Posted by Clear Admit on January 30, 2012, at 2:00 pm
Posted in:  MBA News , Rankings , School: Columbia , School: Harvard , School: IE , School: IESE , School: INSEAD , School: London Business School , School: MIT / Sloan , School: Penn / Wharton , School: Stanford Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) this year tops the Financial Times global ranking of MBA programs, becoming only the fourth institution to do so. Stanford, which for the past 13 years has placed in the top 10, bested previous winners Harvard Business School (HBS), the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and London Business School to take the top spot for the first time.
HBS came in at number two, followed by Wharton at number three. London Business School, meanwhile, fell from joint first to fourth, mirroring a general trend in which U.S. schools fared marginally better than their European counterparts. Falling salaries among alumni from European schools – an impact of the recent economic turmoil in Europe – account in part for this trend, the FT reports.
Posted by Clear Admit on October 11, 2011, at 3:00 am
Posted in: School Guides , School: MIT / Sloan , Trivia Tuesday In this week’s installment of Trivia Tuesday, we turn our focus to the Clear Admit School Guide to MIT Sloan, examining how the school creates first-year teams and how these teams impact students’ experiences.
“Each first-year class of approximately 400 MBA students is divided into six smaller cohorts, or “oceans” (Atlantic, Baltic, Caribbean, Indian, Mediterranean and Pacific), which help to give shape to the core curriculum experience. Oceans are comprised of approximately 65 students each, and the students in each ocean take all seven of their core courses together. As a result of this shared academic experience, students within each ocean tend to spend time together outside of the classroom as well, often forming close-knit social groups.
“Within the oceans, Sloan assigns all first-years to small core teams of 6 or 7 students, each of which is named after a type of bird. These groups work together throughout the core semester to complete homework assignments, prepare projects and study for exams. Students report that teammates are usually drawn from across the professional spectrum and around the world, mirroring the diversity of teams in the global workforce.
“Sloan says that the process of separating students into cohorts and teams is both an art and a science. An automated process conducts the first division, “mixing and sorting” students into cohorts and teams. The MBA Student Affairs Office then personalizes the process by refining groups with an eye to diversity of race, gender, nationality, professional background and other characteristics.”
To read more about other exchange opportunities, be sure to check out the Clear Admit School Guide to MIT Sloan. All Clear Admit School Guides are available for immediate purchase and download on the Clear Admit shop.
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Posted by Clear Admit on October 5, 2011, at 1:00 pm
Posted in: MBA News , School: MIT / Sloan A management professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management has created a new web-based flight simulation to instruct MBAs about the challenges of sustainably managing the fishing industry. And through the MIT Sloan Teaching Innovation Resources (MSTIR) website, teachers and students everywhere can try it out for free.
Called “Fishbanks,” the new flight simulator lets individuals or teams confront firsthand what it’s like to be a leader in the fishing industry, having to balance the need to compete against the need to limit your total catch in order to sustain the fishery for future generations. Designed by Sloan professor John Sterman, the game can be played in a single session or over the course of a semester. It was adapted and updated from a board game originally created by former MIT Sloan professor and alumnus Dennis Meadows.
Posted by Clear Admit on September 21, 2011, at 1:00 pm
Posted in: MBA News , School: MIT / Sloan Last week, the admissions team at the MIT Sloan School of Management introduced a new way for prospective applicants to learn more about the school’s MBA program: by joining a LinkedIn group.
The group, created on September 17th by Julia Zvenigorodskiy of MIT Sloan’s MBA admissions team, is open to prospective applicants, current students, alumni and staff. Administered by the admissions team, the goal of the group will be to provide up-to-date information about Sloan’s MBA admissions process and admissions events.
Posted by Clear Admit on September 12, 2011, at 1:00 pm
Posted in: MBA News , School: MIT / Sloan What do a Navy SEAL, a 60-year-old Wall Street executive and a Japanese television reporter have in common? They are studying together at MIT Sloan School of Management this year. A story on the Sloan website this week celebrates the diversity of the entering class, which includes students of wide ranging ages, nationalities and professional backgrounds.
According to the official class profile, almost 40 percent of the Class of 2013 herald from countries outside of the United States. The mean work experience is almost five years, but students have come from military backgrounds, financial backgrounds, communications backgrounds and some straight from undergraduate study.
Posted by Clear Admit on August 12, 2011, at 3:00 pm
Posted in: Essay Topic Analysis , School: MIT / Sloan Now that MIT Sloan has released its 2011-2012 essay questions, we’d like to take some time to offer some advice on how to best approach these questions. With just one essay changing from last year’s set , this season’s batch of essay prompts reflects an emphasis on proactiveness, encouraging applicants to reflect upon how they have taken charge and led others to achieve some objective. As has been the case in prior years, the essay questions are open in terms of the nature of the examples an applicant can use – work, current activities and even appropriate personal stories are fair game here. In answering the questions, applicants should provide a complete and chronological narrative that touches on their thoughts, feelings, words, and actions. It’s important to note that the philosophy behind Sloan’s approach is that past behavior is a reliable predictor of future behavior, so it will be wise to select examples that show you at your best.
