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Published: January 19, 2018
HBS Round 2 Interview Invites to Go Out in Two Waves Next Week
Chad Losee, Harvard Business School (HBS) managing director of MBA admissions and financial aid, took to his blog earlier this week to share details about the school’s upcoming scheduled release of interview invitations to Round 2 applicants. “We will send two waves of interview invitations: January 25 and January 30,” he wrote. “I know it’s tough to wait that additional few days, but we do need the time to finalize interview invitations,” he added. On January 25th, some applicants will receive a message inviting them to interview while others will hear nothing, he shared. The Read more
Published: January 18, 2018
The MBA Juggle: An Anderson Student on Balancing Social, Academic, and Career Aspects of B-School
Fridays from the Frontline Before coming to UCLA Anderson School of Management, first-year MBA student Julie Mills worked as a customer success manager at software-as-a-service provider Wrike and served in the Peace Corps in the eastern Caribbean. She’s hoping to advance her career in technology upon graduation, and in a recent blog post she shared how tech has taken off at Anderson over the past eight years thanks to the increased presence of MBAs in the industry, valuable partnerships with companies for on-campus recruiting, and the tight-knit community of Anderson students and alumni. The recruiting opportunities Mills has had at Read more
Published: January 15, 2018
How to Get into a Top Business School: Admitted Students Share 10 Top Tips
Our ongoing Real Humans of the MBA Class of 2019 series has given us glimpses into tons of current MBA students who set their sights on leading business schools across the nation and the globe—and now call those campuses home. We’ve learned about some of their crazy accomplishments and the mind-blowingly diverse experiences they bring to share with classmates-turned-friends. They’ve also divulged when, why, and how they knew that x school was exactly where they belonged. Each installment in our series has focused in on a single school through the eyes of five or six amazing Read more
Published: January 11, 2018
Is the MBA Really the Best Time of Your Life? An INSEAD Student Weighs In
Fridays from the Frontline Michel Assaad describes himself as “a management consultant with an academic background in accounting and finance, fueled by an expensive hobby of collecting academic degrees.” Indeed, the MBA he is currently pursuing at INSEAD makes his fourth business degree. What made him decide that he needed yet another set of letters after his name? Has it lived up to his expectations? Does he have any regrets? In the post that follows, he shares many thoughts on the MBA—taking on myths and stigmas that surround it and counterbalancing them with his own experiences. Will his year at Read more
Published: January 9, 2018
Ross Round 2 Interview Invite Details Revealed
In the delightfully transparent manner Ross School of Business Managing Director of Full-Time MBA Admissions and Program Soojin Kwon is known for, she took to her MBA Admissions Blog today to provide some insight into what those of you who submitted Round 2 applications should expect in terms of next steps. Round 2 is Ross’s biggest round, Kwon notes, so to give all applications a proper review, interview invitations will go out in two waves. “The first group of invitations will be sent later this week,” she wrote. “The second (and final) batch will Read more
Published: January 4, 2018
Why This Kenan-Flagler MBA Student Decided to Leave a Perfectly Good Life in DC Brokerage
Fridays from the Frontlines Ed Crocker is the first to tell you he had a great life in real estate in booming Washington, D.C. A third-year associate at a successful multifamily brokerage firm, he worked with a great team and some of the most dynamic developers in D.C. And yet, somehow, he wanted more. In the post that follows, learn how that yearning led him to consider business school and how the real estate program at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School immediately drew him in. As the second-year MBA student looks back on all he’s learned and all Read more
Published: January 1, 2018
Real Humans of the Georgetown McDonough MBA Class of 2019
Set in an international city with strong ties to government, it’s not surprising to find students at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business drawn to both of those aspects. More than a third of the class—34 percent—is international, and far more bring international experience of one sort or another. More than three quarters of the 276 students who make up the full-time MBA Class of 2019 have lived, worked, or studied in another country, and 67 percent speak more than one language. Women are not as well represented this year as they have been in recent years. The Read more
Published: December 29, 2017
Hidden Gems for Top Tech MBAs: Schools You Shouldn’t Overlook
As promised follow-up to our piece earlier this fall on top business schools for technology, today we’ll examine an additional handful of schools that are similarly training MBA students for success in the burgeoning tech sector. Though they are sending a smaller percentage of their graduates to work at leading tech firms than the five we previously featured, the following schools are either not far behind, quickly gaining, and/or launching new initiatives specifically focused on training the next generation of tech leaders. MIT Sloan School of Management With technology in its very name, you would imagine that Read more
Published: December 28, 2017
What’s the Most Integral Component of the Fisher MBA?
Fridays from the Frontline According to Rajat Gugnani, a first-year MBA student at Ohio State’s Fisher College of Business, everything comes back to your core team. So, if you’ve got the Fisher MBA program in your sites, you’d do well to familiarize yourself with core teams—what they are and the importance they play at the school. Fortunately, with Gugnani as this week’s Fridays from the Frontline contributor, he breaks down core teams and lets prospective applicants know exactly what to expect. As he shares below, his core team was the “one thing that kept him Read more
