The QS World MBA Tour, which gives prospective applicants to top MBA programs an opportunity to meet with leading business school admissions directors and GMAT test prep firms, will be touching down in several major North American cities next month. Beginning February 7th, tour stops include DC, Boston, Toronto, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
The world’s largest MBA fair, the QS World MBA Tour will feature more than $1.2 million worth of available scholarships, panel discussions addressing hot MBA topics and trends, free GMAT information seminars and presentations from local and international school representatives. B-school alumni, entrepreneurial groups and career development organizations will also be in attendance, giving prospective applicants valuable networking opportunities. The fair also features a dedicated section for Executive MBAs as well as a special “Women in Leadership” forum.
Posted by Clear Admit on December 17, 2011, at 1:00 am
Posted in:  Interview Tips , Interview: Georgetown , School: Georgetown Check out the latest addition to the Clear Admit Wiki, a free online resource for MBA applicants to share their experiences with the admissions process! This Round 1 candidate for Georgetown / McDonough shared the following interview experience with an adcom member:
“I was invited to interview for R1. I did not attend any classes or other sessions. I met with the Adcom woman for roughly 15 minutes. It was a blind interview (the interviewer had no previous knowledge of me or my application), and was very laid back. I was told it was “your interview”.
The interview started with the typical “Share a little about yourself, your life story, how you ended up here”. This lasted 5 – 8 minutes. I didn’t want to bore the woman to death and it seemed natural to move through this quickly.
Next were the common questions:
Why Georgetown? Why now?
Posted by Clear Admit on November 30, 2011, at 2:00 pm
Posted in: Events , School: Georgetown Yesterday, Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business hosted a discussion around the Occupy Movement’s issues and goals and the implications for business.
Coined “Where’s the ‘I’ in Occupy?” the event was designed to give Georgetown students a platform in which to explore the issues of financial, political and social inequality raised by the protest movement that has taken hold across the nation’s cities over the past several weeks.
In response to hundreds of requests from the MBA applicant community, Clear Admit is pleased to announce the addition of three new titles – Kenan-Flagler, McCombs and McDonough – to our line of Interview Guides. Updated versions of our existing Interview Guides for the 2011-2012 admissions season were released at the beginning of September.
If you are in the midst of preparing for Round 1 admissions interview, don’t be caught without the Clear Admit Interview Guides! These informative resources, based on our years of MBA admissions experience and our work with hundreds of applicants interviewing at leading programs, provide school-specific insight and strategic advice to help applicants ace their admissions interviews. By reading these guides, you’ll learn what to expect on interview day and how to craft effective responses to school-specific and commonly asked questions. Each Clear Admit Interview Guide includes:
School-specific strategy Evaluation of how the adcom weighs the interview First-hand interview accounts A comprehensive list of sample questions consistently asked In-depth analysis of the most popular questions by that particular program Detailed information on planning a campus visit
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Posted by Clear Admit on September 23, 2011, at 1:00 pm
Posted in: MBA News , School: Georgetown Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business will enhance its growing entrepreneurship initiative through the launch of a new entrepreneurs-in-residence program, the school announced this week.
The inaugural entrepreneurs-in-residence will be Timothy P. Keenan, High Technologies, Inc. president and chairman; Alyssa Lovegrove, New Ventures Mentors CEO and founder; David Ross, Janssen Johnson & Johnson health care innovation consultant; T. Richard Stroupe Jr., Crimson Holdings LLC founder and managing principal; and Susan Wilson, founder and CEO of FundHer.
Posted by Clear Admit on August 23, 2011, at 3:00 am
Posted in: School Guides , School: Georgetown , School: USC / Marshall We are pleased to announce the addition of two new titles – Marshall School of Business and McDonough School of Business – to our applauded and widely-read line of School Guides!
Like the other 22 titles in the School Guide series, these new publications feature objective information that goes well beyond published rankings and will help you understand how these domestic programs compare to peer U.S. schools. By reading the Clear Admit School Guides, you can gather the details you need to shine in the admissions process.
These two brand new guides include all of the hallmarks of the Clear Admit School Guide series, including our peer-to-peer comparisons and essay topic analyses, making them a valuable resource that can be used at each stage of the admissions process.
Whether you have just begun to think about business school or are putting the finishing touches on your essays, 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 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
The USC / Marshall and Georgetown / McDonough School Guides are available for immediate download in the Clear Admit Shop. Also, stay tuned for the release of more Clear Admit publications later this summer!
