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May 11, 2020

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AIGAC Virtual Conference to Include Applicant Fair

AIGAC Virtual Conference to Include Applicant Fair

AIGAC (Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants), whose mission is to provide insight and transparency into the graduate admissions process, will be holding a virtual recruitment fair on Tuesday, May 19, 2020 from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm ET.  Click here to register for the 2020 AIGAC Applicant Fair! >> The 2020 AIGAC Applicant Fair… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / AIGAC, MBA fair

May 26, 2019

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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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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / AIGAC, CMU Tepper, Cornell Johnson, Dartmouth Tuck, Duke Fuqua, Georgetown McDonough, mba news, Northwestern Kellogg, UNC Kenan Flagler, UT McCombs, UVA Darden, Vanderbilt Business School

March 28, 2019

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Share Your Experience. Take This Survey

Take the MBA applicant 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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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / AIGAC

February 26, 2018

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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… 

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Article by Cindy Tokumitsu / MBA Admissions / AIGAC, AIGAC 2017 Highlights, Stanford GSB

November 8, 2017

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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… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / AIGAC, Cambridge Judge, Dartmouth Tuck, Duke Fuqua, ESADE, Harvard Business School, IE, IESE, INSEAD, Michigan Ross, Vanderbilt Business School

July 27, 2017

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

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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Article by Cindy Tokumitsu / MBA Admissions / AIGAC, AIGAC 2017 Highlights, UC Berkeley Haas

July 27, 2017

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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… 

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Article by Cindy Tokumitsu / MBA Admissions / AIGAC, AIGAC 2017 Highlights, entrepreneurship, Wharton

April 5, 2017

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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… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / AIGAC

August 20, 2015

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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,… 

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Article by Judy Gruen / MBA Admissions / AIGAC

August 20, 2015

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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… 

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Article by Judy Gruen / MBA Admissions / AIGAC, Wharton

November 20, 2014

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Admissions Consultants and Conflicts of Interest

Since last week the activities of three admissions directors have raised a storm of controversy in the admissions world. These directors serve or have served on an advisory board at a private admissions consultancy in Japan. The directors have positions at Wharton, UNC Kenan-Flagler, and Columbia Teacher’s College. Wharton has since requested that the director… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / Admissions Consulting, College Admissions, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / AIGAC, GMAC, UNC Kenan Flagler, Wharton

August 19, 2014

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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… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / AIGAC, MBA Video Essays

June 13, 2014

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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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Article by Cindy Tokumitsu / MBA Admissions / AIGAC, NYU Stern

July 11, 2013

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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,… 

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Article by Accepted / MBA Admissions / Admissions Consulting, AIGAC

March 11, 2013

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Admissions Straight Talk: Interview with Anna Ivey

Admissions Straight Talk

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… 

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Article by Accepted / Admissions Straight Talk, Law School Admissions / Admissions Consulting, AIGAC, podcast

January 9, 2012

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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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Article by Linda Abraham / MBA Admissions / AIGAC

July 22, 2010

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Plagiarism in Residency Essays: Just Don’t

The WSJ’s Health Blog recently posted “Study: Medical Residency Applicants and Plagiarism” which cites a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine by a team of researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.  The researchers found “evidence of plagiarism” in 5.2% of residency application personal statements by comparing the essays to publicly available material… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / Admissions Consulting, Medical School Admissions / AIGAC, Chicago Booth, Dartmouth Tuck, Fellowship, INSEAD, Michigan Ross, personal statement, residency, UCLA Anderson, UVA Darden, Wharton

May 10, 2007

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Association of International Graduate Admissions Consultants

Two years ago I attended Tuck’s first Conference of International Educational Advisors. I went with the purpose of  learning more about Tuck. And I did learn a lot about Tuck, as expected, but I discovered that I enjoyed meeting my competition and professional colleagues much more than I anticipated. The networking was great!  I have… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / Admissions Consulting, Grad School Admissions, Law School Admissions, MBA Admissions, Medical School Admissions / Admissions Consulting, AIGAC, GMAC

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