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October 5, 2016

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International GMAT Test Takers Score Higher than Americans

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U.S. GMAT test-takers are performing poorly compared to test-takers from Asia-Pacific reports a recent Wall Street Journal article. In response to this growing performance gap, adcom at U.S. schools are seeking to implement new evaluation metrics to make domestic students appear better. Here’s an example of how things have changed: For the quant section, in… 

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October 20, 2015

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Top Feeder Schools to Big Law

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Wondering which law school will lead you to that coveted Big Law job? Well, the WSJ Law Blog broke it down for you using newly released data from the ABA. This data involved employment summary reports for individual schools, revealing that only about 8% of 2011 grads found jobs at big law firms. Plus, “schools… 

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November 10, 2014

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Does Interview Prep Make You Phony?

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I was thrilled Thursday to be quoted in The Wall Street Journal’s “Frankly, Wharton Wants Candor,” which focused on Wharton’s Team Based Discussion (TBD) and Harvard’s interview reflections. I disagree, however, with disingenuous arguments in the article that applicants who seek to prepare beyond a school’s recommendation are intrinsically less than genuine. I sat in… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / MBA Admissions / MBA Interview, Team Interview, Wall St. Journal, Wharton

February 27, 2009

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NYU Stern’s Isser Gallogly: Finance from an Admissions Perspective

Part of an ongoing series “MBA in Finance: Forget It?” My question: Given the weakness in investment banking, hedge funds, and financial services in general, how do you react to applicants who say they want an MBA to enter IB, PE or a related field that has been devastated by the economic downturn? Is the… 

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Article by Linda Abraham / MBA Admissions / finance, hiring, investment banking, NYU Stern, recruiting, Wall St. Journal

April 15, 2008

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Law Admissions: Look at the job market

According to Law.com "All together, the top 20 law schools that NLJ 250 law firms relied on most to fill their first-year associate ranks sent 54.9 percent of their graduates to those firms, compared with 51.6 percent in 2006." Obviously that does not mean that the remaining 55.1 percent were all unemployed, but if you… 

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