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Published: July 17, 2013
Tuck Alumni Give Record-Setting $6.3 Million in 2013
For the third year in a row, more than 70 percent of alumni contributed to the Tuck Annual Giving campaign at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, raising a record $6.3 million in the last fiscal year. The participation rate is nearly triple the average participation rate of nine peer business schools, Tuck reports. Achieving the 70 percent rate also triggered a $50,000 gift from an anonymous donor last month. “The generosity of our alumni is unrivaled and enables us to provide a truly transformational experience to each and every one of our students,” Tuck Dean Paul Danos said in a statement. The funds raised provide about 8 percent of the school’s annual operating revenues and direct support for innovation, Tuck reports. Read more
Published: July 17, 2013
GMAT Tip: The Top 5 Strategies for GMAT Reading Comprehension (Part 1)
Today’s GMAT tip comes from Manhattan Review Germany, a provider of GMAT Prep courses in Berlin, Frankfurt, and Munich. In this article, they reveal Manhattan Review’s best 5 strategies for tackling GMAT Reading Comprehension questions. In fact, the tip is so detailed that we had to split it into two parts! Reading Comprehension is probably the least fun part of the GMAT. The texts are frequently turgid, their subject matter is arcane, the questions are difficult to understand and the answer choices seem indistinguishable. Nonetheless, there is no way to avoid Reading Comprehension. There will be at least three, maybe four, passages to read in the test and at least 12, maybe 14, questions to answer in total. So it is good to go in with a positive attitude and with a clear strategy to extract maximum points in the minimum amount of time. Here are five tips to guide you: Don’t expect to be stimulated The texts are often dull, poorly written and concern subjects you either find uninteresting or know little about or have difficulty understanding. Don’t worry about that. Everybody is in the same boat as you. Don’t beat yourself up over not having read up on ceramics or superconductors or the lives of amphibians or the latest research on medieval poetry. The test givers don’t expect you to have any expertise on abstruse subjects. They are testing your ability to read quickly, to extract and process information efficiently and to draw inferences and make logical connections even when you know next to nothing about the material. Do keep in mind that there will be at least one passage that involves an issue in the natural sciences.So, settle down, grit your teeth, accept the challenge and start reading. Learning to focus is key. Before the test, practice reading esoteric texts to find out what best helps you to concentrate while you’re reading. Making notes is usually helpful. Remember: You’re not writing notes that you intend to use to prepare for finals. You’re writing notes primarily to help you to focus on the text. Read more
Published: July 16, 2013
Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management Adds New Courses on Big Data
Big data matters in today’s business world as never before. Recognizing this, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management is working to establish a strong reputation in data analytics. This fall, as part of its MBA curriculum, Kellogg will offer four new courses designed to help prepare students to interpret big data and put it to work for their organizations. "We're moving into a world where managers have to be conversant in analytics and in information technology,” Kellogg marketing professor Florian Zettelmeyer says. In particular, he notes, executives need to get better at learning how to establish analytics competence across all areas of an organization. Read more
Published: July 15, 2013
Wharton School Receives Large Gift to Permanently Endow Innovation Management Institute
How can decision-makers across industries best manage the risks and rewards of innovation? Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School have been studying that subject for years, and a recent major alumni gift will permanently endow an innovation management institute where that work will continue and expand, the school announced this week. An earlier gift from Wharton alumnus William L. Mack, W’61, and his wife, Phyllis, established the Mack Center for Technological Innovation in 2001, and the couple’s 2013 gift has now transformed the center into the Mack Institute for Innovation Management, Wharton announced today. William Mack, a renowned global real estate and asset manager, was the founder and chairman of AREA Property Partners and today serves as chair of the Mack-Cali Realty Corporation board of directors and the Wharton Board of Overseers. Read more
Published: July 14, 2013
University of Chicago Booth School of Business to Relocate EMBA Program from Singapore to Hong Kong
