NOTE: These questions are for the fall 2014 applications; the questions for the spring 2014 applications are different and were featured in a previous post.) Two questions in this set – questions one and three – address your potential interactions with your classmates and your fit with the class. No accident! The fact that the…
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MBA Admissions: Chicago Booth & Finance
A quick glance at University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business: Booth currently ranks in sixth place as one of the best business schools, according to US News & World Report (March 2013). It was ranked #2 for finance. Chicago Booth Class of 2013 and Finance 4031 people applied to Chicago Booth in 2012; 23% were…
Chicago Booth MBA Interview with Benny Joseph
Here we have a talk with Benny Joseph, a recent graduate of Chicago Booth and SoFi entrepreneur who heads the startup GoodApril, an awesome site that will help you save money while filing your taxes. In this post Benny talks about his experience at Booth and offers fantastic advice for incoming Booth students or those…
Chicago Booth MBA Interview with Chris Hauck
Here’s a talk with Chris Hauck, a first-year MBA student at Chicago Booth. Chris offers some excellent advice to MBA applicants and first-year MBA students – thank you Chris for offering us a window into your Booth experience! This interview is the latest in an Accepted.com blog series featuring interviews with current MBA students, offering…
Large Donation Helps Chicago Expand Entrepreneur Center
Last week, Michael Polsky, Chicago energy entrepreneur, announced that he’d be donating an $8 million gift to the Michael P. Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship, a research center established in 2002 after his initial $7 million donation. The gift will support Chicago Booth’s growing innovation initiatives by creating new programs and providing space and resources for…
MBA Admissions: Chicago Booth & Marketing
A quick glance at University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business: Booth currently ranks in fourth place as one of the best business schools, according to US News & World Report (March 2012). It was ranked #7 for marketing. Chicago Booth Class of 2013 Profile 4169 people applied to Chicago Booth in 2011; 22% were accepted…
MBA Admissions: Creativity Lessons from Pogue’s Wedding Proposal
You may be familiar with David Pogue, who writes articles for The New York Times about technology (and writes dozens of books about technology, and hosts many television programs about technology, and so on). Recently he proposed to his fiancée in a most unusual way: through a fake movie trailer he created and showed at…
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…
