Posted by Clear Admit on September 26, 2011, at 1:00 pm
Posted in:  MBA News , Rankings , School: Berkeley / Haas , School: Cornell / Johnson , School: IE , School: Michigan / Ross , School: Northwestern / Kellogg , School: Stanford , School: UNC / Kenan Flagler , School: Yale Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) last week reclaimed the number one spot in the Aspen Institute’s biennial Beyond Grey Pinstripes rankings, an alternative ranking that compares business schools according to how well they teach MBA students to look at the social, environmental and ethical impacts of business decisions. This year’s rankings were released on September 21st.
“In all scoring categories used to determine the ranking, business schools have raised the bar,” Judith Samuelson, executive director of the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program, which conducted Beyond Grey Pinstripes, said in a statement. She noted that there are more courses than ever before featuring content on social, ethical and environmental issues, more courses about the role of business as a positive agent for change and more research published by faculty on relevant topics. » Continue reading
Clear Admit co-founder Graham Richmond will deliver a presentation on finding the MBA program to best fit your individual goals as part of the upcoming GMATCH Virtual MBA Fair, scheduled for September 19th and 20th.
In his session, Richmond will focus on how prospective applicants should develop an appropriate list of target MBA programs as they begin their application process. The session will help participants sort through the avalanche of information they receive about the “best” business schools – from rankings and books to forums and Facebook – to determine which programs are really best suited to them. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on September 13, 2011, at 1:00 pm
Posted in: MBA News , School: Berkeley / Haas The Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley this fall will offer a range of new courses designed to advance forward-thinking approaches to management while also giving students hands-on opportunities to apply their new skills, the school announced this week. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on August 29, 2011, at 3:00 am
Posted in: Admissions Tips , School: Berkeley / Haas , School: Chicago , School: Columbia , School: Dartmouth / Tuck , School: Duke / Fuqua , School: Harvard , School: IESE , School: IMD , School: INSEAD , School: London Business School , School: Michigan / Ross , School: NYU Stern , School: Penn / Wharton , School: Stanford , School: UCLA / Anderson , School: UNC / Kenan Flagler , School: Virginia / Darden , School: Yale For all those applicants who have recently opened a calendar to plot out the next few months only to realize they can’t possibly fit in campus visits on top of full time jobs and essay writing, never fear! It’s true that traveling to a school’s campus is the ideal way to learn about their MBA program, but visiting is often not a viable option for applicants who are located remotely or unsure of their level of interest in a given school. The good news is that business schools might very well come to them. Many b-schools are getting ready to hit the road and embark on worldwide tours to dispense information and recruit qualified applicants. Such events offer a great opportunity for interested students to meet with admissions staff (and sometimes with current students and/or alumni), learn about the program and ask specific questions.
Some of the top schools are already on the road, so we recommend looking into the travel schedules for programs of interest and planning accordingly. Keeping in mind that these schedules are updated and amended throughout the fall, here are some of the top programs’ itineraries for the months ahead:
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Posted by Clear Admit on August 24, 2011, at 1:00 pm
Posted in: MBA News , School: Berkeley / Haas Twitter co-founder Biz Stone will serve as the fourth executive fellow of the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, the school announced earlier this month. Stone kicked off his appointment with a keynote to incoming full-time Haas MBA students at MBA orientation on August 16th.
“I’m thrilled to be invited to be a part of Haas in this way,” Stone said in a statement announcing the appointment. “Haas students are enthusiastic about new ideas and bring such a variety of experiences and perspectives that it’s an inspiration every time we interact.” » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on August 18, 2011, at 1:00 pm
Posted in: MBA News , School: Berkeley / Haas Thanks to a generous alumni gift, the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley will launch a new initiative to explore complementing its classroom learning with online approaches, the school announced this week.