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business will relocate its Asia Executive MBA (EMBA) Program from Singapore to Hong Kong in an effort to attract more of the Chinese market, the school announced last week. It will continue to have a presence in Singapore after the new Hong Kong location opens in 2014. "Expanding into Hong Kong allows us to have impact on future leaders in business and build new corporate relationships in North Asia as well, complementing our activities," Chicago Booth Dean Sunil Kumar said in a statement, noting that the successful Singapore campus has helped the school build great momentum in South Asia over the past 13 years. Read more
Published: July 11, 2013
McDonough School of Business, Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative Collaborate on Summer StartUp Program
For the second year in a row, the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative and the McDonough School of Business are partnering to help teams of current students and alumni kick-start business plans over the summer. Called Summer StartUp, the program is designed to help entrepreneurial students and recent alumni do just that – to spend two months over the summer developing business plans and initiative their own businesses. McDonough and the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative collaborate to give participating students working space as well as great networking opportunities and exposure to potential business investors. This year, Summer StartUp will include 15 student ventures drawn from across the university. Read more
Published: July 11, 2013
Fridays From The Frontline
Hello there and welcome to Clear Admit's Fridays From The Frontlines, Clear Admit's ongoing blog post dedicated to seeking out the freshest news from the MBA blogosphere. This week applicants were checking in with progress updates and future plans while students provided advice to those soon to be coming to campus.  Writing in Transit logged back into the blogosphere with a post the covered what he had been up to over the past month and his effort to refocus and retake the GMAT tomorrow! MBA Reapplicant discovered the value of introspection and was ready to start their application process anew. HammO created a Twitter handle and reminded his fellow applicants that the adcoms were "not here to trick you." Kenan-Flagler '15 Amanda described her summer prep routine and described Excel as  her "new best friend." Anderson '15 Aimee had some tips and opinions for the best options for off-campus housing. Read more
Published: July 10, 2013
Tuck School of Business Welcomes BlackRock Executive as Senior Fellow
Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business this month welcomed a top BlackRock Investment Institute executive as a senior fellow at its Center for Global Business and Government, the school announced last week. Peter Fisher, BlackRock senior director and a former top Treasury Department official, joined Tuck on July 1st. He will hold the position while continuing his work with BlackRock. At Tuck, Fisher will work with the center to build on Tuck’s connections to experts in the private and public sectors. He will also oversee research and analysis projects conducted by MBA students on topics at the intersection of business and government, and he will expand opportunities for Tuck MBA students and alumni who are interested in areas such as financial markets, public finance and monetary policy. Read more
Published: July 8, 2013
Northwestern’s Kellogg School Names New Senior Fellow for its Kellogg Markets and Customers Initiative
Sanjay Khosla, a former executive at Mondelez (Kraft) and Unilever, has been appointed as senior fellow with the Kellogg Markets and Customers Initiative (KMCI), Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management announced last week. “To excel in today's global 21st century business environment requires deep customer insight—not only in developed nations, but also in emerging markets,” Kellogg Dean Sally Blount said in a statement. “Sanjay Khosla has decades of experience in adapting business strategies to new markets, and his accomplishments and perspective will be invaluable to both Kellogg faculty and students.” Read more
Published: July 7, 2013
New $10 Million Alumni Donation Will Support Curriculum Innovation at Harvard Business School
The family of a late Harvard Business School (HBS) alumnus has donated $10 million to help support efforts already underway to innovativly redesign the second-year MBA curriculum, the school announced last week. The donation, from the family of the late William F. Connell, a 1963 MBA graduate of HBS, will establish the Margot and William F. Connell Family MBA Program Innovation Fund, which will help support the redesign of the HBS second-year curriculum to provide MBA students with more courses, new technology applications and platforms and expanded faculty development initiatives. Read more
Published: July 4, 2013
Columbia Entrepreneurs Lab Provides Free Summer Working Space to Student Teams to Collaborate on Business Ventures
Columbia Entrepreneurs Lab (CEL), a co-working space run by Columbia Business School’s Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center, this summer welcomes its first class of more than 20 students from across Columbia University. The student teams, which represent seven different schools, were selected to develop 13 business ventures over the summer using the lab's resources and space free of charge. Among the ideas selected as part of the inaugural CEL class are a news agregator that monitors geographic-specific, social media traffic for trending stories, a program to bridge educational and cultural gaps between Chinese and American students and an online private tutoring marketplace. Read more
