Although London Business School’s first four essay topics are relatively unchanged from the prompts on last year’s application, the school has introduced two new potential essay topics for the fifth question. The new essay questions continue to indicate the school’s emphasis on international experience, as well as its interest in a candidate’s past and proposed leadership experience. In addition, more than most programs, LBS asks applicants to share specific details of their future involvement on campus and contribution to the community. From this, one can extrapolate and assume that LBS is interested in candidates who’ve spoken to students and learned a good deal about the program to better understand how and where they might fit.
Question 1 (750 words)
Give us a brief assessment of your career progress to date.
In what role do you see yourself working in immediately after graduation and what is your longer term career vision?
How will your past and present experiences help you to achieve this?
How will the London Business School MBA Programme contribute to this goal?
Why is this the right time for you to pursue an MBA?
While last year’s LBS application had the career goals essay broken down into two separate questions, this year’s prompt maintains the compartmentalization format by including individual questions within this one essay topic. At its heart this is a standard career goals essay, although applicants will need to make sure that they respond to all of the questions posed in this prompt. In responding to the fourth question, applicants will benefit from learning about the school’s academic offerings and other curricular and extracurricular programs, whether through a campus visit, conversation with alumni or reading the Clear Admit School Guide to London Business School.
Question 2 (300 words)
Give a specific example of when you have had to test your leadership and team working skills. Given this experience what role will you play in a first year study group?
Based on this prompt, applicants should discuss an experience in which they faced challenges to their leadership and teamwork skills, such as a time when a team member refused to get on board with a group plan. After clearly outlining the situation, it’s crucial that applicants explain how they persevered through the challenge, as doing so shows one’s maturity and ability to overcome obstacles. It would therefore make sense to end this essay by explaining the strategies you’ve subsequently developed to navigate difficult situations, and explain how you can apply these processes to future work at LBS. Note that the question about LBS study groups offers applicants a great chance to showcase their familiarity with the program and prove that they’ve done their homework, as well as demonstrate that they’ve thought through the contribution they would make and the strengths they could bring to the program. With only 300 words allotted for this essay, applicants will need to be highly efficient with their writing to ensure that they can respond to each component of the prompt.
Question 3 (300 words)
Student involvement is an extremely important part of the London Business School MBA experience and this is reflected in the character of students on campus. Please describe how you will contribute to student clubs and the community and why?
This question asks candidates to broadly discuss the clubs and events in which they would like to participate. This framing gives candidates a wide berth to discuss how their interests and experiences to date would translate to contributions on several fronts. As with any essay of this sort, it would be ideal to link the clubs and events you cite to established interests or elements of your career goals, as these will help the admissions committee readily see how you are poised to make a contribution. Taking the time to learn about the school’s special programs and extracurricular activities – whether through a visit to campus, conversation with alumni or reading the Clear Admit School Guide to London Business School – will pay dividends here.
Question 4 (300 words)
London Business School offers a truly global and diverse experience. Describe any significant experiences outside of your home country or culture. What did you gain and how will your experience contribute to London Business School?
With the prompt expanded from last year’s application, this question allows applicants the opportunity to showcase their international experience, both professionally and personally, and is designed to gauge the applicant’s ability to navigate unfamiliar terrain and resolve cross-cultural issues. In order to answer both components of this question, we suggest that applications quickly outline important experience abroad, and then focus on providing detail about the lessons and skills gained from these situations, as well as how the experiences would help the applicant benefit from and contribute to LBS. Based on the first sentence of this prompt, it will be important for applicants to show that not only can they contribute to the diversity at LBS, but also that they will thrive as a member of the diverse student body.
Please choose ONE of the following options.
Question 5a (150 words) You have decided to stand for the role of Student Association President. Announcing your campaign to the London Business School community for the first time, please describe your manifesto.
New to the LBS application, this essay question offers applicants the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge of LBS’s Student Association program, highlight the past experiences that make them suited to take on this significant leadership role, and showcase a passion for contributing to the school. Due to the 150 word limit, focusing on two or three action items will allow applicants to provide a focused and effective answer to this question. In describing your vision – by clearly explaining your plans as well as their intended impact – it’s important that you do not inadvertently suggest that the program needs “fixing” and thus potentially offend members of the LBS adcom and damage your chances of admission. To select effective topics of discussion, we encourage applicants to conduct in-depth research on the history and current role of the Student Association.
Question 5b (150 words) What is your most substantial achievement to date and why?
