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Posted by Clear Admit on August 20, 2010, at 3:51 pm
We are pleased to announce the release of the brand new Clear Admit School Guide to McCombs School of Business!
Like our other School Guide titles, the McCombs School Guide provides extensive information on the school’s academics, student demographics, special programs, campus life, employment statistics, admissions procedures and more! We present the facts objectively to help you understand all McCombs has to offer and what makes it unique. Additionally, we have placed the information in the context of offerings at other schools, so you can see how McCombs compares to its peers. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on August 19, 2010, at 3:00 am
We wanted to take some time today to comment on the UT Austin – McCombs essay topics for the 2010-2011 admissions season, which are unchanged from last year. Reflecting an emphasis on applicants who have contributed to their workplace and the community (and who will continue this level of personal engagement in an MBA program), UT Austin’s questions focus on how candidates would enrich their environments through leadership commitment.
1. Describe how your experiences, both personal and professional, have led you to pursue an MBA at this time. What are your short- and long-term goals and how will a Texas MBA help you achieve them? (Limit: 900 words)
While most admissions committees are interested in the professional reasons behind applicants’ decisions to apply to business school and the motivations regarding timing, the fact that McCombs specifically asks about personal experiences shows that candidates will need to expand their essay to include non-professional experiences that have influenced their future goals. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on August 5, 2010, at 1:48 pm
The UT Austin / McCombs School of Business deadlines and essay topics for the upcoming admissions season have now been released. The three rolling deadlines are as follows:
First Deadline: November 1, 2010
Second Deadline: January 14, 2011
Third Deadline: April 1, 2011
Applicants should note that January 14, 2011 is the final deadline for all international applicants. McCombs follows a rolling admissions process, which means that each application is reviewed in the order in which it is received. » Continue reading
Posted by Clear Admit on April 15, 2010, at 1:00 pm
Harvard Business School (HBS) and the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) have once again tied for first in the 2011 U.S. News & World Report MBA rankings, released late yesterday. While the major players in the top 15 remain largely unchanged from previous years, there were some notable shifts up and down the ranks.
Stanford, for its part, showed a slight rebound. After a slip to number two last year, the Palo Alto school this year once again forced HBS to share the number one spot, as it had in 2009. MIT’s Sloan School of Management also gained some ground to come in at number three, advancing from the number five spot.
MIT Sloan displaced the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on April 9, 2010, at 11:00 am
Students from seven top business schools will convene today with representatives from more than 30 companies for the first-ever “A Day in the Bay” MBA Interview Forum near San Francisco.
The event is open to first- and second-year students and Executive MBAs from each of the participating schools who are interesting in working on the West Coast. Participating schools include the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, Cornell’s Johnson School, the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, Emory’s Goizueta Business School, Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, the University of Michigan’s Ross School and the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.
The all-day event will take place today, April 9th, at the Embassy Suites Hotel near . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on February 5, 2010, at 1:00 pm
After two tough years, it seems like job prospects may be getting a little better for this year’s graduating class of MBAs. In a blog post Monday, the dean of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas shared that he’s seeing an up-tick in recruiter visits for the school’s spring Career Expo. And according to a report yesterday in Bloomberg News, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School also sees job prospects improving this spring.
Thomas Gilligan, dean of UT’s McCombs School of Business, shared some promising news in a post to the school’s blog earlier this week. As of that writing, 84 companies had registered for the school’s Career Expo, which took place on Wednesday, up from . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 9, 2009, at 3:18 pm
Welcome to another edition of Wiki Wednesdays, our weekly post about the Clear Admit Wiki, an online repository for MBA applicants to share their experiences with the admissions process. Over the past week, we’ve received a number of interview reports for Northwestern / Kellogg and Dartmouth / Tuck. Let’s take a closer look at the questions these candidates faced…
An Early Action applicant to Tuck interviewed with a second-year student and addressed the following queries:
Why MBA? Why now? Why Tuck?
Talk about a time you worked in a team.
Talk about a time you disagreed with your boss/supervisor and how it was resolved.
Imagine you are selling yourself to the adcom. What are the three things about yourself you . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on November 12, 2009, at 1:00 pm
The McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin has eliminated 16 positions due to the current budgetary crisis, the school announced earlier this week. The cuts were finalized on November 2nd and will be effective January 31st. The staff reduction represents roughly 20 percent of overall cost-cutting measures the school plans to implement, according to Dean Tom Gilligan.