Published: July 4, 2013
Fridays From The Frontline
Welcome to Fridays From the Frontline. We hope this Friday finds you well and that everyone enjoyed their July 4th! In this week’s post, we peruse all the news in the b-school blogosphere from applicants and current students. Hamm0 opened the newly posted Stanford application and was a bit discouraged to find it full of short, personal questions like “Your favorite thing to read?” Timbob posted his responses to questions about what it's like to be a Brit applying to MBA programs in the U.S.--his main concern? Brits can't sell their strengths as well as Americans. He also relayed a amusing anecdote about taking the adversity he faced changing a tire in the middle of traffic and putting that adversity into one of his Stanford essays. MBAgirljourney narrows down her top five MBA programs and the East Coast schools win the day. Read more
Published: July 2, 2013
Oxford University’s Saïd Business School Launches Innovative Online Module to Address Global Challenges
A new online module at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford is bringing together students in the school’s MBA and executive MBA programs with Oxford alumni and leading academic researchers to address some of the most challenging global business and policy issues. In its first year, the program has focused on global ageing. Called GOTO (Global Opportunities, Threats: Oxford), the interactive, multimedia web platform is designed to blend curated content with in-person learning through tutorial groups and events to create plans to address the world’s biggest problems. This year, an action-oriented community of Oxford students, academics and alumni took a hard look at the changing demographics, global pinch points, patterns of consumption, environmental impact and healthcare system strain created by the long-term trend toward global ageing. GOTO will focus on a different global issue each year. Read more
Published: July 1, 2013
UCLA Anderson School of Management to Become Financially Self-Supporting
Beginning with the 2014-15 academic year, the UCLA Anderson School of Management will no longer rely on state funding but will instead be completely self-supporting, the school reported last week. University of California President Mark Yudof approved the school’s proposed status change for its full-time MBA program on June 24th, ending a three-year review process. The decision is expected to make it easier for the school to fund-raise with its alumni and philanthropic donors, to make tuition fees more predictable and to give the school greater flexibility in faculty assignments, according to UCLA Anderson Dean Judy Olian, who has led the campaign to win self-supporting status for the school. Read more
Published: June 30, 2013
Some Master’s Degree Students Now Eligible for Harvard Business School’s 2+2 Program
Harvard Business School (HBS) today announced that it has expanded the eligibility requirements of its 2+2 Program to include not only college students but also candidates who have gone directly to a master’s degree program after their undergraduate study. The 2+2 Program at HBS is a deferred admissions process originally designed for college students who want to secure a future spot in the HBS MBA class. Candidates admitted to the 2+2 Program will have a place reserved for them at HBS, which they can assume after completing two years of work in the public, private or nonprofit sector. With today’s change, the program is now also open to current students in full-time master’s programs who proceeded directly from college to their current master's degree program, according to HBS Dean of Admissions Dee Leopold. Read more
Published: June 27, 2013
Fridays From The Frontline
Hello there and welcome to this week's Fridays From the Frontline. Each week Clear Admit peruses the b-school blogosphere in search of the freshest reports from current applicants and students. This week saw new applicant and student bloggers join the community while established bloggers shed a little light on at least one student's internship experience.  TimBob attempted to attend two schools' London information sessions in one evening, but only managed to attend the MIT Sloan event.  Pru explained how she fell in love "strategically" with Tuck, but that with additional reflection decided to broaden her figurative dating pool. MBA Over 30 highlighted the rise of entrepreneurship within Wharton's program. Amit shared his intention to focus first on his GMAT before getting caught up in a discussion of schools or essays. Poetic Quant described how his internal MBA clock sped up once his target schools updated their essays for the 2013-2014 admissions cycle. MBA Over 30 highlighted the rise of entrepreneurship within Wharton's program.Anderson '15 Aimee prepared for beginning the program by strengthening her quantitative abilities and volunteering at the LA film festival. Read more
