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How Veritas Prep’s Admissions Consulting Works
Continuing our admissions video series, this week we hear Veritas Prep co-founder Chad Troutwine give a brief overview of how Veritas Prep’s admissions consulting works. Forgive us for indulging ourselves with a more self-promotional video this week. We normally use this space to share news and analysis that helps applicants get into the world’s most competitive [...]
Read MoreYou are not alone
Each year around this time, GMAC releases its annual report on GMAT test-takers. The report this year counted a record 265,613 GMAT test-takers in 2009, up 7.55% from last year’s record 246,957. So your imagination is not running wild – it is indeed a year during which many people are taking the GMAT and trying [...]
Read MoreTop Chef Serves Up Business Advice to Kellogg Marketing Students
Sometimes experiential learning at Kellogg School of Management takes the form of a five-course meal. That was the case for 125 students in an introductory marketing class earlier this month, who got to chow down on food prepared by a celebrated chef while hearing his point of view on creativity, culinary arts and the restaurant [...]
Read MoreAre certain HBS optional essays more impt than others? How diff wld HBS class look if there were no essays? Who has read the most HBS in world right now? ME!
I have another question – for HBS, do some optional essays carry more weight than others? As I am starting my app essays, I have trouble deciding which optional essays to choose. Would really appreciate your advice.
Thanks again.
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bottom line: NO, BUT read this b.c. reasons are impt.
hmmmm, career vision essay rarely gains you any [...]
Mission Admission: Leave the AdCom Alone
Mission Admission is a series of MBA admission tips; a new one is posted each Tuesday.
As interview decisions continue to be released, it is important to remain calm and let the Admissions Committees do their work. While it is natural to be apprehensive if you have not yet received an interview invitation, you will not increase [...]
Thanksgiving Holiday Schedule
In honor of the US Thanksgiving holiday, the Wharton MBA Admissions & Financial Aid Office will operate on the following university-wide schedule:
Wed, 25 Nov 09: Information Session will be held at at 1:00 pm rather than the usual 3:00 time. The office will close at 2:00 pm
Thu, 26 Nov 09: CLOSED
Fri, 27 Nov 09: [...]