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….
What’s New in Stanford MBA and MSX Admissions? Reporting From the 2017 AIGAC Conference
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…
An Inside Look at Wharton’s MBA at the 2017 AIGAC Conference
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…
AIGAC 2017 MBA Applicant 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…
Accepted Applicants: Got 2 Minutes? Help Us Out & Help Fellow Applicants
The AIGAC survey will be closing on April 24, which means you’re running out of time to participate in this important research endeavor AND you may lose your chance at winning $500! Share your application experience with us now by filling out this survey – it’ll take you just a few minutes and will help business…
Share Your Experience. Take This 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 2017 AIGAC survey. This survey is for applicants who have been admitted to one or more business schools that start Aug./Sept. 2017. Your survey results will help everyone involved in the…
AIGAC 2016 Take Aways
I’d like to share some conference “takeaways” from the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants (AIGAC) meeting in Cambridge, Massachusetts earlier this month. Held at MIT Sloan with visits to HBS, Tuck, and Babson and with presentations by representatives of Wharton, INSEAD, Georgetown, Carnegie Mellon, Haas, Vanderbilt, Darden, Rotman, Yale, UCLA, Columbia, McCombs, IESE, LBS,…
Columbia Business School Hosts AIGAC!
On May 30, Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants (AIGAC) conference attendees had the privilege and pleasure of learning firsthand from Columbia Business School admissions officials, professors, students, and administrators about latest developments at CBS. One big takeaway for me – CBS admissions has become friendlier, more welcoming. And more transparent. (“More” relative not just…
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…
AIGAC MBA Applicant Survey
AIGAC published its annual MBA Applicant Survey, which evaluates the experiences and preferences of recent MBA applicants in the U.S. and abroad. Highlights from the survey include: • In terms of sources of information applicants utilized during the admissions process, school/program websites ranked the highest, followed by school rankings, communication with school alumni/current students, school…
Do Your Part to Improve MBA Admissions – Win $500!
AIGAC, the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants, is conducting a survey and would like YOUR participation! This is your chance to share your opinions of the MBA admissions experience with top MBA admissions committees. In May, AIGAC will hold its annual conference in New York City where they will present anonymous data about MBA…
What We Learned Visiting Wharton: Report from Day 2 of the AIGAC Conference
Wharton generously hosted the second day of the AIGAC conference on campus. In addition to giving us a tour, we met admissions directors, program directors, professors and members of the career services staff, whose content-rich panels got us all up to speed on what’s new and notable in Wharton’s curriculum, community, programs and admissions. By…
What’s New in MBA Admissions? A Report from the 6th Annual AIGAC Conference [Part 2]
Five Accepted.com editors, including company president and founder Linda Abraham, attended the 6th annual conference of Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants in Philadelphia in mid-June. We were graciously hosted by Wharton on day two, and on day one, we met with admissions directors from a dozen top MBA programs who told us about the…
What’s New in MBA Admissions? A Report from the 6th Annual AIGAC Conference [Part 1]
Change and innovation are vital in nearly every industry today, including in graduate school admissions consulting. Five Accepted.com editors, including company president and founder Linda Abraham, attended the 6th annual conference of Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants in Philadelphia June 12-15. We were graciously hosted by Wharton on day two, and on day one,…
Fun Facts about this Year’s B-School Applicants
Poets & Quants provided a lengthy summary and analysis of the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants (AIGAC)’s recent survey on b-school applicants’ opinions and experiences of the MBA admissions process. Here we’ll provide some highlights from the survey, and then I’ll provide a few additional thoughts. • Applicants ranked Dartmouth Tuck, Duke Fuqua,…
AIGAC MBA Applicant Survey [You Can Win $100!]
As Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants (AIGAC) members, we are conducting a survey to help us better understand our readers’ goals and needs. Take the MBA Search Survey, and win $100 and our sincere gratitude! The anonymous data will be shared with admissions officers from top programs. Make your voice heard! We’d like to…
Admissions Straight Talk: Interview with Anna Ivey
Listen to the full audio of our informative conversation with Anna Ivey for valuable insight into the world of law school admissions: 00:24:50 – Meet Anna Ivey: admissions consultant, author, president of AIGAC, and former Dean of Admissions at the University of Chicago Law School. 01:08:00 – “I wanna’ be an admissions officer when I…
Why Use an Admissions Consultant?
This blog post originally appeared on AIGAC’s blog. There are endless and frequent discussions on forums and message boards questioning the value of admissions consulting. One of the more common arguments against using a consultant runs something like this: “Everyone I know that’s been accepted and is attending top schools did so without …an admissions…
Why We Post Sample Essays
As co-founder, current board member, and past president of the Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants (AIGAC) as well as founder of Accepted, I have worked hard to maintain ethical and professional standards in the admissions consulting industry. So why has Accepted.com posted sample essays on its site since 1996? Am I talking out of…
INSEAD 2012 MBA Application Questions, Deadlines, Tips.
The 2013 INSEAD tips are now available. Click here to check them out! This INSEAD 2012 MBA Application tip post is one of a series of posts providing MBA application and essay advice for applicants to top MBA programs around the world. Check out the entire 2012 MBA Application Tips series for more valuable MBA…
