Posted by Clear Admit on July 31, 2010, at 9:00 am
Posted in:  GMAT - Quantitative , GMAT Tips Today’s GMAT tip comes from Kaplan. In this article, Kaplan GMAT instructor Bret Ruber offers advice on how to use prime factorization as a time saver:
1,960 = 49 x 16 x y. What is the value of y?
When most testtakers encounter problems such as the one above, they have a predictable, yet incorrect, reaction. Most people fret when faced with large numbers that would take more than two minutes to deal with. But this reaction is the exact opposite of the reaction you should have when faced with a large number.
Posted by Clear Admit on July 30, 2010, at 1:00 pm
Posted in: School: Yale Last month, Yale School of Management (SOM) hosted its second Pre-MBA Leadership Program, a two-week program for college juniors and seniors and recent graduates from under-represented minority populations. Designed to help students network and develop leadership skills, the program also introduces prospective applicants to SOM’s full-time MBA curriculum.
During the program, students take condensed versions of several of SOM’s core courses, including operations, microeconomics and accounting. These provide students with an opportunity to apply the principles of these different disciplines on a small scale through hands-on activities. For example, in an operations management class led by Professor Arthur Swersey, students design an assembly line to put together toy sailboats.
Posted by Clear Admit on July 30, 2010, at 3:00 am
Posted in: Fridays from the Frontline Hello and welcome to another installment of Fridays From the Frontline. Clear Admit has been vigilant in its perusal of the MBA blogosphere this week and can see that the dwindling summer days have lit a fire under aspirants and current students alike. Though August remains high on the horizon, many bloggers’ attentions were focused on different matters this week. Ellipser studied for the GMAT and drafted his Tuck essays while sitting on an upper west side pier. MBAYogi read an interesting article about the movie Inception in the New Yorker. Miles to MBA attended an information session for ISB and planned to apply to the school in round 2. A. enjoyed his vacation but went back to work on his applications, promising himself he wouldn’t work on his essays while at work.
Posted by Clear Admit on July 29, 2010, at 4:12 pm
Posted in: Deadlines , School: CMU / Tepper The Carnegie Mellon / Tepper deadlines for the 2010-2011 admissions season have just been released. The five deadlines are below:
Round 1 Deadline: October 25, 2010 Notification: December 20, 2010
Round 2 Deadline: January 3, 2011 Notification: March 14, 2011
Round 3 Deadline: March 7, 2011 Notification: April 29, 2011
Round 4 Deadline: April 25, 2011 Notification: May 27, 2011
Round 5 Deadline: June 1, 2011 Notification: Rolling
Applicants should note that the Round 4 deadline is reserved for U.S. citizens and permanent residents; international applicants must apply by the Round 3 deadline. The Round 5 deadline is exclusively for FlexTime and FlexMode candidates.
For more information, be sure to visit the school’s website.
Posted by Clear Admit on July 29, 2010, at 1:00 pm
Posted in: MBA News , School: Chicago The admissions staff at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business yesterday announced the launch of the “Booth Insider,” a new admissions blog where prospective applicants can get all the latest news about the school and its admissions process.
The new blog replaces outgoing Dean of Admissions Rose Martinelli’s “Rose Report.” Martinelli announced earlier this week that she will be leaving her post as admissions director to assume a new role as assistant vice president of enrollment management for the University of Chicago. Kurt Ahlm, a senior member of the admissions team under Martinelli, will serve as Chicago Booth’s new dean of admissions.
Posted by Clear Admit on July 29, 2010, at 3:00 am
Posted in: Essay Topic Analysis , School: Dartmouth / Tuck Tuck’s essay topics for the coming admissions season maintain the same themes from previous years, suggesting an enduring focus on teamwork, leadership and applicants’ unique characteristics. While essays 1 and 4 remain the same, essay 2 on leadership has undergone slight revision, and last year’s essay 3 on constructive criticism has been replaced with one on overcoming a challenging experience.