In case you missed it, there was a great piece in both the print and online versions of the Washington Post this past weekend on MBA admissions. The piece, entitled “Would you climb any mountain to get into MBA program of your dreams?” ran in Sunday’s Post and featured quotes and input from Clear Admit co-founder Graham Richmond on how applicants to top MBA programs can help make themselves stand out among the thousands and thousands of applications the very best schools receive.
One of the most important things is to understand who will be reading your application, Richmond told the Post. “The people reading the file are more like your high school English teacher than the colleague sitting next to you at an investment bank,” he said, adding that they are more interested in getting a good sense of who you are than your business experience.
Posted by Clear Admit on August 4, 2011, at 1:00 pm
Posted in: MBA News , School: Georgetown , School: Harvard , School: Penn / Wharton Earlier this week, David A. Thomas assumed the duties of dean of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Thomas, who will officially retire from the Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty on October 1st, is an expert in organizational behavior and strategic human resource management. His research focuses on issues related to executive development, cultural diversity in organizations, leadership and organizational change.
Posted by Clear Admit on August 4, 2011, at 3:00 am
Posted in: Essay Topics , School: Georgetown Georgetown’s MBA application essay questions for the 2011-2012 admissions season consist of four required responses totaling a maximum of 3.5 pages of text. The topics covered in these question focus largely on the applicant’s career goals (and require a high level of specificity and reflection on this subject), and also touch upon community service and the core of the applicant’s professional and personal identity. Georgetown specifies that all essays should be double spaced and written in 12pt font.
Let’s take a closer look at each of the program’s questions:
Essay 1: State your short-term career goal immediately following graduation from the Georgetown MBA program. What skills have you developed on which you will build? What skills will you need to develop? (1 page) While it’s fairly typical for MBA programs to inquire about a candidate’s post-MBA plans, it’s a bit unusual for a program to isolate the applicant’s short- and long-term objectives in separate essays. Further, McDonough’s inquiry about existing and to-be-developed skills requires a very high level of clarity about the exact job function they are hoping to work in after graduating from business school. Candidates would therefore do well to provide an example job title and even to name one or two organizations for which they would like to perform this job, as this level of specificity will facilitate the inventory of skills that Georgetown requests in its follow-on questions here. And of course, though the prompt doesn’t explicitly ask for it, a few comments about the ways two years in the McDonough MBA program would help to bridge the gap between your current and needed skill sets would be highly appropriate here.
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Posted by Clear Admit on August 1, 2011, at 4:33 pm
Posted in: Deadlines , Essay Topics , School: Georgetown The 2011-2012 Georgetown / McDonough deadlines and essay topics have been announced!
This year’s deadlines are below:
Round 1 Deadline: October 15, 2011 Notification: December 15, 2011
Round 2 Deadline: January 5, 2012 Notification: March 15, 2012
Round 3 Deadline: April 1, 2012 Notification: May 15, 2012
This year’s essays are as follows:
Essay One: Limit – 1 page, double spaced, 12 pt font State your short-term career goal immediately following graduation from the Georgetown MBA program. What skills have you developed on which you will build? What skills will you need to develop?
Essay Two: Limit – 1/2 page, double spaced, 12 pt font State your long-term career goal. How does the position you describe in Essay One serve as a building block for your long-term career goal?
Essay Three: Limit – 1 1/2 pages, double spaced, 12 pt font Describe the essence of who you are both personally and professionally.
Essay Four: Limit – 1/2 page, double spaced, 12 pt font Service and community engagement are a way of life at Georgetown, following the University’s tradition of women and men for others. How have you demonstrated service to others?
Optional Essay One: Limit – 1/2 page, double spaced, 12 pt font If you are not currently employed full-time, use this space to provide information about your current activities.
Optional Essay Two: Limit – 1 page, double spaced, 12 pt font Please provide any information you would like to add to your application that you have not otherwise included.
Optional Essay Three: Professional Achievement Essay, Limit – 1/2 page, double spaced, 12 pt font If you would like to be considered for a Georgetown MBA Professional Achievement Scholarship, address your greatest accomplishment(s) in your chosen field and explain why you should be selected for this scholarship. Include any relevant professional awards/recognition received by your employer or industry.
