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Posted by Clear Admit on August 30, 2010, at 3:00 am
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: » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on August 27, 2010, at 1:00 pm
In a post earlier this month to the Booth Insider, the admissions blog for the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Admissions Director Kurt Ahlm shared his surprise at finding himself bombarded by questions about the school’s marketing program at recent MBA fairs.
This proved the case at an MBA fair August 12th hosted by Kaplan Test Prep in Chicago, Ahlm said. He noted that Chicago Booth had a table at the event directly across from the region’s other top MBA program, the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on August 24, 2010, at 4:00 pm
This week, we will launch our fall Admissions Director Q&A Series, featuring interviews with admissions directors at each of the top MBA programs around the globe. In these question-and-answer exchanges, directors tell us some of the things they are most excited about in the year to come and draw attention to aspects of their programs that not all applicants may know.
We also ask them to delve into the nitty-gritty of the application process itself. What, exactly, happens to your application from the moment you hit “submit” through to the moment you learn – fingers crossed! – you’ve been admitted? Admissions directors have seemed more than happy to walk us through this process, and we’ll share with you what we’ve learned. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on August 24, 2010, at 3:00 am
Welcome back to Trivia Tuesday, our weekly exploration of the details, distinctions and developments of the leading MBA programs.
Over the last decade, most business schools have sought ways to provide relevant, hands-on international business exposure within the confines of a two-year degree. The solution that many schools have arrived at is study trips, which allow students to spend a few weeks exploring the business environment of another country over the summer or during a mid-semester break. Depending on the school, these trips may be organized through an elective course, by an administrative office, or through a campus student group. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on August 18, 2010, at 1:00 pm
According to a Columbia Business School (CBS) spokesperson, long-time admissions director Linda Meehan is retiring from her post this week. Meehan joined the CBS staff in 1993 and served as director of admissions through fall 2009, when CBS appointed Mary Miller as the school’s new admissions director as part of a move to combine admissions for the MBA and EMBA programs. Meehan stayed on for the past year, focusing more of her attention on alumni affairs, but she has now decided to retire.
The news comes on the heels of several other changes among the staff at top MBA programs around the country. At the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, veteran Admissions Director Rose Martinelli announced her own departure last month. She left to become assistant vice president of enrollment for the University of Chicago, and Kurt Ahlm from the admissions office has taken over as director of admissions and financial aid. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on August 17, 2010, at 3:00 pm
We are pleased to announce the release of the 2010-2011 Clear Admit MBA School Guides to Darden, INSEAD, Johnson, Kenan-Flagler, London Business School and Tepper! As previously announced in this space, also available are the updated versions of the Clear Admit MBA School Guides to Chicago Booth, Columbia, Fuqua, Haas, Harvard, Kellogg, MIT Sloan, NYU Stern, Ross, Stanford, Tuck, UCLA Anderson, Wharton and Yale, which were released earlier this summer.
All twenty of the 2010-2011 Clear Admit MBA School Guide titles 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.
Applauded by admissions officers and applicants alike, the Clear Admit MBA School Guides are informative and detailed profiles of leading business schools that combine the views of faculty, students, alumni and the popular press. They are available electronically (in PDF format) to help you meet your tight time constraints.
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Posted by Clear Admit on August 4, 2010, at 1:00 pm
After last year’s dismal predictions of a job market meltdown, the landscape for new MBA graduates is experiencing an encouraging recovery, according to a recent Forbes report. According to the MBA Career Services Council, 60 percent of career departments at U.S. and European schools recently surveyed report more job postings this year than last. And some schools, such as New York University’s Stern School of Business, say that job postings in some sectors are up by as much as 70 percent, according to Forbes.
Hidden within these encouraging statistics are some interesting new trends, the Forbes report continued. Specifically, more and more Fortune 500 companies are now hiring international MBA students from top Western schools to run operations not in the United States or Europe but rather back in their home countries. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on August 3, 2010, at 11:59 am
We are pleased to announce the release of the 2010-2011 Clear Admit School Guides to Fuqua, Haas, MIT Sloan, NYU Stern, Tuck, UCLA Anderson and Yale! As previously announced in this space, also available are the updated versions of the Clear Admit School Guides to Chicago Booth, Columbia, Harvard, Kellogg, Ross, Stanford and Wharton, which were released earlier this summer. All of the 2010-2011 titles feature the most current . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on July 29, 2010, at 1:00 pm
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. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on July 28, 2010, at 4:17 pm
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, . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on July 20, 2010, at 8:18 am
Rose Martinelli, associate dean of admissions and financial aid at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, will leave the position she has held for the past five years at the end of this week. She shared the news with Clear Admit yesterday morning but asked that we wait to announce it here until after she’d had a chance to post it to her own blog, the Rose Report.