Published: December 27, 2017
Can You Guess Our 17 Favorite Clear Admit Stories in 2017?
They range from one-on-one chats with business school deans to deep dives with top MBA recruiters. There were new admission directors to welcome and gorgeous new business school campuses to take in. Then, of course, there were threatened immigration bans that brought MBA students across campuses together in support of one another. And no Clear Admit year in review would be complete without some of our great admissions resource content. There were so many stories, in fact, that we couldn’t limit our list of top picks to just 10. We hope you’ll enjoy looking back through the year in graduate Read more
Published: December 25, 2017
Career Services Director Q&A: Stanford GSB’s Maeve Richard
Earlier this month, Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) released its 2017 MBA Employment Report, revealing record-breaking salaries for the third consecutive year. The school’s most recent crop of graduates boasts average and median base compensation of $144,455 and $140,000 respectively—both up about $4,000 over last year’s all-time highs. (Incidentally, those figures are also higher than any other business school in the world.) The average signing bonus also increased by almost $3,000, setting a record as well at $29,534. Other guaranteed compensation, meanwhile, blew past last year’s all-time highs by close to $10,000 in Read more
Published: December 21, 2017
A Ross MBA Student’s Unexpected Journey: From Teacher in the Rural South to Investment Banker
Fridays from the Frontline Vaish Shastry came to the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business from the Mississippi Delta, where she taught middle school children. She came to business school thinking that she would return to the nonprofit world upon graduation. Instead, she’ll be working in the Consumer and Retail Group at global investment banking and asset management firm William Blair. Talk about a change in plans. In a recent blog post, Shastry explained how within just a few days at Ross she found her mind blown and her curiosity piqued by the world Read more
Published: December 19, 2017
A New Year, A New Dean: NYU Stern Taps Insider to Fill Top Role
There will be a new dean at the helm when NYU Stern School of Business rings in 2018, but he’s certainly not a newcomer to the school. NYU President Andrew Hamilton and Provost Katherine Fleming today announced that Rangarajan “Raghu” Sundaram, who joined Stern’s faculty more than two decades ago, has been appointed as dean, effective January 1, 2018. Sundaram, a professor of credit and debt markets as well finance, was selected by Dean Peter Henry in 2016 to join Stern’s leadership team as vice dean for MBA programs. In that role, he has overseen the school’s full-time MBA program; Read more
Published: December 18, 2017
Real Humans of the Cornell Johnson MBA Class of 2019
Here are some of the things we know about the MBA Class of 2019 at Cornell University’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. The 277 students in the class entered with an average GMAT score of 700 and an average GPA of 3.36—identical to the class preceding them. (Median GMAT score jumped 10 points, to 710.) As in prior years, the greatest percentage of students studied business in college, though this figure was just 35 percent—down from 41 percent the year before. Another 28 percent of the class were humanities majors, and 20 percent studied engineering. Read more
Published: December 14, 2017
5 Worries I Had About Applying to HBS
Fridays from the Frontlines It’s been a busy week at Harvard Business School (HBS), with Round 1 decisions rolling out from Dillon House on Tuesday. Whether you got good news or bad, we’d wager that most of you can relate to some of the worries this week’s Fridays from the Frontline contributor had when he applied. And if you’re working hard now on your Round 2 app, his encouragement comes at just the right time. Read on to learn what Nigerian native Bankole Makanju stressed about most in the application process—and why maybe you can stress about Read more
Published: December 12, 2017
Can Stanford MBA Grads’ Pay Climb Any Higher?
Wondering what kind of pay day you can expect if you are among the select 6 percent of applicants who gain admission to Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB)? Are you sitting down? Perhaps you should be, because the school’s 2017 employment report—released today—reveals record-breaking salaries for the third year in a row. On average, last year’s graduates, now in their first year of post-MBA work, are pulling down an annual base salary of $144,455—a $4,000 increase over last year’s all-time high. (Median base compensation was $140,000, also besting last year’s by about $4,000.) But it doesn’t Read more
Published: December 11, 2017
INSEAD Tops Bloomberg Businessweek Ranking of International MBA Programs
INSEAD pushed aside London Business School (LBS) to take the top spot in Bloomberg Businessweek’s annual ranking of MBA programs outside the United States, published yesterday. LBS slipped to second, followed by Spain’s IESE Business School, Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, and Switzerland’s International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in that order. Rounding out the top 10 were Cambridge University’s Judge Business School, Italy’s SDA Boccini, IE Business School, ESADE, and HEC Paris. To arrive Read more
Published: December 11, 2017
Harvard Business School to Release Round 1 Decisions Today
Today’s the day! Harvard Business School will release Round 1 decisions at midday. According to a blog post two weeks ago from HBS Managing Director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid Chad Losee, applicants will be able to access decision notifications via the Application Status page beginning at 12 p.m. ET. We anticipate plenty of activity on Clear Admit’s MBA LiveWire as those decisions begin to roll in. It’s a great place to share your good news—or, conversely, to commiserate. We’re rooting for the former and hope to see lots Read more
Published: December 6, 2017
Upcoming HBS Decision Notifications Will Not Include Financial Aid Details