Like last year, the admissions committee does not specify a word or page limit for its essays. They have hinted, though, that most candidates find 500 words sufficient for each of their responses, so straying far from that number might not be advisable. They also state that all essays should be double-spaced.
Essay 1: Why is an MBA a critical next step toward your short- and long-term career goals? Why is Tuck the best MBA program for you? (If you are applying for a joint or dual degree, please explain how the additional degree will contribute to those goals.) This is a rather straightforward career goals essay. The one way that it differs from those of most other schools is that rather than simply inquiring about the basis of an applicant’s interest in the program, Tuck wants to hear the reasons it might be the best of the candidate’s options. Navigating this issue will require a fair amount of research, as it will be important to identify some features that are truly unique to Tuck and very relevant to one’s goals, background and/or interests. This prompt also makes it essential that applicants define their career goals as specifically as possible in order to clearly demonstrate the logical connection between their own interests and goals and the main objectives of Tuck’s program.
As is the case with most schools, demonstrating an understanding of the unique merits of Tuck’s program is crucial to an effective response to this question. Taking the time to learn about the school’s curriculum, special programs and extracurricular activities – whether through a visit to campus, conversation with alumni or reading the Clear Admit School Guide to Tuck – will pay dividends here.
Essay 2: Discuss your most meaningful leadership experience. What did you learn about your own individual strengths and weaknesses through this experience? In responding to this question, applicants will need to maintain a balance between the individual and external. In order to respond to the first part of the prompt, applicants will need to clearly outline the experience, explaining how they led by inspiring others as well as how their efforts affected others and the organization’s bottom line. In responding to the second part of the prompt, these descriptions will need to be balanced with more reflective observations about the applicant’s own thought process and, in the end, personal development. While it’s necessary that you discuss your weaknesses as well as your strengths, we encourage all applicants to maintain a . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on July 29, 2010, at 2:30 am
Posted in: Twitter Thursdays Welcome to the latest edition of Twitter Thursdays, our weekly recap of the announcements and news reported on Twitter by representatives from leading MBA programs. For additional MBA-related announcements and updates, make sure to follow Clear Admit on Twitter. Not only will you stay informed of breaking business school news, but you’ll also have the chance to enter trivia contests and win prizes. As an added bonus, you can view the list of MBA programs we follow – there you’ll find various updates tweeted by MBA programs, deans and admissions directors.
There’s been quite a bit of Twitter traffic during the past week. In breaking news, the Booth Insider revealed that Sunil Kumar has been named the new Dean at Chicago Booth. Stanford GSB provided a number of updates regarding international information sessions. The Dean of the Darden School, Bob Bruner, directed readers to Washington Post video compiled by Darden Media, as well as to a number of admissions blog post. MIT / Sloan highlighted an impressive accomplishment – OpenCourseWare has reached the 2,000 course milestone. The Wharton School noted that it was recently cited by SmartPlanet as one of six schools in the nation with a notable focus on sustainability.
Over at Berkeley, the Dean of the Haas School of Business, Rich Lyons, announced the launch of a new website that provides visitors with a space for sharing culture-relevant stories about the program. The Johnson School highlighted an opportunity for individuals interested in learning more about sustainable enterprise in the developing world. Meanwhile, Yale SOM students offered their thoughts on the program’s academic and community opportunities. Jim Dean, the Dean of UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, was on vacation during the past week – but Kenan-Flagler remained constantly on his mind. Finally, Assistant Dean of UCLA Anderson MBA Admissions & Financial Aid Mae Jennifer Shores offered advice to high school students who foresee an MBA in the future.
This concludes today’s Twitter Thursdays – thanks for tuning in. If you’re on Twitter please let us know! Simply email wiki@clearadmit.com with your username and status as an MBA applicant, student or admissions officer, and we will add you to the appropriate Twitter list. Happy tweeting and make sure to stop by next week!
Posted by Clear Admit on July 28, 2010, at 8:00 pm
Posted in: GMAT - Quantitative , GMAT Tips 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
The smallest prime factor of 899 is x. Which of the following is true of x?