Martinelli won’t be going far. Her next position will be as assistant vice president for enrollment at the University of Chicago. It’s a role that will include admissions and financial aid oversight in the college as well as across other master’s and PhD programs throughout the university. “I’m excited about . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on July 19, 2010, at 3:00 am
Continuing with our series of essay topic analyses for this season’s applications, today we’ll take some time to think about the 2010-2011 Chicago Booth application essay questions. The overall format of the program’s prompt is similar to last year; the school requires that applicants submit responses to three “essays,” one of which is – in its fourth year running – a four-slide presentation. As for noteworthy changes, the adcom has discarded last year’s second essay in which applicants could choose to discuss a mistake or surprising feedback, and replaced it with a mandatory question about taking a risk. Let’s take a closer look at each . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on July 8, 2010, at 9:25 am
After releasing their deadlines earlier this summer, Chicago Booth have just released their essay topics for the 2010-2011 admissions season. They are as follows:
Essay 1
The Admissions Committee is interested in learning more about you on both a personal and professional level. Please answer the following (maximum of 300 words for each section):
a. Why are you pursuing a full-time MBA at this point in your life?
b. Define your short and long term career goals post MBA.
c. What is it about Chicago Booth that is going to help you reach your goals?
d. RE-APPLICANTS ONLY: Upon reflection, how has your thinking regarding your future, Chicago Booth, and/or getting an MBA changed since the time of your last application?
Essay 2
Chicago Booth . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on July 7, 2010, at 2:30 pm
Available for immediate purchase and download are the 2010-2011 versions of the Clear Admit School Guides to Chicago Booth, Columbia, Harvard, Kellogg, Ross, Stanford and Wharton. These titles 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.
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. They are available electronically (in PDF . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on July 2, 2010, at 1:00 pm
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business has not yet appointed a new dean, but the school issued a recent statement to faculty indicating that the search is in its final stages and that a further announcement is expected by the end of this month, the Financial Times reports.
The school’s previous dean, Ted Snyder, stepped down on June 30th. He will take a year’s leave before assuming the deanship at Yale School of Management beginning in July 2011.
According to the FT, the statement to faculty at Chicago Booth went on to say that the school’s three deputy deans – Stacey Kole, deputy dean of the full-time MBA program, Mark Zmijewski and Richard Leftwich, deputy dean for faculty – . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on June 23, 2010, at 1:00 pm
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 . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on June 15, 2010, at 3:00 am
It’s time once again for Trivia Tuesday, our weekly examination of the programs, policies and possibilities at the leading business schools.
As business goes global, business leaders are increasingly expected to understand the nuances of doing business on the international stage. For prospective students interested in a career in international business, Chicago Booth’s IMBA offers an intriguing option. Chicago Booth is one of the few leading MBA programs to offer students an opportunity to pursue a specialized International MBA (IMBA) degree. To receive the IMBA, full-time MBA students must study abroad for one academic term, demonstrate proficiency in a non-native language and complete a concentration in international business.
The concentration in international business consists of at least five courses in international business, at . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on June 11, 2010, at 1:00 pm
As the Class of 2010 prepares for commencement exercises tomorrow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Admissions Director Rose Martinelli took the opportunity to provide some admissions updates to prospective members of future classes.
Application deadlines have now been posted for prospective applicants hoping to enroll in fall 2011, and the online application for that class will be available in July, Martinelli wrote in a recent post to her blog.
The months ahead will also bring a range of admissions events at Chicago Booth and around the globe. Current students will host summer events in their home cities, and admissions staff will sponsor a range of fall events, Martinelli wrote. To view details about scheduled cities and dates, . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on June 9, 2010, at 9:28 am
The Chicago / Booth deadlines for the 2010-2011 admissions season have been announced. The three deadlines are as follows:
Round 1
Deadline: October 13, 2010
Notification: December 15, 2010
Round 2
Deadline: January 5, 2011
Notification: March 16, 2011
Round 3
Deadline: April 13, 2011
Notification: May 18, 2011
The Chicago / Booth application will be available in July. For more information on the program’s deadlines and application process, make sure to visit the school . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on June 4, 2010, at 1:00 pm
Edward Snyder, who will become the dean of the Yale School of Management (SOM) next year, may face greater challenges in this new post than in any of his past positions, according to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal.
Snyder, who is stepping down as dean of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, held the deanship at the University of Virginia’s Darden School before that. He helped both schools attract major donors – including a $60 million donation to Darden and an unprecedented $300 million gift to Chicago from financier David Booth – and won the admiration of faculty, staff and alumni.
At Yale SOM, the expectations for what this turnaround specialist can do run high, according to the . . . → 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 5, 2010, at 10:24 am
Harvard Business School (HBS) announced late yesterday that is has named current professor Nitin Nohria as its new dean. Nohria, a professor of leadership and organization, will serve as the school’s 10th dean, assuming the role on July 1st. He replaces Dean Jay Light, who announced his plans to step down seven months ago.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Nohria said that he intends as dean to focus on business ethics, a cause he has championed vigorously, especially during the recent financial crisis. Together with HBS professor Rakesh Khurana, he co-authored a 2008 Harvard Business Review article suggesting that managers and management had lost its legitimacy in the past decade and calling for an MBA code of ethics similar . . . → Continue Reading
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