Posts by Alex Brown

Welcome back for the fourth in our series of posts offering analysis of the data we are receiving on MBA DecisionWire, a resource that allows candidates to share where they decide to attend business school based on the offers they receive. If you have made your final decision in terms of where you will attend, please share on MBA DecisionWire. You can also use the filter options to see how other candidates have made their choices. In the first two posts in this series, we dug into the MBA DecisionWire data to examine popular school pairings—that is, pairs of schools where applicants who apply to one often also apply to the other. In the first, we looked at the following pairings: Stanford and Berkeley Haas, Columbia and NYU Stern, and Wharton and Chicago Booth. In the second, we examined overlap between Michigan’s Ross School and Duke’s Fuqua School, Chicago Booth and Kellogg, and Stanford and Harvard. Read more

Welcome back for the third in our series of posts offering analysis of the data we are receiving on MBA DecisionWire. MBA DecisionWire is a resource that allows candidates to share where they’ve decided to attend business school based on the offers they received. In this, its inaugural season, the rate of entries is ramping up as students make their final choices for the next academic year. In the first two posts in this series, we dug into the MBA DecisionWire data to examine popular school pairings—that is, pairs of schools in which applicants who applied Read more

Welcome back for the second in our series of posts offering analysis of the data we are receiving on MBA DecisionWire. For the uninitiated, MBA DecisionWire is a resource that allows candidates to share where they’ve decided to attend business school based on the offers they received. In this, its inaugural season, the rate of entries is ramping up as students make their final choices for the next academic year. Popular School Pairings In our first post in this series, we looked at schools that tend to draw some of the same applicants. Those popular school pairings included Read more

MBA DecisionWire, where candidates share where they’ve decided to attend business school based on the offers they received, has drawn hundreds of entries already in its inaugural season. This level of activity has prompted us to introduce a new bi-monthly column where we will share observations gleaned from the MBA DecisionWire data. Read on for our first set of insights, and stay tuned going forward for more of the same! Popular School Pairings Today we wanted to look at a few popular school pairings—that is, schools where candidates who apply to one program often also apply to the Read more

With just a little over a month since MBA DecisionWire debuted, we’re delighted that hundreds of applicants have already chosen to submit their admissions stories via this new resource. For the uninitiated, MBA DecisionWire is a crowdsourced companion tool to our hugely popular MBA LiveWire. But distinct from MBA LiveWire, which provides up-to-the-minute insights from applicants at each stage of the admissions process, MBA DecisionWire is designed to capture an applicant’s complete journey—reflecting every school applied to, acceptances received and each applicant’s ultimate revealing decision of where to actually enroll. “I was an absolute addict on LiveWire when I just had to know who was hearing what from which schools,” shared one site visitor. “But DecisionWire, by virtue of reflecting how people are actually making the final call when faced with some tough choices, has been just as useful to me in a different way.” Read more