(A) 1 < x ≤ 7
(B) 7 < x ≤ 14
(C) 14 < x ≤ 21
(D) 21 < x ≤ 28
(E) 28 < x ≤ 35
Solution
One path to the solution involves brute force. We can test primes in order of size, applying divisibility rules that we know for small numbers, such as 3. However, all the simple rules fail. This method may wind up being the quickest way, but it is laborious.
The shortcut in this problem involves wishful thinking. 899 is awfully close to a nice number: 900. The reason 900 is so nice is that it is a square: 302 = 900. (By the way, since we know from the wording of the problem that 899 has a prime factor less than itself, at least one of the prime factors must be below the square root of 899, and at least one prime factor must be larger than the square root of 899. This square root is just under 30. This is another reason why we might think of the nearby perfect square, 900.)
So we can write 899 = 900 – 1 = 302 – 1.
Now, ideally we would notice that we can take one step further and rewrite 302 – 1 as 302 – 12, since 1 = 12. Why would we do this? Because now we have written 899 as a difference of squares, which we should know how to factor:
899 = 900 – 1 = 302 – 1 = 302 – 12 = (30 + 1)(30 – 1) = 31 × 29.
Both 31 and 29 are prime numbers. The smallest prime factor of 899, therefore, is 29.
The correct answer is E.
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Posted by Clear Admit on July 28, 2010, at 4:17 pm
Posted in: Events , School: Chicago Chicago Booth announced today that Sunil Kumar, Fred H. Merrill Professor of Operations, Information and Technology and an expert in operations research at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, will serve as the new dean of the program. Kumar will take the place of Edward A. Snyder, who served as dean of the program for nine years. Snyder stepped down from his post on June 30, 2010.
Kumar, who was born in India, received his Master of Engineering degree in computer science and automation from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. He also possesses a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Mangalore University in Surathkal. After receiving his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996, Kumar joined Stanford, where he has served as a faculty member ever since.
Kumar expressed a great deal of enthusiasm for his new post, stating, “I am excited to become dean of Chicago Booth. I share the school’s passion for the pursuit of ideas that hold up under careful scrutiny. I look forward to helping strengthen and enhance Booth’s outstanding research environment and its rigorous, discipline-based approach to business education. I am eager to get to know the faculty, students, alumni, and staff of the school, and to engage with the business community in the city of Chicago.”
For more information on Kumar’s background and his objectives as dean of Chicago Booth, make sure to check out Booth’s press release announcing his appointment.
Posted by Clear Admit on July 28, 2010, at 1:00 pm
Posted in: MBA News , School: Northwestern / Kellogg A generous family gift to the Kellogg School of Management will create a new chaired professorship in marketing, the school announced earlier this week.
The donation will establish the Bernice and Leonard H. Lavin Professorship, founded through a generous gift from the Lavin family, co-founders of the Alberto Culver Company, which they built into a $1.5 billion enterprise. Kent Grayson, a member of the Kellogg marketing department since 2002, will hold the newly created chair position, the school’s first since 2007.
Grayson, who teaches Kellogg’s core marketing course and researches the role of fact and fabrication in the marketplace, was deeply honored by the appointment. “It’s not only an amazing honor to be asked to hold a chair on the Kellogg faculty, but it’s an immense pleasure to be asked to hold a chair named for someone who literally and truly invented many of the things I talk about in the classroom,” he said in a statement. “Mr. Lavin was one of the first people to launch and run a national sales company, and his products often represented innovations in marketing.”
Bernice Lavin, for her part, helped advance the organization’s missions in healthcare, women and family services. And Bernice and Leonard’s daughter, Carol Lavin Bernick, has long supported the Kellogg School, including serving as a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board.
“While the Lavin Chair is a family gift, both our family and the Alberto Culver Company believe in the teaching and the outstanding research of the Kellogg School,” she said. “We hope this gift can help further its legacy of producing world-class business leaders,” said added.