The $1 million gift, from Steve and Susan Chamberlin, MBA ’87, will be made in the form of matching funds to be shared with Berkeley-Haas, the Graduate School of Education, the College of Engineering, the School of Information, the School of Public Health and UC Berkeley Extension in piloting online education initiatives. Together, the six schools have formed a consortium to share knowledge and develop programs most efficiently. As part of a joint effort, each school and the consortium as a whole will work to raise the matching funds to support these initiatives. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on August 16, 2011, at 3:00 am
Posted in: School Guides , School: Berkeley / Haas , Trivia Tuesday It’s Tuesday and time again for our weekly in-depth look at the specific programs which differentiate the leading MBA programs from their peers. This week we’re taking a peak into the Clear Admit School Guide to Berkeley / Haas to get a better understanding of its International Business Development course.
“International Business Development (IBD) is one of the most popular electives at Haas. Limited to an enrollment of 120 students per year, the course sends small teams of students to consult at client sites around the world for three weeks each summer. The program is open only to rising second-year students, who must apply during Spring Semester of their first year.
“Students selected for participation in IBD are assigned to project teams in January of the first year and work with their teams in the spring semester to conduct background research and analysis. Following the end of first-year classes in mid-May, each team spends a dedicated three-week period on-site with the client, completing such projects as preparing business plans, conducting market analyses, developing marketing or entry strategies and recommending operational changes. The sponsor organizations are largely regional companies, government agencies and non-profits, including the Wildlife Conservation Society, the Rapa Nui Heritage Foundation, Andean Health and Development, the Government of Macedonia and Vietnam National University. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on August 12, 2011, at 1:00 pm
Posted in: Admissions Tips , Essay Topic Analysis , Events , School: Berkeley / Haas , School: Chicago , School: Columbia , School: Dartmouth / Tuck , School: Harvard , School: MIT / Sloan , School: Northwestern / Kellogg , School: Penn / Wharton , School: Stanford 
Clear Admit and Beat The GMAT (BTG) are working together to provide prospective applicants with detailed analysis of the essay questions from nine of the top business school programs as part of BTG’s 2011 “Write Like an Expert” series. The free series of online events debuts next Tuesday and Wednesday and will feature Clear Admit senior admissions counselors providing a full breakdown of the current essay questions from Harvard Business School and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
BTG tapped Clear Admit’s Stacey Oyler, a former admissions officer at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Management, and Deena Maerowitz, a former Columbia Business School admissions officer, to provide analysis of the essays for those schools last year as part of the series. This year, BTG has decided to partner exclusively with Clear Admit for all nine of the schools featured in the series.
Clear Admit’s Oyler, Maerowitz, and Graham Richmond, all former admissions officers, will be guests on the BTG site for the online events. Each event will include a full examination of one featured school’s essay questions followed by a Q&A session with participants.
There will be nine events in total, roughly two per week over the course of the next five weeks. Featured schools include Harvard, Wharton, Columbia, Berkeley Haas, Tuck, Stanford, Chicago Booth, Kellogg and MIT Sloan. For the complete “Write Like an Expert” series schedule and to reserve your spot, click here.
Don’t miss this free opportunity to hear strategic recommendations from former admissions officers on how best to approach the essay questions at your target top-tier MBA programs.
Since the credit crisis, international students have faced harder times obtaining student loans for graduate management education. In response, three INSEAD alumni have established an innovative community education bond that calls on business school alumni to invest in their successors, the Financial Times reports.
Founded by INSEAD alumni Cameron Stevens, Ryan Steele and Miha Zerko, Prodigy Finance is a standalone organization providing an alternative for financing to the credit unions and other solutions some schools have turned to for their overseas students. Prodigy’s lending model is based around persuading INSEAD alumni to invest in their successors by putting money into the community education bond. Based on a predictive approach that takes into account students’ potential earnings, the model helps reduce risks to investors.
Investors get a good rate of return, and the system works because students don’t want to default on loans that have originated with alumni, Stevens told the FT. “We outperform fixed deposits and the FTSE,” Stevens said, noting that investors get the base rate of return plus 4 per cent. » Continue reading
We are pleased to announce the release of the 2011-2012 Clear Admit School Guides to Anderson, Fuqua, Haas, MIT Sloan, NYU Stern, Tuck and Yale SOM! As previously announced earlier this month, the updated versions of the Clear Admit School Guides to Chicago Booth, Columbia, Harvard, Kellogg, Ross, Stanford and Wharton also available for immediate download in our shop.
