I have posted repeatedly in recent months about the strong job market enjoyed by MBA class of 2006, but my focus has been on US schools. The Financial Times has an excellent survey of the recruiting scene at top business schools globally and the hiring news is again outstanding. Here are a few highlights: The…
Accepted’s 10-Year Anniversary
I promised a screen shot of Accepted.com in 1996 and here it is. I feel like I’m displaying my high school year book picture. How dorky and dated can you get? Fortunately, Accepted.com wasn’t created to advise on graphics or web design. Its mission was, is, and will be to enable applicants to achieve…
The Struggle for a Compelling MBA Goals Essay
About a month ago UniQpath aptly named her post on the challenge of writing a compelling MBA goals essay: “Struggle.” It ain’t easy. Most schools ask why you want an MBA and why you want it from this school. It only makes sense before you invest the time and money in an MBA that you…
Physician Income Declines
The Center for the Study of Health Care Change in "Losing Ground: Physician Income, 1995-2003" reports that average physician income has declined 7% since the mid 1990’s with primary care physicians experiencing the steepest drop (10.2%). Surgeons experienced an average 8.2% decline, and specialists managed to hold their own.
GRE or GMAT at Stanford GSB
Businessweek reports in "Stanford Smiles on GRE Scores" that Stanford GSB will allow students to submit GRE or GMAT results. The move, according to Director of MBA Admissions Derrick Bolton, is an attempt to lower the cost of applying to MBA programs and increase "socio-economic diversity" at top MBA programs. Kerry MIller, the article’s author,…
Residency Match Ebook on Sale Today and Tomorrow
Just a quick reminder that Write Your Way to A Residency Match, an instantly downloadable ebook by Cyd Foote and myself, has been our feature book this month and is 20% off today and tomorrow.
What are Legal Internships Really Like?
In "More Work, but Cocktails Too" The Wall St. Journal slightly reworks an article that it published earlier on summer internships for law students, but it added an important supplement: "Days in the Lives of Summer Associates." The quotes from associates’ diaries give you a sense of the diversity of experience available to law school…
Mount Sinai Receives AAMC Grant for Chronic Illness Care
Mount Sinai School of Medicine received a prestigious AAMC Grant for Chronic Illness Care education. The $125,000 grant will "be used to redesign undergraduate and graduate medical education at Mount Sinai School of Medicine so the medical students and internal medicine residents can learn about and care for patients with chronic illness. The ultimate goal…
Admissions Consultants: Detente and Dialogue
In "Detente in the Admissions Office" BusinessWeek‘s Kerry Miller gives an overview of the state of affairs that exists between admissions consultants and admissions offices in light of the admissions consultants’ presentation at the just-concluded GMAC conference. The article highlights: The varied and changing views of admissions consultants among admissions officers. Admissions consultants are not…
AAMC calls for 30% Increase in Med School Enrollment
Concerned about a looming physician shortage, the AAMC recently called for a 30% increase in the number of medical school students by 2015, which would result in additional 5000 medical school graduates. The AAMC recommends increasing class size at existing schools as well as the establishment of additional new medical schools. The 30% figure represents…
Flaws Make You Real
A speaker recently told a story about traveling in Asia where he saw a stunning emerald. Enchanted by the stone’s beauty, he decided to buy it. On the spot. He returned home and took the emerald to a jeweller for appraisal. The jeweller began to examine the stone through his magnifier, and as he did…
2007 Harvard B School Essay Questions and Deadlines
My comments are in red below. HBS Deadlines * Round 1 October 11, 2006 * Round 2 January 3, 2007 * Round 3 March 7, 2007 Essay Questions for the Class entering 2007 Essays should be single spaced. 1. What would you like the MBA Admissions Board to know about your undergraduate academic experience?…
How to Use a Grad School Fair
The Indian web site for MBA applicants, PaGalGuy, has posted an excellent article, "How to make the most of an International MBA fair" on exactly that topic. Although the article is written from an MBA perspective, the advice goes for undergrads and other graduate specialities. Before you wander aimlessly among the tables stacked with shiny…
MIT Sloan’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program
Rod Garcia has alerted us to an exciting new program starting this fall: The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program at MIT Sloan. Participants in this program will earn both an MBA from Sloan and a certificate certifying that "the recipient has completed an intensive program of studies and activities, focused upon launching and developing emerging technology…
The Good Times Roll for MBAs
GMAC News reveals that recruiters love those shiny, freshly minted MBA’s. And they’re planning to come back for even more next year. "MBA Momentum is Back" quotes the 2006 Corporate Recruiters Survey. A few highlights: "MBA graduates this year can expect to earn an average starting base salary of $80,809, with total compensation hitting an…
College Admissions Grabbag
Inside Higher Ed has a couple of interesting articles about the college admissions scene: "Moving Ahead on Admissions Reforms" reports on and speculates about a meeting between Lloyd Thacker, founder of the Education Conservancy, and the presidents of several leading colleges. Thacker disclosed that "there was discussion at the meeting of such topics as early…
REMINDER: IMD Chat with Janet Shaner this Wednesday.
This week on Wednesday, June 21, 2006 at 10:00 AM PT/1:00 PM ET/6:00 PM GMT Janet Shaner, Director of MBA Marketing, and a current IMD MBA student will participate in an admissions chat at Accepted.com. The timing is perfect for those of you aiming for IMD’s (next) August 1 or (last) September 1 deadline. IMD’s…
Admissions Consultants at GMAC Convention
Bright and early on Friday morning my co-panelists – Ricardo Betti of MBA Empresarial, Maxx Duffy of Maxx Associates, and Graham Richmond of Clear Admit – and I met with Beth Flye, Assistant Dean and Director of Admissions at Kellogg to conclude our preparations for our panel presentations at 11:00 AM and 1:45 PM that…
Extra-curriculars on Your Application
A reporter for a national woman’s magazine called me last week and interviewed me about extra-curricular activities in college admissions. Does the applicant need twenty? ten? How many? Whether you are applying to college, med school, law school, business school, or an academic graduate program, extra-curricular activities can enhance your profile. However, it is quality…
Is an HBS MBA Worth It?
The New York Times published an article last weekend examining the value of an MBA with a special focus on the Harvard MBA. "Was Earning that Harvard MBA Worth It?" explores different perspectives on the value of an MBA — pro and con. (I have analyzed several MBA critiques earlier in this blog. See references…
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