With the new MBA essay questions coming out, you may be starting to sketch out your answers. Of course first and foremost answer the given questions thoroughly and thoughtfully. But how can your essays work for you to the max, especially when the questions don’t seem to provide opportunities to portray experiences, skills, qualities, or…
MBA Admissions: Yale SOM and Not-for-Profit Management
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MBA Admissions: Yale SOM and Environmental Management/Sustainable Development
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MBA Admissions: Yale SOM and Management Consulting
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MBA Admissions: UC Berkeley Haas and Finance
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MBA Admissions: UC Berkeley Haas and Marketing
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MBA Admissions: UC Berkeley Haas and Entrepreneurship
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MBA Admissions: UC Berkeley Haas and Technology
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MBA Admissions: UC Berkeley Haas and Management Consulting
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MBA Admissions: Cornell Johnson and Investment Banking
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MBA Admissions: Cornell Johnson and Sustainable Global Enterprise Management
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Interview with a Current Kellogg Part-time MBA Student
Accepted.com is continuing a blog series featuring interviews with current MBA students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at selected MBA programs. We hope to offer you a candid picture of student life, and what you should consider as you prepare your MBA application. Interview with current part-time Kellogg student (evening program) with an engineering background,…
Current Full-Time Duke Fuqua MBA Student
Accepted.com is continuing a blog series featuring interviews with current MBA students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at selected MBA programs. We hope to offer you a candid picture of student life, and what you should consider as you prepare your MBA application. Here are some excerpts from an interview with a current full-time…
Columbia Full-Time MBA: A Current Student Interview
Accepted.com is continuing a blog series featuring interviews with current MBA students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at selected MBA programs. We hope to offer you a candid picture of student life, and what you should consider as you prepare your MBA application. Our first stop? New York City. Here are some excerpts from an…
The Times They Are a’ Changin’
Bob Dylan’s song lyrics capture the meaning behind the statistics Harvard Business School just released in the class profile for its entering class of 2013. It appears Harvard has decided to include fewer finance types in its MBA program, more women and more people from scientific/technical and manufacturing backgrounds. While Harvard provided the profile…
Darden Introduces Concentrations
According to a Darden press release, the UVA business school has formally instituted concentrations within its full-time MBA program. MBA students will choose from the following career or theme tracks: Career Tracks: Asset Management/Sales & Trading Corporate Finance/Investment Banking Entrepreneurship Consumer Marketing Business To Business Marketing Supply Chain Management Theme Tracks: Corporate Innovation Business…
New Dean Chosen to Lead CMU Tepper
Earlier this week, Robert M. (“Bob”) Dammon was appointed dean of Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business, reports a recent Tepper press release. The current associate dean of education and professor financial economics will replace former dean Kenneth Dunn. “We are fortunate to have Bob assume leadership of one of the world’s great business…
MBA Admissions Tip: Approaching the Quant Aspects of Your Application
A low GMAT score or a low GPA is not necessarily an MBA deal breaker. No adcom is going to admit or dismiss a candidate based solely on one semester’s poor GPA or a low verbal GMAT score without also reflecting on other numbers as well as the rest of the non-quantitative parts of the…
Getting to Know Tulane’s Freeman School of Business
I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Bill Sandefer, MBA Admissions Director at Tulane’s Freeman School of Business. He filled me in on the latest Tulane b-school happenings and general info and tidbits about the Freeman School. Highlights from our conversation follow. Linda Abraham: Will you start by telling us a little…
MBA Admissions Tip: How to Handle a Criminal Record
You want to apply to business school, but you have a misdemeanor (or worse) on your permanent adult legal record. Can you still expect to be considered at a top business school? A criminal record certainly does count as a strike against you, but that’s not to say that the problem is insurmountable. There are…