All of the 2011-2012 editions feature the most current information from the programs, including the latest admissions guidelines, class demographics and placement statistics, and offer insight into year-over-year trends. This year, our guides include more student quotes, new content about school-specific special programs, exclusive Q&As with admissions directors and career services directors, and Clear Admit’s analysis of essay topics.
Applauded by admissions officers and applicants alike, the Clear Admit School Guides are informative and detailed profiles of leading business schools that combine the views of faculty, students, alumni and the popular press. Our guides are available for immediate download in PDF format to help you meet your tight time constraints.
The Clear Admit School Guides will help you to:
- Become an expert on your target schools overnight
- Use your newfound expertise to craft essays that stand out in the admissions process
- Compare schools head-to-head using objective data that goes beyond published rankings and school-published marketing materials
- Prepare for your admissions interviews by knowing your target schools inside and out
- Make an informed decision about where to enroll
2011-2012 versions of the remaining School Guide titles and new titles for international MBA programs are slated for release later this summer, so stay tuned for more details!
To purchase the updated and improved Clear Admit School Guides, visit the Clear Admit Shop.
Posted by Clear Admit on July 19, 2011, at 1:00 pm
Posted in: Financial Aid , MBA News , School: Berkeley / Haas A trustee of the University of California at Berkeley has given $1 million to the Haas School of Business to establish a new scholarship fund for international MBA students, primarily those from Asia, the school announced this week.
The gift, from Dato’ Sri Dr. Tahir, will establish the Tahir Fellowship Endowment Fund, which the school hopes will help attract even more international students to its fulltime MBA program. The new fund will help offset any difficulties international students may have encountered since lenders began requiring co-signers for international student loans in 2008. (Haas did work in response to secure partnerships that would provide loans without co-signers, but these programs do not provide full funding.) » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on July 11, 2011, at 3:00 am
Posted in: Admissions Tips , School: Berkeley / Haas , School: Chicago , School: Dartmouth / Tuck , School: Harvard , School: London Business School , School: Penn / Wharton , School: Stanford , School: UCLA / Anderson As the summer progresses and applicants begin researching their target schools in more depth, we would like to highlight a valuable research tool: school-hosted blogs. The last few years have seen a significant increase in the number of MBA student blogs hosted by schools’ admissions offices, as well as in admissions offices’ use of blogs to keep applicants informed of deadlines, admissions policies and events. Both types of blogs are useful throughout the admissions cycle; the factual information in the admissions office blogs is helpful in understanding and planning for the application process, while the student blogs offer valuable insights into student life, culture and academics.
Below we’ve provided links to some of the active blogs hosted by the leading MBA programs. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on July 7, 2011, at 4:00 pm
Posted in: Essay Topic Analysis , School: Berkeley / Haas Describe a time when you led by inspiring or motivating others toward a shared goal. (250 words)
While the wording of this prompt is new for this season, the Haas application has included an essay focused on leadership for several years running. With an impressive story to tell within a tight word limit, effective responses will provide a clear outline of the process by which the applicant inspired or motivated others, as well as a description of the positive result. It would be ideal to provide a solid professional example here, but an example from an extracurricular activity would suffice as well if you have made a more significant impact on an outside organization than you have in the workplace. To an extent, your topic choice may depend on how you’ve answered the earlier questions (since you’ll want to achieve balance across the essays).
To read our analysis of all of Haas’s essay questions, click here.
Posted by Clear Admit on June 9, 2011, at 10:07 am
Posted in: Essay Topic Analysis , School: Berkeley / Haas Haas has made some notable changes to its essay set for the coming admissions season. First, the program has promoted the introduction to last year’s third essay, making it into a preamble for the entire set of prompts:
At Berkeley-Haas, our distinctive culture is defined by four key principles — question the status quo; confidence without attitude; students always; and beyond yourself. We seek candidates from a broad range of cultures, backgrounds, and industries who demonstrate a strong cultural fit with our program and defining principles. Please use the following essays as an opportunity to reflect on and share with us the values, experiences, and accomplishments that have helped shape who you are.
Applicants would therefore do well to select examples and respond to each of the program’s required essays in a way that, in aggregate, touches upon these four principles. » Continue reading
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