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Published: February 22, 2017
I’d Tell You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You: Confidentiality Warning Keeps MBA Applicants Mum on Wharton TBD Prompt
In past years, the prompt the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School sends in advance to MBA applicants invited to participate in the team-based discussion (TBD) portion of its admissions process has been a closely held secret—for about two minutes. Historically, within days of invitations going out, it has been shared by someone (or someones) within the applicant community, drawing feedback and advice on how best to prepare. In fact, some admissions consultants have even crafted whole workshops around the topic. Read more
Published: February 16, 2017
Fridays from the Frontline: MIT Sloan’s Israel Lab
Israel is in the news this week following President Donald Trump’s first official meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which took place on Wednesday. Our Fridays from the Frontline also centers on Israel, but without touching on the incredibly fraught subject of a one- versus two-state solution for the conflict-ridden region. Instead, we focus on a series of fascinating blog posts written by MIT Sloan School of Management students who spent their winter break taking part in MIT Sloan’s Israel Lab. Now in its second year, Israel Lab takes Sloan students on a journey to one Read more
Published: February 6, 2017
Clear Admit Adds Two New MBA DecisionWire Features
We’ve seen growing volume on MBA DecisionWire in recent weeks as Round 1 applicants begin to share the decisions they’ve made about where to enroll. For anyone unfamiliar with MBA DecisionWire, it’s a sister resource to MBA LiveWire. In contrast to MBA LiveWire—which lets applicants share their real-time progress through the various stages of the admissions process—MBA DecisionWire is designed to capture applicants’ entire application journey, from where they applied, to which schools accepted them to, finally, where they chose to attend based on their options. Anonymous and easy to use, MBA DecisionWire compiles the Read more
Published: February 6, 2017
Four Easy Steps to Improve Your Test Scores from ASU’s W. P. Carey School of Business
Sponsored Content Your performance on the GMAT or GRE is an important indication of potential success in a rigorous graduate program. As such, you’ll spend weeks, or even months, preparing for your entrance exam. And despite all that preparation, mistakes are inevitable. There are, however, ways to minimize mistakes. Consider the following tips to improve your likelihood of success on test day. Prepare, Prepare, Prepare This is an obvious one. With all the test prep services and practice quizzes available, there’s no reason you should be unpleasantly surprised by the types of questions you face on test Read more
Published: January 8, 2017
Forward Focus MBA: Diversity & Drive at W. P. Carey
SPONSORED CONTENT Imagine gaining a high-caliber business education without the burden of student debt. ASU’s W. P. Carey School of Business is pioneering a new MBA program that offers students just that. The Forward Focus MBA, a full-time, 60-hour program, provides a scholarship to cover the full cost of tuition for the entire incoming class. With financial barriers removed, the Forward Focus MBA attracts a diverse group of students with a wide breadth of interests and experiences. Attracting Great Students from Around the World Forward Focus MBA students come from diverse socioeconomic and cultural Read more
Published: November 2, 2016
W. P. Carey Launches Forward Focus MBA Curriculum and Scholarship
Sponsored Content For the second year in a row, Arizona State University (ASU) was named the most innovative university in the country by U.S. News & World Report. This accolade—Stanford and MIT were ranked second and third, respectively—is largely due to the university continually rethinking its role and function, breaking down walls between areas of study to encourage interdisciplinary approaches to education, and putting its focus on access and inclusion rather than exclusivity. One reflection of ASU’s innovation is the launch of a new full-time MBA curriculum within the W. P. Carey School of Business. Business has undoubtedly changed over Read more
Published: October 20, 2016
Columbia MBA Interview Questions: Early Decision / Alumni / Off-campus
The following Columbia MBA interview questions report was submitted to Clear Admit by an Early Decision applicant. I was invited to interview with a CBS alumni in my city. After a few email exchanges, we picked a date and place. We met at a coffee shop after work. The alumni dressed in casual clothes and I went with business formal attire. • Your background, walk me through your résumé. • Your post MBA career goal. Why? • Why this goal? Have you been following this industry? How do you envision the technology to be like? Read more
Published: October 16, 2016
MBA LiveWire Briefing: Booth R1 Interviews and Rejections
Clear Admit’s MBA LiveWire continued its run of intense activity last week as the applicant focus shifted from Harvard Business School to the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.  The Booth admissions team fueled this influx of news by dishing out dozens of interview invitations during the second half of last week and then releasing all Round 1 applicants who didn’t make the interview phase on Friday. Therefore it should come as no surprise that for this briefing, we are examining the data from those who applied to Chicago Booth Read more
Published: October 13, 2016
Chicago Booth Remains Atop Economist Ranking Amid Drastic Fluctuations by Other Schools
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business claimed bragging rights for the fifth year in a row as it was once again crowned the top full-time MBA program in the world by the Economist, which published its annual global ranking of MBA programs yesterday. Other schools, though, took wild rides up and down the ranks—a trend that has caused many industry insiders to question the validity of the British publication's "Which MBA?" list. Read more
