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2023 AIGAC Virtual Applicant Fair

AIGAC Virtual Conference to Include Applicant Fair 1

The AIGAC (Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants), whose mission is to provide insight and transparency into the graduate admissions process, will be holding a live recruitment fair on May 24, 2023, from 10:00 am to 3:15 pm US Eastern Standard Time. Recordings of sessions and school static booths will be available to candidates for …

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AIGAC 2019 MBA Applicant Survey Results Released

AIGAC 2019 MBA Applicant Survey Results

AIGAC (the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants) recently released their 2019 MBA Applicant Survey, which substantiates the idea that today’s applicants continue to consider human interaction to be a competitive advantage. More and more, applicants see the importance of talking to current MBA students when selecting schools and making decisions. Current applicants continue to …

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Share Your Experience. Take This Survey

AIGAC MBA Application Survey

Have you been accepted to b-school? Do you want to win $500? Help others get to where you’ve gotten by sharing your experiences in the 2019 AIGAC survey. This survey is for applicants who have been admitted to one or more business schools that start Aug./Sept. 2019. Your survey results will help everyone involved in the …

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Up Close and Personal with Berkeley Haas at the 2017 AIGAC Conference

Berkeley Haas AIGAC Post

Last month, the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants – AIGAC – held its annual conference, and Berkeley Haas generously hosted our first two days. This “host” role included a valuable opportunity to interact with Dean Rich Lyons (just announced he will step down), Haas adcom members including Executive Director Morgan Bernstein, and Haas students. …

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What’s New in Stanford MBA and MSX Admissions? Reporting From the 2017 AIGAC Conference

Stanford AIGAC notes

The Stanford MBA program has a new admissions director – Kirsten Moss – and, everything being personal in this program, she is already leaving a fresh stamp on admissions approaches. During our AIGAC (Association of International Graduate Application Consultants) annual conference a couple of weeks ago in CA, she generously shared her ideas, plans, and …

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An Inside Look at Wharton’s MBA at the 2017 AIGAC Conference

Wharton AIGAC Post Final

Last month, during the 2017 AIGAC (Association of International Graduate Application Consultants) conference in San Francisco, my consultants, colleagues, and I spent an illuminating morning visiting Wharton West. Wow. It’s on the Embarcadero by the Bay, next door to Google; it has exposed brick walls and soft gray carpets; quiet, glass-walled cubicles; spa waters in …

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AIGAC 2017 MBA Applicant Survey Results Released

AIGAC Survey Results Released

AIGAC (the Association of Independent Graduate Admissions Consultants) released the results of their 2017 MBA Applicant Survey, which shows an interesting paradox about millennials: they love the instantaneous availability of information in today’s digital world, yet also feel that personal attention and human contact are extremely important. Other data show that the applicant pool continues …

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NYU Hosts AIGAC!

Not only did NYU Stern host the annual conference of Association of International Graduate Application Consultants – AIGAC – last week (along with Columbia Business School) – it also shared some valuable information about its program and applications process.  Here are several highlights. • The admissions team characterized the Stern MBA program as “deep, diverse, and …

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Response to “Shortlisting MBA programs”

In Mistakes, Lessons, MBA, and more…, the author, A, reveals his 6 criteria for applying to MBA programs in the aptly named post “Shortlisting schools.” The six are in order of importance: Intake % of Indian engineers Teaching Methodology Recruitment Culture Clubs/extra-curricular Curriculum and specialization. I boil down A’s 2-5 to three which I rank as follows: …

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