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Posted by Clear Admit on May 31, 2010, at 3:00 am
Since many of our readers are just beginning the business school application process, we wanted to offer some basic tips on a critical variable in the MBA admissions equation: recommender selection.
When choosing your recommenders, remember that it can be seen as a test of judgment – selecting a recommender whose letter is ineffective or who appears dubious about your qualifications may raise doubts about your ability to judge your interactions with others or to select the right person for a job.
In order for your letters to be as effective as possible, you should look for several qualities in a recommender. First, your recommenders should have greater seniority than you unless the school specifically asks for a peer recommendation. The adcom gives . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on May 29, 2010, at 9:00 am
Today’s GMAT challenge question comes from our friends at ManhattanGMAT. To help you with your GMAT studying, try to solve the problem on your own, and then read on for the explanation of its solution:
Problem
If x and y are integers and x < y, what is the value of x + y?
(1) xy = 4
(2) |x| = |y|
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 additional data are needed.
Solution
The question cannot . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on May 28, 2010, at 1:00 pm
Sally Blount, who will become the first woman dean of a top-tier U.S. business school when she assumes the role at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management this summer. is one of a rush of female appointments at business schools in North America in the past few years, the Financial Times reports.
Business schools at the Universities of Miami and South Carolina and Loyola’s Sellinger School have recently appointed women to the top position, where they join a list of experienced women who have been running schools such as UCLA Anderson, Ivey, Minnesota, Notre Dame and Pepperdine, the FT reports.
But according to Carolyn Woo, who has served as Notre Dame’s dean for the past 13 years, business schools are behind the curve in . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on May 28, 2010, at 3:00 am
Welcome to this week’s Fridays From the Frontline, our ongoing endeavor to know all there is to know about the b-school blogosphere. This week was chock full of graduations and transitions. Some students said their final good byes to their respective programs, while others said ‘see you later’ as they departed to summer internships across the globe. Though many students were in ‘good bye mode’ recent applicants were beginning to say hello to their MBA experiences.
Nistha flashed back to deciding to reapply to MBA programs and explained her decision. Braveheart began revising his essays and considered adding safety schools to his roster for this year’s application cycle. Madalogue asked her readers to cease requesting copies of her . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on May 27, 2010, at 1:30 pm
Though the job market has improved this year over last, newly minted MBAs should not view the degree as an instant ticket to a new career, a recent article in the Economist warns.
Where firms were once furiously snapping up the most talented students from top schools as fast as they could, even without specific positions in mind, the economy has forced them to return to the basics, hiring MBAs only when a slot becomes open, according to the Economist article. Graduates this year, as a result, find themselves competing fiercely for available positions and needing to consider options their predecessors might not have.
No longer can a fresh MBA graduate count on the “classic triple jump,” a simultaneous change in function, role . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on May 27, 2010, at 3:00 am
In this week’s Campus Chronicles post, we’ll venture to Ithaca, New York and take a look at student newspaper The Cornell Business to see what’s new and exciting for MBA students at Johnson.
Earlier this spring Johnson students participated in the annual Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration. In the ensuing two days of panels and networking sessions, Johnson students had a chance to mingle with over 200 Cornell alumni as well as faculty and staff from 11 Cornell schools and colleges. Five teams of students from the top universities also participated in the 2010 Cornell Venture Challenge business plan competition, representing the e-commerce, biotech, medical devices, and sustainability industries. Johnson MBA teams included Ezra Pharmaceutical and ZetrOz, both . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on May 26, 2010, at 4:13 pm
Today’s GMAT tip comes from our friends at Veritas Prep. In today’s article, they present another 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.
Admit it: although it will never appear as one of the answer choices, the correct answer to nearly every GMAT question is “who cares?”. Given that a and b are nonzero integers…what is the value of a? Who cares? Which of the following principles, if valid, would support the scientist’s beliefs regarding medieval biology? Who cares? These situations chosen by GMAT authors to test your problem solving and analytical abilities . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on May 26, 2010, at 1:26 pm
Graduates from top MBA programs in the United States can expect to earn $2.5 million, on average, in base pay and bonuses over the course of a 20-year career, with graduates from the very top programs earning even more, according to recent research commissioned by Bloomberg Businessweek.