Published: June 26, 2013
Clear Admit’s Stacey Oyler Discusses Finding the Right MBA Fit with Bloomberg BusinessWeek
In a recent article about finding the right fit in a business school program, Bloomberg BusinessWeek turned to Clear Admit Senior Admissions Counselor Stacey Oyler for some guidance. Oyler, who worked in admissions for Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and as a recruiter for McKinsey before joining Clear Admit, encouraged prospective applicants not to let a school’s rank in the various MBA rankings overshadow other important considerations. A top-ranked school can help catch recruiters’ eyes, but the school also needs to be the best match for what you want to do, Oyler told Bloomberg BW. “It’s two years and a significant financial investment,” she said. “So take the time to think about fit just as much as rank and reputation.” Read more
Published: June 25, 2013
Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business Joins Consortium for Graduate Study in Management
The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing diversity in business school and the corporate world, announced this week that Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business has joined as its newest member school, bringing the total number of member schools to a record 18. McDonough is the first new business school to join the Consortium since 2010. The Consortium recruits new member schools selectively, believing that by partnering with only the top MBA programs in the country is the best way to help its members and fellows succeed while providing its corporate partners with access to the most promising candidates. Read more
Published: June 25, 2013
QS World MBA Tour Announces Fall Tour Dates For North America
The QS World MBA Tour is scheduled to visit 21 North American locations, including three cities in Canada, beginning in early September. Designed by MBA graduates, the QS World MBA Tour features free workshops led by admissions experts and alumni to help prospective applicants improve their application strategy and stand the best chance of getting into the MBA programs of their choice. During each event, attendees have the chance to meet face-to-face with admissions directors from top business schools around the world. Additional features of the QS World MBA Tour include: $1,200,000 (USD) of exclusive scholarships available for attendees Workshops designed to help improve GMAT scores Careers panel with MBA recruiters and alumni Women & leadership forum Below is a list of event dates in September: Read more
Published: June 24, 2013
Six Yale SOM Students Selected for Yale Entrepreneurial Institute Fellowships
Five current MBA students and one recent graduate of the Yale School of Management (SOM) have been selected through a competitive process to be among this summer’s fellows at the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute (YEI), the school announced earlier this month. To date, the YEI Summer Fellowship – open to students and teams throughout the university – has accelerated more than 70 Yale student business ventures, which have raised $60.5 million in outside financing and created more than 210 new jobs.  Not only will this year’s six SOM students get to spend the summer developing their ventures at the YEI, they also will benefit from financial support, a work space, mentoring, entrepreneur-led workshops and opportunities to network with potential investors. Selected teams receive stipends from YEI for the summer of up to $20,000 per team, which supports living expenses and initial start-up costs, access to legal, accounting and marketing corporate partners and more. Read more
Published: June 23, 2013
UC Berkeley-Haas Graduates Enjoy Strong Employment Opportunities
Early employment data shows that MBA graduates from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley are landing top jobs and top salaries, the school reports. The firms hiring the most Haas graduates this year include McKinsey & Co., Google, JPMorgan, Kaiser and Amazon, and salaries and signing bonuses are continuing an upward climb. Other tip hiring firms include Deloitte Consulting, Samsung, Bain, Adobe, Microsoft and Zynga. But traditional MBA sectors are not the only ones seeing strong hiring, according to Lisa Feldman, executive director of the Career Management Group. “Real estate is a strong area for us this year, and we are also seeing a strong class of entrepreneurs,” she said in an article on the Haas website. “In addition to the entrepreneurs themselves, we have a growing number of students exploring the impact they might have in smaller organizations and seeking experience with early-stage startups,” she added. Read more
Published: June 20, 2013
Alumni Gift Helps Fund Loan Assistance Program for Columbia Business School MBAs Who Pursue Jobs in Public, Nonprofit Sectors and More