Even as it cuts some positions to address the budgetary challenges, McCombs will reallocate resources in order to retain and reward its very best faculty and continue to hire, according to Gilligan. “New faculty are central to the prominence of our school and the new initiatives we are undertaking in our strategic plan,” he said. “This means we must continue . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 1, 2009, at 11:00 am
We wanted to take some time today to comment on the UT Austin – McCombs essay topics for the 2009-2010 admissions season. Reflecting an emphasis on applicants who have contributed to their workplace and the community (and who will continue this level of personal engagement in an MBA program), UT Austin’s questions focus on how candidates would enrich their environments through leadership commitment.
1. Describe how your experiences, both personal and professional, have led you to pursue an MBA at this time. What are your short- and long-term goals and how will a Texas MBA help you achieve them? (Limit: 900 words)
McCombs has revised this question for this season; formerly asking about career progression to date, . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on September 23, 2009, at 4:07 pm
The UT Austin/McCombs essay topics for the 2009-2010 admissions season are now available. The topics are as follows:
1. Describe how your experiences, both personal and professional, have led you to pursue an MBA at this time. What are your short- and long-term goals and how will a Texas MBA help you achieve them?
Limit: 900 words
2. Discuss a defining experience in your leadership development. What did you learn from this experience about your strengths and weaknesses as a leader?
Limit: 650 words
3. At the McCombs School of Business, you will be part of an active and diverse community. How will you use your personal strengths and unique experiences to enrich the McCombs community during your two years in the program?
Limit: 500 . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on September 14, 2009, at 1:00 pm
Hispanic Business Magazine last week released its 2009 rankings of the top 10 business schools for Hispanic students. Among the highest ranked schools in terms of Hispanic representation in their student body and faculty were several top-tier global MBA programs, including the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.
Part of Hispanic Business’s annual ranking of graduate schools as measured by diversity, the Top 10 Business Schools for Hispanic Students list was compiled by the magazine’s research arm, HispanTelligence. It ranked MBA programs according to the percent of Hispanic student enrollment as compared . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on July 31, 2009, at 10:22 am
The UT Austin / McCombs deadlines for the 2009-2010 admissions season have been announced. McCombs runs on a rolling admissions system, and candidates can expect a decision 10-13 weeks after submitting their applications (excluding two weeks around the Christmas holiday). The deadlines are below:
Early deadline for all applications:
November 2, 2009
Final deadline for all international applications; second deadline for all domestic applications:
January 15, 2010
Final deadline for all domestic applications:
April 1, 2010
The McCombs online application for Fall 2010 enrollment is expected to be launched . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on April 23, 2009, at 11:00 am
U.S. News & World Report yesterday released its most recent ranking of the nation’s best business schools, revealing little change from last year among the very top spots. Harvard Business School remained at number one, a spot it shared last year with Stanford Graduate School of Business. Stanford slipped a little to number two.
Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Business, meanwhile, sidled up a spot to join the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in third place this year. And MIT’s Sloan School of Management and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business tied for fifth place.
Rounding out the top ten this year were Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, Columbia Business School and Yale School of Management.
To compile its rankings, . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on September 3, 2008, at 10:00 am
We wanted to take some time today to comment on UT Austin’s essay questions for the coming admissions season. Reflecting an emphasis on applicants who have contributed to their workplace and the community and who will continue this level of engagement in an MBA program, UT Austin’s questions focus on how candidates might enrich their environments and embody the school’s “pillars of leadership”.
Essay 1: Please define your short- and long-term goals and objectives, your career progression to date, and how an MBA fits in at this time. What makes the Texas MBA the perfect fit for you? (900 word limit)
McCombs has revised this question for this season; formerly asking about intermediate and long-term goals, McCombs now asks applicants to share their . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on July 17, 2008, at 9:24 am
Although its application is not yet available, the UT Austin/McCombs deadlines for the 2008-2009 season have been announced. The deadlines are as follows:
First Deadline:
November 1, 2008
Second Deadline for Domestic Applicants/Final Deadline for International Applicants:
February 1, 2009
Final Deadline for Domestic Deadlines:
April 1, 2009
Interested applicants should check back with UT Austin/McComb’s admissions site in early August for the . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on July 14, 2008, at 10:54 am
The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business last week named Dr. Thomas Gilligan to serve as its next dean, concluding a nationwide search to find a successor for Dr. George Gau, who has served as McCombs’ dean for the past six years and concludes his appointment in August.