For the second year, Bloomberg BusinessWeek asked PayScale, a salary data collection company, to calculate median cash compensation for graduates from top business school upon graduation and again after 5, 10, 15 and 20 years of work. PayScale, which uses online pay comparison tools to collect individual salary data, has a database of 23,000 MBA grads at the top 45 U.S. business schools.
According to PayScale’s data, Harvard Business School graduates can expect to earn the . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on May 26, 2010, at 3:00 am
How are you Narrowing the Field?
I have wanted to go to School X for years, it is the only school to which I am applying.
I talk to colleagues, friends and family with knowledge on business schools.
I look for the programs that could help me grow in an area of professional interest.
I read school guides and research details on the web.
I reach out to the schools directly and speak with students and admissions representatives.
View . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on May 25, 2010, at 4:14 pm
The Yale SOM deadlines for the upcoming admissions season have been released. The three deadlines are as follows:
Round 1
Application Deadline: October 7, 2010
Decision Notification: December 16, 2010
Round 2
Application Deadline: January 6, 2011
Decision Notification: March 25, 2011
Round 3
Application Deadline: March 17, 2011
Decision Notification: May 12, 2011
Yale SOM has also released its essay topics for the upcoming year. Applicants are required to complete four short answer responses, as well as two longer essays. Candidates wishing to submit an optional essay are welcome to do so.
Short Answers
Please answer each of the four questions below with a short paragraph of no more than 150 words. This is an opportunity to distill your core ideas, values, goals and motivations into a set . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on May 25, 2010, at 2:00 pm
After sticking with the same three essays for the past two years, this year Columbia has made a significant change. Although the first essay on career goals remains the same, Columbia has reduced the amount of essays to two and has adopted a new second essay topic that focuses on applicants’ personalities. With one question on work goals and the other on personal interests, this set of topics suggests a dual focus on one’s professional and personal interests, experiences, and plans. Bearing this in mind, feel free to contact us for a free consultation, in which one of our Admissions Consultants will help you evaluate the elements of your profile and spread them across each of these essays. . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on May 25, 2010, at 1:00 pm
Last month, New York University’s Stern School of Business launched a new rating system designed to rank the level of risk that the largest U.S. financial institutions bring to the overall health of the financial system.
The NYU Stern Systemic Risk Rankings, launched on April 21st, uses stock quotations and other market data from 1990 to the present to help provide regulators with an early warning when an individual firm could threaten the overall health of the nation’s financial system. The rankings are based on the award-winning work of Professor and Nobel Laureate Robert Engle, who directs NYU Stern’s Volatility Lab.
“Consistent with the vision of NYU Stern’s Volatility Lab, we view our Systemic Risk Rankings as a research laboratory, a first step towards better . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on May 25, 2010, at 3:00 am
It’s time again for Trivia Tuesday, our weekly examination of the offerings and opportunities that impact the student experience at the leading MBA programs. Although many business schools offer optional pre-term programs for enrolling students, NYU Stern goes a step further and invites selected applicants to a summer session of coursework prior to the start of the full-time MBA program. Let’s take a closer look at what Stern’s program entails and how it fits into the general campus orientation.
Stern’s Summer Start program allows a selected group of entering students to spend the summer on campus getting a head start on their MBA coursework. When considering students for Summer Start, the admissions committee looks for candidates who have strong communication and leadership . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on May 24, 2010, at 2:00 pm
For the 2010-2011 admissions season, HBS applicants will need to respond to a total of four essay questions. Candidates are required respond to the two initial questions on the list and may then choose two of four additional questions – one less than last year – to round out the set. Applicants must be clear and concise to fit their essays within each of the essay’s 600- or 400-word limits. Let’s take a look at the essay questions for this year:
1. What are your three most substantial accomplishments and why do you view them as such? (600-word limit)
This essay question has been a hallmark of the HBS application for many years. Due to . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on May 24, 2010, at 1:00 pm
The William G. McGowan Charitable Fund will partner with 10 top MBA programs across the United States as part of a new fellowship program designed to support promising students who demonstrate academic excellence and social leadership during their first year of MBA studies.