Columbia Business School (CBS) has a trio of alumni to thank for filling the coffers of its loan assistance fund, a program that helps alleviate the financial burden of repaying education loans for MBA graduates who pursue work in the public and nonprofit sectors. Elizabeth B. Strickler ’86 and Mark T. Gallogly ’86 have made a generous gift to establish a new fund named in honor of Ms. Strickler’s mother, Ellen B. Strickler ’78, the school announced earlier this month. The Ellen B. Strickler ’78 Loan Assistance Fund is designed to encourage MBA graduates to seek out work in public and nonprofit sectors, as well as with microfinance organizations, low-profit limited liability companies (L3C) and social ventures that focus on low income communities or create significant public good. Each are areas with many unmet needs that CBS grads can address, but they pay much lower salaries than private industry. The fund will be run by the CBS Social Enterprise Program (SEP). Read more
Published: June 20, 2013
Co-Founder Eliot Ingram Named CEO of Clear Admit
Clear Admit is pleased to announce that co-founder Eliot Ingram has assumed the role of CEO. He succeeds former CEO Graham Richmond, who recently launched Southwark Consulting, a firm that advises graduate admissions offices on enrollment best practices. “I look forward to taking over full leadership of Clear Admit and positioning the firm for its next round of growth,” said Ingram. Ingram has served as a senior admissions counselor and the firm’s CFO since he founded the company with Richmond in late 2001. Clear Admit, a leader in the MBA admissions space for more than a decade, provides guidance – Read more
Published: June 20, 2013
Fridays From the Frontline
Hello and welcome back to Fridays From the Frontline, Clear Admit’s weekly perusal of all the news in the b-school blogosphere. This week was quiet on the student front, but crowded with posts from both bloggers who will be matriculating to b-school this year and MBA applicants. Hamm0 explains his dread at having to attend his company's Diversity Day and talks b-school recommendations and essays. PPandey87 announces that he is moving to NYC. MBAgirljourney tries to develop a standardized scorecard for MBA admissions consulting firms. MBA Over 30 discusses the importance of sincerity in the MBA application process.  Pru documents all the little details that go into preparing to matriculate to Chicago Booth, including applying for loans, discussing co-signers, and finding a roommate. Read more
Published: June 19, 2013
UC Berkeley Haas Partners with MIT Sloan on Energy Efficiency Research Project
Researchers at the Haas School of Management at the University of California at Berkeley are teaming up with researchers at the MIT Sloan School of Management to take a closer look at energy-efficiency policies and regulations around the globe to determine whether they are realizing their full potential, the schools announced this week. The project, called E2e, is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the two schools designed to find the best way to go from using a large amount of energy (“E”) to a small of amount of energy (“e”). Participating experts will include engineers, economists and others, and the initiative is led by Catherine Wolfram, associate professor and co-director of the Energy Institute at Haas, Michael Greenstone, a professor of environmental economics at MIT, and Christopher Knittel, co-director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR). Read more

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December 17, 2024 11:47pm ET
Interview Invite to NYU Stern
Round: Round 2
Received via email December 17, 2024
GPA: 3.67
GRE: 329
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Application Location: United States
Note:

Submitted on 10/16
December 17, 2024 10:44pm ET
Accepted to UPenn / Wharton
Round: Round 1
Received via email on December 09, 2024
GPA: 3.52
GMAT: 750
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Application Location: Mexico
Note:

So excited! Dreams do come true! Interviewer emailed me shortly after the decision. Got some money as well.
December 17, 2024 9:13pm ET
Rejected at UT Austin / McCombs
Round: Round 1
Received via email December 17, 2024
GPA: 8.33/10
GRE: 331
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Entrepreneurship
Note:

To be honest, it came as a shocker because this was my safety school. But I got accepted to higher-ranked schools on my priority list, so it is okay. I will most likely enrol at Harvard if they are generous with FinAid. Wishing everyone the best for R2
December 17, 2024 7:29pm ET
Accepted to UT Austin / McCombs
Round: Round 1
Received via portal December 17, 2024
GRE: 325
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Note:

Missed the call from a 2Y student, and received 20K/year. Very grateful for the result.
December 17, 2024 6:54pm ET
Rejected at Berkeley / Haas
Round: Round 1
Received via email on December 11, 2024
GPA: 3.7
GRE: 326
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Technology
Application Location: Intl.
Note:

Will have 3.5 YoE by matriculation.
Applied days before the deadline.
The adcom left me to die and waited until the last day for R1 decisions to let me know of my rejection.
Anyways, I'm pleased about my rejection and knowing I'm not going to a woke school. I still got an acceptance at 2 higher ranked schools.
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