This is a fairly tall order for a 150 word essay, so brevity will be key here. This question leaves the door open for a wide range of examples; an applicant might discuss a major professional accomplishment or a more personal triumph. The “why?” element of the question is a reminder that the adcom is not just interested in what was done, but the reason it is a source of ongoing pride for the candidate, so when selecting a subject for this essay, its significance will be a key element to keep in mind. An example from the workplace could be a great topic if there was some important lesson learned, skill gained or impact made. Meanwhile, a more personal anecdote could be quite beneficial if a candidate has some meaningful experience that could help him or her stand out from others and demonstrate distinguishing qualities that might not be evident elsewhere in the application. One’s choice of topic here will likely depend on what has been covered elsewhere in the application up to this point.
Today’s Haas student profile comes from our friends at Beat The GMAT and Magoosh.com. Part 1 of this interview published last week.
By Hansoo Lee, co-founder of Magoosh.com
I had the great opportunity to speak with Scott Shapiro. Scott is currently a student in the fulltime MBA program at Haas. Scott is interning at Facebook during the summer of 2010.
In Part One of the interview, Scott talked about why he decided to pursue an MBA and his approach to studying for the GMAT, among other topics.
In Part Two of the interview, Scott talks about his approach to essay writing and his experience as a Haas first-year.
The following are some notes from Part Two of the interview.
What was your approach to writing your application essays?
• First step was to take a very fact-driven approach to writing essays
• Later learned that it’s more about telling a story about yourself (e.g. how you grew as a person from your experiences)
• Learned to incorporate emotional resonance in his essays
“Writing your essays is like building a house…”
• Every essay is a different room in a house. When crafting your application, you’re building a house. You don’t build a house by building a bunch of really good kitchens. You need a kitchen, a living room, a bedroom – each room should be complementary.
o Author’s note: Scott’s house analogy is fantastic!
What were your goals upon entering the Haas School of Business?
• Fill out both soft and hard skill set
• Learn from classmates who have amazing, diverse backgrounds
• Be close to and get involved with the Bay Area startup scene
What is the first semester of Haas like?
• Passed waiver exams and was able to get more freedom to take electives
• Focused on learning rather than getting good grades
• Balance is key – make time to exercise, socialize, etc
Part Three, and the final segment, of our interview will be about looking ahead. Scott will talk about his goals for the rest of his time at Haas as well as his goals upon graduation and beyond.
Although Harvard Law School released its Round 1 and 2 deadlines and essay topics quite some time ago, the school only recently announced its third and final round deadline. The Round 3 deadline is below:
Round 3
Deadline: March 31, 2011
Notification: May 5, 2011
For more information, visit the program’s website. To read the Clear Admit Essay Topic Analysis of the Harvard Business School essay topics, click here.
In a post to her director’s blog yesterday, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Admissions Director Rose Martinelli shared insights from the recent annual conference of the Forté Foundation, an organization devoted to growing the number of women business leaders by increasing female representation in educational and business networks.
The conference, which was held on June 18th and 19th in Chicago, featured an impressive roster of successful women business leaders sharing their experiences and insights on topics ranging from work/life integration to changing careers to building a supportive network.
Among the conference events Martinelli found most rewarding was a panel discussion moderated by Fortune’s Editor-at-Large Patricia Sellers in which panel participants Deborah Doyle McWhinney, president of Citi Personal Wealth Management, and Caitlin Pappas, president of Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Businesses, talked about the challenges they faced over the course of their careers and what they look for in potential hires. “Both emphasized that it’s important to be comfortable with change and to possess the ability to ask good questions,” Martinelli noted.
Chicago Booth was well represented at the recent Forté conference, Martinelli wrote. Nineteen current students attended, and seven alumnae spoke as part of scheduled conference sessions. Chicago Booth has been a founding sponsor of the Forté Foundation since 2001 as part of an effort to increase the number of women MBA students at Booth, Martinelli wrote. Booth’s sponsorship includes awarding scholarships of up to $20,000 to three or four Forté Fellows each year. In addition to scholarship aid, Forté Fellows also enjoy membership in a strong international network of other female students.
To learn more about the Forté Foundation, click here. For more on Chicago Booth’s Forté Fellows scholarships, click here.
Through changes to the curriculum designed to emphasize creativity and experimentation, Dean Richard Lyons of the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley is hoping to attract a different population to the school, according to a recent Financial Times article.
“I am hopeful we can bring a different sort of person into the pool,” Lyons told the FT. Specifically, he wants to attract candidates to Haas who can act as innovative leaders to provide critical course corrections in addressing the issues of healthcare, energy, safe water, climate change and more, he said.
