Today is May 19 and we are just about to start a new application season. I'm sending my successful applicants off to school, feeling like a mother hen with her chicks. This is also the time when people look for consultants, and I know they...
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Here's a special treat: advice from the B-School Bossypants, Poets & Quants’ video duo. Betsy Massar, HBS grad, is joining with Pamela Jaffe, CBS grad and founder of Jaffe Advantage, to help you on your MBA strategy. In this session, we will talk directly to volunteers...
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Poets & Quants just published an article about it being a "buyers market" for MBA applications, concluding that it is *possibly* a lot easier to get in to business school than it was, say, a few years ago. I'm not so sure that's a blanket statement...
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It's a tough time in the admissions cycle. At least for prospective students. Most have submitted applications and are waiting for interviews, or have had interviews and are waiting for decisions. There’s an absence of information that ‘s unnerving. It’s just plain stressful. So is...
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I am not a very good athlete, so you can imagine everyone's surprise when I decided to pick up a new sport. I decided to learn to row – not in a traditional rowboat, but in a long skinny shell with two 10-foot oars. It...
Read More[caption id="attachment_905" align="alignleft" width="250"] You use a cleaner font, I'm sure[/caption] Got questions about your MBA resume for your application? You are not alone. Everyone who has applied to an MBA program or for any job worries about their resume. How on earth do you fit...
Read More[caption id="attachment_846" align="alignright" width="256"] You are thinner, of course[/caption] Writing MBA essays can be hard work. If you know anyone who is applying to business school you may have heard them muttering to themselves, “What does matter most to me and why?” (Stanford GSB) or “What...
Read MorePeople always ask: How do I make myself stand out in an MBA application? I have three words of advice: Answer the questions. Advice so simple it barely seems worth mentioning. At a recent school panel, a Yale School of Management admissions officer underscored just how...
Read MoreThis is the in-between season for MBA applicants, characterized by anxiety for everyone, including me. Reason: those who have already met their first-round deadlines have nothing to do but wait, and are suddenly overwhelmed with free time and unused gym memberships. Those who are applying...
Read MoreWe are proud to present here a special guest post by Interim Admissions Director Ann Richards of Cornell's Johnson School One of the key components to getting in to Business school is doing well on the in person interview. Johnson Interim Admissions Director Ann Richards has...
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