Published: September 28, 2016
Mark Cuban Launches Kickstarter Campaign for Kids’ Book on Entrepreneurship
What do you wish you knew about business as a kid? Billionaire Mark Cuban, Prep Expert founder Shaan Patel and teen entrepreneur Ian McCue share their complete answers in How Any Kid Can Start a Business. According to an accompanying Kickstarter campaign, they hope to “Make Youth Entrepreneurship Go VIRAL.” To support the cause, the authors are offering inexpensive, signed copies and seeking a crowdsourced children’s business idea for credit in all copies. How Any Kid Can Start a Business discusses the benefits of youth entrepreneurship, provides a step-by-step process for kids to follow in their early ventures and includes interviews with kid entrepreneurs featured on Shark Tank. Co-author Mark Cuban notes, “The goals are to help the kids organize their thoughts, determine the value proposition for each prospect, define a sales pitch, learn, and iterate and improve on all aspects of their businesses.” Young entrepreneurs who follow these steps will achieve success not only in their early business ventures, but throughout life. Their early business ventures help them to develop tenacity and social skills that will prove greatly beneficial in all fields of work. Read more
Published: September 12, 2016
Book Excerpt: The Importance of MBA Essays
Welcome back to our 10-part series, in which we share an excerpt from the recently published book Becoming a Clear Admit: The Definitive Guide to MBA Admissions, with added commentary from its author, Alex Brown. In this sixth part of the series, we look at the importance of MBA essays in the business school application process. Book Excerpt: Essays The essays are your chance to shape and tell your story. Make sure to answer each of the essay questions fully. Different schools may ask similar questions but in slightly different ways, so it is important for you to read the Read more
Published: September 6, 2016
4 Ways Georgetown Focuses on Diversity
Sponsored Content When it comes to the MBA classroom, diversity helps to create an environment where spirited debate, differing perspectives and innovation can exist. The more diverse the class, the better the classroom experience. That’s exactly why the school places such a strong emphasis on accepting a diverse array of students. Its incoming 2016 Full-time MBA class is made up of 34 percent women, 28 percent minorities and 30 percent international students from 37 different countries, but the school doesn’t stop there. Georgetown McDonough understands that it’s not just about accepting diverse students; it’s about creating Read more
Published: August 28, 2016
Admissions Tip: 10 Basic Essay Writing Rules
Before you complete your MBA application essays, it is worth noting the context within which they will be read. The adcom will be reading many essays in a short period of time. They may not have as much time as they’d like to reflect deeply on your content and ‘connect the dots.’ They will be trying to make subjective decisions in order to make recommendations regarding whether to offer interviews or admissions, the easy call, or whether to deny, which is a final, and often more difficult, call. Given that, there are 10 basic rules that you should follow (in no particular Read more
Published: August 21, 2016
Savvy MBA Application Strategy: How Many Apps, Which Schools, When to Apply
You’ve decided the MBA is the next stop on your career path. What now? The smartest applicants are those who take the time to create an informed MBA application strategy—a well thought-out game plan that can help you obtain your goals as efficiently and effectively as possible. One of the first challenges you’ll face is school selection—strategically choosing which schools to target, bearing in mind the competitive mix of those schools. In recent years, MBA applicants appear to be trending downward in terms of the total number of schools to which they apply. Where applying to five to seven Read more
Published: July 26, 2016
Corrections for The Official Guide for GMAT® Review, 2017
The below information about The Official Guide for GMAT® Review, 2017 is from the Graduate Management Admission Council—the makers of the GMAT exam. This content was originally posted on The Official GMAT Blog. Official Guide for GMAT Review Corrections We recently released The Official Guide for GMAT® Review, 2017 and we have discovered that this version contains a number of typos that occurred during the publishing process. We understand that these errors may make it difficult to understand certain content and could affect the study experience for the GMAT exam. Below, we’ve outlined options that provide updated materials. For complete details and a full list of Read more
Published: July 19, 2016
Top MBA Recruiters: JPMorgan Chase
The largest bank in the United States, JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a multinational banking and financial services holding company based in New York, New York. JPMorgan Chase is one of the Big Four banks of the United States, along with Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo. According to Bloomberg, in October 2011, JPMorgan Chase surpassed Bank of America as the largest American bank by assets. Read more
Published: July 17, 2016
Discover Why You Need the Lehigh University Flex MBA
Sponsored Content The online MBA isn’t what is used to be. Just a few years ago, an online degree was considered a “fake” degree. Now, that couldn’t be further from the truth. At top schools like Lehigh University’s College of Business and Economics, an online MBA is more than a mode of study; it’s an invaluable experience. Read more
Published: July 10, 2016
At the University of Florida, MBA Class Size Matters
Sponsored Content When it comes to choosing an MBA program, there are many factors that matter including location, ranking, and opportunities. One area that is often overlooked is size. Smaller MBA programs such as the Hough Graduate School of Business Full-Time MBA come with many advantages, including personalized attention, direct interaction, and cohesion. While this intuitively makes sense, does it make a difference in the long run? Read more