“What do we want? A person who can think outside, who says there has got to be a better way to do this and I am willing to step outside the boundary,” Lyons told the FT. ““I think that is identifiable and we would like to be an attractor of these kinds of people,” he said.
According to the FT article, the Haas dean hopes to attract this different kind of applicant even if it means that the school’s ranking and/or its average GMAT score might fall.
“We cannot be silly,” he said, acknowledging that he must still manage costs, but he is ready to take some chances and experiment, he added. Finding students who are the right fit for the school’s unique culture may mean turning away some candidates who are otherwise very strong, he continued.
Even given the State of California’s serious budget constraints, Lyons is confident that Haas’s financial model is sustainable and viable, the FT reports. The school is raising its fees, its part-time MBA program is a key revenue generator and Lyons is spearheading a $300 million fundraising campaign, $120 million of which has already been pledged.
To read the full FT article about Lyons’ vision for Haas, click here.
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 Healthcare Initiative.
“The Healthcare Initiative was established in 2005 in response to rapid changes in the healthcare field. In addition to driving faculty research on the subject, the Initiative facilitates networking and recruiting for internship and full-time positions through its relationships with more than 50 healthcare organizations. Harvard’s Healthcare Club is billed one of the largest clubs on campus, and hosts an annual conference open to students and industry professionals, and two others to which alumni are invited to discuss developments in the field.
Though there is no RC [Required Curriculum] course devoted to the topic, healthcare cases are interspersed throughout the first-year curriculum. The Elective Curriculum features five elective classroom courses, field-based learning opportunities, and cross-registration opportunities with the Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government. The school also offers healthcare-related programs during January Term. These programs address specific industry topics, such as Health, Science and Business, Innovation in Consumer-Driven Healthcare, and Value-Based Healthcare Delivery. As is the case across the HBS curriculum, there is no formal major in healthcare. This is in contrast to Wharton’s longstanding Healthcare Management major, which offers students a formal, highly structured course of study throughout the two years of their MBA studies.
In addition to curricular and experiential opportunities in healthcare, Harvard also provides financial support to students interested in the field.”
To continue reading about the Healthcare Initiative at Harvard Business School, and to find out about healthcare fellowships and more, take a look at the Clear Admit School Guide to Harvard Business School.
For those who are interested in pursuing a career in healthcare and want to learn more about the different healthcare-specific programs and opportunities available at each school, check out the Clear Admit Career Guide to Healthcare.
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Echoing recent reports from individual business schools and elsewhere, U.S. News & World Report last week added to the chorus of encouraging employment news for 2010 MBA graduates. Though graduates still may not find their ideal job as quickly as they might hope, there are many more jobs to be had this year than there were for graduates last year, the magazine reports.
The U.S. News report shared individual students’ job search experiences as well as insight from careers services directors at a range of schools, all of which painted a rosier picture for newly minted MBA grads seeking employment. The news is especially welcome after the dismal hiring reports of last year.
“This time last year, I had to check to see if my phone was still plugged into the wall,” Lynne Sarikas, director of the MBA career center at Northeastern University, told U.S. News. “It didn’t ring. People weren’t looking to hire. This year, my phone is ringing,” she continued.
Still, graduates must work harder to land a job than they have in flush times and schools must work harder to help them, the U.S. News article continued. This includes students considering a wider range of positions than they might have in the past and career services offices stepping up their offerings.
At Cornell’s Johnson School of Management, career advisors worked individually with students for months beyond graduation. The effort helped 95 percent of the 2009 MBA class get hired by the end of the year, according to U.S. News. This year, Johnson will do the same but hopes the improving job market will mean that it takes less time. “Everything is trending up, but we still have work to do,” Joe Thomas, Johnson School dean told U.S. News. “We’re going to do it this year, but I just don’t think it will take as long,” he continued.
Students also need to be open to jobs outside of investment banking, where hiring continues to lag. Corporate finance positions are a better bet, career service officials told U.S. News. Marketing, consulting and supply chain management are also promising sectors.
To read the U.S. News report in its entirety, click here.
