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: [...]
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 [...]
Are 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 [...]
Warren Buffett undervalues you at $1million after your MBA
Last week Warren Buffett told 700 Columbia Business School students: “Right now, I would pay $100,000 for 10 percent of the future earnings of any of you.”
Seven hundred Columbia GSB students had crammed into the Roone Arledge Auditorium to hear the Sage of Omaha, accompanied by Bill Gates. Buffett (Columbia class of ‘51) helped, if [...]
Funding Your MBA Education
Paying for an MBA program isn’t easy. Tuition can be so expensive that it often deters a lot of would-be applicants. But it is important to remember that there are many different ways to fund your MBA education. Here are a few of the most popular.
Grants – There are more grants available for undergrad students [...]
What have I learned?
After the craziness of last week and this weekend, I have finally had time to reflect on what my experience has been like and what I taken from it. So, here….we….go…
GMAT
Practice makes perfect, but test day is its own animal:
No matter how much I practiced, nothing seemed to prepare me for the test day atmosphere. [...]
Read MoreCareer Opportunities for Green MBAs: Talking to Duke University Sustainability Guru
I’m working on an upcoming MBA Podcaster show focusing on real-life career opportunities for Green MBAs. Green and sustainability are hot topics in the business world, but how does the global green movement translate into GREEN $$ for business school grads? What do Green MBA’s need from graduate school besides an understanding of finance and [...]
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 MoreHow 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 [...]
You 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 [...]
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