Gilligan, whose McCombs appointment begins on September 1st, has been the E. Morgan Stanley Chair in Business Administration and professor of finance and business economics at the University of Southern California (USC)’s Marshall School of Business in Los Angeles. He also served as the Marshall School’s interim dean from February 2006 to April 2007.
McCombs’ search for a new dean was conducted by an 18-member committee led by Professor Michael . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on June 23, 2008, at 12:57 pm
The Forté Foundation, an organization dedicated to helping women assume leadership roles in business and enabling corporations to more effectively reach and retain top female talent, announced the election of new and returning board members this month.
This year’s roster includes administrators from several of the nation’s top business schools, as well as representatives from some of the world’s leading multinational corporations.
Forté, a consortium of 27 leading multinational corporations, 37 top business schools in the U.S. and abroad and the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), provides a national infrastructure for women at all stages of their careers to access the information, scholarship support and networking connections they need to succeed in business.
Joining Forte’s board this year from the academic side is Anika . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on February 28, 2008, at 5:14 am
Nearing the end of a relatively sleepy February, March is just around the corner, bringing an extensive list of application deadlines and decision notification dates. Let’s take a look at the numerous Round 3 (or 4) deadlines spread over the next several months:
February 28: Wharton R3, UVA/Darden R3
February 29: LBS R3
March 1: Michigan/Ross R3
March 3: Duke/Fuqua R3, Columbia (international students)
March 7: Kellogg R3, UNC/Kenan-Flagler R4
March 10: CMU-Tepper R3
March 12: Berkeley/Haas R4, Chicago R3, HBS R3, Yale SOM R3
March 15: NYU Stern R3
March 19: Cornell/Johnson R4
March 21: Stanford GSB R3
April 1: UT Austin/McCombs (final)
April 2: Tuck April Round
April 3: INSEAD R4
April 4: Oxford/Said R3
April 16: Columbia (U.S. applicants)
April 23: UCLA/Anderson R4
April 25: Georgetown/McDonough Final Round
April 28: CMU-Tepper R4
May 2: LBS R4, Cambridge/Judge . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on January 23, 2008, at 12:34 pm
According to a report this week in the Chronicle of Higher Education, business schools – including some of the very best – are beginning to rethink whether requiring several years of prior work experience on the part of applicants should be de rigueur. While corporate experience is certainly still valued, some schools are opening up admissions to a younger set as well in an effort to reel in promising students early before they get sidetracked by careers or head off to other professional schools.
Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford and the University of Texas at Austin have all started programs geared toward students who are coming straight from undergraduate programs or are just a year or two out. Doing so, the schools hope, . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on November 29, 2007, at 9:54 am
As we prepare to flip over another page of the calendar this weekend, we wanted to take a look at the upcoming December and January deadlines, just in case there are any Round Two applicants out there who aren’t already all too aware of the persistent passage of time.
While the Round One deadlines for the top MBA programs were mercifully spread out over the month of October, the outlook for the next wave of deadlines isn’t quite as rosy; most of the Round Two deadlines are closely clustered over a ten-day period in early January. For those applicants who are targeting two or more of those schools, careful time management during December will be of the utmost importance. Let’s . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 25, 2007, at 8:42 am
McCombs is one of the few high ranking MBA programs with a rolling admissions process, and as such applicants may be tempted to put these essays off until more pressing deadlines have passed. It’s nice to have some leeway, but applicants who are very interested in the program should keep in mind that McCombs’s adcom calls November 1 the “suggested” date for early submissions. To help get the writing process started, today we’ll take a closer look at the McCombs Essay Questions.
As was the case with UT Austin’s essays last season, there are three required responses totaling roughly 2000 words, but the questions themselves are rather different in tone and focus.
Essay 1: Please define your short- and long-term . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on October 24, 2007, at 4:30 pm
Below are this year’s deadlines and essay questions for UT Austin’s McCombs School of Business. The school employs a rolling admissions process, meaning that applications are reviewed as they are received and decisions are made chronologically.
McCombs Deadlines
Suggested Early Submission Date: November 1, 2007
Final Deadline for International Applicants: February 1, 2008
Second Recommended Date for Domestic Applicants: February 1, 2008
Final Deadline for Domestic Applicants: April 1, 2008
McCombs Essays
1. Please define your short- and long-term goals and objectives, your career progression to date, and how an MBA fits in at this time. What makes the Texas MBA the perfect fit for you? (Limit: 900 words)
2. The Texas MBA is built around four key pillars of leadership. . . . → Continue Reading
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