Last week, the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University also announced the creation of a new chaired professorship thanks to a generous gift to the school. The resurgence of such gifts is a welcome development at top business schools, perhaps signaling that philanthropic giving has entered a period of recovery following a considerable slowdown as the result of the global economic crisis.
Posted by Clear Admit on July 28, 2010, at 3:00 am
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Posted by Clear Admit on July 27, 2010, at 4:58 pm
Posted in: Deadlines , Essay Topics , School: NYU Stern NYU / Stern has just released its deadlines and essay topics for the upcoming admissions season. The deadlines are as follows:
1st Deadline: November 15, 2010 Notification: February 15, 2010
2nd Deadline: January 15, 2011 Notification: April 1, 2011
3rd Deadline: March 15, 2011 Notification: June 1, 2011
The essays, unchanged from last year, are as follows:
Essay 1: Professional Aspirations (750 word maximum, double-spaced, 12-point font) Think about the decisions you have made in your life. Answer the following:
(a) What choices have you made that led you to your current position? (b) Why pursue an MBA at this point in your life? (c) What is your career goal upon graduation from NYU Stern? What is your long-term career goal?
Essay 2: Your Stern Experience (500 word maximum, double-spaced, 12-point font) We take great care to shape the Stern community with individuals who possess both intellectual and interpersonal strengths. We seek individuals who are highly intelligent, collaborative and committed to flourishing as Stern leaders. Please answer the following questions:
(a) What is your personal experience with the Stern community? Tell us what actions you have taken to learn about us. (b) Describe what most excites you about Stern from both an academic and extracurricular perspective. (c) How do you anticipate making your mark on the Stern community? Be specific about the roles you will take on and the impact you hope to achieve. Essay 3: Personal Expression Please describe yourself to your MBA classmates. You may use almost any method to convey your message (e.g. words, illustrations). Feel free to be creative.
If you will submit Essay 3 via mail or by providing an online link, please provide a brief description of your submission and its relevance to your MBA application. Please note the following guidelines and restrictions: Your submission becomes the property of NYU Stern and cannot be returned for any reason. If you submit a written essay, it should be 500 words maximum, double-spaced, 12-point font. If you have a multimedia submission, you may: (a) Mail a CD, DVD or USB flash drive. (b) Include an online link in your submission description. The Admissions Committee reserves the right to request an alternate Essay 3 if we are unable to view your submission. Do not submit anything perishable (e.g. food).
For more information, be sure to visit the school’s website.
Posted by Clear Admit on July 27, 2010, at 1:00 pm
Posted in: School: Penn / Wharton The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania announced yesterday that registration is now open for Explore Wharton: Diversity in Action, a two-day event for prospective applicants from under represented backgrounds to visit campus and learn more about the admissions process.
The event, which will take place on September 16th and 17th, is hosted by the African American MBA Association (AAMBAA), the Wharton Hispanic American MBA Association (WHAMBAA), Wharton’s Out for Business (Out4Biz) and the MBA Admissions and Financial Aid Office.
Participating prospective applicants will have an opportunity to tour the Wharton campus, attend classes, ask questions about the admissions process and learn more about specific opportunities for LGBT and under-represented people of color within the Wharton MBA community.
Advance registration is required. To register, click here. For more information about the event, directions or places to stay, click here.
Posted by Clear Admit on July 27, 2010, at 11:46 am
Posted in: Essay Topics , School: Cambridge After releasing its deadlines earlier this summer, Cambridge/Judge has now posted its essay topics for this year’s admissions season. They are as follows:
Essay 1 What are the key issues facing organizations in your sector over the next three years? What course of action would you recommend to such organizations? (300 words)
Essay 2 What did you learn from your most spectacular failure? (200 words)
Essay 3 What are your short and long term career objectives? What skills/characteristics do you already have that will help you to achieve them? What do you hope to gain from the degree and how do you feel it will help you achieve the career objectives you have? (please do not exceed 500 words)
For further information, be sure to visit the school’s website.
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