As anxious Round 1 applicants to Harvard Business School (HBS) are no doubt only too aware, the school is scheduled to release admissions decisions next week. In a recent post to his Direct from the Director blog, Managing Director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid Chad Losee reminded applicants that they can learn their fate by logging into the Application Status page at noon ET on Tuesday, December 12th. “In the meantime, try not to think about it! (I know, easier said than done),” he wrote. Losee also reminded applicants that they will not Read more
Published: December 6, 2017
HBS Dean Highlights School’s Role in Preserving Social Mobility in America
Responding to an acclaimed book about socio-economic class structure in America, the dean of Harvard Business School (HBS) highlighted efforts one of the most highly regarded MBA programs in the world is making to ensure that its students understand and empathize with those who may not be afforded the privileges that come with their degree. In part, those efforts include extending the privilege of obtaining an HBS MBA to an ever widening group. Writing in the Atlantic, HBS Dean Nitin Nohria referenced UC-Berkeley sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild’s 2016 book, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning Read more
Published: December 5, 2017
Southern California Wild Fires Cause UCLA Anderson Campus Closure
As wildfires rage in Southern California, UCLA Anderson School of Management was forced to cancel classes today. The Skirball Fire, named for the Skirball Cultural Center near where the fire is believed to have originated, broke out early Wednesday morning. It also caused the closure of the famed Getty Center and Museum. The fire is just one of four blazes currently burning in areas around Los Angeles as powerful Santa Ana winds combine dangerously with extremely dry conditions. All classes beginning at noon or later today, December 6th, were cancelled across the UCLA campus, including at the Read more
Published: December 4, 2017
Columbia Business School Announces New M.S. in Business Analytics Degree
Columbia Business School (CBS), together with Columbia Engineering, yesterday announced a new full-time Master of Science in Business Analytics degree. Distinct from CBS’s MBA degree, the new program features a three-semester curriculum and is really geared toward students who want to learn the modeling techniques and data science tools that help businesses use data to influence decision making. A unique capstone project will serve as a key element of the new program, through which students will work with actual clients and relevant data sets to put the skills they’ve learned to work helping Read more
Published: December 4, 2017
Top Tuck 2017 Employment Stat Takeaways: Salaries Up, Tech Growing, West Beckons
Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business today became the latest leading business school to share details from its Class of 2017 MBA Employment Report, revealing an all-time high average first-year base salary and signing bonus of $158,194. To get there, the mean base salary climbed to $127,986 from last year’s $123,934, and the mean signing bonus increased 4 percent to $30,208. The median salary and signing bonus, meanwhile, remained constant year over year, at $125,000 and $25,000 respectively. Eighty-five percent of the Class of 2017 received a signing bonus, down from 87 percent of the Class of 2016. Strong Read more
Published: December 3, 2017
Real Humans of the Chicago Booth MBA Class of 2019
The 582 students in the Chicago Booth MBA Class of 2019 boast a chart-topping average GMAT score of 730—marking the 15th consecutive year of increases—and an average undergraduate GPA of 3.6. Beyond brainy, this class is also diverse, hailing from 57 different countries. U.S. minorities make up 27 percent of the class (down two percentage points over the year before), international students comprise 36 percent (up two percent), and women account for 40 percent (down two percent). As undergraduates, 27.9 percent of the class studied business, followed closely by economics (24.6 percent). Engineering and physical sciences majors make up a Read more
Published: November 27, 2017
Latest Kellogg Employment Statistics Reveal Rising Interest in Tech
A record one in four—25 percent—of graduates from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management Class of 2017 headed off into jobs in the technology field, according to the school’s most recent employment report, released earlier this month. That’s up from 22 percent last year and just 15 percent the year before and echoes a trend at many leading business schools this year. Amazon hired 32 Kellogg grads, making it the third largest recruiter in 2017, behind only McKinsey and Boston Consulting Group (BCG). But Amazon was far from the only tech firm Read more

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November 21, 2024 10:36am ET
Accepted to Cornell / Johnson
Round: Round 1
Received via phone November 21, 2024
GPA: 3.5
GMAT: 760
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Finance
Application Location: United States
November 21, 2024 4:51am ET
Waitlisted at NYU Stern
Round: Round 1
Received via portal on November 19, 2024
GPA: 3.54
GRE: 331
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Consulting
Application Location: Nicaragua
Note:

Waitlisted without interview. How can I flip this in my favour?
November 21, 2024 3:13am ET
Accepted to Washington U. / Olin
Round: Round 1
Received via email November 20, 2024
GPA: 3.81
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Finance
Application Location: Los Angeles
Note:

100K scholarship!
November 20, 2024 11:49pm ET
Interview Invite to Berkeley / Haas
Round: Round 1
Received via email November 20, 2024
GMAT: 645
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Note:

Consortium
November 20, 2024 9:20pm ET
Interview Invite to Dartmouth / Tuck
Round: Round 1
Received via portal on September 04, 2024
GPA: 3.74
GRE: 311
Program Type: Traditional Two-Year
Target Career: Consulting
Application Location: Tampa, FL
Note:

Applied early enough to guarantee interview.
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