According to the Washington Monthly, colleges should " be engines of social mobility, they should produce the academic minds and scientific research that advance knowledge and drive economic growth, and they should inculcate and encourage an ethic of service." With these criteria and publicly available data, they ranked US colleges and universities as follows: MIT…
Forbes MBA Rankings: ROI Rules
Forbes published yesterday its biennial MBA rankings, based entirely on ROI five years after graduation. The top full-time programs on this basis: The Top Ten Dartmouth Pennsylvania Chicago Columbia Yale Stanford Harvard Virginia Cornell Northwestern (If you are going to use this data at all, please also read Forbes’ ranking methodology.) Forbes’ data show that…
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Parents Tucking in College Students?
The Wall St. Journal has a great article today on (some) parents’ changing view of their role as children start to leave the nest: Follow the baby birds. See “Tucking the Kids In — In the Dorm: Colleges Ward Off Overinvolved Parents.”
Secondary Applications for Medical School
They are out! And the Student Doctor Network — a fantastic resource BTW — has collected the secondary essay questions for many medical schools in this thread. Rely on the wording you receive from the schools to be on the safe side, but for an advance peak, check out this thread.
MBA Admission: The Great Round 1/Round 2 Fight
“On my right, now entering the ring is Round 1. A perennial favorite with those who have stratospheric GMATs, patents, Noble Prizes, and the like. And on my left, waving to the crowd is Round 2. He is favored by those with more average, but still respectable scores, grades, and experience.” So goes the fight…
“These are really good essays!”
As a result of my being quoted in that front-page Wall St. Journal article yesterday, (OK. OK. I’m milking it.) I received a call from a client I worked with in 1996-97. We haven’t spoken in several years, and it was great hearing from him. We worked closely on his application, and he was accepted to several schools,…
4 Tips for Demonstrating Professional Growth in a Flat Organization
If you work in a flat organization, how do you demonstrate advancement and growth? After all, your progress will be compared to that of other candidates who have regular promotions with clearly delineated expanded responsibilities. In a flat organization, you may hold the same title for five years. It is a point that your MBA…
