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Jen Weld

Jen Weld is a former Accepted admissions consultant and Assistant Director of Admissions at Cornell’s EMBA program. She has an additional 10 years of experience in higher ed and corporate marketing.

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November 21, 2022

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Preparing for Your MBA Interview Questions

Preparing for your MBA interview questions

You’ve scored your MBA interview invitation–what great news! We know you want to make the most of this opportunity, so we wrote these tips to help you plan for success. Doing well on your MBA interview is the last hurdle before a program decides to accept you–or not. You do not want to wing this,… 

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Article by Jen Weld / MBA Admissions / MBA Interview

September 15, 2022

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Cornell EMBA Application Essay Tips & Deadlines [2022 – 2023]

Cornell EMBA 2022 2023

The Cornell Executive MBA Program has three required essay questions, and the word count for all three is short. While no one is going to be counting individual words, the short word count guideline is a clear indicator that you should work on clarity of thought with all of your answers. Cornell interviews every applicant… 

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Article by Jen Weld / MBA Admissions / 2023 EMBA Applications, Cornell Johnson, Cornell Johnson EMBA, EMBA

November 15, 2019

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Top MBA Programs for Entrepreneurs

Top MBA Programs for Entrepreneurs

Poets & Quants has just released their inaugural rankings for the top MBA programs for entrepreneurs, and Washington University’s Olin Business School tops the list. 20.7% of its graduates from 2016-2018 launched companies within three months of graduation, and has a whopping $1 million in annual funding available for student entrepreneurs. By comparison, the second… 

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Article by Jen Weld / MBA Admissions / Babson, CEIBS, Chicago Booth, CMU Tepper, Columbia Business School, Emory Goizueta, entrepreneurship, ESADE, Georgetown McDonough, Harvard Business School, Indiana Kelley, INSEAD, MBA Rankings, Michigan Ross, MIT Sloan, Northwestern Kellogg, NYU Stern, researching mba programs, Stanford GSB, UC Berkeley Haas, UCLA Anderson, UNC Kenan Flagler, USC Marshall, UT McCombs, UVA Darden, Washington Olin, Wharton, Yale SOM

June 21, 2019

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Six Advantages of Starting Your MBA Application Early

Six Advantages of Starting Your MBA Application Early

How much time is too much time to prepare your MBA application? The answer: there is never too much time! To apply successfully to business school, you can’t be hasty. You need to clarify your goals, take the GMAT or GRE, research schools, prepare your essays, fill out the online application, gather your transcripts, and… 

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Article by Jen Weld / MBA Admissions / optimize your mba admissions profile

May 15, 2019

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5 Things Engineers Have to Do to Get Accepted to B-School

5 Things Engineers Have to Do to Get Accepted to B School

You are a highly skilled technical expert in your engineering field, and in recent years you have been asked to (or anticipate being asked to) take on a leadership role, which has required you to evaluate your skillset. You are no longer just writing code or working on the development of a new jet engine,… 

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Article by Jen Weld / MBA Admissions / diversity, optimize your mba admissions profile

January 11, 2019

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EMBA Programs and the GMAT

EMBA Programs and the GMAT

With full time MBA programs, it is fairly obvious why the GMAT is such an important component to one’s application – with less work experience, admissions committees need to find other measurements to gauge potential success in a program. Academic preparedness can clearly be evidenced with a strong undergraduate GPA coupled with a strong GMAT… 

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Article by Jen Weld / MBA Admissions / EMBA, GMAT

December 31, 2018

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Why Do You Need an MBA? [MBA Interview Questions Series]

Why Do You Need an MBA

This blog post is part of a series of articles analyzing some of the most popular MBA interview questions and offering tips on how to best respond to them. In this post, we’ll address “Why do you need an MBA?” “Why do you need an MBA?” This is one of the most common questions asked… 

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Article by Jen Weld / MBA Admissions

November 7, 2018

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Tell Me About Your Weaknesses [MBA Interview Questions Series]

Tell Me About Your Weaknesses

This blog post is part of a series of articles analyzing some of the most popular MBA interview questions and how to best respond to them. In this post, we’ll address “What is your weakness?“: Reason for asking the question: To ensure the applicant is humble enough to recognize that nobody is perfect, and to see… 

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Article by Jen Weld / MBA Admissions

October 17, 2018

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Why Do You Want to Attend This MBA Program? [MBA Interview Questions Series]