Posted by Clear Admit on June 21, 2010, at 3:00 am
Posted in: Admissions Tips
As many applicants are finding out at this time of year, conducting thorough research on MBA programs is an essential step in formulating a list of target schools and crafting convincing essays. Surfing the web and speaking with friends and mentors are great starting points in identifying programs of interest. However, to really get a feel for a school and determine whether it’s a good fit for one’s goals and personality, applicants need to dig deeper and gain some firsthand experience with the program and the people. Visiting the campus is a great way to gather this kind of information, and it can also be advantageous in the application process. Although most formal campus visit programs will not start until the fall (when classes are in session), we’d like to offer a few “head start” pointers for getting as much mileage as possible out of a trip to your target program.
1) Make yourself known. Putting forth the effort to travel to a school is a signal of interest in the program that the adcom loves to see – but you need to let them know that you’ve made the trip. It is possible to communicate this in your essays and interview, but the simplest route is often to register for a visit through the admissions office. Not only will most schools arrange for you to sit in on a class and have lunch with current students, but many will also make a note of your visit and include it in your file. Be sure to take advantage of all that the admissions office offers in this regard; even if you have friends on campus, it’s wise to speak to as many people as possible.
2) Think it through. Before arriving on campus, you should think carefully about the sort of information you hope to take away from your visit. Whether your inquiries cover something as broad as the night life or as narrow as the syllabus of a particular course, your trip will be much more informative if you come prepared with a sense of the details you hope to glean from information sessions and conversations. Further, it’s a great idea to reach out to members of the community before you arrive; if there’s a club about which you are particularly curious, for instance, you could contact one of its leaders and arrange a conversation over coffee on the day of your visit.
3) Put your best foot forward. Even though your conduct and interactions won’t be on the record in the way that they would be when interviewing on campus, it’s important that you be aware of the impression you’re making. Because spending time on campus is a great way to forge ongoing contacts with students who could become allies for you in the admissions process, you’ll naturally want to put your best foot forward.
We hope that these simple tips will set applicants on the path toward a positive and productive stay on campus. For more tailored guidance on application strategy and school selection, feel free to contact us for a free initial consultation or check out the school-specific information in the Clear Admit School Guides.
Today’s GMAT tip comes from test prep firm ManhattanGMAT. In this article, ManhattanGMAT instructor Stacey Koprince explains appositive modifiers:
A student recently asked me to write an article about a particular grammar concept: an appositive. (An appositive is a type of modifier.) Here you go: an entire article about appositives!
What is an Appositive?
An appositive is a type of modifier. It can be a single word or a phrase (a group of words). An appositive is placed next to some other word or phrase and is a synonym of or possible replacement for that other word or phrase. It usually does not include the typical introductory words for other modifiers (such as “which”). Here’s an example:
Her dog, a golden retriever, is very cute.
In this example, the core of the sentence is “her dog is very cute.” The phrase “a golden retriever” is a modifier; it is extra information that is not part of the core. In this case, it’s a noun modifier, because it’s modifying the noun “dog” and, even more specifically, it’s an appositive noun modifier because “a golden retriever” is a synonym or possible replacement for the word “dog.” For example, we could change the sentence to read:
Her golden retriever is very cute.
(Note: we can’t always simply take the appositive in the given form and substitute it straight in for the noun it modifies. This is just an example showing that we can do that sometimes.)
Most of the time, an appositive modifier is a noun modifier, though sometimes an appositive can be another type of modifier, such as a verb modifier. For example:
She attempted to neutralize, or render harmless, the heat of the boiling water she spilled on her foot.
In this example, the appositive is “or render harmless” and it is modifying the verb “neutralize.” Although this appositive is not a noun modifier, it does still follows the rules for an appositive: it modifies something else in the sentence and it is a synonym of or possible replacement for the word that it is modifying.
Essential vs. Non-Essential Appositives
Appositives (and other modifiers) can be essential to the meaning of the sentence; if you remove an essential modifier, the meaning of the sentence may become ambiguous or may actually change. Appositives (and other modifiers) can also be non-essential to the meaning of the sentence; they represent extra information that, if removed, would not change the fundamental meaning of the core of the sentence. Non-essential appositives must be set off from the rest of the sentence by some form of punctuation: commas, dashes, or a colon. Essential appositives are not set off from the rest of the sentence by commas.
