Clear Admit co-founder Graham Richmond shared advice for prospective MBA applicants planning visits to business school campuses as part of an article this week in Bloomberg BusinessWeek.
The article, entitled “Making the Most of the Campus Visit,” highlighted some of the most important things prospective applicants should plan during a visit, including talking to students, getting to know the faculty and learning more about the school’s career management offerings.
Richmond, who worked in admissions at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School before co-founding Clear Admit, advised prospective applicants to always be courteous during campus visits. While at Wharton, he would open applications to find notes about rude or demanding applicants, he told Bloomberg BW.
Be polite, he advised, but don’t settle for just the school’s official version of the MBA program. Plan your visit to include opportunities to investigate the program, its students and faculty, career management offerings, resources for families and partners and the broader campus for yourself.
For example, get to know students by networking with former colleagues who are now part of the MBA program, Richmond suggested. Or, to get a fuller understanding of the faculty, try to schedule a meeting with a professor who conducts research in your target field. “Ask for a sit-down,” he told Bloomberg BW. “It gives you a measure of how accessible the professors are.”
For the full Bloomberg BW article on how to make the most of your visit to business school campuses, click here.