One final thing to note is that MIT once again requests that applicants select experiences or events from the past three years. While it’s possible that there is some flexibility to draw essay subject matter from early experiences if the subject matter is very compelling, it would be prudent to showcase experiences from the past three years in as many essays as possible.
Cover Letter: Prepare a cover letter seeking a place in the MIT Sloan MBA Program. Describe your accomplishments and include an example of how you had an impact on a group or organization. Your letter should conform to standard business correspondence and be addressed to Mr. Rod Garcia, Director of MBA Admissions. (500 words or fewer) Rod Garcia has long likened the MBA application process to the recruiting process; MBA aspirants, just like job applicants, need to demonstrate that they know how to market themselves. This is why the school requires a cover letter as part of their application.
As you approach this assignment, keep in mind that many of the standard cover letter themes need to be discussed – your attributes and skills, why you are interested in joining the ‘company’ (MIT/Sloan), and what you feel you could contribute. These certainly intersect with the ideas covered by other schools’ “career goals” essays, so much so that it may be tempting to simply tack a greeting onto the beginning of a career goals essay you’ve prepared for another program. MIT’s request for these ideas in cover letter format, however, actually makes it very easy to spot recycled material, so it’s important that you tailor your response to the school’s unique process. A potential outline for this essay might open with a ‘greeting’ to the committee followed by a statement of your interest in MIT and what you would bring to the school, then a short statement of your career goals with a summary of the ways in which your experience to date has prepared you, then a “why . . . → 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.
Posted by Clear Admit on August 11, 2011, at 8:42 am
Posted in: Essay Topics , School: MIT / Sloan The MIT Sloan MBA application is now live and the 2011-2012 essay topics have been posted! This year’s prompts are as follows:
Cover Letter Prepare a cover letter (up to 500 words) seeking a place in the MIT Sloan MBA Program. Describe your accomplishments and include an example of how you had an impact on a group or organization. Your letter should conform to standard business correspondence and be addressed to Mr. Rod Garcia, Director of MBA Admissions.
Posted by Clear Admit on August 5, 2011, at 1:00 pm
Posted in: MBA News , Rankings , School: Chicago , School: Columbia , School: Cornell / Johnson , School: Dartmouth / Tuck , School: Harvard , School: MIT / Sloan , School: Northwestern / Kellogg , School: Penn / Wharton , School: Stanford , School: Virginia / Darden Harvard Business School (HBS) came out on top this year for the first time since 2003 in the Forbes Best U.S. Business Schools ranking, released this week. Stanford, the former No. 1, dropped to second.
The Forbes ranking, which focuses on the return on investment graduates achieve from attending business school, found that graduates in Harvard’s Class of 2006 saw their median salaries rise from $79,000 pre-MBA to $230,000 in 2010, the highest jump among U.S. schools.
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!
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Alumni from the Indian School of Business (ISB) will host informal sessions for prospective applicants in more than 20 cities around the world throughout the summer months. Part of the school’s international outreach, these “Coffee with Alumni” sessions are intended to provide prospective students with a chance to interact and learn about ISB from an alumnus who has experienced it firsthand.
Posted by Clear Admit on June 6, 2011, at 1:00 pm
Posted in: MBA News , School: Berkeley / Haas , School: Columbia , School: Cornell / Johnson , School: Harvard , School: MIT / Sloan , School: NYU Stern , School: Penn / Wharton , School: Stanford , School: Yale Citigroup, through its philanthropic arm the Citi Foundation, will provide up to $25 million to leading business schools to conduct research on issues affecting the financial services landscape, Citigroup announced last week.
As the first phase in its five-year Financial Insights Program, Citigroup this year will award individual grants to Columbia University, Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford and Yale. Each school will have a distinct area of focus for its respective research.
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Posted by Clear Admit on May 24, 2011, at 9:23 am
Posted in: Deadlines , School: MIT / Sloan The 2011-2012 MIT / Sloan deadlines have been announced. The two deadlines are below:
Round 1
Deadline: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 Notification: Monday, February 6, 2012
Round 2
Deadline: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 Notification: Monday, April 2, 2012
Reapplicants to Sloan should note that they must apply by the Round 1 deadline. The MIT / Sloan online application will be available in July.
Posted by Clear Admit on May 17, 2011, at 3:00 am
Posted in: School Guides , School: MIT / Sloan , Trivia Tuesday Hello, and welcome to another edition of Clear Admit’s weekly Trivia Tuesday column, in which we take an in-depth look at program elements that differentiate the leading MBA programs from their peers. This week, we’re taking a peek into the Clear Admit School Guide to MIT Sloan to share with you an excerpt about the school’s distinctive condensed core curriculum, which gives students the chance to take three full semesters of electives.
“Like other MBA programs, MIT Sloan requires students to complete a series of core courses designed to provide an overview of important business disciplines. Sloan’s core offers a broad foundation on which students can build throughout their next three semesters of elective courses, providing an introduction to accounting, business statistics, economics, managerial communication and organizational processes, with an additional course in either finance or strategic marketing.
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