Published: June 30, 2016
Friday from the Frontlines: A DIY Guide to Career Growth
Today’s Friday from the Frontlines is a bit of a departure from the norm in that it comes from a professor, instead of the current MBA applicants, students and recent alumni we usually spotlight as part of this regular feature. But the advice offered by Kellogg professor of entrepreneurship and marketing Carter Cast seemed so on point for so much of our audience that we decided to stray a bit from our usual protocol. Career development is such a crucial part of the MBA journey, both leading up to and ensuing from the business school experience Read more
Published: June 15, 2016
Bain & Company and MBAs: A Love Story
There’s no doubt that a career in consulting is a top draw for many MBA grads. The median pay for a management consultant in 2015 was $81,320 and for an MBA grad from a top school, that median pay jumps up to $120,000 or more. Let’s face it; With six-figure median starting salaries and sign-on bonuses of another $25,000, it’s an attractive field. Read more
Published: June 9, 2016
Friday from the Frontlines: Pride@Kellogg Celebrates LGBT Ally Week
It’s June, and that means it’s also LGBT Pride Month. June was chosen to celebrate the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan considered to be a pivotal moment in the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States. In honor of LGBT Pride month, we’re pleased as this week’s Friday from the Frontlines to feature a piece about student group Pride@Kellogg and its second annual LGBT Ally Week, which took place last month when students were all still on campus. The piece was written by Kyle Burr, a second-year student in Kellogg’s full-time two-year MBA program. Read more
Published: June 6, 2016
Why McKinsey and Company Loves to Hire MBAs
When it comes to careers MBAs are likely to land, working for a management consulting firm like tops the list. McKinsey and Company is one such firm that conducts qualitative and quantitative analysis for companies around the world in order to evaluate management decisions across the public and private sectors. McKinsey is considered one of the most prestigious management consultancy firms globally and the firm’s clientele includes 80 percent of the world’s largest corporations, along with an extensive list of governments and non-profit organisations. More current and former Fortune 500 CEOs are actually alumni of McKinsey than of any Read more
Published: June 5, 2016
LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman Donates $1M, Expertise to Support Entrepreneurship at Saïd Business School
Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and partner at Greylock Partners, yesterday announced that he will give $1 million to support entrepreneurship at Saïd Business School and across the University of Oxford. In addition to the generous monetary gift, Hoffman will also serve as senior advisor at “The Oxford Foundry,” a new dramatically increased space for entrepreneurship designed to serve not only Saïd but the larger university and the local community. In this role, Hoffman will give his time and advice to help start and scale new ventures. Read more
Published: May 29, 2016
Admissions Tip: The MBA Career Goals Question in Essays, Short-Answers, and Interviews
Though essay questions tend to vary year to year, the two things that nearly every prospective student can count on being asked are “What are your short-term and long-term post-MBA goals?” and “How will Business School X help you achieve these goals?” Even those schools that do not ask this question directly in their essays will likely ask the question in their data forms, or during the interview. These are the fundamental questions of the entire application process; identifying clear answers will help in everything from creating a list of target schools to communicating effectively with recommenders and interviewers down Read more
Published: May 11, 2016
UCLA Anderson Takes on Gender Inequality in Faculty Promotions
To address perceived gender inequality, faculty and staff at the UCLA Anderson School of Management will soon vote to implement revisions to the faculty promotion process, according to a recent article in the Daily Bruin, UCLA’s campus newspaper. Suggested revisions, which include changes to the tenure and evaluation processes for Anderson professors, come in response to a July 2015 report by consulting agency Korn Ferry that found that the school fostered unconscious biases against female faculty members, according to the Bruin report. The Korn Ferry report also found that there is a perception that it is more difficult for women to earn promotions, tenure and equal compensation than it is for male faculty members. Read more

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November 18, 2024 11:24am ET
Interview Invite to Dartmouth / Tuck
Round: Round 1
Received via email November 18, 2024
GPA: 2.77
GMAT: 760
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Finance
Application Location: Cambridge, MA
Note:

Consortium Applicant
November 18, 2024 10:57am ET
Interview Invite to Duke / Fuqua
Round: Round 1
Received via email on November 13, 2024
GRE: 318
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Finance
Application Location: Canada
November 18, 2024 9:48am ET
Rejected at Columbia
Round: Round 1
Received via portal on November 14, 2024
GPA: 3.54
GMAT: 740
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Other
Application Location: USA
November 18, 2024 9:03am ET
Accepted to Toronto / Rotman
Round: Round 1
Received via email on November 14, 2024
GPA: 3.72
GRE: 324
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Consulting
Application Location: Canada
Note:

Received entrance scholarship of $40k. They asked for deposit by Dec 6.
November 17, 2024 2:39pm ET
Interview Invite to Duke / Fuqua
Round: Round 1
Received via email on November 11, 2024
GPA: 3.79
GRE: 321
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Finance
Application Location: Chicago
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