For example, this excerpt from Sentence Correction problem number 110 from The Official Guide for GMAT Review 11th Edition (OG11) shows a non-essential appositive in an incorrect answer choice:
“In June of 1987, The Bridge of Trinquetaille, Vincent van Gogh’s view of an iron bridge over the Rhone sold for $20.2 million…”
The phrase “Vincent van Gogh’s view of an iron bridge over the Rhone” is an appositive; the words are a non-essential description of the painting The Bridge of Trinquetaille. (If we removed the words, we would not affect the meaning of the core sentence.) In the above incorrect example, there is a comma just before the non-essential appositive starts, but there is no comma at the end of the appositive. The correct answer, also found in OG11, fixes this error:
“In June of 1987, The Bridge of Trinquetaille, Vincent van Gogh’s view of an iron bridge over the Rhone, was sold for $20.2 million…”
Placement of an Appositive
In the examples we have seen so far, the appositive is placed immediately after the word it is modifying. This is not, however, the only way in which an appositive can be placed.
First, it is possible for an appositive to be placed before the word or phrase that it modifies. For example, this excerpt from Sentence Correction problem number 72 from The Official Guide for GMAT Review 11th Edition (OG11) shows an appositive placed before the word that it modifies:
“Architects and stonemasons, the Maya built…”
“Architects and stonemasons” represents a non-essential appositive, modifying the noun “Maya.” It is correctly set off from the main clause by a comma.
It is also possible for an appositive to modify an entire preceding noun phrase, rather than only the specific noun that it touches directly. For example, this excerpt from Sentence Correction problem number 113 from The Official Guide for Verbal Review 2nd Edition (VR2, p. 267) shows the problematic placement of a prepositional phrase modifier (not an appositive):
“In A.D. 391, resulting from the destruction of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria, …”
According to the explanation for this problem, found on page 322 of VR2:
“The largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria is both cumbersome and ambiguous because it suggests that the ancient world was located at (and only at) Alexandria.”
In other words, this noun modifier in the form of the prepositional phrase “at Alexandria” refers only to the noun “world,” immediately preceding the modifier. The correct answer, found on page 267 of VR2, rephrases this part of the sentence:
“In A.D. 391, as a result of the destruction of the library at Alexandria, the largest of the ancient world, …”
The noun modifier “the largest of the ancient world” is now in the form of an appositive. Logically, of course, it should refer to the noun “library,” but that noun is not the noun immediately preceding the appositive. Rather, the noun “Alexandria” immediately precedes the appositive. The VR2 explanation for this problem goes on to say that this placement is acceptable:
“This problem is best corrected by breaking the series of phrases into two distinct parts: the library at Alexandria, the largest of the ancient world. Here, the second phrase clearly modifies the first.”
In other words, the second phrase, the appositive, is allowed to modify the entire first phrase. It does not have to modify only the immediately preceding noun.
Take-aways
What to remember for appositives:
(1) The definition: An appositive is a modifier; it is placed next to some other word or phrase, and it is a synonym of or possible replacement for that other word or phrase.
(2) Most of the time, appositives are used as noun modifiers and contain nouns themselves, but they can also be adverbial modifiers.
(3) Non-essential appositives must be set off from the core of the sentence by punctuation marks; essential appositives are not set off from the rest of the sentence by punctuation marks.
(4) Appositives can be placed before or after the word or phrase they modify, and they can modify an entire phrase rather than just a single word.
Copyright note: the text excerpted above from The Official Guide for GMAT Review 11th Edition and The Official Guide for Verbal Review 2nd Edition is copyright GMAC (the Graduate Management Admissions Council). The short excerpts are quoted under fair-use statutes for scholarly or journalistic work; use of these excerpts does not imply endorsement of this article by GMAC.
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Switzerland’s IMD Business School earlier this week announced the winners of its annual MBA Global Literacy Competition, a series of rigorous quizzes in which students are called upon to demonstrate their knowledge of worldwide politics, history and culture. Many of the winners credit the class diversity of IMD’s MBA program – some 40 nationalities are represented among 90 students – for helping them develop a more global mindset.
“I am absolutely fascinated with how things in the world are changing and why they are changing,” competition winner Cody Taylor said in a statement. Taylor, an American and former U.S. State Department diplomat, added that she benefits from the collective knowledge of her MBA classmates.
Among the questions posed to contestants were
• What is the title of the early 11th century work by Lady MURASAKI Shikibu reckoned to be one of the greatest literary achievements of all time, and • What is the population of Cameroon and roughly how many ethnic and linguistic groups does it include*?
This year’s winners – which include first through fifth place and five runners-up – each will receive a year-long subscription to the Business Standard, India’s leading business newspaper, as well as a selection of books focused on globalization.
The varying nationalities of the contest’s top performers are a testament to IMD’s class diversity. Students holding this year’s top five positions were American, Colombian/American, British/Malaysian, Cameroonian and Romanian.