Why Do You Want to Attend this MBA Program

  This blog post is part of a series of articles analyzing some of the most popular MBA interview questions and how to best respond to them. In this post, we’ll address “Why This MBA Program?“: Reason for asking the question: To gauge the sincerity with which the candidate is approaching the school. How to prepare:… 

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Article by Jen Weld / MBA Admissions / MBA Interview

September 16, 2018

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Tips for Executive MBA Reapplicants

Tips for Exectuive MBA Reapplicants

If you have been rejected by an Executive MBA program, it often comes down to one of four reasons (or combination thereof): Your academic record was not strong enough to convince the admissions committee you could handle the rigor of an EMBA program, Your work experience was not sufficient/relevant enough yet to be considered a… 

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Article by Jen Weld / MBA Admissions / EMBA

April 11, 2018

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15 Reasons MBA Applicants are Rejected

15 Reasons MBA Applicants are Rejected

If you are reading this, you are most likely considering applying or in the midst of applying to business school. Your goal is to be admitted, of course, and eliminate any obvious reasons to be rejected. What follows are several of the common reasons people are not offered admission: 1. Low Undergrad GPA The bad… 

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Article by Jen Weld / MBA Admissions / MBA rejection

August 15, 2019

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Non-Traditional Work Experience in MBA Admissions

Non Traditional Work Experience in MBA Admissions

A common concern from prospective clients with non-traditional work experience is whether or not that experience will be considered relevant in an MBA classroom. I have heard this from doctors, lawyers, military officers, and more. Believe it or not, the less traditional one’s work experience, (often) the more an admissions committee is interested! When putting… 

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Article by Jen Weld / MBA Admissions

August 15, 2019

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Self-Employed MBA Applicant? Here’s How to Present Your Work Experience

Proving experience after being self employed

Creating a resume as a self-employed individual presents some challenges. If you already have an established business, some of this information is superfluous, but if you have been doing contract work, there are details to manage beyond the summary of the work you have been doing. Company Name If you own an established business, you… 

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Article by Jen Weld / MBA Admissions

August 15, 2019

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Four Ways to Enhance Your Brand Name Work Experience for MBA Admission

MBA Brand Names

In my last blog post I wrote that brand name company experience matters less than having substantive experience. I am not changing my tune on that in this post, but will let you know how brand name experience might be viewed by members of an admissions committee and potentially give you an edge, at least… 

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Article by Jen Weld / MBA Admissions

August 15, 2019

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What Qualifies as “Good” Work Experience to an MBA Admissions Committee?

mba work experience

MBA Admissions Committees Care About More Than Brand Some of you may think that because you have worked in marketing but not at P&G, worked in banking but not at Goldman Sachs, or worked in technology but not at Google that your experience may not count as much to admissions committees when compared against applicants… 

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Article by Jen Weld / MBA Admissions

June 30, 2019

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Cornell 2015 Executive MBA Essay Tips

The Cornell Executive MBA Program has three required essay questions and one optional question in its application. One of the most important things to keep in mind is brevity. While no one is going to be counting individual words, the guideline of short word count is a clear indicator to work on clarity of thought… 

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Article by Jen Weld / Uncategorized

January 15, 2017

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MBA Interview Questions: What Questions Do You Have?

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Reason for asking the question: To make sure the candidate has all pertinent information necessary about the school, as well as to confirm that he or she has thoroughly researched the program and consequently has thoughtful questions. How to prepare: This will most likely be your last opportunity to ask questions of the program before… 

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Article by Jen Weld / MBA Admissions

January 5, 2017

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MBA Interview Questions: Why This MBA Program?

Why Harvard

Reason for asking the question: To gauge the sincerity with which the candidate is approaching the school. How to prepare: You need to make sure you show that your reasons for applying to the program go well beyond the obvious reputation, location, or network. Your job in answering this question is to convey your sincere… 

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Article by Jen Weld / MBA Admissions

July 4, 2019

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The GMAT and EMBA Programs

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With fulltime MBA programs, it is fairly obvious why the GMAT is such an important component to one’s application – with less work experience, admissions committees need to find other measurements to gauge potential success in a program. Academic preparedness can clearly be evidenced with a strong undergraduate GPA coupled with a strong GMAT score…. 

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Article by Jen Weld / MBA Admissions

July 4, 2019

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Cornell 2014 Executive MBA 2014 Essay Tips

The Cornell Executive MBA Program has three required essay questions and one optional question in its application. One of the most important things to keep in mind is brevity. While no one is going to be counting individual words, the guideline of short word count is a clear indicator to work on clarity of thought… 

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Article by Jen Weld / Uncategorized

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