from R1 target programs or are still waiting to receive a response from R2 applications, the tour events can help you prepare to apply to additional programs in the spring. Additionally, if you are targeting international programs with a January start date or late deadlines for the . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on February 19, 2010, at 1:00 pm
New York University’s Stern School of Business this week announced a multi-year academic partnership with Deutsche Bank to expand research and education related to risk management and financial regulation, according to a recent Financial Times report. Earlier this month, Deutsche Bank announced a similar partnership with the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
At Stern, the program will be coordinated by the school’s Volatility Institute, which is directed by Nobel Laureate Robert Engle. Deutsche Bank’s funding will support research at the Volatility Institute and the Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions, as well as a series of conferences and other events.
At Chicago Booth, Deutsche Bank will underwrite a new speaker series for MBA students and a new . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on February 19, 2010, at 3:03 am
Hi there, and welcome to Fridays From the Frontline, Clear Admit’s weekly blog post focused on the events of the MBA blogosphere. This week MBA hopefuls were sharing their good and bad news, from interview invites to admittances. Current students were deep in their current semester and enjoying a number of personal and professional development opportunities.
Dream Chaser enjoyed his day at Kellogg, happily announced his interview invite from Harvard, and managed to stay humble. While Rocky was disappointed with LBS’ general feedback to zapped candidates, he was happy to receive an interview invite from Anderson. Hari looked back on each stage of his MBA application process and thanked Clear Admit for providing helpful . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on February 18, 2010, at 1:21 pm
Next week, prospective applicants to the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School will have an opportunity to experience a live lecture without setting foot on the Philadelphia campus.
Professor Kartik Hosanagar, who teaches “Enabling Technologies,” a class focused on technologies that help enable businesses in a networked economy, will deliver his first-ever live video-lecture, entitled “Innovation in Tech Firms: Analysis of Google, Apple, Pixar.”
The video-lecture will take place from 3 to 4:30 p.m. EST on Tuesday, February 23rd. The lecture is free and open to prospective applicants, according to a recent post on the Wharton MBA Admissions blog.
Billed as the “first integrated social media blog/Twitter/Facebook course concept for a leading business school,” Wharton’s “Enabling Technologies” course calls on students to implement . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on February 18, 2010, at 2:11 am
In this week’s Campus Chronicles post, we’ll take a peek at Darden’s student newspaper, The Cold Call Chronicle, to see what exciting events have been happening on the UVA campus.
Motivated by the devastation following the earthquake in Haiti last month, Darden students made a pledge to raise as much money as possible by the end of January. From the 20th to the 30th of last month, an organizing committee and student groups, including the Finance Club, Consulting Club, Wine and Cuisine Club, and Darden Capital Management, worked to collect donations from the Darden community. Within those ten days Darden raised $17,570, which will go to the Red Cross and Food for the . . . → Continue Reading
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