Professor Jean-Pierre Lehmann, who helps facilitate the competition, encouraged participants to pursue a deeper global literacy throughout their careers by embracing the Socratic method of dialogue. “It is better to have questions than it is to have answers,” he said. “In the quest for knowledge about the world, the listening part is especially important.”
To learn more about the IMD MBA Global Literacy Competition, click here.
*Answers: a) Tale of Genji and b) an estimated 18.5 million with over 200 ethnic groups
And that completes this week’s peek in the lives of MBA bloggers. We hope that we continue to hear about students’ internship experiences, and that aspirants keep on checking in and sharing their progress and concerns with their readership. Until next week, have a great weekend!
I had the great opportunity to speak with Scott Shapiro. Scott is currently a student in the fulltime MBA program at Haas. Scott is interning at Facebook during the summer of 2010. In this three-part series, Scott will talk about his approach to applying to business school, his experience at business school thus far, and his goals for upon graduation.
I believe that hearing successful applicants’ stories is one of the best ways to get tips on how to go about your own application process. I hope that Scott’s story does just that!
The following are notes from Part One of the interview.
What’s your background?
• Undergraduate degree from UC San Diego, Computer Science major
• Prior to business school, worked at Momentum Venture Management
Why did you decide to pursue an MBA?
• Wanted a formal management education to fill in his skill gaps
• Wanted to immerse himself into the Silicon Valley/Bay Area venture capital and startup ecosystem
o Author’s note: Scott thought long and hard about WHY he wanted to go to business school.
How did you choose the schools to which you applied?
• Wanted to apply to schools that were strong in entrepreneurship and technology
• Applied to Haas, Harvard, Wharton, UCLA, and Stanford
When did you start thinking about an MBA?
• Started thinking about an MBA in college
• Started studying for the GMAT in September 2008 for entry into school in August 2009
o Author’s Note: Both Scott and I recommend starting your GMAT studying and application process earlier than he did!
What was your approach to studying for the GMAT?
• Scott’s initial approach was to do as many as practice problems as possible
• Took the GMAT in October 2008 and didn’t do well
• Learned to take the time to internalize the underlying concepts from each practice question
• Learned that quality of practice problems is more important than quantity
• Overcame a broken finger that prevented him from studying for several weeks
• Took the GMAT in December 2008 and did well
I applaud Scott for overcoming his injury and persevering to find the right GMAT prep approach for him. Scott learned through his early mistakes and eventually ended up at a great business school!
In part two of our interview, Scott will talk about his approach to writing his essays and his experience at Haas thus far.
Welcome to the latest installment of Twitter Thursdays, our weekly roundup of the news and events reported by top MBA programs on Twitter. In addition to reading our weekly posts, make sure to also check out the list of MBA programs we follow – there, you’ll have full access to the various updates tweeted by MBA programs, deans and admissions directors. Additionally, follow Clear Admit on Twitter for further MBA-related news, chances to enter trivia contests and access to breaking business school news!
The Wharton School welcomed first-year Executive MBA students to its campuses in San Francisco and Philadelphia, and also offered some information on the new Hindi track associated with the school’s Lauder Program. Duke Fuqua offered advice for individuals preparing to enter the full-time MBA program, while Assistant Dean of UCLA / Anderson’s MBA Admissions and Financial Aid Mae Jennifer Shores reminded applicants that the way in which an MBA applicant interacts with an adcom can be an indication of how he or she will interact with recruiters in the future. Additionally, Dean of the Haas School of Business Rich Lyons shared his views on where graduate management education is headed.
Clear Admit admissions counselors gathered for a panel in which Dawna Clarke, admissions director at the Tuck School, served as a presenter. Yale SOM conducted a webinar focused on opportunities and risks in sustainability. The Tepper Adcom noted that this upcoming Monday is the first official day of summer, and encouraged prospective applicants to make the most of the summer months by beginning the process of researching their target programs. Cambridge Judge is currently hosting its Grand Reunion Weekend, while the MBA Admissions Coordinator at the school reminded prospective applicants that the program’s deadlines for the upcoming admissions season are now available. Dean of Darden School of Business Bob Bruner learned a bit about how information technology is changing the reach and branding of various firms.
Thanks for tuning into this week’s Twitter Thursdays! If you’re on Twitter or want to suggest someone else to follow, let us know; e-mail wiki@clearadmit.com with your user name and status as an MBA applicant, student or admissions officer so we can add you to the appropriate Twitter list. Happy tweeting – make sure to check in next week for additional updates!
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