The fellowships, which will be presented to one student from each of the ten partner schools, will cover the full cost of tuition for the second year of MBA studies. Partner schools include Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business, Columbia University Graduate School of Business, Duke University Fuqua School of Business, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, MIT Sloan School of Business, Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago Booth School . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on May 24, 2010, at 3:00 am
At the end of March, we discussed the importance of signing up for a feedback session when one is planning to reapply to a program that provides this opportunity. Today we’d like to follow up on that post by offering a few thoughts on feedback session etiquette.
While on one hand a feedback session marks the close of this year’s process, it’s crucial that you realize that the impression you make on the adcom member conducting the session may be added to your file and come to bear on your candidacy next year. Taking heed of the following advice could help to make your feedback session as productive as possible – both in . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on May 22, 2010, at 9:00 am
Today’s GMAT tip comes from our friends at Veritas Prep. In today’s article, they present another 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.
The authors of the GMAT have two primary goals when they write any GMAT question – they want you to have the potential to get the question incorrect, and they also want to give you the chance to waste time as you arrive at your answer (so that you have the potential to get future questions wrong). Shrewdly, they have designed a style of Critical Reasoning question that is suited . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on May 21, 2010, at 1:00 pm
Mother and daughter will both wear caps and gowns later this week at Yale University’s 2010 Commencement. As daughter Charlotte Goins graduates from Yale’s Davenport College, her mom, Dr. Catherine Everett, will graduate from the Yale School of Management (SOM) with an executive MBA.
Everett, a radiologist and managing partner of Coastal Radiology Associates in the family’s native North Carolina, learned about SOM’s Leadership in Healthcare program – an MBA program for professionals in the healthcare industry – because her daughter was studying at Yale. “I was going through the Yale website and I saw it,” she said. “I didn’t come here because she was here, but it certainly was nice.”
For the past two years, Everett has flown from hometown New Bern, NC, to . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on May 21, 2010, at 10:11 am
The Duke / Fuqua essay topics for the 2010-2011 admissions season have been announced. All candidates must respond to three required essays. The essay topics are as follows:
1. Describe your vision for your career and your inspiration for pursuing this career path.
2. How will your background, values, and non-work activities enhance the experience of other Duke MBA students and add value to Fuqua’s diverse culture?
3. Why Duke? (If you are interested in a specific concentration, joint degree, clubs or activities, please discuss how you would contribute to these in this essay.)
All essays should be no longer than two pages in length, and are expected to be written with 1.5 line spacing. Font sizes should be no smaller than 10 . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on May 21, 2010, at 10:04 am
The Stanford GSB deadlines for the Class of 2013 are now available online. The three rounds are as follows:
Round 1
Deadline: October 6, 2010
Notification: December 15, 2010
Round 2
Deadline: January 6, 2011
Notification: March 30, 2011
Round 3
Deadline: April 6, 2011
Notification: May 18, 2011
Applicants should note that all applications are due by 5:00 . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on May 21, 2010, at 3:00 am
Welcome back to Fridays From the Frontline! For the most part members of the Class of 2010 have graduated and said goodbye to their respective peers and campuses. But never fear! A whole new application season is beginning, with plenty of bloggers willing to fill the footsteps of the recently departed (figuratively of course).
Biz Wiz finally knew for certain that he wasn’t going to be taken off of Kellogg’s wait list but had a positive outlook for the future. Nistha couldn’t contain her excitement about an upcoming NYU Stern event. Braveheart looked at his essay drafting process. Miles to MBA compared drafting b-school essays to lying to your parents. Rocky posted the second . . . → Continue Reading
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