My previous post on defining your fit with Wharton addressed two of the four components of “The Wharton Difference” (Largest Global Network and Culture of Engagement). Here I’ll look at the third component: Innovative Leadership Learning. On the Wharton website, the short paragraph introducing this component contains the keys to unlocking its real meaning and import. Let’s…
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Wharton, Google & Submarines: Steve’s MBA Story
This interview is the latest in an Accepted blog series featuring interviews with MBA students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at top MBA programs. And now for a chat with Steve Weiner, a student at UPenn Wharton. Accepted: We’d like to get to know you! Where are you from? Where and what did you study as an undergrad? …
Wharton MBA Student, Single Mom, Entrepreneur [Episode 152]
With Mother’s Day coming up, this week’s show features a mother, MBA student, and entrepreneur. Meet Divinity Matovu, founder of MBA Mama [1:04] Divinity grew up in Wisconsin, attended USC (where she majored in Political Science and African American Studies), and got bit by the social impact and start-up bug. She’s now studying at Wharton as…
Leaning In While Pursuing Your MBA: The MBA Mama Story
This interview is the latest in an Accepted.com blog series featuring interviews with MBA applicant bloggers, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at the MBA application process. And now for a chat with Nicole Ponton and Divinity Matovu… Accepted: We’d like to get to know you! Where are you from? Where and what did you study as an undergrad?…
Year 2 at Wharton, Google, Deloitte & More: Catching Up with Ashley
This interview is the latest in an Accepted blog series featuring interviews with current MBA students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at top MBA programs. And now for a chat with Ashley Wells, a second-year student at Wharton. We first met Ashley last year – you can read our first interview with her here. Accepted: Last we…
Indian School of Business: Thoughts After My Visit to Hyderabad
Teeming, packed, noisy streets connecting the serene, sprawling, park-like campuses of Infosys and the Indian School of Business. Slum hovels just yards/meters away from beautiful apartment buildings. These are a few of the images from the busy three days I, and roughly 16 other MBA admissions consultants, spent in Hyderabad, India as guests of the…
Wharton MBA Student Interview
Here’s a talk with Cindy Law, a 2nd year Wharton student who attended UC Berkeley Haas as an undergrad. Cindy tells of her experiences at both places, as well as her post-MBA plans. Thank you Cindy for sharing your thoughts with us! Accepted: First, can you tell us a little about yourself – where are…
New Global Track for Wharton MBA Students
The Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies is launching a new Global Program at Wharton, “focused on preparing future global leaders to solve complex business problems in an inter-connected world.” The first class will begin in May 2013 and will work toward an MA from the University of Pennsylvania, studying international law,…
Debate Calls into Question the Value of the MBA
Is the MBA an empty status symbol? Is it a waste of time and money? Is it truly necessary to invest money in learning how to be an entrepreneur? Or does the degree carry actual weight – for entrepreneurs and other businesspeople? How good a job have top MBA programs done to keep up with…
Get Accepted To Wharton Webinar Recording Available!
Wharton hopefuls – this one’s for you! Our recent webinar, Get Accepted to Wharton, is now available for viewing on our website. Who is the webinar for? Get Accepted to Wharton is geared towards all Wharton applicants – U.S. applicants, international applicants, reapplicants, young applicants, older applicants…anyone with their eye on the Wharton prize. The webinar is…
Wharton 2016 MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
After several years of change and shrinkage, Wharton is keeping its essays unchanged this year. My tips for completing the Wharton application essays are in blue below. The Admissions Committee wants to get to know you on both a professional and personal level. We encourage you to be introspective, candid, and succinct. Most importantly, we suggest you…
A Wharton Grad Rids the World of Bank Fees
BankMobile is bank with a vision, ATMs everywhere, no fees, and no branches. Want to know more, right? For the full scoop, listen to the entire recording of our conversation with Luvleen Sidhu, Wharton alum and Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at the mobile-only, fee-free bank for Millennials. 00:01:40 – Introducing Luvleen Sidhu and the…
Wharton 2015 MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
Wharton is still marching in the MBA application shrink parade. It now has one required question and has dumped the question about contribution to Wharton’s learning community. However, it has made the optional a broader question than it was last year and has increased the optional essay word limit. Overall the Wharton essay word limit count has…
Wharton 2014 MBA Essay Tips & Deadlines
The 2015 Wharton tips are now available. Click here to check them out! Wharton joined the MBA application shrink parade and has cut one essay from its application reducing the required number of essays from three to two while retaining one optional essay question. Another change: last year applicants could elect two out of three options…
Wharton JD/MBA Student Interview with Craig Carter
This interview is the latest in an Accepted.com blog series featuring interviews with current MBA students, offering readers a behind-the-scenes look at top MBA programs (or in this case, a top JD/MBA program). And now for a follow up interview with Craig Carter, a second-year student at UPenn’s joint JD/MBA program. (We first met Craig…
Study Shows that WHEN You Interview Matters
Wharton research shows that interviewees need not only compete against the crowded field of candidates in general, but against those specific candidates who are interviewing on the same day as they are. The study measures the success of applicants who interviewed at the end of the day, rather than early on in the interviewer’s schedule….
The MBA Admissions Directors’ Recipe for Rejection
We asked 14 admissions directors, “What behavior or information would cause you to reject an MBA applicant who otherwise is a strong candidate?” While the recipe for instant rejection may vary slightly from school to school, the common ingredients are ethical lapses and poor behavior. These are broad categories that each admissions director elaborates on…
Healthcare Management at Wharton and at Large
Healthcare related opportunities for MBA graduates are on the rise, and the Health Care Management Program is at the cutting edge of preparing students to enter this exciting and dynamic field. Listen to the full recording of our podcast interview with June Kinney to learn more about healthcare management’s past, present, and future. June is…
Wharton Admissions Director Interview Available Online
We had an excellent Q&A last week with Ankur Kumar and Anthony Penna, admissions directors at Wharton. The excerpt below provides an insider look at how the adcom readers approach your goal essays – how you should bridge your past and present experiences to what you’d like to be doing in the future. Linda Abraham:…
MBA Applicants: What McKinsey (and HBS) Wants
They were looking for four things. I didn’t know until I’d made it to the third and last round of interviews, but McKinsey and Company, the strategy consulting firm perennially ranked among the top “dream” employers of MBA students, was looking for four specific qualities in the candidates they hired. By my calculations, McKinsey made…