Re-applicant Essay (Required for Re-applicants Only) – Limit – 1 page, double spaced, 12 pt font How have you strengthened your candidacy since your last application? We are particularly interested in hearing about how you have grown professionally and personally. In addition, please update the Admissions Committee on your short-term career goals following graduation from the Georgetown MBA program.
For more information, visit McDonough’s admissions website.
Posted by Clear Admit on May 24, 2011, at 1:00 pm
Posted in: MBA News , School: Georgetown , School: Harvard David A. Thomas, a professor and former associate dean at Harvard Business School (HBS), will serve as the new dean of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, the latter school announced yesterday.
Thomas is currently the H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at Harvard and directs the school’s Organizational Behavior Unit. His research focuses on executive development, cultural diversity in organizations and leadership and organizational change, and he has been widely published and received numerous prestigious prizes.
Posted by Clear Admit on April 27, 2011, at 3:44 pm
Posted in: Interview: Georgetown , School: Georgetown , Wiki Wednesdays Welcome back to Wiki Wednesdays, in which we feature MBA interview reports that have recently been added to the Clear Admit Wiki, an online repository for applicants to share their MBA admissions experiences. Today we’re highlighting an account of a Round 3 interview with a first-year student sent to us by a candidate for Georgetown / McDonough:
“I was invited to interview for R3. Since I was going to be taking a day off to go to Washington D.C., I opted to sit in on a finance class. The student assigned to me was very helpful in giving me her insights on why she chose Georgetown over her other choices.
My interview was with a first year student. Because Georgetown shares the interviewer’s name in advance, I was able to look him up and get insight on the student clubs he was involved in on campus.
Interview lasted about 40 minutes. Here are details:
Blind interview (I was asked to bring in a copy of my resume) Tell me about yourself (resume walkthrough). How is an MBA important in attaining your short/long term goals? Why an MBA now (why leave current job)? What did I like about Georgetown? What do I do in my free time? Difficult situation I had to navigate through. What student organizations I would get involved in and why? What position will I aim for in the organization?
Posted by Clear Admit on April 22, 2011, at 1:33 am
Posted in: Interview Tips , Interview: Georgetown , School: Georgetown Check out the latest addition to the Clear Admit Wiki, a free online resource for MBA applicants to share their experiences with the admissions process! This Round 2 candidate for Georgetown / McDonough shared the following interview experience with an alum:
“I interviewed with an Admissions Director and she was very cordial and friendly. We met off-campus in a Chicago hotel. The interview was for 30 minutes. I arrived few minutes early and she came out to greet me. We sat in the lobby in plush comfy chairs. It was difficult to hold my resume book in front and talk, but I adjusted and soon became comfortable.
She asked me:
What do you want to do after an MBA? Tell me about your career path. Why now? Why Georgetown? Have you visited Georgetown?
Posted by Clear Admit on March 12, 2011, at 1:40 am
Posted in: Interview Tips , School: Georgetown A Round 2 candidate for Georgetown / McDonough shared this interview experience in the Clear Admit Wiki, a free online resource for MBA applicants to share the questions they have faced in the interview step of the admissions process. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this robust resource so far! If you’d like to help your fellow applicants by adding your experiences, please send us your interview field report and we’ll post it to the Clear Admit Wiki. Without further ado, here is the recent interview report:
“I interviewed with an admissions officer from Georgetown a couple of weeks ago. Please see below a summary of the interview.
Date/Admissions Round: February 14 / Round 2
Description of visit and/or interview atmosphere: Off-campus interview with an Admissions officer in New York City. We met in the (loud, dimly lit) lobby area of the W Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. The tone of the actual interview was very laidback, with successive questions building on my own responses.
Type of interview (alum vs. adcom, blind vs. application-based): Admissions officer. Blind (and I’m pretty sure she had not reviewed my resume beforehand).
List of interview questions:
Walk me through how you went from your undergraduate major to your current profession. What are your career goals? [After a "big picture" response:] How specifically would you achieve that? Why Georgetown? Have you visited? Describe a time when you’ve had to a lead a team. What would your supervisors say your biggest weakness is? What would the people you manage say? Any questions?
Commentary (What did you think of the interview? What surprised you? What didn’t surprise you? What might you conclude about the school based on this experience?): I think this confirms my perception of Georgetown’s “vibe” – specifically that it looks for people who will fit into the collaborative ethos and mix in well with a diverse, global student body. We also spoke about the program’s upward momentum in the rankings and with recruiters. All in all, a pretty good conversation that confirmed my interest in the program.”
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